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PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:37 pm 
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Looks like a new fad in crypto is here. Multiple reports from ArsT, Mac Today, Toms etc all covering this latest crazy idea.
Laptop mining farms.
W t f h

Well; it make sense on the price level. When a $250 entry level graphics card is selling for $900 and the thousand dollar ones are obscene; sure. Just look at ebay prices for AGP and ISA cards! 3D blaster, Voodoo X, 3DFX, all in the high double digits in many auctions.

So buying 100 surplus laptops with discrete graphics and stripping the shells sort of makes sense. I’ll say this though: as a benchmarker that likes to torture review test equipment the most extreme laptops today aren’t going to survive more than a few months doing this. The mid-range ones in the photo may last 6 in my estimation.

Side thought—This is crazy stupid. Your laptop will die before you break even. I thought it was a glorious prank when everyone was running the same photos in their reports. But as more pictures come out and Reddit users screaming it works….
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I have no idea how the markets will respond when there’s suddenly hundreds of thousands of dead 2010 Dells in scrap streams but this is gonna be interesting.
Amps go to 11. Laptops like a nice calm 7. Did I mention this is crazy?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:00 pm 

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Well brother, I for 1 am looking forward to it! ;)


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:15 pm 
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Lol. I think it’s actually happening.
A quick look at ebay statistics shows laptops and tablets “for parts or repair” are trending up.

Again: I do NOT condone this. This is utterly destructive and pointless.
It’s like the YouTubers who buy brand new computers and then shoot them

It’s one thing to tinker and do stuff that should work for fun. Like my VCR that mines. Or a game boy.
But it’s not serious attempts.

My vcr has as much chance at mining a coin as my dog has of jumping over the moon.
Not gonna happen.

Setting up a hundred low end laptops at $100 each is just going to leave you with a pile of burn out suffering laptops. Assuming you don’t start a real fire.

There’s a huge difference between speed mining (arithmetic) and cluster computing (combined resources). And this laptop nonsense is a key example of not understanding that difference.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:01 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Like my VCR that mines. Or a game boy.

Quick buy all the VCRs and GameBoys!


That was what I was supposed to get out of that right???

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:43 pm 
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Uh, lol, no.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:32 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Uh, lol, no.

This is really all I was trying to accomplish with that. Lol :D :P

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