In b4 “You wont make a profit”… i know, i want to use my computer to heat my apartment. i figure that even if i’m making a “loss” each month on the mining it’s still cheaper than running my apartments electric heaters when you account for the sold (or not) bitcoin.
I’ve been doing well keeping things warm by Folding at home on the CPU but apparently AMD GPUs aren’t supported for that and i want to put my GPU to work too.
I briefly mined some litecoin in like 2013/14 when BTC was just about popping off. other than that i have no mining experience (and i would have been using windows back then)
Need to sort something soon, Jan and Feb are probs the coldest months in the UK and i have gotten this far this year without using the heaters
Not to hijack this post, but since there are knowledgeable folks participating, could someone point to either an article or a video that explains the various crypto currencies, how they work, what role the mining functions, and explains them in language that most people can understand?
Thank you if anyone has a reference to provide. :-)
P.S. I’m aware Google exists, but I’d like one that’s at least vetted by someone knowledgeable. Between search manipulations and AI, I’ve found searching to be very iffy as it is in terms of finding good authoritative results.