Questions tagged [cpu]
Questions about Bitcoin in the context of CPUs (as opposed to GPU or ASIC mining)
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Does lowering maxmempool to 30 increase Bitcoin Core's CPU usage?
Does lowering maxmempool to 30 (from the default 300) increase Bitcoin Core's CPU usage?
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Maximum cpu verification time
Do we know the maximum cpu verification time (or max cpu cycles) required by a tx that fills an entire block? I get that the game theory of tx fees mitigates this, and that the answer will depend ...
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Why is the rate of reindexing chainstate not constant?
What determines the speed of the reindexing-chainstate in the different times? I spend a few days (2 week) for reindexing locally on my new HDD, and I noticed one thing: the speed of reindexing is ...
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I mined in early 2010 with a cpu miner and just found my keys after forgetting all thease years, no joke need info please
who is the best most reputable bitcoin recovery company? I have added details and questions about our situation below Thank you And God Bless what was the mining program from the devs back then? I ...
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Is it technically possible to solo mine bitcoin using cpu without a pool? How? Ubuntu
For development reasons I'd like to have a private "real" bitcoin mainnet network. Bitcoin-core doesn't support mining any more. I have set up a network of 2 nodes (using connect conf command). ...
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CPU mining Core 2 Quad Q9550
I am new to mining and not actually mining Bitcoin right now but want to understand more about it. I have Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU at 2.83 Ghz. I am mining with cpuminer only right now. I am getting 20 ...
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Can a Bitcoin ( or any other cryptocurrency ) be compromised with a large botnet/s?
I'm new to cryptocurrencies, so I recently read the paper from the Satoshi Nakamoto ( link is here ) to know a little bit more about the Bitcoin.And I saw this statement: What is needed is an ...
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CPU mining in the background
I am thinking of doing cpu mining in the background when users are on my website. Also I am thinking of building a program which does everything in the background(cpu mining), that users can download ...
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CPU Mining Test with CGminer
After my boss read the websites mining on visits he got the idea to use the entire network we have access to. I have access to 3000+ computers and have been give permission to run a test over the ...
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cpu, ram or bandwidth -- what is most important for bitcoin mining?
[I know Bitcoin mining on a server is a losing proposition, consider this an academic question.] I've got some old proliant rack servers and VMWare licenses and thought I'd put them to use mining. ...
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How to tell bitcoind to use more memory and CPU
I just updated my node to 0.12 and its going through its long verification process but I noticed that its not using very much memory/cpu pi 602 10.5 19.4 352220 184312 ? Ssl 21:57 1:...
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GPU mining slows down my ubuntu
I'm trying to mine using my CPU and GPU. When the CPU is set to use all its cores, I have no problems, but when I use my GPU, my desktop gets way too slow because unity uses it too I think, so I need ...
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I need to find a pool that supports cpuminer
I've been to mine with cpuminer with lots of different pools but nothing works!!! I only made it to mine litecoin on litecoinpool.org, but I need bitcoin! Which pool would you recommend?
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Is it possible to win the Bitcoin lottery?
If you have a PC and you try casual solo mining on your PCs CPU is it theoretically possible to mine a block and get the full block reward if you get really lucky? I know this is extremely unlikely ...
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How to allocate hash power to an instance of bitcoind?
I'm not sure if those questions were asked this way before but ...: Is it possible to allocate CPU resources/hash power to an instance of bitcoind run on regtest?If yes, how? Assuming I'm going to ...
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