Can desktop computers dig for 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
In theory, it's only a matter of time before bitcoin can still be found on home computers. But in fact, home computers can't find bitcoin, because no one is willing to spend too much time and energy using computers to find bitcoin, and the cost is too high< br />
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.
1. The calculation is mainly done by GPU, while the GPU of ordinary computers is not very powerful, which directly leads to low mining efficiency, and even the electricity bill can not be recovered
2. Because it is used to exchange data on the network, not only the performance of the computer should be good enough, but also the network bandwidth and quality should be higher. If you are asked to build a telecom 100 MB broadband before, I wonder if you are still so interested
3. GPU will generate a lot of heat ring calculation. If it is not handled properly or the original radiator is very dirty, it may burn the GPU or computer, and the gain will not be worth the loss
4. The other is the impact of the environment. Let's not say where bitcoin is going to go, let's say that the current exchange rate is seriously declining and there is no money to make before. Professional mines are even processing equipment. It's obviously unreasonable to go mining at this time
of course, if the computer is not yours, you don't have to pay for the electricity, and broadband doesn't need money, then you can try it....