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Old 03-28-2013, 07:11 PM  
Sly
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Originally Posted by MikeRoth View Post
It uses the computational power of your GPU to solve "blocks" in the algorithm of mathy science stuff. You receive the bitcoins as a reward for solving the blocks. Almost everyone probably uses a pool so the bitcoin reward can be quite small once divided among all the miners... so like 0.0001 per block. I think larger pools solve about a block every 10 minutes.
I have a beefy i7 sitting here idle basically all day long. Should I fire up the mining? How do I get started?
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