Quote from: LoyceV on February 14, 2023, 10:17:17 AM

Quote from: n0nce on February 13, 2023, 11:05:44 PM

It somewhat surprises me that more people did not spin up a rig just for fun, but on the other hand the coin was worthless and energy & hardware did cost something.

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I should have done that when I first read about Bitcoin, which was years before I joined Bitcointalk.

I think many folks here share this sentiment. Wink

Quote from: LoyceV on February 14, 2023, 10:17:17 AM

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@LoyceV, after browsing a bit online, it seems like there are modern CPUs now that can compete with something like ETFBitcoin's 100MH/s GPU.
It's just that your CPU is old.. old old.. Grin

It's old indeed, but works very well for it's task: pushing bytes to the outside world.
This Xeon CPU is already faster in finding Bitcoin vanity addresses than my laptop GPU.

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From 2011 to 2023, well, things changed. An i9-9900K from Q4 2018 even manages over 100MH/s, it seems like. ^[4]

Buying a CPU just for hashing is a waste of money (and electricity). That's 95W that could be used for better things.

Sure, but if you have it already and need a bunch testnet BTC, it should work nicely. I will try on the weekend with some modern desktop general-purpose hardware that I can access.