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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

This completely murders the idea of a mining farm and completely murders the idea of being able to centralize in a place like that.

Does it? Why wouldn't there be economies of scale and advantages of locating near cheap electricity for Monero miners? Why are a million shelf-CPUs quieter to cool than the same computing power in ASICs?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    It's true that Monero miners would benefit from cheaper electricity. I think more than anything it has to do with the power efficiency. A big warehouse full of CPUs would not be any more efficient than Uncle Bob mining on his gaming PC in his bedroom.

    As for the noise level, I don't think cooling a million CPUs would be any quieter than cooling ASIC chips. I think it's mainly the fact that it's so distributed.

    Uncle Bob might have one or two computers mining in his bedroom, which put off a little bit of noise, but nothing horrible. Where these companies have racks and racks of ASIC chips all in the same place, amplifying the noise upon each other.

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