Don’t debate me on coins and their legitimacy, just tell how dumb or impossible mining coins are using a decked out G5 Mac with a high end graphics card.
BTC Mining on a PowerPC Mac
Nathan Rodriguez
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Benjamin Lopez
impossible, dont be retarded
Wyatt Jenkins
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Carson Carter
why the fuck are you using such an ancient piece of shit anyway? try Holla Forums
Grayson Gonzalez
I’m not. That just an old editing rig sitting in the corner. I was hoping it had some mining value since it’s bascallu a doorstop now.
Parker Ward
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James Howard
Bitcoin has no real world value.
Mason Gomez
You would make like 2$ of gross income per month. Electricity costs will be much higher than that.
Michael Cruz
That's a very old machine, and likely the GPU is not capable of delivering any results worth while. All other answers are correct.
Sage for offtopic.
Ayden Hughes
>>>Holla Forums
>>>/g/
>>>/biz/
Get out.
Nicholas Smith
That means nothing. No fucking business accepts BTC.
Ayden Gutierrez
That G5 uses up to 800 watts at full power, with the shit graphics card it comes with. I don't even know if they make "high end" graphics cards that work with the G5. The best I was able to do on a G4 was flash an FX5200 with an Apple ROM, and that isn't enough for even basic mining. I think the G5 tops out at a Geforce 6800 or Radeon 9600. You're better off saving that G5 for when the Intel Management Engine makes your Wintel computer turn on you.
Bentley Thompson
Pic related apart, bitcoin can't scale right now and its fees and transaction times are not practical right now.
Soon other actually usable cryptocurrencies will take its place.
Camden Gutierrez
The cost of the electric bill outweighs the amount of bitcoins you get mining nowadays unless you have a dedicated rig.
Aiden Allen
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Colton Jenkins
You need an asic battery cluster you stupid retard
Asher Butler
Some have PCI-e, even then you'd need drivers, so hope to god there's open source available. No fucking way you'd get them running on OSX, but if you installed linux then MAYBE you could compile them for PPC.
Even then, bitcoin mining on GPU's is pointless, use them to mine a scriptcoin or something, otherwise you could just plug a ASIC into anything and run cgminer on it, even a fucking iMac G3
Lincoln Robinson
No, Japan.
Robert Wood
OWC might sell some kind of video upgrade, but probably not any remotely modern cards. Also, Gentoo and OpenBSD are still supported on Power Macs. Great machines, just not for Bitcoin.
Brandon Morgan
Chase Wright
Explain the benefits of running a G5 on Linux if I already have a newer Mac laptop for everyday use.
Adrian Hall
Why don't you think it can "scale"? And what would make another crypto more "actually usable" than btc?
Landon Kelly
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Josiah Bailey
asic or go home. if you work at a large company full of clockpushers bring an asic rig to work and say it's your backup drive if anyone asks (but hide it good so nobody asks)
Joshua Lewis
ASIC vastly outscales any GPU, or GPU mining.
You have to buy a dedicated mining device, basically. As the number of coins mined-per minute is constant, regardless of the quantity of miners, or their cumulative hashrate, you will be totally drowned by competition, and you won't even make up for the power bill.
Landon Taylor
Low or zero fees, visa level capacity and fast confirmation. Bitcoin Cash achieves this.
Kevin Powell
Seems I am a retard, because I just checked and it’s not a G5 it’s a loaded (intel) Mac Pro 8 core. Does that change anything???
Easton Morris
You could probably mine some Monero but definitely not BTC
Nathan Garcia
PowerPC OpenBSD is fun but you won't get a better browser than Links from the package manager. If your focus isn't web browsing it's fine, but you're better off installing Gentoo or using OS X Leopard with Leopard-Webkit.
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Same reason people like rotary and W engines. It's enough that the bits are being pushed through in a slightly different arrangement. So what if it's significantly more of a pain in the ass? Kek.
Robert Baker
Take a time machine back to 2010 and yes maybe it will work.
Wyatt Lee
Enjoy your molten slag of plastic
Samuel Watson
Keep up! It’s an Intel. Also G5’s were aluminum not plastic. So unless coin mining generates thermite, calm down.
Blake Parker
If nothing else, a box like that would be perfect for installing Gentoo. Shit would compile in no time at all.
Hudson Rodriguez
Youd had a better chance building a time machine to go back 10 years and buy a bunch of opterons.