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What are good software options for Mining Bitcoin on Manjaro with a Powercolor 6800XT? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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In b4 "You wont make a profit"... i know, i want to use my computer to heat my apartment. i figure that even if i'm making a "loss" each month on the mining it's still cheaper than running my apartments electric heaters when you account for the sold (or not) bitcoin.

I've been doing well keeping things warm by Folding at home on the CPU but apparently AMD GPUs aren't supported for that and i want to put my GPU to work too.

I briefly mined some litecoin in like 2013/14 when BTC was just about popping off. other than that i have no mining experience (and i would have been using windows back then)

Need to sort something soon, Jan and Feb are probs the coldest months in the UK and i have gotten this far this year without using the heaters

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

does unminable support linux? i can only find windows binaries on their site

Monero seems to be a CPU mined coin. everything i have read says "don't bother mining monero on GPU it's very inefficient"

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The software from Unminable is Windows only but you can mine on them with any other Linux based mining software.

Monero isn't directly mined with GPU but if you look under "coins" section on moneroocean you can mine other algorithms and get paid in XMR using them.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, i figured it out and have been mining ravencoin, whatever that is. I have 10 of them now.

60p towards my heating bill today, not much but it's something