Going pre-built: a solution to all the initial catches
Despite the multiple catches of building an cryptocurrency miner, I had never felt this close to making this project, which I had admittedly been thinking for many years, a reality. While the margin still seemed razor-thin, the idea of building a GPU miner was finally becoming attractive, for one main reason. A GPU miner would have uses other than mining, and would be a worthy purchase even without the mining. An ASIC miner, on the other hand, would be a complete loss of money if crypto lost all of its value or if the difficulty increased beyond profitability.
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