December 22, 2017
Mining Monero on Geforce 210: an exercise in futility
I have these old Nvidia graphics cards, namely a Geforce 210 and a GT 240M sitting around doing nothing, and I wondered if I could put them to work mining Monero. The short answer is yes; the long answer is that it’s probably not worthwhile unless you have a much more powerful card like maybe […]
August 18, 2017
Mining Monero: some CPU benchmarks
I recently heard about Monero (it’s a crypto currency like Bitcoin) and read up on it a bit. It’s fairly amenable CPU mining on recent machines, so I figured why not mine some? I’ve been curious to toy with these coins for a while, and I’ve been kicking myself for not buying some Bitcoin a […]