getting started with bitcoin

[Legolessed]

just as a fun project to see how old hardware deals with bitcoin mining i assembled a couple of computers with older hardware i had lying around my house and was wondering how to start. i know i should find a mining pool but i dont know which one to join and the internet so far has been insanely biased. Also how i understand it is the to bitcoin mine with a computer you install a bitcoin mining operating system. is this true? thank you!

[themctipers]

not profitable mining bitcoin at all (using computer hardware) 

think you're thinking of ETH, most things below a GTX 770 or so will get you under 50 cents a day,  so.. CPU mining on my 3770k gives me 25 cents (4.4ghz, but am using nicehash)

pretty sure you can still bitcoin mine on windows

[Legolessed]

Just now, themctipers said:

not profitable mining bitcoin at all (using computer hardware) 

think you're thinking of ETH, most things below a GTX 770 or so will get you under 50 cents a day,  so.. CPU mining on my 3770k gives me 25 cents (4.4ghz, but am using nicehash)

pretty sure you can still bitcoin mine on windows

lol i never said it was practical i even said those words exactly and said "fun project" idk what coin to mine  what mining pool should i use? also do multiple mining currencies work on one pool? 

[themctipers]

Just now, Legolessed said:

lol i never said it was practical i even said those words exactly and said "fun project" idk what coin to mine  what mining pool should i use? also do multiple mining currencies work on one pool? 

have fun throwing money away lol

AMD or nvidia cards? nvidia cards should go zcash, AMD higher tier (290+) should go eth, lower tier should go zcash, 

no you cannot use a zcash pool to mine eth or a eth pool to mine zcash, you need to use pool x with currency x (there might be multiple pools with different currencies supported with the same pool name/branding)

[Mooshi]

The increased power bill for less than couch change doesn't seem all too fun to me.

[Legolessed]

Just now, Mooshi said:

The increased power bill for less than couch change doesn't seem all too fun to me.

i never said for long. i just wanted to play around with it. also electricity is dirt cheap where i live

[pat_13b]

That couch change might one day be worth a lot more... or not... but maybe... 

[Legolessed]

24 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

The increased power bill for less than couch change doesn't seem all too fun to me.

 

31 minutes ago, themctipers said:

have fun throwing money away lol

AMD or nvidia cards? nvidia cards should go zcash, AMD higher tier (290+) should go eth, lower tier should go zcash, 

no you cannot use a zcash pool to mine eth or a eth pool to mine zcash, you need to use pool x with currency x (there might be multiple pools with different currencies supported with the same pool name/branding)

ok fine. then what about my laptop and main computer. i have a dell e6430 laptop and a desktop with a xeon 1220 3.4ghz quad core cpu paired with 10gb of ram and a gtx 760 2gb. 

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, Legolessed said:

 

ok fine. then what about my laptop and main computer. i have a dell e6430 laptop and a desktop with a xeon 1220 3.4ghz quad core cpu paired with 10gb of ram and a gtx 760 2gb. 

760 makes me $0.24 cents a day. 

Xeon night make you $0.20 cents a day

laptop will give you maybe $0.10 cents a day..

[Legolessed]

Just now, themctipers said:

760 makes me $0.24 cents a day. 

Xeon night make you $0.20 cents a day

laptop will give you maybe $0.10 cents a day..

ok. so mine zcash on my desktop? its already on 24/7 on tasks that use maybe 2% cpu and gpu load and during the day it gets loaded but during the night i could mine with it. it is running linux though. can i mine on ubuntu?

[themctipers]

Just now, Legolessed said:

ok. so mine zcash on my desktop? its already on 24/7 on tasks that use maybe 2% cpu and gpu load and during the day it gets loaded but during the night i could mine with it. it is running linux though. can i mine on ubuntu?

cpu = i dont know, i use nicehash and am basic

gpu = yeah, zcash has a thing for linux

 

mining on windows makes the OS unusuably slow. 

[Legolessed]

16 minutes ago, themctipers said:

cpu = i dont know, i use nicehash and am basic

gpu = yeah, zcash has a thing for linux

 

mining on windows makes the OS unusuably slow. 

do you know what the "thing" for linux is called? thank you so much!

[themctipers]

Just now, Legolessed said:

do you know what the "thing" for linux is called? thank you so much!

.. i googled it and found something:

https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy 

[Legolessed]

15 hours ago, themctipers said:

.. i googled it and found something:

https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy 

Ok. I found this thing called miner gate and it's been working really well. But then I decided to add an r7 250 to my.desktop and I still am running at about 500 h/s. It's like the r7 250 isn't there.