I have been think setting this back up.
are you solo mining or on the pool also do you know if we can use old hardware.
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I have been think setting this back up.
are you solo mining or on the pool also do you know if we can use old hardware.
To add to @lukestokes's comment (if I may), you can use practically any hardware including mobile phones, R-Pis, etc. Of course, you will be able to contribute more with more powerful hardware.
For the difference between pool and solo 'mining', the payout for pool will actually be slightly lower as the pool takes a cut of your profits. The big benefits of a pool are getting set up in hours rather than days, a lot less can go wrong, and you will be paid out much more frequently (but less per payout).
Thanks Dutch! I got the impression you could use anything also, but I've noticed some projects (like LHC@home) wanted a ton of RAM while others talk about system requirements, GPUs, etc. It's all kind of a black box to me still. Are there some things which can only be run on specific hardware or is BOINC really designed to run on anything?
Great question actually! BOINC as a platform can run on any hardware, but individual projects have specific hardware requirements. Like you mentioned, some projects need a lot of RAM, but fortunately most don't. The most prominent split is between CPU and GPU projects. For example, SRBase only runs on CPUs, while the vast majority of Moowrap runs only on GPUs.
No matter the hardware (bar the super extreme), there will be a BOINC project you can contribute to. Hell, there are members of the Gridcoin community who have written entire articles on setting up a Raspberry Pi Gridcoin farm.
I saw some Pi articles in my research! Funny stuff to think about farming them.
Thanks again, Dutch!
I'm currently solo mining. I don't expect to earn much doing that, but that's okay for me. I really like the idea of my own account contributing something real that I can see graphs on and such. Gamification is fun. :)
I'm not sure about old hardware, but you can set up as many computers as you want under your account.
I use to have bionic set up and running and earned a couple gridcoin at the time and i have been looking for something to run on a couple old gpus that just a junk to mine on. Think i will try to set it up tommorow and see how it goes
Nice! Report back with your findings, if you think of it. I found the whole process a bit tricky, so the more people talking about their experience, the more understanding we can all have.
will do set up cpu last night jist on pool. well was more or less just start bionic agian. gonna set up solo and gpu today will see how it goes.
Is there a number gridcoin i should have before solo
I think the staking and proof of research are separate...but related. So it depends on how often you want to get a reward block. The more the better, but I don't know what a lower bound would be.