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SamPatt on March 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

You can no longer profit mining Bitcoin with a CPU or GPU. ASICs are needed.

ufmace on March 23, 2019 [–]

The idea of this sort of scheme is that it's perfectly profitable if you aren't paying for the CPU and the power it uses.

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