{"id":64,"date":"2015-01-20T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=64"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T21:24:29","slug":"bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general recommendation is to not do this.\u00a0 However, if you just want to try it out, here are some sources for general information.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.startbitcoin.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startbitcoin.com\">http:\/\/www.startbitcoin.com<\/a> has some nice introductory information.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to download a wallet from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.org\">http:\/\/www.bitcoin.org<\/a>.\u00a0 This download will potentially take a long time.<\/p>\n<p>ASIC miners (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) have taken the place of GPU miners.\u00a0 ASIC miners are generally expensive and can become dated very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.butterflylabs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflylabs.com\">http:\/\/www.butterflylabs.com<\/a> has some ASIC miners for sale at prices starting at $50 (not recommended).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general recommendation is to not do this.\u00a0 However, if you just want to try it out, here are some sources for general information. http:\/\/www.startbitcoin.com has some nice introductory information. You will need to download a wallet from http:\/\/www.bitcoin.org.\u00a0 This download will potentially take a long time. ASIC miners (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) have taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}