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Mining Bitcoin with consumer CPUs or GPUs is unprofitable because the network is dominated by specialised ASIC hardware.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that mining Bitcoin with consumer CPUs or GPUs is unprofitable because the network is dominated by specialised ASIC hardware?

Unclear. Several sources document that Bitcoin mining hardware evolved from CPUs to GPUs to FPGAs and finally to ASICs, and that large ASIC datacenters now dominate the network with far better cost efficiency than CPU or GPU hardware. None of the retrieved items directly measures whether consumer CPU or GPU mining is unprofitable, so the profitability half of the claim is only partially covered.

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Evidence for · 6
2018
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Cryptonight Gpu Mining Efficiency. (2018). trepo.tuni.fi. https://trepo.tuni.fi//handle/123456789/26464

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2016
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Cocco, L. & Marchesi, M. (2016). Modeling and Simulation of the Economics of Mining in the Bitcoin Market. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164603

2024
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Mining Profitability in Bitcoin: Calculations of User-Miner Equilibria and Cost of Mining. (2024). inria.hal.science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62638-8_5

2016
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Bitcoin essentials: gain insights into Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and a powerful technology, to optimize your Bitcoin mining techniques. (2016). search.ebscohost.com. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1180052

2016
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Bitcoin Essentials: Gain insights into Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and a powerful technology, to optimize your Bitcoin mining techniques. (2016). ebookcentral.proquest.com. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4520798

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ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1109/isca.2016.25

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