In b4 “You wont make a profit”… i know, i want to use my computer to heat my apartment. i figure that even if i’m making a “loss” each month on the mining it’s still cheaper than running my apartments electric heaters when you account for the sold (or not) bitcoin.
I’ve been doing well keeping things warm by Folding at home on the CPU but apparently AMD GPUs aren’t supported for that and i want to put my GPU to work too.
I briefly mined some litecoin in like 2013/14 when BTC was just about popping off. other than that i have no mining experience (and i would have been using windows back then)
Need to sort something soon, Jan and Feb are probs the coldest months in the UK and i have gotten this far this year without using the heaters
Bitcoin is basically only mined via ASICs now. You can still mine something like ETC but honestly chains have (rightfully) been moving to far more efficient consensus using Proof of Stake.
For the amount of electricity you would need to mine a meaningful amount of BTC, you’d be much better off buying spending $50 or $100 worth of BTC or ETH every week. Either hodl or DCA sell when prices bounce up.