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not everyone has super turbo-charged PCs
like me... I've only got a macbook and an older macbook that's half-dead.
Yeah, its funny how crypto-mining puts everyone's awesome 'gaming' rigs to shame.
Because if you think about it. PC Enthusiasts already accout for only a VERY small percentage of internet users. And of those PC Enthusiasts, those with rigs that are capable of high end 'gaming' are even even fewer.
But then, you throw all of our rigs into crypto mining and holy schiit, you are now taking a small percentage of a percent. And not just that, but we are talking AMD cards only. Nvidia cards are extremely inefficent at crypto-mining with Scrypt. A GTX 780 gets like 1/4 of the hashes an AMD R9 290x can get. And these are $600 graphics cards we are talking about. Hell, most miners use multiple cards.
I just happened to have a crypto-mining 'ready' card in my computer from my holiday sale