From 2439adc119ba2c7d053a5c04f275dacdfa4d8e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Zarebczan Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:46:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Make note that CPU mining is not viable --- content/faq/mining-credits.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/faq/mining-credits.md b/content/faq/mining-credits.md index 284b67b7..377e0571 100644 --- a/content/faq/mining-credits.md +++ b/content/faq/mining-credits.md @@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ category: mining Library Credits (LBC) are mined over a 20-year Proof of Work period. Block rewards increase every 100 blocks by 1LBC, peak at 500, and decline slowly. +Currently, LBRY mining is dominated by the GPU market and we don't see CPU mining as econonmically viable at this point. If you still want to CPU mine to help the network, see instructions below. + For GPU mining, please see our list of [pools](https://lbry.io/faq/mining-pools). Each pool has a slightly different setup so please check their Getting Started page. For CPU mining, LBRY binaries are out for OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu. Others may try compiling from source. -You can download the latest binaries [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd/releases/latest) +You can download the latest binaries [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd/releases/latest) *See note above regarding CPU mining ## Mining on Ubuntu From 3f9cbec59e5328191872cf6b7299f982ee471549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Grin Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:41:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update mining-credits.md --- content/faq/mining-credits.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/faq/mining-credits.md b/content/faq/mining-credits.md index 377e0571..50c7166a 100644 --- a/content/faq/mining-credits.md +++ b/content/faq/mining-credits.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ For GPU mining, please see our list of [pools](https://lbry.io/faq/mining-pools) For CPU mining, LBRY binaries are out for OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu. Others may try compiling from source. -You can download the latest binaries [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd/releases/latest) *See note above regarding CPU mining +You can download the latest binaries [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd/releases/latest) ## Mining on Ubuntu From a41c01937063cd18c91e03610af79737791daddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Grin Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:42:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update mining-credits.md --- content/faq/mining-credits.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/faq/mining-credits.md b/content/faq/mining-credits.md index 50c7166a..376600cb 100644 --- a/content/faq/mining-credits.md +++ b/content/faq/mining-credits.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ category: mining Library Credits (LBC) are mined over a 20-year Proof of Work period. Block rewards increase every 100 blocks by 1LBC, peak at 500, and decline slowly. -Currently, LBRY mining is dominated by the GPU market and we don't see CPU mining as econonmically viable at this point. If you still want to CPU mine to help the network, see instructions below. +LBRY mining is dominated by the GPU market and we don't see CPU mining as econonmically viable at this point. If you still want to CPU mine to help the network, see instructions below. For GPU mining, please see our list of [pools](https://lbry.io/faq/mining-pools). Each pool has a slightly different setup so please check their Getting Started page.