Posts Tagged ‘asic’

PSA: Don’t use GPUs to mine Bitcoin!

With the recent price surge of Bitcoin, I’ve been getting a few messages from people asking about the viability of building a GPU-based rig to mine bitcoins directly. Don’t do that! GPU mining is only suitable for scrypt-based cryptocurrency (Litecoin, etc). If you’re interested in mining Bitcoin, then you absolutely must use ASIC hardware if […]