They're not considerably faster, but they're considerably more power efficient. They're also considerably more expensive.<div><br></div><div>Are you using ATI or NVIDA GPGPUs? Mining runs considerably better with ATI hardware, something related to the larger number of shader cells.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:54, Jamie Schwettmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com">jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm involved in a project that builds open-source mini supercomputers that fit in a suitcase. With GPGPUs. For under $5000, and intended for educational use, but actually perfect for bitcoin mining... especially if we pool a bunch of them on our favorite darknet...<br>
<br>And by the way, aren't FPGAs *much* faster at cranking random numbers than GPGPUs? ;)<br><font color="#888888"><br>- Jamie</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Niall Kearney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mantel@gmail.com" target="_blank">mantel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sorry to drag this back up but I thought this would be important to people mining bitcoins.<br><br>Currently there is a Trojan doing the rounds that nicks your wallet.dat and as a result, gets access to all of the bitcoins contained within. Stick your wallet.dat in a slightly safer place, like a truecrypt volume, if you think you might be at risk.<br>
<br>Symantec post - <a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours" target="_blank">http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-bitcoins-are-ours</a><div><div></div><div><br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2011 16:30, Walter van Holst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter@revspace.nl" target="_blank">walter@revspace.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:27:05 -0400, Agent 5 wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Saw a blurb about China using their prison population to mine WoW<br>
Gold. I wonder if they're doing this with BitCoin too. Anyone heard<br>
anything?<br>
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Mining WoW gold is not quite comparable to mining Bitcoins. The first is labour intensive, the second capital intensive.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
Walter</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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