One of the most appealing aspects of Bitcoin is the ability to create it out of thin air via a process known as “mining”. While that’s a bit of an oversimplification (earning Bitcoin is more about contributing hardware than alchemy), mining remains an incentive for getting on board with Satoshi Nakamoto’s “magic internet money” – but is mining still a feasible activity for the average person almost a decade after Bitcoin first appeared?
ASIC Miners
Assuming that average person is somebody with an equally average computer, the answer is “no”, simply because the era when mining was profitable with … Read the rest
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