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Dr. Pain wrote:I've punched and kicked my way through your mining mates Norbs with a 1060 above my head :lol:

Start mining. You'd be surprised how quickly it adds up. :D

My cycling buddy is doing it and it is paying for his beer every month.
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Pass. You never know where those coins have been :yikes:
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If people are looking for GPUs, they are dropping. I just added another 1080 to my stable for $749. 1060s are down below 300!

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norbs wrote:If people are looking for GPUs, they are dropping. I just added another 1080 to my stable for $749. 1060s are down below 300!

https://www.computeralliance.com.au/asu ... 3g-special
Thanks for the heads up... 2x 1060s ordered :D :yes:
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:rofl:

I have been pretty lucky. 22% increase in my investment after 1 year. I am not going to complain about that. But dear god there are some weirdos in the space. Makes sim racers look normal.
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Speaking of weirdo's and space, an Apollo Guidance Computer has been programmed to mine bitcoin.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... e-bitcoin/
Among the many technological breakthroughs of NASA's Apollo project to land a man on the Moon was the Apollo Guidance Computer that flew onboard Apollo spacecraft. In an era when most computers were refrigerator-sized—if not room-sized—the AGC weighed only about 70 pounds. It was one of the first computers to use integrated circuits.

A team of computer historians got its hands on one of the original AGCs and got it working. A member of the team, Ken Shirriff, then decided to see if the computer could be used for bitcoin mining.

Today, most bitcoin mining is done using specialized hardware capable of computing trillions of hashes per second. Shirriff's software for the Apollo Guidance Computer was quite a bit slower than that: each bitcoin hash calculation takes about 10 seconds.

"The computer is so slow that it would take about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a bitcoin block," Shirriff wrote.
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