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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Worth mining and with this rig?
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skimmer333
on 08/07/2014, 08:10:53 UTC
You could have made a few dollars a day on CPU centric coins 2 months ago.   Today you would be spending more in electricity mining than you could earn in coins.  So unless you have free electricity, no point in mining.

I kinda have free electricity. I have to pay a fixed utility price a week, so may as well use it up Smiley

I've taken a look at the cpuminer on this forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0) and have that ready to go.
Just unsure on how to use it properly, or if it is to be used at all for coins like LiteCoin and PrimeCoin.  Which was why I thought about using that middlecoin website.

Cheers,
Skimm
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
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Worth mining and with this rig?
by
skimmer333
on 08/07/2014, 07:20:57 UTC
Hi all,

I have an IBM x336 Type 8837 eServer 1RU(recently gifted). It's a Xeon 3.0Ghz with a 4Gb RAM.
I'm wondering if it is worthwhile trying/attempting to do any type of mining with either BitCoin or a different coin? i.e. Litecoin, PrimeCoin, DodgeCoin etc.
As you can probably guess, it doesn't have a video card, so I would be cpu mining.

Would it be worthwhile to even attempt to do some mining with this machine? It's sitting there doing nothing at the moment.

Also, was looking around and came across a suggestion to use middlecoin.com. Has anyone used this site before, and if it is worth mining with the above, would it then be worth using this site?

Cheers,
Skimmer.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: An (even more) optimized version of cpuminer (pooler's cpuminer, CPU-only)
by
skimmer333
on 27/06/2014, 04:24:44 UTC
Hi,
Noob question. I'm using win7-64bit
Can i solo mine using minerd?
If so, can you assist with the command line?
Is there anything else I need to install?

Cheers,
Skimmer.