vChat – Blockchain Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Ethereum Mining Oh My! – Episode 45 with @kiwi_si and @davidmdavis

In episode #45, Simon and David chat about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Bitcoin, Ethereum, and how Simon is mining this stuff in his home lab. Want to learn what all that stuff is about? Me too! Join us on this episode of vChat!

We’ll answer questions like-

1. What are blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and Ethereum?
2. Why are you mining ?
3. What does it take to mine?
4. How do you balance the cost vs the return?
5. Why an open rig?
6. What kind of GPU, CPU, Memory, and disk do you have? And why?
7. What OS and app in the OS?

Links from the show-

Determine the real-time profitability of mining a particular crypto-coin:

• What to Mine: https://whattomine.com/
• Coin Warz: https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Crypto News Sites:

• Coin Desk:  https://www.coindesk.com
• Coin Telegraph:  https://cointelegraph.com/

vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware vSphere, Cloud Computing, Virtualization News, and maybe some geeky humor. Regular contributors are 3 vExperts – Simon Seagrave (TechHead.co), Eric Siebert (vSphere-Land.com), and David Davis (VMwareVideos.com).

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