Noob question: will a slow rig get coins ever?

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So i get that people buy bigger rigs for faster production, but say I put some old junker on as a miner. it ever get coins or do the "real" miners get all the coins?

wlraider70

Posted 2013-03-15T17:49:47.153

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23 days of mining on a raspberry pi = 0.00000013 BTC – Nicolai – 2013-03-15T17:54:49.067

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If you join a mining pool, like Slush or Deepbit, you will still get a tiny revenue. On a regular computer (with none of that GPU/FPGA/ASIC stuff), you get 0.7-1.5 MHashes per second. You'd get about 0.000007 BTC (just an estimate) every few hours.

lurf jurv

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1"Profit" isn't the correct word considering all the money spent on electricity. – goodguys_activate – 2013-03-16T01:42:30.137

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