Can computers dig virtual currency
at present, the computing power of bitcoin in the whole network has reached 2.36 billion hash collisions per second, which is equivalent to the number of water droplets in more than 200000 50 meter long standard swimming pools. But even with such a large amount of computing power, it will take about 10 minutes to hit a hash value that meets the requirements
in 2012, bitcoin's output was halved for the first time, and in July 2016, bitcoin's output was halved for the second time. At present, 12.5 bitcoins are awarded for recording one page of account book. The next halving will take place around 2020, and the total number of bitcoins will not increase by 2040, with a total of 21 million. In other words, the difficulty of digging bitcoin is increasing, while the time required is increasing
Some new virtual digital coins can be mined by computer, such as eth, Zec, Monroe, XRB, etc
because the whole network computing power required by this kind of token is not high, the probability of hash collision of the computing power of personal computer can find out the answer in a short time, so as to obtain the block reward. However, this kind of token generally has little value, or has no high risk, so it doesn't mean much
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mining risk:
1. Electricity charge:
to make the graphics card full load for a long time, the power consumption will be quite high, and the electricity charge will be higher and higher. Many professional mines at home and abroad are operated in areas with extremely low electricity charges, such as hydropower stations, while more users can only mine at home or in ordinary mines, so the electricity charges are not cheap. Even in a certain residential area in Yunnan, there was a case of crazy mining, which led to a large area trip of the residential area, and the transformer was burned
2. Hardware expenditure:
mining is actually a competition of performance and equipment. Some mining machines are composed of more such graphics card arrays. With dozens or even hundreds of graphics cards, the cost of hardware and other costs is very high, and mining has a considerable expenditure
in addition to the display card burning machines, some ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) professional mining machines are also put into the battlefield. ASIC is specially designed for hash operation, and the computing power is quite strong. Moreover, because their power consumption is far lower than that of the display card, they are easier to form scale, and the power cost is also lower. It is difficult for single chip display to compete with these mining machines, This kind of machine costs more
3. Currency security:
the withdrawal of bitcoin requires hundreds of keys, and most people will record this long string of numbers on the computer, but the frequent problems such as hard disk damage will make the key permanently lost, which also leads to the loss of bitcoin
4. System risk:
system risk is very common in bitcoin, and the most common one is bifurcation. Bifurcation will lead to a drop in currency price and a sharp drop in mining income
however, many cases show that the forking will benefit the miners, and the forked competitive currency also needs the miners' computing power to complete the minting and trading process. In order to win more miners, the competitive currency will provide more block rewards and handling charges to attract miners. Risk makes miners
At present, if the computer is on 24 hours, it will take about three months to dig a bitcoin. In other words, a computer can dig up to a third of bitcoin a month
bitcoin is the most popular virtual internet currency in the world, and it can also buy a lot of things now. This kind of virtual currency can be obtained through the function of mining machine
first of all, your computer should have installed the latest version of bitcoin client. After opening the client, it will automatically download all the transaction information data on the network to the local. According to the different network speeds, this process may take several hours. At this time, your account balance is 0, you can let friends send some money, but there are two more feasible ways: one is to do business, the other is to do mining. Many domestic users choose the second way, that is to do mining. More and more people are willing to work as miners themselves and let their computers proce bitcoin! It sounds tempting - just one computer can make money! The bitcoin g up by yourself as a miner can be converted into real RMB at bitcoin China trading platform
now the threshold is higher than before. It's better to need professional computers. The difficulty of bitcoin mining is directly proportional to the amount of money that has been mined. The more difficult it is to mine, the more difficult it will be. After 20 million bitcoins are mined out in 2030, the remaining 1 million bitcoins will probably take decades to be mined out. At present, if the computer is on 24 hours, it will take about three months to dig a bitcoin
if your computer configuration is very high, dig Eth and so on, which can cost several hundred yuan a month. Mining machinery is not a home computer.