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Old 04-01-2011, 11:14 AM  
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It takes a while to generate coins. I let my PC generate coins for 2 days and didn't get any at all.
I've read of some people using NVIDIA cards with CUDA to generate them. I guess this would help things. But what I have seen suggests it is intended to be barely profitable due to the required energy use. I suppose if one had their computer on all day and it was non-scaling with wasted cycles they might pull out 10-30 bitcoins in a month with a quad core and a CUDA capable card. Here's an interesting thought as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comme..._instances_of/

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