Radeon GPUs in Demand as Litecoin Mining Difficulty Increases
Bitcoin mining on a standard GPU is a thing of the past. Put simply: it's no longer economically viable, given the power consumption of discrete graphics cards and their relatively high price. ASICs are a no-brainer when it comes to bitcoin, however litecoin is a different story. Unlike its counterpart, litecoin can still be mined using off-the-shelf hardware, namely via AMD Radeon graphics cards. There aren't that many alternatives, either. There are still no ASIC products for scrypt, litecoin's algorithm, and this will not change for the next few months at least. It is rumoured that....
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Bitcoin miners long ago moved up from GPU mining to ASIC mining in response to algorithm difficulty. But GPU mining still gets the job done for Litecoin’s algorithm, and a number of outlets are reporting a shortage of Radeon GPU graphic cards. This could be coincidence, or there could be a real correlation. The Litecoin mining has taken off in recent months, with the currency’s hashrate doubling in the last month. It’s hashing difficulty followed suit. Still, that hashrate is perfectly suitable for GPU mining (the ease of mining is one of Litecoin’s differentiating factors, after all), and....
Time is ticking as Bitcoin's mining difficulty increases endlessly, as miners of all types dash to purchase the latest mining hardware. But is this all still profitable for the average miner? As the difficulty approaches 1,500,000,000, many miners are left in the dust. Cloud mining, such as cex.io, will never break even at all, making a maximum of 0.02 BTC, with hopes of reselling it back into the market, hopeless. Altcoins, the land of pumps, and dumps. As new altcoins popup every single day, should miners turn away from Bitcoin, leaving behind their ASICs and begin mining scrypt coins?....
Having launched its fastest graphics card to date on Tuesday, AMD will find few takers among scrypt miners, argues Nermin Hajdarbegovic. AMD's new card is pricey and designed with enthusiasts in mind, so few miners will be willing to pay the premium for an elaborate hybrid cooler. What's more, an increasing number of scrypt miners are looking beyond Radeon graphics processing units (GPUs) for their mining needs. With that in mind, the dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 is starting to sound like a swan song for GPU mining, at least as far as scrypt goes. Meet the R9 295X2, AMD's new flagship. The....
Bright Side of News recently published an article entitled: LiteCoins is Causing Shortages of AMD Radeon GPUs. Right... Well... I'm 110% sure that it is Litecoin not LiteCoin, the same way that it is Bitcoin not BitCoin. In fact, it's the same way that Eurodollars are not EuroDollars, so even in that hazy circumstance where the etymological components of the compound word are both indubitably proper nouns... Grammar must prevail. Additionally, the article only references these "cryptocurrencies" which is provided by Wikipedia, and it underestimates the total number of different cryptocoins....
As expected, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty increased this week jumping 6.03% higher on July 31. The change marks the first increase out of five difficulty adjustment changes. This was after four downward difficulty drops made it 54% easier to mine bitcoin than it was prior to mid-May. Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Increases 6%, Difficulty Is Expected to Increase Again in 11 Days On July 31, at block height 693,504, the Bitcoin blockchain’s difficulty adjusts itself depending on how much hashpower is dedicated to the network. The more hashrate dedicated to the BTC chain, the....