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mining

Forum discussion tagged with mining.
  1. The KiWeeD

    Question Virus that turns itself off when task manager is opened

    Ok something weird is going on. I recorded a video that somewhat sums up my problem, but if you can't watch it I'll explain it here: So I noticed I was not getting usual performance while gaming so I opened up the task manager and couldn't notice anything strange so I just switched back to my...
  2. D

    Bitcoin mining, is it worth it?

    So my gaming pc has a 1070 in it and I download nicehash and it's getting 59 cents a day. Lol I have a couple of r9 280x sapphire with a mobo 8g ddr3 750psu and a hdd. Is it worth it to get the old pc up and running as a mining rig? There's also several 280x around my area for about 80 bucks so...
  3. appletatoes

    Coin Magi - Wallet Question

    Hello, Not sure if anyone would know or not but I am wondering what the Sign Message and Verify Message function in the Coin Magi - Wallet program does. This wallet is used to collect the mined currency of XMG or otherwise known as Magi Coin. Thank you, Appletatoes
  4. M

    Low ETH hashrate on R9 280x

    I just tried out ETH mining on my Sapphire R9 280x I saw that other people are getting over 20 MH/s out of their R9 280x, but I'm only getting around 13 MH/s, why could this be? At first I tried it on MinerGate, but then I moved over to ethermine.org, the results only slightly improved...
  5. S

    How to Start Mining Bitcoin with a GPU(not recommended)

    Bitcoin is the new hot thing. It is a virtual cryptocurrency that is distributed or "minted" by having computers do SHA-256 calculations often called hashing. This currency can be used as payment online and entirely decentralized so it can be transferred quickly and is nearly untraceable and has...