Sunday, January 3, 2021
On the 1st business day of 2021, #Bitcoin takes its rightful place atop the Financial Times. “No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”― Victor Hugo
On the 1st business day of 2021, #Bitcoin takes its rightful place atop the Financial Times.
“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”― Victor Hugo
#Dogecoin How to mine bitcoin at home #BTC #Bitcoin
mining Bitcoin doesn't mean extracting some kind of monetary value. In actuality, miners are key to how a blockchain works. There is a great deal of nuance to this, but to put it simply, blockchains are decentralized global networks of computers or "nodes." You can do all sorts of things on a blockchain, but at its core, the network executes, validates, and records transactions on a shared, immutable ledger. Litecoin mining requires far less compute power, though the hardware will still run you a good chunk of change. It's worth noting that this hardware is cheaper if you buy it from Bitmain, though most of the rigs are currently sold out on its website. Though the digital currency started out based on a meme, Dogecoin (DOGE) has grown to be an altcoin with a substantial user base. DOGE is designed to add new coins each year as opposed to bitcoin's finite supply. Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency invented by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system that is instant, fun, This is an added incentive for anyone mining it. To mine DOGE, first ensure you have a wallet to store your earnings. You can download the Dogecoin core wallet or look on the website for other suitable online wallets.
When mining using your CPU, the software that works best is CPU miner. Mining in this manner is possible, albeit at a slow rate. To increase the mining speed, you can use graphic cards. AMD and Nvidia cards are your best bet. If you decide on GPU mining, then the software that you should use is either the cgminer or cudaminer.It is a derivative of Luckycoin which forked from Litecoin and uses a Scrypt algorithm. Dogecoin has 1 minute block intervals making it faster than other blockchains
Full instructions for mining Doge can be found here. While mining as an individual is doable, it is advisable to sign up to a mining pool as you are able to take advantage of the larger processing power and speeds and thus generate higher mining returns. An examples of a mining pool that supports Dogecoin is MultiPool. Once mined, exchanges that trade Dogecoin include Binance and OKEx.A new batch ships in March for around $1,500 each (plus power supply). You can snag one on Amazon if you're willing to pay between $4,000 and $5,000. Miners are the ones bundling transactions into "blocks." A new block is created on the Bitcoin blockchain approximately every 10 minutes. At the same time, new bitcoins (from the cryptocurrency's fixed supply of 21 million) are uncovered and released into circulation.
For each 10-minute period, a miner or "worker" node is chosen to validate transactions. This happens through Proof of Work, a compute-intensive process akin to solving a constantly changing math problem. easiest cryptocurrecny to mine is one that doesn't require you to build a massive mining rig. Although it was initially possible to mine Bitcoin using laptops and desktops, the growing mining difficulty as well as the advent of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs) software created specifically for bitcoin mining has made it all but impossible to profitably mine Bitcoin at home using the processing power of a PC or laptop computer. However, crypto mining from home is still an option for some other cryptocurrencies in 2021. In this article, we will introduce 10 popular options — with some how-to instructions to help get you started.
ZCash
ZCash (ZEC)
|Market Cap: 650M | | Average Daily Volume: 300M+ |
Launched in 2016, Zcash (ZEC) is a leading privacy-centric digital currency. For the home miner, Zcash’s most important feature is that it employs the Equihash algorithm which is designed to be ASIC resistant. As a result, the home miner with a GPU can participate.Solo mining vs. Pool mining
Mining rewards are random. You are basically searching for blocks, then solving and confirming the block for a reward. Currently the payout is up to 1,000,000 coins per block, but over time the reward max amount is halved. When? check here. The first to find and confirm the block gets the full payout of that block and everyone else has to move on. Stronger hardware = faster searching and confirming.
From an overall long term view, if you are 0.001% of the computing power overall you should be able to get ~0.001% of the payout overall (less likely to find and confirm blocks, but get 100% of the block payout when it happens). But this is a theoretical long term view, and smart shibes will team up with other shibes then split the rewards (more likely to find and confirm blocks, but split the block payout amongst the team). It is better to get consistent and frequent payouts so team up. To team up with other shibes you can, 1: join a pool or 2: join a p2pool.
We went with option 1 but have heard good things about option 2. However I have read if your hash rate is low, joining a p2pool is not worth it (not personally verified).
Joining a pool
To join a pool, select one from the following lists and sign up for an account. Larger pools are more consistent in payouts, but also consider fees or any other perks (such as bonuses for finding a block). All the pools we tried have the same general interface.
Software (free)
The most popular software for mining is cgminer, cudaminer, and guiminer. Download links are below.
Download For Notes
CGminer
*windows zip
*linux 64 bz2
*linux 64 lrz AMD, Nvidia, CPU Best for AMD. Do NOT download the latest version of cgminer (3.10+). The latest versions removed support for graphic cards and are only for ASIC hardware. The latest version you can get for Dogecoin mining is 3.7.2. "cgminer-3.7.2-x86_64-built" is for Linux, not Windows. *prebuilt files were removed from the source, so I am hosting them*
CUDAminer Nvidia Best for mining with Nvidia graphic cards.
CPUminer CPU Best for mining with CPUs. However, CPU mining in general is not effective.
GUIminer AMD, Nvidia, CPU While the page says Litecoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin are both scrypt based so it works with Dogecoin. Easiest to setup, but may not be the most efficient.
Before you can start mining Zcash, you will need to download the software that will help you control your hardware. Download the Zcash blockchain and set up your wallet. This will involve some waiting as the blockchain will need to download in its entirety on your node, and sync as well. Additionally, you will need to download the drivers for your graphics cards. Full instructions for mining Zcash can be found here. Once mined, exchanges that trade Zcash include Miners generate a unique code string of "hash" that essentially serves as a lottery ticket to solve for Proof of Work and to be chosen at random for block validation.
Saturday, January 2, 2021
The $600 Stimulus Check is Now Worth: $674 (+12%)
#Bitcoin $31k and counting. Investors keep asking me: am I late? My answer: not even close. This is Amazon. This is Tesla. Potentially on steroids.
by : Anthony Scaramucci
@Scaramucci
We’re in the early innings of a completely new asset class. Drop the regret of not buying earlier and jump on the rocket. Rocket
#Bitcoin has passed $30,000 on its way to $100,000. Expect new ATHs every few days in 2021! #Rocket
Just learned about Stellar and earned $XLM in return! Use my invite to join Coinbase and earn up to $50 of $XLM. https://coinbase.com/earn/xlm/invite/qv48rxhw #BNB #BTC #ETH #altcoins #altcoins #Bitcoin
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Welcome to the #bitcoin party, newcomers. Whee! fun eh? Hodl on! Mild chop, nothing to worry about. All systems nominal. Cart still attached to rails. Nice little bounce there.
Welcome to the #bitcoin party, newcomers. Whee! fun eh? Hodl on! Mild chop, nothing to worry about. All systems nominal. Cart still attached...
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