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by enscr 4524 days ago
Multiply those 15 minutes by the number of altcoins popping up every week. Then add the time spent in looking for altcoins early on. There are several who'd like to jump on it from day 1. They make their living by selling them on ebay.

Not to mention that your computer is unusable while it's mining. My point being, it's not a get rich quick scheme for everyone.

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If you assume crypt coins are going to be pressed into wide-spread use, then it is akin to a land rush. Automating the process can be done quite easily by using something like Multipool's list of currencies and just running through the list with a script. Way less than 15 minutes per.
>Not to mention that your computer is unusable while it's mining.

Depends on your computer. I mine 42 coin and code/watch movies and there's no noticeable performance hit other than my computer being warmer than usual.

42 coins/day ? Why mine at all? You'll probably spend more on electricity.

If you must have the coins in anticipation of their rise, just buy thousands for them for a few dollars.

Thanks for supporting 42.. I stumbled upon this thread via Google Search. I am maco from the official 42 coin team. I want to know if anyone has questions about 42 coin so I can answer them! Yes, I hear that a lot of people do mine 42 while multi-tasking, it really depends on the graphics card you got. After all, 42 coin is still the highest valued crypto currency to date... and we increased the crypto communities average from $13 USD to $250,000 USD.

https://twitter.com/latone/status/428352318136807424

Correction Edit: 42 coin brings it up to $3,100* USD avg per coin
It's not unusable: I can surf and watch movies fine (GPU-mining).

No gaming probably though.