[Podcast] vChat Episode 45–Things Crypto-Currency and Crypto-Mining

In episode #45, David and I talk about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto-mining and what I have learnt whilst getting my own crypto-mining rig up and running.

In this vChat episode we cover the following topics:

1. What are blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and Ethereum?
2. Why are you mining ?
3. What does it take to mine?
4. How do you balance the cost vs the return?
5. Why an open rig?
6. What kind of GPU, CPU, Memory, and disk do you have? And why?
7. What OS and app in the OS?

Show Links

Determine the real-time profitability of mining a particular crypto-coin:

• What to Mine: https://whattomine.com/
• Coin Warz: https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Crypto News Sites:

• Coin Desk:  https://www.coindesk.com
• Coin Telegraph:  https://cointelegraph.com/
• Coin Trust: https://www.cointrust.com/

vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering General Tech, VMware vSphere, Cloud Computing, Virtualization News, and maybe some geeky humour. Regular contributors are 2 vExperts – Simon Seagrave (TechHead.co), and David Davis (VMwareVideos.com).

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