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Bitcoin Essentials

You're reading from   Bitcoin Essentials Gain insights into Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and a powerful technology, to optimize your Bitcoin mining techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281976
Length 130 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Szmigielski Albert Szmigielski
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Best practices when mining with ASICs


Let us look into the recommended things do to when mining with ASICs. Mining is fun and it can also be profitable if several factors are taken into account.

Make sure that all your ASICs have adequate cooling; additional fans beyond what is provided by the manufacturer are always a good idea. Remove dust frequently as a build up of dust might have a detrimental effect on the cooling efficiency and therefore mining speed.

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For your particular mining machine, look up all the optimization tweaks online to get all the hashing power that is possible out of the device. Due to the large variety of mining machines, we cannot provide all the possible tweaks in our book.

When setting up a mining operation for profit, keep in mind that electricity costs will be a large percentage of your overall costs; hence, seek a location with the lowest electricity rates. Think about cooling costs; perhaps it will be the most beneficial to mine somewhere where the climate is...

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