The Ethereum Classic (ETC) mining difficulty parameter may seem mysterious to some. The hash requirements involve a number referred to as the difficulty.

How do we start mining ETH or ETC with our own equipment at home today? Will you read this post because it shows how easy it is to get started mining with a small investment in equipment and the willingness to learn how to set everything up and explains what steps are needed to decide if investing in the time and equipment for mining? With the Ethereum price over $300 today and the Ethereum Classic price at $20, the opportunity to mine Ether is now extremely profitable! Even as Ethereum prepares to go to a Proof of Stake model at the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018 which will greatly reduce the possibility of making a profit mining, any mining rig built to mine Ethereum could easily be switched to start mining ETC or another coin after the switch with a huge potential to profit before!

In this post or the matching video on YouTube below, see an introduction to what research and purchases are necessary to begin. While I thought mining any cryptocurrency was too technical for me, I now see getting started on a small scale is relatively straightforward with scaling up possible with confirmation the initial system is working. The GREAT NEWS is that making a very basic and functional mining computer system can be done for less than $1,000! Once we verify it works, the motivation will come to scale up the system into one that easily can produce $200+ a day in profit with current Ethereum and ETC prices as explained in the YouTube video from today below along with in more detail in text below that. In summary, using a new or used Windows or Linux machine to begin just for mining seems ideal because this will be the only need and function of the computer. For a few hundred dollars, buying a new machine to just do mining is the most basic starting point. Next, buying a small amount of graphics cards to get started is the next step to verify the mining setup is working and to get an idea of the costs to scale.

While the idea of dropping $20,000 to make a mining setup that produces $13,000 a month seems like a big risk, how about starting out with $1,000 in graphics cards to produce $600 a month to verify everything works? After confirming the setup is working, then it is logical to slowly scale up by adding more graphics cards and machines steadily over time using the profits generated as proof that more is possible with more power. While I would not start off spending much without any proof I could actually set it up correctly, after confirmation that I could indeed build a mining machine that worked, I would be motivated to build more. The real opportunity to earn much more than $200 a day is to learn how to build mining rigs for Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.

Once we have the system down, we can just keep building more over time and then the money comes in on autopilot! This seems ideal compared to paying into a mining pool where another company is likely earning a significant share of my profits and maintains control over all of the machines. What are the steps to start mining Ethereum or ETC? • Read an introduction to mining Ethereum at which seems to currently be the most profitable to mine today. • Read another post with a summary of all the steps. • Visit the daily profit estimate tool I used.

• Compare with ETC profit at or any other altcoin to see which is currently the most profitable to mine based on the price. After the ETH switch to PoS, mining another coin will be necessary but by then all the equipment should be paid for! • Learn about graphics cards because they are responsible for most hashing power. A list to get started is available at which will help with learning but then also show you that most of the ones already proven to work well for others are sold out!

• With a few hours of research, the single best graphics card I found for the money which is actually in stock and has same day shipping for me is the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING, 4GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) Graphics Card 04G-P4-6253-KR on Amazon. I chose this graphics card because all the others I looked at for a better value were sold out! The EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC has SAME DAY delivery near me with an estimated hashing power for ETH at 12 MH which equals repayment in less than 2 months at the current price for Ether! If I was starting today this is what I would begin with by ordering 2 to 8 of these.

I am not starting today because I have a trip coming up next week and am considering beginning Ethereum mining and/or being a Steemit Witness in late June 2017. • Using a dedicated Windows or Linux desktop PC is ideal for mining because it keeps the computer free from any other slowdowns and keeps existing devices free for normal use.

Fortunately buying the machine to run all the GPUs on is a small part of the total expense. Read to get a good look at the parts required for the computer. • Order the minimum initial parts to get started to build the desktop mining rig OR test this out on your existing computer if you have good enough graphics cards and want to start today! Note that in calculating the cost you will want to account for a maximum of 10 to 16 graphics cards per PC!

The beauty of this system is once we get it built, we can modify it to mine whichever coins are the most profitable instead of relying on a third party to continue paying us out in whatever we started with at a fixed hashing power. Thank you for reading this and I hope you have a wonderful day! If this post was helpful, would you please vote it up because that helps me to continue writing more for you? Love, Jerry Banfield. With friends invested on Genesis Mining as well, it seems to have great terms which are ideal for making an investment easily in a small amount of time.

The limitations are the long time it takes to get a return compared to making our own mining rigs plus not really owning anything. For the greatest profits, making our own mining rigs seems to be a better investment not just of the money but for the valuable learning it takes to build on our own machines which then translates to skills good for earning high dollars per hour! In summary, if we have money and just want a good return, Genesis might be the best option. If we have a bit more time and willingness to learn plus want the highest profits and have low enough electricity costs, DIY mining might be ideal! I have not used Genesis.

Bitcoin talk is highly negative on Genesis, even though it is acknowledged as the most legitimate cloud mining operation, and it seems it's a lot less profitable than you think. You have to contend both with price and difficulty, which is why they lock you into a 2 year contract. It sounds better than it is until you run the numbers, and find that in most cases, buying and holding seems to work better. I would estimate using Genesis is going to cut your mining profit in half, relative to running it yourself. With friends invested on GenesisMining as well, it seems to have great terms which are ideal for making an investment easily in a small amount of time.

The limitations are the long time it takes to get a return compared to making our own mining rigs plus not really owning anything. For the greatest profits, making our own mining rigs seems to be a better investment not just of the money but for the valuable learning it takes to build on our own machines which then translates to skills good for earning high dollars per hour! On Step #3, make sure to take a look at your actual electric bill and check what your kilowatt rate is. It can vary wildly depending on where you are and make a huge difference in your own profitability. I'd also suggest working in equipment depreciation. Generally systems running under high load are prone to needing regular tune-ups. I can't recall how many fans and other items I've had to replace.

Finally, I'd consider re-running any set of final numbers through an Eth price of $100 and $200, just to get an idea of how much profitability will drop on market pull-backs. I'd assume needing to weather one at some point.

Thanks Jerry. Interesting video but as as someone who has been mining crypto since 2013. You didnt adjust your watts in the video and efficiency is key when mining ( watts per m/h) also you wont be able to run 50 cards in one house unless you upgrade your house to handle the load. On top of that you didnt mention the heat these cards produce you NEED cooling and downtime of rigs will happen as well. And there are many other things such as bios modding and overclocking cards to improve watts and hashrate. Also there are fees when mining such as pool fees and mining program fees etc. Lastly the 8k to start in the video is way off for 50 cards your looking at more like 14k and that is not including psu, motherboard, ram, ssd/hdd, cables, risers, cpu, cooling, etc.

If you're going to mine please do a little bit more research or you will lose money. Or you can cloud mine and pay a big premium for less work. If I can become a Steemian early enough and read this article 10 day before, I might have setup my own machine at home mining already. However the researches I did basically pointed me to another direction of mining, Genesis-mining. Reasons are simple: • Electric bill is extremely expensive here in Hong Kong • Mining at home is too noisy and hot, we have small.very small apartment only • GPU cards that are good for mining machines are all sold out without nay expected stock up date. So I decided to take cloud mining as a starting point.

My Genesis-mining plan is now running for about 10 days, still hard to tell if it is profitable or not, but at least I see a little bit of ETH being stored. Waiting to get my first payout in another 22 days time. First let me say the content you post, particularly on Youtube, and Steemit is of superb quality and I wanted to thank you for your many informative posts! Second, I personally think Ethereum is the future of cryptocurrency. So many new and exciting things can be made with Solidity, I don't think ether gets the credit it deserves, most people just think it's a platform to release ICOs on, well that may be true, it's so much more than that and we're only now BEGINNING to scratch the surface of what's possible.

Mine Experience Points XP Or Ethereum on this page. 6.4 – Ethereum classic (ETC) mining by Earlier this week, Ethereum was hardforked, which technically resulted in moving to the new blockchain. MinerGate and updated its pool servers, in order to continue to provide Ethereum mining. However, despite the fact that the original Ethereum blockchain was officially abandoned, some community members came together to secure the former network and provide its further development. The project, which was called, is already listed on, available for trading on and for exchange. Today, the MinerGate pool team is happy to announce support for Ethereum classic mining for all popular operating systems through the,, and. This decision was made out of a deep conviction that Ethereum could thrive without manual actions in the first place, as officially stated by our CEO, Claude Lecomte on last week.

Having this in mind, MinerGate couldn’t miss the opportunity to encourage the development of the untouched original Ethereum blockchain. Therefore, we encourage our users to welcome this “old new” cryptocurrency, and consider its mining along with the “mainstream” Ethereum and CryptoNote coins. How to start mining Ethereum classic? As already mentioned above, there are three easy ways to start mining Ethereum classic on MinerGate: • MinerGate GUI miner. This is the easiest and the fastest way for ETC mining, both with CPU and GPU. Just, launch it and start mining in two clicks. If you are new to MinerGate, you will also have to register your account, which will probably take ~ 1 minute.

You can follow this to get additional information. If you prefer official software, for your OS, and use the following commands to connect to the MinerGate pool: For CPU mining: ethminer -C -F –disable-submit-hashrate For GPU mining: ethminer -G -F –disable-submit-hashrate Here’s the for mining with Ethminer on MinerGate.

To use a popular Ethminer fork, Genoil, download it from. Open CL: ethminer -G -S eth.pool.minergate.com:45777 -O YOUR_EMAIL CUDA: ethminer -U -S eth.pool.minergate.com:45777 -O YOUR_EMAIL You can follow to get more information.

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