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[JLS]

Graphics Cards and Bitcoin Mining

Why were graphics cards so important in Bitcoin mining?

Then programmable GPUs came along, and somebody (well, everybody) discovered they are perfect for mining Bitcoin - so most people switched to GPUs or FPGAs, and the resulting difficulty increase eliminated CPU miners (Bitcoin adjusts the mining difficulty automatically - the more hashes per second total in the network, the harder it gets).

Links farther down on same page:

What is graphics card "mining"?
How many Bitcoins can I mine in one day with an NVIDIA GTX 670 graphics card?

http://tinyurl.com/ycmk9lbs



AMD graphics cards:

https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/radeon-systems

[Viewmont]

Wow, still dropping today! Earnings are on the 23rd, will it pick back up by then?