2018 will surely be the year of uncertainty with a lot of excitement coming along with it. Mining of cryptocurrencies was already the most popular topic among many crypto traders at the beginning of 2017; now, more and more people are flirting with it. As per the growing popularity of cryptocurrency, the demand for mining equipment is also increasing day-by-day.
A few years back, becoming a miner was easy; anyone who had access to a powerful computer was able to mine. However, this scenario has been changed drastically because the old method of mining has become ineffective. In the early days of the emergence of bitcoins, mining was possible with a small CPU such as Raspberry Pi; however, with the increase of network and popularity, the mining quickly shifted to the GPU. A single GPU unit is equivalent to 30 CPU’s so it drastically increased the efficiency of mining.
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