Re: [Guide] Solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer, Bitcoin Core, and a CPU/GPU
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.
Don't remind me 
I should have done that when I first read about Bitcoin, which was years before I joined Bitcointalk.
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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..
It's old indeed, but works very well for it's task: pushing bytes to the outside world.It's just that your CPU is old.. old old..
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.