[hackerspaces] bitcoin

[Chris Hardee]

I'm not sure how bitcoin offloads the processing, but OpenCL should do the
trick.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:22 AM, George Shammas <georgyo at hackerspaces.org>wrote:

> Its a little sad that there are no GPU miners that work on linux. Its also
> sad that I lack the ability to create one.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Niall Kearney <mantel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It just means that bitcoin pools will get more popular as regular people
>> using CPU miners won't see any short term reward (less than a week) and
>> those that are willing to continue with mining bitcoins will look to the
>> pools to at least get something out of their investment. You could always go
>> down the triple graphic's card route if your dedicated to bit coin mining.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7 April 2011 17:55, The Doctor <drwho at virtadpt.net> wrote:
>>
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>>> On 04/06/2011 11:18 PM, George Shammas wrote:
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>>> > That being said, it seems to be getting much harder, as the last block
>>> I
>>> > generated was a month ago. This will either drive the value way up, or
>>> cause
>>> > it to collapse.
>>>
>>> It does seem to be getting harder.  The box I set up to test bitcoin
>>> hasn't generated any blocks in the past three months.
>>>
>>> - --
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