BC CRYPTOCURRENCIES GUIDE
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This is a beginner's guide on mining cryptocurrencies.

🧵 👇🏻

 Mining 101

Typically, when you transfer money using a service like Paypal, they take a small cut for facilitating the exchange.

In cryptocurrencies, people like you and me act as Paypal and facilitate exchanges of cryptocurrency. We get a cut for this just like Paypal did.
In order to make these transactions happen, our computers need to do some calculations which requires a lot of computational power.

A GPU or a Graphics Processing Unit which is typically marketed for gaming workloads can be used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Why do you need a GPU?

Today, there are so many miners that the "difficulty" of mining cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed, which basically means it takes a lot of computational power to mine crypto which GPUs can provide and CPUs cannot.

(❗ This is an oversimplification)
If you are interested in the inner workings of how blockchain and cryptocurrency, then I highly suggest that you read this thread by @oliverjumpertz .

https://t.co/gbFs64FY2X
In short, you need a fairly powerful GPU to mine Crypto profitably.

Most Nvidia or AMD GPUs that were released ~2015 and after should be able to mine well.

....
If you are looking to buy a new one then I'd look at these GPUs:

Nvidia
- RTX 3060 ti and above (not the 3060, these are slightly expensive)

- RTX 2060 and above (last gen)

- GTX 1650/1660(budget-friendly)

AMD

- Radeon RX 5700, Radeon RX 580, Radeon RX Vega 56
The pricing and availability for GPUs is all over the place so make sure to check the prices and choose the best one for you.

Here's a good rule of thumb, check the pricing on AMD or Nvidia's site first before making your purchase.
Another thing about GPUs is that most of the time other manufacturers like MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte or Asus sell the same graphics card just rebranded.

They are perfectly legit GPUs so there's nothing to worry about.
Now that you have a GPU, let's get to mining and I have kept this step very simple for all of you.

I've tried out 4 software for mining: Kryptex, Nicehash, Unminable miner, and Phoenix miner.
Typically you need a wallet(kinda like a bank account but free and digital), a pool(mine in a group to maximize profits), and a special miner program to mine.

You can also specifically choose which coin you would like to mine.

Phoenix, Unminable miner come under this category.
Kryptex and Nicehash are much more beginner-friendly.

I spent hours trying to see which ones worked the best and honestly, Phoenix and Unminable really did not work for me.

Kryptex and Nicehash gave me $10 a day on my RTX 3070, while the others were around $4.
Both Keyptex and Nicehash seem to have good reviews so I'd choose one of these 2 softwares for mining.

All you have to do is make an account and click a few buttons to start mining.

(Just to be clear, neither of them sponsored this thread)
Any Proof of Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency is profitable to mine, this includes Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Both are great coins to mine.
This is all great but keep a couple of things in mind:

- The lifespan of your GPU will be reduced because it will be under constant load for long periods of time.
- Check your electricity rates to see if mining is profitable for you or not ( 🔗https://t.co/k0k3LoPnsK )
- Mining isn't very good for the environment.

I am not sure how the carbon footprint for mining compares to creating regular fiat currency but it is definitely high.
Correction:
Bitcoin and Ethereum are PoW based(proof of work)
(Both are still very profitable to mine)

Here's the difference between the two.

Image source:https://t.co/OsmqvKseTV

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