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Questions about using CPUs for mining

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Is it better to mine with a CPU or GPU

The most profitable consumer-grade hardware that I know of is the GTX 750 Ti (an nVidia GPU). This is on a Hashrate per Energy Used basis, since the marginal cost of mining is the energy spent. It get …
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What are the bandwidth and latency requirements of a miner? What is the total data usage per...

Assuming you refer to pool mining... This question was partially answered here: Does mining use a lot of bandwidth? 20 Mb/day download and less than 5 Mb/day upload So over a month, that's ~750 …
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Are [solo] mining yield calculations like dice or playing card calculations?

Yes, kind of. Your model is an idealized representation of mining, and works with one exception. The network has a certain degree of latency between nodes, and as a result miners do not know immediate …
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How much CPU power to mine 1 coin a day?

This answer will attempt to answer the question at multiple levels, as follows: Section I explains the basics of how to calculate this yourself. Section II provides updated calculations based on Sec …
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After major coin issuance, what must the minimum XMR price be to incentivize network security?

Thanks to the tail emission, in order for miners to continue to be incentivized, Monero must merely have a price. It honestly doesn't matter what that price is. Say what??? The security of the netwo …
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