Bitcoin mining hard disk
bitcoin mining is a process that uses computer hardware to calculate the location of bitcoin and obtain it
mining is an incentive process to record data in the bitcoin system. In the bitcoin system, indivial users have the right to pack blocks after calculating a specific hash value by using CPU or GPU to hash
and in order to reward this user for packing blocks, the system will give a certain amount of bitcoin as reward. Because this process is very similar to "mining" in real life, most people call this process mining. In addition to bitcoin, other electronic virtual currencies can also be obtained through mining rewards, such as Ethereum, Monroe and so on
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mining risk:
1, currency security
the withdrawal of bitcoin requires hundreds of keys, and most people will record this long string of numbers on the computer, but frequent problems such as hard disk damage will make the key permanently lost, which also leads to the loss of bitcoin
2, system risk
system risk is very common in bitcoin, and the most common one is bifurcation. Bifurcation will lead to a drop in currency price and a sharp drop in mining income. However, many cases show that the forking will benefit the miners, and the forked competitive currency also needs the miners' computing power to complete the minting and trading process. In order to win more miners, the competitive currency will provide more block rewards and handling charges to attract miners. Risk makes miners
Mining needs high-end graphics card, mining equipment is the first to eliminate NV graphics card. Mining must be done with graphics cards. The overall structure of mining equipment and ordinary PC machine is different is the number of graphics cards. You can install four or eight through pic extension
after expansion, an expansion shelf needs to be made. To fix the graphics card and other equipment, we need to get some fans on the shelf to cool the graphics card
CPU is not very important. But not lower than i5< br />
First of all, if the home computer is used to calculate bitcoin, even if the configuration is high, it will take several days to dozens of days. It may come out with a string of effective bitcoin (that is, bitcoin), and then it can be traded through the market of circulating bitcoin
special bit code operation requires a lot of graphics resources, so there are so-called mining machines, as shown in the figure below
this is a miner, which is specially used for mining. Such a miner may not be able to dig a bitcoin a day; The price of a mining machine is at least about 20000 RMB, and mining is a very power consuming project. All the graphics cards are running with full load, and the electricity charge will be very high
so don't blindly follow this kind of thing, it's not something that ordinary people can dig up with their home computers
with the increasing capacity of bitcoin blockchain data, the client wallet data is installed on Disk C by default. If Disk C is not large enough, you need to find a way to move the data from disk C to other disks
examples are as follows: (Note: close the client first)
1. Find bitcoin's data folder:
XP --- C: & # 92; Documents and Settings\ username\ Application Data\ Bitcoin
vista,win7---C:\ Users\ username\ AppData\ Roaming\ Bitcoin
2. Copy this bitcoin folder to other disk with large space, such as disk D (to avoid operation error, it is recommended to it first and delete disk C after it runs normally, so as to save disk C space)
3. Edit the bitcoin shortcut on the desktop (if there is no shortcut on the desktop, there are two ways: one is to find the installation folder, find "bitcoin QT. Exe", right-click, and select Create Shortcut to cut the shortcut to the desktop or any location; For the second method, if it is a green installation free version, you can find this installation folder, find "bitcoin-qt.exe", right-click and select Create Shortcut to cut the shortcut to the desktop or anywhere.) Right click on the shortcut, select "properties", enter the following in the "target" column and confirm:
& quot; C:\ Program Files\ Bitcoin\ bitcoin-qt.exe" - datadir=D:\ Bitcoin
(red is the target location of the added part)
now, double-click the bitcoin shortcut on the desktop, the client will start, and all data updates will be stored in disk D, and disk C will no longer occupy space. This method can also avoid data re download caused by deleting Disk C e to system re installation, and can also protect wallet files.
it's better to buy a better hard disk and use it for a long time
if you want to mine through the new route generation 2 or 3, you need to connect an external mobile hard disk with a capacity of at least 64GB, and the higher the capacity is, the faster the interface speed is, and the easier it is to generate high revenue