P102-100 mining cards

[DimBo]

if folding gave you money would mining even be a thing? because atleast with folding it goes to a cause.

Well, mining has a cause too. Cryptocurrencies give people convenient way to send or receive money (while remaining anonymous if they want to). Miners do not create money out of thin air - they get rewarded for providing useful service to other people.
BTW, I used to run BOINC on the CPUs of my mining rigs - this way my BOINC workers kind of paid for themselves.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Miners do not create money out of thin air - they get rewarded for providing useful service to other people.

come again?... (not about the "out of thin air" ofc ... but the second part, outside of a few coin designed to do so .... obviously .... and most miner will not chose these either)

BTW, I used to run BOINC on the CPUs of my mining rigs - this way my BOINC workers kind of paid for themselves.

that idea is almost "noble" although only on the CPU consumption added to the mining consumption, actually a part of the mining benefice (urk ...) is used to pay the consumption added by the CPU computing for something useful (as long as you pay for it .... the way the payment come from is not an issue ... then... )

the idea that would make the first quoted statement true would be reward for WCG/F@H work .... but that would actually be useful ...


i rather compute for WCG/F@H than mine, even with my unfair electricity cost i did actually ... explode my electricity bill with WCG, mining even with a efficient (lol) setup, would put me in red numbers (aka: the gain would barely cover the investment ) and i love my GPU a bit too much to put it thru such treatment (mining dedicated card would be no issues .... now, if only manufacturer could implement something that would block any non mining dedicated cards from mining ...)

and for those who say "gaming is as wasteful as mining" .... think again ... i get it, you enjoy just watching your hardware making money for you ... very entertaining and interactive

 

[R-T-B]

come again?

The payment network itself is the useful service.

very entertaining and interactive

You'd be surprised. My miners can be very interactive some days...

 

[T4C Fantasy]

The payment network itself is the useful service.



You'd be surprised. My miners can be very interactive some days...

I think the point was that there is no significant cause like folding and wcg has, i stated awhile ago if you got paid for folding before mining got big then mining wouldnt exist because its useless to causes. Atleast if folding paid you thats your deal breaker to mine.

 

[moproblems99]

if you got paid for folding before mining got big then mining wouldnt exist

More than likely, which ever paid more is the one that would be used