So I am often on the road doing business trips, during that time I usually leave my laptop in my hotel room. Seeing as I don't pay for power during this time, I was wondering. Is there a way I can bring some sort of graphics card with me or use my laptop's onboard graphics card to mine coins while I'm out on the field.
Most likely I wouldn't be mining anything major like bitcoin, maybe some ETH or some small shitty alt coins that I can mine en masse and then trade around to grow my BTC/ETH. So is this possible?
May be get arrested for stealing power----but by all means give it a shot it'll take the hotel probably 3 days to realize what's going on you'll be fine
>>2393417
Just be weary that the cleaning staff might steal your laptop.
>>2393462
You think that 1 card or just my laptop is going to raise that much suspicion?
>>2393417
your laptop will last a month of full-time mining
laptop GPUs get considerably hot, and it damages the circuits, specially if the changes in temperature happen often.
Go ask in /g/ if you don't believe me
if it's a company laptop and you don't mind, then go ahead, but you'd be paying more for a new laptop than the amount you'd get in coins.
>>2393462
lol no he won't get in trouble for shit
>>2393417
Build a rig inside a small form factor case. Should be pretty easy to carry around then.
>>2393608
That's what I was thinking.
Ok, in order to not start another thread I might as well ask this here. Is altcoin mining viable? Something where the network difficulty is low, and then trading around for more valuable coins, is that workable strategy?