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Just got a bitcoin miner

Posted on: December 7, 2017 at 10:34:47 CT

BeakerHater MU

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M.O.B. Votes:

you're a bit off base. basically, the computers compete (by solving a mathematical algorithm) to process the transactions and create new bitcoins. the faster the computer, the more you earn.

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Don't understand the Bitcoin mining thing - Diamond Dave MU

- 12/7 10:04:41

Just got a bitcoin miner - BeakerHater MU - 12/7 10:34:47

home-based bitcoin mining is useless now - Joeboo MU

- 12/7 10:59:26

not totally true - BeakerHater MU - 12/7 11:04:50

a safer bet would be to invest in companies like AMD, the - KCT-BoneTiger MU

- 12/7 10:35:50

if you invested $100 in AMD a year ago, you'd have $88 today - phrejd MU

- 12/7 10:56:37

Because bitcoin mining is a blip on their radar - Grasslands MU - 12/7 10:57:43

Meh...safer yes but some of that is already baked into the - BeakerHater MU - 12/7 10:38:05

forget bitcoin, buy Ethereum or Lightcoin - KCT-BoneTiger MU

- 12/7 10:27:18

nobody should ever listen to your financial advice. ever. (nm) - phrejd MU

- 12/7 10:46:07

Ethereum is a totally different use case from - BeakerHater MU - 12/7 10:36:44

Would definitely recommend ethereum(nm) - TheShoe STL - 12/7 10:33:44

How's Teldar Paper doing?(nm) - Fred G. Sanford USA - 12/7 10:33:17

There was a Big Bang Theory show about Bitcoin - Fred G. Sanford USA - 12/7 10:23:49

I bet it was hilarious(nm) - dangertim MU

- 12/7 10:26:27

Yes. Sorta, well - Fred G. Sanford USA - 12/7 10:28:33

ill do u one better - SEC_BIG_GAMEHUNTER SEC - 12/7 10:17:05

Nope(nm) - TheShoe STL - 12/7 10:14:40

Then elaborate - Diamond Dave MU

- 12/7 10:15:24

You are mining for bitcoin transactions - TheShoe STL - 12/7 10:25:07

I don't get it either. It's some kind of Matrix thing. - Nebraska99 STL - 12/7 10:07:15

Saw where somebody bought a Pizza in 2010 in NYC - TheWildcat STL - 12/7 10:12:07

Probably a meat lovers, extra meat. nm - Nebraska99 STL - 12/7 10:25:20