Confessions of a Crypto Miner
summary
Describes installing a CPU miner then scaling to 20 GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs (Antminers, an Eisen bought for ~$200 and later resold for ~$2,000), flashing firmware and overclocking jalapenos, mining with bfgminer and the Eligius pool and merge-mining Namecoin, exchanging coins on early hacked or shuttered exchanges, converting mined coins to a laptop, stopping after a shock 2015 electricity bill, and citing Bitcoin’s energy use comparable to a small country and the 10,000 BTC pizza.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54History
- 2:52The Journey
- 3:17Currency
- 4:03Bitcoin
- 4:38GPU
- 5:03Mining Pool
- 6:18Three Questions
- 7:08Timeline
- 7:46How I mine
- 8:19Myeisen
- 8:39Altcoins
- 9:31Multiple Currencies
- 10:20Equilibrium
- 10:40Exchange
- 12:27Energy Prices
- 13:05Lessons Learned
- 13:59Crypto Market
- 14:49Energy Consumption
- 15:21Quotes
- 18:13Final Recommendation
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