Bitcoin Mining

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I've recently gotten into bitcoin mining (as a lot have recently lol), what's your setup like? What's the best way to mine for btc? Is there any scripts and/or a way to mine btc using cloud hosting?

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I have been mining since June 2011. Running two ATI 5830's for about 550 mhashes/sec on a cheap motherboard with a cheap processor and barely any ram. All admin is done with SSH, only cords going in are network and power.

Been running basically non-stop since I built it, with the exception of a few months I spent away from home. Was hard to justify at 2 dollars per coin, but I am glad I left it on in the long run. Close to 90 coins mined!

Get one of these shiny ASIC systems, CPU mining is dead since ages and GPU mining won't be profitable in a year, give or take a couple months.

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