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RE: How to earn some cash while doing nothing (part 3)?
nice article and good luck with mining your hashes.. just a word of wisdom ! f you have a nice machine, with i7 & a good GFX card, be mindful, you do risk wearing out your kit pretty quickly and remember how much it cost to buy that slinky laptop in the first place.. even at $2 per day, how long is your laptop going to last ? you could earn $2 by writing a nice article, and upvoting, commenting and posting here on steemit. your pc would thank you and be taking it easy at the same time. using a browser is a piece of cake for a computer !!
Hi @outerground, you're partialy right. As you noticed, my graphic card is far from being "the latest big thing !". I use this computer to do 3D renderings for clients. It's been a long time that the whole computer as been amortized. So all the money i get is extra-money. I've settled this last year, and all the earning covered more than the price of the machine at the time (the bitcoin was 400$ at the time). All in all it has been more than profitable for me. Plus i keep the bitcoins, as explained. To be true, i also didn't count the extra power needed to make these calculations. But it's still profitable. My MSi graphic card works at 70% of power, 80°C top since february 2016. The real problem is the heat it produces while working...
welcome fellow animator ! I run shroomstudio CHECK us OUT...yeah it's the heat that's the problem ! We talked about putting a couple of our old machines out to pasture with mining.. we use Dell Workstations with Xeons and I'm sure the GFX cards in them are still up to the job..
I think the nicehash is a really interesting way of using your machine for obtaining bitcoin without hashing your socks off.. agree, I think your $2 per day will be worth quite a bit more in the future.. best of luck to you !!