Bitcoin started with ordinary computers

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At present, the mining machines in the market are mainly divided into two categories, one is PC based mining machine, the other is professional mining machine based on ASIC chip

the general PC mining machine can be used as a home computer, but the CPU performance is weak and the power consumption is high. Professional mining machine based on ASIC chip can not be used as ordinary computer because it has no graphics card and does not support mainstream desktop operating system

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mining machine is one of the ways to obtain bitcoin is a kind of network virtual currency proced by open source P2P software. It doesn't rely on a specific currency institution to issue, but is generated by a large number of calculations of a specific algorithm. It uses a distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions economically. The decentralized nature of P2P and the algorithm itself can ensure that the currency value cannot be manipulated by mass proction

any computer can become a mining machine, but the profit will be relatively low, and there may not be one in ten years. Many companies have developed professional mining machines, which are equipped with special mining crystal. They are tens or hundreds of times higher than ordinary computers

mining is actually a competition of performance and equipment. The mining machine composed of many graphics cards, even if it is just a garbage card like hd6770, can surpass the single graphics card of most users in terms of computing power

and this is not the most terrible. Some mining machines are made up of more such graphics card arrays. When dozens or even hundreds of graphics cards come together, the graphics card itself costs money. Considering the hardware price and other costs, there are considerable expenses in mining

in addition to the display card burning machine, some ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) professional mining machines are also put into the battlefield. ASIC is specially designed for hash operation. Although the performance may not be able to kill the display card in seconds, it is already quite strong. Moreover, because their power consumption is far lower than that of the display card, it is easier to form scale and the electricity cost is also lower, It is difficult to compete with these excavators. And this kind of machine will be more expensive

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Bitcoin miner is the equipment for bitcoin mining. The miner can be used as an ordinary computer

bitcoin miner can be USB miner or professional ASIC miner. It's true that bitcoin can be mined with ordinary computer CPU, but it's difficult for indivials to find bitcoin with ordinary computer

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The steps are as follows:

1. Add a mine pool. 2. Download the software. 3. Start digging after setting

however, it is suggested that the building owner give up and dig bitcoin mainly depends on the GPU, that is, the processing chip on the graphics card. The home computer integrated graphics card can't be g at all. If the independent graphics card is NVIDIA chip, it's basically useless, because the most computing power is 160m / s

according to the income ratio, the calculation power of the machine is less than 8g / S (8192m / s), even the electricity fee is not enough, so it's meaningless to dig with a home computer for more than ten yuan a month. If you really want to dig, you should buy a mining machine

4. At the beginning, intervention was very simple, and there was no trading platform at that time. Bitcoin is basically played by geeks, gamers and cryptocurrency scholars. Bitcoin's popularity is not high, and its mining computing power is poor. The simplest way to get involved is to download a bitcoin client and use your ordinary computer to get bitcoin. Mining was a very simple thing at that time. In 2010, a programmer used 10000 bitcoins to buy a pizza. Now it sounds funny, but it's true. Later, bitcoin trading platforms appeared, such as Mentougou, where people can trade. With the increase of popularity and price of bitcoin, more and more people play bitcoin. Driven by the interests, people began to develop mining machines with faster mining speed. Later, there were video card mining and ASIC mining machines

now there are more ways to get involved in bitcoin. You can mine, buy and sell bitcoin, provide goods or services in exchange for bitcoin, and of course, dig futures. Bitcoin home has more information.

5. On November 1, 2008, a self styled Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research report on a secret cryptography discussion group, which expounded his new idea of e-money bitcoin came out
on January 3, 2009, Nakamoto g up the first batch of 50 bitcoins on a small server in Helsinki, Finland< On May 21, 2010, the first bitcoin transaction: Florida programmer Laszlo
hanyecz bought a $25 pizza coupon with 10000 BTC< On July 16, 2010,
the price of BTC rose by US $0.08 from US $0.008, showing the rise of new things
on July 17, 2010, the first bitcoin platform was established
on November 6, 2010, the price on mtgox reached $0.5, and the bitcoin economy reached $1 million
on December 7, 2010, the first portable device to portable device transaction was realized on Nokia 900, with a transaction volume of 0.42btc
on February 9, 2011, the price reached US $1 for the first time, which is equivalent to US $1. The news that BTC is equivalent to us dollar has been widely reported by the media, which has aroused people's great attention, and the number of new users has increased greatly. In the next two months, bitcoin and pound sterling, Brazilian currency, Polish currency exchange trading platform has opened
on March 18, 2011, the BTC / USD exchange rate hit a seven week low, falling to US $0.7
on August 20, 2011, the first bitcoin conference and World Expo were held in New York. Among Google trend counties, bitcoin's attention reached a new high, with a price of $11 at that time
on November 14, 2011, the price of bitcoin hit a new half year low of $1.99
on September 15, 2012, the bitcoin conference was held in London. At this time, the price of bitcoin was $11.8
on September 27, 2012, bitcoin fund was founded, and the price of bitcoin was $12.46
on November 25, 2012, the first bitcoin conference in Europe was held in Prague, Czech Republic. At this time, the price of bitcoin was $12.6
on February 19, 2013, bitcoin client v8.0 was released. At this time, the price of bitcoin was $28.66
on April 10, 2013, BTC set a record high price of $110
on May 9, 2013, BTC Chinese, the largest bitcoin reporting website www.sosobtc.com The company obtained the investment fund union
square's $5 million round a investment, and the price of bitcoin was $112.09< On May 17, 2013, the San Jose bitcoin conference was held with 1300 participants. At this time, the bitcoin price was US $119.1.
on May 28, 2013, the US Department of Homeland Security banned the virtual currency service of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican exchange company, for suspected xiqian and unlicensed fund transfer business, U.S. prosecutors said that this will become the largest international xiqian lawsuit in history, with the scale of absorbing money reaching 6 billion US dollars. A large number of users, including China, will lose all their money. At this time, the price of bitcoin is 128 US dollars
in June 2013, Netcom said that the United States will withdraw from qe3, deflationary bitcoin and quantitative easing monetary policy, which are the relationship between the two
on June 27, 2013, the German Conference made a decision: holding bitcoin for more than one year will be tax-free, which is considered by the instry to recognize the legal status of bitcoin. At this time, the price of bitcoin is $102.24
on June 28, 2013, mtgox obtained the monetary service license issued by the financial crime enforcement network office of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Transaction standardization may mean that bitcoin is on the right track, government risk is reced, and its pace of integration into the display economy will be accelerated. At the same time, it will play an exemplary role in other virtual currencies. At this time, the price of bitcoin is $97.99< On November 28, 2013, the bitcoin trading price of Mt.
GOx, a popular bitcoin exchange, broke through $1000, reaching a record high of $1073
on November 29, 2013, the trading price of bitcoin on Mt. GOx, a popular exchange, hit a record high of US $1242, while the price of gold was US $1241.98 an ounce, surpassing that of gold for the first time.

6. Don't think about ordinary computers digging for bitcoin. Some professional netizens calculate that it takes at least 500 days for a home computer (the top configuration of that year) to dig for a bitcoin, and the single cost consumption may exceed the value of bitcoin itself. So don't think about bitcoin.

7. Bitcoin mainly plays with GPU, and notebook GPU can't compare with mining machine or high-end desktop; Now the mine pool is more than 900 million. How many GPUs can you run per second? Then divide 900 million by this number, that is how long it will take to dig one. But this number is not absolute. Maybe it won't be able to dig one at this time! Maybe we got it ahead of time
according to 3gb / s, it takes about 9 years to dig one