"I've got literally boxes of old hard drives that, I mean, I don't want to throw them away, that would be a waste." I'm starting to feel like this channel exists solely to justify what would otherwise be tech hoarding
Whilst finishing college, I'd look under vending machines for loose change, on top of vending machines too, and even reach into couches / chairs for loose change … would find $150-$200 a semester this way... way more than a miner I guess?😂😂
Speaking of that pocket multitool kit... I am thinking about ordering one. If it can work on desktops as well as laptops, it's basically God mode for technicians.
Did you even watch the video? It took over 150TBs of HDD to make $100 in a month and the price of Burst has fallen by nearly half since they filmed this. No one with a functional brain is going to rush out and buy up hundreds/thousands of dollars worth HDDs to mine this crap.
Yeah it's not worth it unless you know someone from the inside knows the price will shoot up in a few months or you know a whale is planning to pump the price up. Since no one knows. It's better to stay away. At this situation miners should plan ahead instead of taking profits in daily or monthly and know that project will go big in a few years.
believe me people are retarded there was a lemonade company that changed its name to Black Chain and it's stock price tripled ... People are dumb that's just the way it is. Great now I expect HDD prices to be inflated. ua-cam.com/video/vabXXkZjKiw/v-deo.html
I shit you not, when Chia became a thing, I had to look up this video so I could tell someone who was trying to be edgy to see how poorly their comment aged. Yes, I'm that pety.
Yeh, but no. Chia seems to have a very solid, and the hardware already exists to support it. It will all depend on the people that will build the infrastructure to make it viable. Because it's not a single person that buys a 10TB hard drive on their main rig and think that will be profitable. Nope. It will be people that will build data centers with dedicated machines that will see this throught. On a personal note, I hope it crash and burns. The mining industry has fucked up the pricing for this industry for the consumer side for years. We have everything overpriced and out of stock. This issue deserves ten paragraphs to go step by step on how fucked up we are, but we all know what they'll say, so i'll spare everyone from it.
Too often? Craigslist has about 60 million active users, sees 50 billion page views per month, and gets 80 million adds per month, give or take. There are possibly 200 deaths that can be attributed to the site in any way. Craigslist was founded in 1995, meaning that per year it's less than 9 deaths.... Giving that some perspective; in the United States, per year, approximately 20 people are killed by cows.... Long story short, Cows are VERY literally at least twice as deadly as Craigslist.....and in case my sarcasm isn't translating properly through my words, understand that I fully mean all of this with severe underlying sarcasm. As in you seem deluded by unfounded and inaccurate information, so I'm pointing out things that shouldn't really need being pointed out with a slightly belligerent frame of reference.
That was the most disappointing thing about this video. No info on how much monopoly money he could theoretically make off it, even with high-end stuff.
@@xirabolt Burstcoin is over 96% mined and everyone who made money on it made it literally 2 years before Linus' video even came out when almost no one was mining it. I remember "SIACOIN" was going to end up being an altcoin based on BURST, but ended up being a "cloud storage" service with cryptocurrency payment options.
That’s a completely arbitrary measure if you don’t give us the supply. It’s like saying: Yen value: 0,0091 USD Doesn’t really tell you much about the strength of the Yen, does it?
SKY GAMING 1997 - For future reference, when you ever wonder why no one takes you seriously in a conversation, and refrains from developing a meaningful conversation with you, you can come and check back your comment here. You bring nothing of value to the table besides trash humor and jokes only you laugh of, so who would want to discuss any issue with you? Take care mate, best of luck.
You should have seen what it was like back in the days of mining Perk with smartphones, luckily only the really cheap smartphones were in demand so it had no impact on the availability of decent smartphones. It probably did end up causing some young kids to not get smartphones so early, which some say isn't so bad after all.
It's going to be an absolute bloodbath slaughterfest when crypto bursts and us peasants can scoop up 1080 and 1080ti's for pennies on the dollar. Craigslist servers are going to melt.
Walther Penne well, i play like 3-6 hours p/day, 9 days of 10, so, in 4 years ( 365 x 4 = 1460 ), i have played something around 6,600 to 7,300 hours of gaming
Lol works as well as deleting system file 32 Disclaimer:please don't delete system file 32 it deletes the operating system and downloadable ram gives you Trojan but I think we all pc peeps if we sub to Linus so I don't think it will be necessary but still sub to linus:p
It's theoretically possible to "mine" with RTL-SDRs. You just plug a bunch of RTL-SDRs into a Raspberry Pi, connect them to an antenna, then run some software that allows others to pay a bit of crypto in exchange for locking a RTL-SDR to a given frequency for a given time. (The RTL-SDRs default to constantly scanning so that others will have an idea if it would even have a hope of receiving the signal they're interested in, before paying.) All we need is that software...
THe whole crypto with docking harddrives and Buying coolers . and expect that that is going to bring you money?? That is just a lot of mixing and twisting hard technical terms and going to storage rooms, and talking shit computer. and make 2 mil views. and It not goin to help you with nothing.it's clickable but useless . and they makemoney! that is life.
Floppotron is what you do with old floppy drives, not the disks. I'd recommend saving the disks. Not for the AOL, but for the retro-computer community. Floppy disks of the 90's were far more reliable than the ones you'd pick up in boxes of 10 at Staples towards the end of the medium in the early 2000's. I reformat my old ones and reuse them. Additionally, floppy isn't the best medium for scale operations like this, since your limitation to the number of floppy drives was the number of controllers and how many drives you could have on a controller.
I mine Burst for 2 years. Prices have increased in the last 3 months. Not sure why, but I don't think it has to do with Burst right now. It's averaging about $3 - $5 dollars per TB extra. It's worth it as the electricity is small and you don't need a fast computer that is unless your plotting which you want speed and threads.
Nathan Carbo sorry, price per TB. I average about $90 - $100 dollars a month. But, that's because of higher internet band with and speed of scans. But, Burstcoin losses 5% of profit a month. It's good, but it's a bust if your just getting into it. All profits for 18 months are positive. Now I wouldn't get into it at $0.02 a coin if your starting.
psygn0sis half the music Linus uses makes me think my car alarm is going off so I have to repeatedly check (cause one day my car alarm went off for 30 minutes twice)
now $0.012 and like a month ago it was over $0.02, so quadrupled again there for awhile. But regardless, if this is ever going to blow up, it would not be now, it would be later on with heavier bitcoin adoption when the energy costs start creeping beyond like 10% of human electricity and people start getting more and more furious about it.
This video has inspired me to gather my 2Tb old hard drives, jam them into PCs that were previously used for ethereum mining (gfx cards sold long ago), and mine some sweet BURST. I'm sure to get a dollar sooner or later.
@@ahmeddammam1464 I mined for about 6 months and then gave up on almost all PCs. I now just have a 1Tb laptop hard drive spinning away that uses virtually no power so I don't mind mining what is essentially a worthless currency.
this stuff makes me want to go back to a barter system. I get the idea of currency having value but it is literally wasted energy on computer parts. So you have actual resources and then a bunch of energy and materials being used to be used to trade actual resources.
allasar yeah they were the most expensive but I think he means that suddenly a 1080 TI went up $400 when crypto mining became popular and how they suddenly became extremely expensive. A 1050ti now goes for $250-$350 new when it should be $150 at the most and mind you the 1050ti is not a "crappy card" it runs nearly everything at a great fps and at good settings. It's getting ridiculous with how expensive it's getting.
HDD is hardly a thing anymore tho so its fine lmao. Buy and SSD for your modern personal pc... or your living in the past, and so dont complain about price change. just catch the fuck up with the world
That's what i came to say - Linus should call him out, since it'll affect his insurance payments - (assuming linus is paying his employees benefits...)
its possible to get clasified or prifate information from old hard drives so you shouldnt sell those. i have 3 out of 4 drives from biggest UK bear factory office pc that i got for free(my uncle was taking apart their office and he got some stuff for free so he gave me them becouse i had only 250G drive) and there could still be important stuff hidden on that drives. also whoever was first owner they can sue you for selling them
It's really not that hard to write random data over the whole drive a few times so anything meaningless gets lost in the noise. Unless it's government secrets or something, physical destruction of the drives is a waste.
There is a cryptocurrency called Gridcoin which promotes scientific research but it was from the early days of cryptocurrencies and has since lost popularity. www.gridcoin.us/
0.001% monthly ROI if you include power consumption crypto mining is such a meme, buy 10k$ in gold mining equipment and go prospecting in alaska, you will get better returns than memecoins
Sajed Khan HDDs use a lot of electricity because they are mechanical in nature [Newtonian physics? to get 8 internal HDD discs spinning in each drive and the heads for each disc read/writing - ie, a HDD is a mechanical drive which has a LOT of moving parts]. A lot of moving parts in every HDD = a heavy power use. SSDs use microvolts but the cost for each SSD is so expensive that it kinda defeats the point. The only useful thing about HDDs is we all have about 4-8 of them lying around unused.
There is proof of stake and proof of burn. Proof of stake= Pick an random wallet weighted by the amount of coins you have. (some coins take into account the amount of time each of your coins is at your wallet) Proof of burn=Send some of your coins to a place where you can't get back and no one can get it. The coins at this separated place are the weight used to pick the random winner.
I hope the mining hype ends soon. There are more cryptocurrencies than there are names for it. They increase pc costs and there are more and more websites that use the visitors pc power to mine.
Is that such a bad idea though? Using some of a visitors processing power while they are on the site instead of advertisements seems like a pretty fair deal to me.
+Roshan Would you rather a load of advertisements that stress out the CPU and empty your laptops battery 3x faster? Or would you rather have the website use like 10% of your CPU or GPU's processing power which would barely have any negative impact on your hardware over-all? CPU's and GPU's can literally last forever. The only thing that kills them is heat, which laptops are generally known for getting so hot you could literally cook a egg on them...
In general, BURSTcoin is about 400x greener, or uses 400x less power per transaction, that Proof of Work coins like bitcoin and ethereum. Once your initial plotting is done, its just having a pc at idle most of the time really. Especially if you are already running a pc 24/7, its almost negligable.
You'd be pretty strapped for resources, but it's possible. I know several Burst miners who use their GPU for plotting, then let it mine some other coin once plotting is complete.
You must have seen a video about chia coins not that long ago then. Maybe GamerNexus, Pauls Hardware or J2C? I think all 3 covered it like a week or two ago.
thankfully bitcoin mining is getting a lot more complex now that so many already exist and it’s getting much much slower to mine them while the price is dropping at the same time
not even by a bit. its been a thing for 10 years. also companies are buying hdd's in thousands and prices are just fine why? oh well maby becouse HDD companies are not just as gready as manufacturers and sellers.
Josh Gerhards it is, and is perfectly possible, yet very un rewarding... you could mine with anything that is off value to someone else, hence HDD space of any form of storage, so I wouldn’t say it’s unrealistic.
crip I wasn't saying it's impossible, I'm saying it would be entirely unrealistic for _anyone_ to even try this. I looked for an estimate of how many hard drives it would take to equal 1gb, and found it would take approximately 6,550 floppy discs. I don't remember because I can't watch the video now, but there's 50tb+ in Linus' setup here? Multiplied by 5000, that would mean you would need 32,750,000 floppy discs to get 50tb of storage. And worse, you would need 32,750,000 floppy disc DRIVES. You would NOT make a profit in any way from this, and would take up unimaginable space.
floppy discs are *already* a fungible commodity with limited supply, letting a few people make a pretty penny investing in remaining stocks once they stopped making them... they're pre-mined
PoW - proof of work... PoS - proof of stake... PoC - proof of capacity... new in 2018 PoE - proof of energy consumption, all old equipment consuming way too much electricity will be able to mine with the most efficient returns, newer equipment with its energy savings will give the least returns, so dust off all that old junk, and put it to work making you coins!
Well is not enough that i can't affort a GPU. Now i can't afford even a hard drive to keep my games on it. In 1 year i will can't affort a chinize phone because is gonna be used to mine shitcoin or something.
Look at it this way: way too many people are mining now, it's becoming hard to profit meaning the bubble will burst soon, then hardware prices will plummet
If someone is going to buy hard drives to mine burstcoin, they will buy high end-high value enterprise drives so they won't have to replace them often. 40 dollar 1 terabyte drives probably won't go up in price. SSD's will 100% stay at the same price.(unless the nand shortage situation will change.)
Shiny Shinx I assume mining burstcoin will affect the drive and degrade it's performance, so miners will probably pick more high end, durable drives for better value.
*I work at a tech company and there is currently 3 E-Waste bins with thousands of SSDs in them, I might want to grab some of those and give this a shot*
mine with the ai- oh wind turbines exist if you're this desperate for 0 effort money buy a bunch of wind turbines and power your house from it & sell the excess back onto the power grid
You can't think of it that way! You are making hundreds of bucks for free! The fact you are spending thousands on electricity is neither here nor there....
jochenstacker this is very much like a gambling addict isn't it? The gambling addict spends £1,000 a month to win back £200, £800 down per month but the buzz of winning £200 is some how worth losing the £800. Spending so much on electricity is somehow worth it because you get free money even though what you get doesn't cover what you spend.... is this some trick by the electricity companies?
Absolutely and it's smart they dont do just sterile computations oriented only towards transactions solving, but they actually store crypted files on the computer of anybody who wants to participate. It's a pretty nice concept and useful, in the future it might become more and more important
J Lock bro it's not that way, it's just that these components are useful, the true power of a computer lies into GPUS and high end CPUS, they are required for research, movie making and high load graphics stuff, and obviously for gaming, so they dont want to sell you more stuff, it's just if you do particular work with your computer you just need their equipment :(
"I've got literally boxes of old hard drives that, I mean, I don't want to throw them away, that would be a waste."
I'm starting to feel like this channel exists solely to justify what would otherwise be tech hoarding
Tech hoarding is pretty nice. You will be able to pretend to be Brotherhood of Steel after nuclear apocalypse happens
I know this guy does multiple sponsors per video but I still don’t understand how he can afford things like this regularly
@@perkypears they actually send most of it to him for free because his reviews increase their sales enough to make up for it
Chris Thomas fair enough. I wish it were easy to make people give you hardware like that lol
He didn't get all of those because it was easy. It was because he tried hard to be successful
I use my case fans to mine dustcoin. CPU and GPU fans work too, but not as effective.
Yup, yesterday i pulled a large cache of dustcoin off my cpu cooler.... #minted4life
Come clean out my tower you can have all the dustcoin that’s in it 😂
Explaining The Joke hahahahahahhahahahaha hahahahahahhahahahaha xddddddddddddddddd
lul
Explaining The Joke no need to explain that joke 😂
Congratulations, the value has gone up by 50000% you are now the proud owner of 17$ worth of burst coin
minus the $300 you spend on electricity to mine it :)
Now 120 USD
@@victoriaandersen3996 the fucking acne youtuber bitch? I am lost right now is this some kind of inside joke that only miners get?
"god-fearing"
Lmao @ Nigerians using this as a compliment
@@victoriaandersen3996 SCAM
I pick up pennies on the ground, pretty sure i'm making more than a miner.
Burstcoin isn't worth anything so you're probably right
I pick up plastic bottles and use the deposit on them to pay for lottery tickets. Even that yields more than the burstcoin mining. :D
Picking pennies from unsuspecting people is even more profitable
Whilst finishing college, I'd look under vending machines for loose change, on top of vending machines too, and even reach into couches / chairs for loose change … would find $150-$200 a semester this way... way more than a miner I guess?😂😂
i think doing nothing earns you more
Next: Mining with only Fan
adiptawf gone bad gone sexual
LED fans for faster mining
*Mining using only Case*
Mining by using Linus Tech Tips fans with pickaxe
And after that , mining with only power cables ?
*Advertises pocket multitool kit, cuts open package tape with a car key!*
LMAO
Thank you for posting that out :-) I missed it
Speaking of that pocket multitool kit... I am thinking about ordering one. If it can work on desktops as well as laptops, it's basically God mode for technicians.
car keys box opener advertasing soon
@@jorgeneo560
I Was just about to say the same thing
you beat me to the punch hehe
I hooked up 6374 keyboards to my PC, now what?
Wow! You *really* type fast if you need so many keyboards xD
@@deleatur I typed this reply in 1.3 milliseconds.
Mine keycoins.
Start slamming the keys. Maybe that does something.
Actually its possible, but only if you have 51 USB Ports on your PC!
Linus: "Don't buy new equipment for this"
Also Linus: "Here's some new equipment for this!"
Next up on Linus mining tips
Mining from RGB's
Well, you could use RGBs as 1's and 0's, so dont be surprised ;)
100000000$/h
i already made 16.7 million colours
I AM OP every day will be Christmas!
abbuw lmfao
Next: Mining with a floppy disk
Somebody get on this.
Eight-inch floppy disks FTW!!!
Heeeeey! You ruined my record man, I just bought it!
TeamRespawn 😂😂😂😂
You all should try to mine diamonds and convert it to roblux!
Time to pack up on some HDD, before the price explodes.
Did you even watch the video? It took over 150TBs of HDD to make $100 in a month and the price of Burst has fallen by nearly half since they filmed this. No one with a functional brain is going to rush out and buy up hundreds/thousands of dollars worth HDDs to mine this crap.
conduit64 dont feed the trolls
Yeah it's not worth it unless you know someone from the inside knows the price will shoot up in a few months or you know a whale is planning to pump the price up. Since no one knows. It's better to stay away. At this situation miners should plan ahead instead of taking profits in daily or monthly and know that project will go big in a few years.
Crypto mining is dying. Only big companies make profit.
believe me people are retarded there was a lemonade company that changed its name to Black Chain and it's stock price tripled ... People are dumb that's just the way it is. Great now I expect HDD prices to be inflated.
ua-cam.com/video/vabXXkZjKiw/v-deo.html
today , Chia coin comes up and I'm here
Excited to see how Chia will go after seeing this
I shit you not, when Chia became a thing, I had to look up this video so I could tell someone who was trying to be edgy to see how poorly their comment aged. Yes, I'm that pety.
@@alphapt9370 Even so, Chia is trading at roughly $1200 a coin now, something Burst could never have achieved.
Will it ended up like this coin?,
@@CarthagoMike Trading isn't even enabled yet, why are you lying?
I mine coins with my sound card.
Seems like a sound investment!
I mine the downtown LA library fountains for actual coins.
Charles Moore Jesus Christ
+ Riley Dumont
It's not my most lucrative venture but it does however produce a steady return.
+ Thronos TV
Jesus wept....when He peeped my recent bank statements!
TODAY, ON LINUS TECH TIPS:
2,852,984 1ST AND 2ND GRADERS KIDNAPPED TO DO MINING EQUATIONS
holy shit it’s spam
3 years later we still haven't learned from our mistakes. #Chia
Chia will die the same way as burstcoin
@@sandk I'm not so sure. A little pressure on the likes of Tesla about supporting a non-green currency like BTC and a green alternative could fire.
And unlike Burstcoin, Chia has a pretty strong team behind them, so it might actually succeed.
@@CarthagoMike plus chia suppose to fix everything wrong with burtscion
Yeh, but no. Chia seems to have a very solid, and the hardware already exists to support it. It will all depend on the people that will build the infrastructure to make it viable. Because it's not a single person that buys a 10TB hard drive on their main rig and think that will be profitable. Nope. It will be people that will build data centers with dedicated machines that will see this throught. On a personal note, I hope it crash and burns. The mining industry has fucked up the pricing for this industry for the consumer side for years. We have everything overpriced and out of stock. This issue deserves ten paragraphs to go step by step on how fucked up we are, but we all know what they'll say, so i'll spare everyone from it.
There is no cloud. its just someone elses computer
The real question is, are cloud servers located in an airplane?
I mean, you aren't wrong
InternetPhilia
I mean the good ones are
@@ixalaz4536 They'd better be.
Now you get it thats why i never upload plus i heard that guys computer has pictures of your gf nude
"Killer" deals on Craigslist is too often quite literal.
You said it! Btw, isn't Mississippi in the top 3 for highest US murder rates?
Too often? Craigslist has about 60 million active users, sees 50 billion page views per month, and gets 80 million adds per month, give or take. There are possibly 200 deaths that can be attributed to the site in any way. Craigslist was founded in 1995, meaning that per year it's less than 9 deaths....
Giving that some perspective; in the United States, per year, approximately 20 people are killed by cows....
Long story short, Cows are VERY literally at least twice as deadly as Craigslist.....and in case my sarcasm isn't translating properly through my words, understand that I fully mean all of this with severe underlying sarcasm. As in you seem deluded by unfounded and inaccurate information, so I'm pointing out things that shouldn't really need being pointed out with a slightly belligerent frame of reference.
what happens when r/iamverysmart also belongs on r/woooosh
@@Astraeus.. You made my day. Warn the environmentalists about killer cows and see how far we get :P :D LMAO
@@Astraeus.. just shut up
I was going to make a smart ass comment about using monitors for mining, but than I remembered ads exist
adblocks master race
shut up someone's gotta watch the ads to pay for our services
yeah have fun with that.
Arising-Tale they dont make too much from ads. linus media group mostly makes money from contracts and promoted videos
Arising-Tale but it ain't gonna be you, right hypocrite?
What's next : Mining On Cases
mining manualy with piece of paper and pen
No,mining with watercooling-the bigger the resevoir,the more coins .....or so ^ ^
That already exists. Some guy did it lol
how did you go from using computing power or data storage to a physical object that just holds pc parts?
DarkShadowsX5 if a computing part can be used for mining then think about the Case which holds it. Imagine how much should that cost xD 😂😂😂😂
Mid-May 2019.
Burst coin value: approximately $0.003 USD.
That was the most disappointing thing about this video. No info on how much monopoly money he could theoretically make off it, even with high-end stuff.
@@xirabolt Burstcoin is over 96% mined and everyone who made money on it made it literally 2 years before Linus' video even came out when almost no one was mining it. I remember "SIACOIN" was going to end up being an altcoin based on BURST, but ended up being a "cloud storage" service with cryptocurrency payment options.
That’s a completely arbitrary measure if you don’t give us the supply. It’s like saying:
Yen value: 0,0091 USD
Doesn’t really tell you much about the strength of the Yen, does it?
@@lenn939 yeah you need to know how long it takes to mine each coin and at what cost.
Oct 2020. Current value 0.0028 USD. All-time high was 0.12 USD and that was Jan 2018.
So first it was RAM prices going to hell, then it was GPU's, now I guess it's time for storage? What a time to be alive...
AlphaPT Next will be Floppy Disks/USBs
TheNeurolicious so you think I'm stupid for pointing out that mining has ruined PC pricing? And the Darwin award goes to...
SKY GAMING 1997 - For future reference, when you ever wonder why no one takes you seriously in a conversation, and refrains from developing a meaningful conversation with you, you can come and check back your comment here. You bring nothing of value to the table besides trash humor and jokes only you laugh of, so who would want to discuss any issue with you? Take care mate, best of luck.
Next PC case mining
Next are bios chips
COME ON GPU PRICES GO DOWN
The Tech Kid I hope their. Crypto currency completely blows out
GPU prices will stay high and now hard drive prices are going to go insane.
Not happening bud
Cryptocurrency completely blows out. I saw BTC grow since 2013 and die over 100 times but you must be new here sooo good luck fatty.
nvidia gpu go for msrp on their website
What’s next? Mining on your power supply?
yes
Don’t give them ideas!
I have a 10 coirsair 650 watt gold rated beasties I power it with my gtx 1080ti
Thanks for the idea. On it. :p
FLOPPY DISK MINING
This just in: Linus causes hard drive shortage to add to the lack of GPUs and RAM.
You should have seen what it was like back in the days of mining Perk with smartphones, luckily only the really cheap smartphones were in demand so it had no impact on the availability of decent smartphones. It probably did end up causing some young kids to not get smartphones so early, which some say isn't so bad after all.
NiHaoMike look at the date posted
William Jackson date doesn’t exactly matter
This aged like milk
It's going to be an absolute bloodbath slaughterfest when crypto bursts and us peasants can scoop up 1080 and 1080ti's for pennies on the dollar.
Craigslist servers are going to melt.
the only problem is that most of the GPUs resold by miners are like burned bread from toasters :(
Walther Penne So... what do you recommend? AMD?
Walther Penne Then what isn't shitty? 🤔
Walther Penne I'm using my 2014 graphics card, it's weak-medium but it's ok :/
Walther Penne well, i play like 3-6 hours p/day, 9 days of 10, so, in 4 years ( 365 x 4 = 1460 ), i have played something around 6,600 to 7,300 hours of gaming
I’m gunna mine Bitcoin on my RAM. Plus, I can always just download more.
Zenn Indeed, www.downloadmoreram.com is my go-to site, I have it on my favorite list
Liquid Ocelot#2 its fake lmfoa
Liquid Ocelot#2 Issa mem
Wait what ?
Lol works as well as deleting system file 32
Disclaimer:please don't delete system file 32 it deletes the operating system and downloadable ram gives you Trojan but I think we all pc peeps if we sub to Linus so I don't think it will be necessary but still sub to linus:p
I was actually checking the date to see if it was april 1st allready.....
Wasn't it Linux that said he was gonna start his own crypto currency a while ago? ;)
Watching this 3 years later. When chia plotting and farming is booming
Best part is that value of burst coin has fallen by over 50% since they recorded this
Heatsink Mining 2018
Desper Ado just get an Intel 7900XE and you're good to go
Thermal paste mining 2019
RGB mining, duh.
Do a video on soundcard mining next, Linux
pc fan mining?
Linux
Linux
It's theoretically possible to "mine" with RTL-SDRs. You just plug a bunch of RTL-SDRs into a Raspberry Pi, connect them to an antenna, then run some software that allows others to pay a bit of crypto in exchange for locking a RTL-SDR to a given frequency for a given time. (The RTL-SDRs default to constantly scanning so that others will have an idea if it would even have a hope of receiving the signal they're interested in, before paying.) All we need is that software...
loving the longer intro, it helps me skip the Linus ads a lot easier
Linus is just an elf working at Santa's infinite technology department.
i have dyslexia and thought those were the same at first
: |
So, when do I have to start stocking up on CD drives?
about 10 years ago, when they were still relevant.
Smitherino Lol
Smitherino Never know when industry trends change...
I actually still have a optical drive, but that's only to make CD mixtapes for my gf.
WHY HAVE YOU NOT YET O.O
Why am I even watching this. I don't even know what he's talking about..
neither does linus
*WHAT IS THIS MONSTEROUS HELL*
THe whole crypto with docking harddrives and Buying coolers . and expect that that is going to bring you money?? That is just a lot of mixing and twisting hard technical terms and going to storage rooms, and talking shit computer. and make 2 mil views. and It not goin to help you with nothing.it's clickable but useless . and they makemoney! that is life.
I'm a simple guy, I see Linus, I click on video..
Because of 666
45 Drives: *DO NOT DROP*
Linus: You think that’s for us?
6:15
>>Do not drop
>>Linus Media Group
choose one
Then somehow the box is opened instantly
Next scrapyard wars season should be on who can build the mining rig that gets the highest mh with a set budget.
Doguhan that would be awesome!
It would be actually watchable
Someone, give this man a cookie, and a beer.
Never don't go to the mining side bitcoin miners must STOP. It is madness.
LOL NONE OF THEM HAVE FUCKING IDEA ABOUT HOW TO SETUP MINERS :D SO yeah no
Can I do something like this with my attic full of old AOL signup floppies?
Hey glassinger! What are you doing here? I saw you recently posting again. I am a subscriber! Love your content.
Floppotron
Floppotron is what you do with old floppy drives, not the disks. I'd recommend saving the disks. Not for the AOL, but for the retro-computer community. Floppy disks of the 90's were far more reliable than the ones you'd pick up in boxes of 10 at Staples towards the end of the medium in the early 2000's. I reformat my old ones and reuse them.
Additionally, floppy isn't the best medium for scale operations like this, since your limitation to the number of floppy drives was the number of controllers and how many drives you could have on a controller.
With Chia this video is about to get a lot more views
Chia is a joke. Touting to be green when all it does is contribute to landfill
@@slix88 only when you plot with ssds
5:53 lol... "Do not drop" is written on the box with a marker....
That Razer Laptop that dropped in for the summer, and Linus dropped it. Along with many other things. I'd be nervous too.
Twice.
6:14
What's next? Mining with your RGB LEDs?
*Shhh! Don't give them ideas!*
*Fletcher* i would not even be surprised if peoples mined with RAM at this point
Time to file for that patent or trademark or whatever
I like how you mentioned RGB and your profile pic is a rainbow.
Nah, mining with your headphone speaker is where it's at.
:Vomit Frosting on a moldy cupcake" is my new favorite phrase to describe something.
Colin McEvoy - Loved it too. :)
I mine coins by making circle motions with my mouse pointer...
How?
Hard drive prices are going to... stay exactly the same.
hopefully.
they've actually been going up along with every other part you need to build a pc
nahh mech drives are still doubling in capacity every 2 years for the same price.
They're not doubling, not even close.
Yeah they are. £100 price point two years ago bought a 1tb drive, now it will buy you 3tb.
I might need to buy the last 10TB drives for my NAS expansion before everyone goes crazy.
Martin J ok you do that
I mine Burst for 2 years. Prices have increased in the last 3 months. Not sure why, but I don't think it has to do with Burst right now. It's averaging about $3 - $5 dollars per TB extra. It's worth it as the electricity is small and you don't need a fast computer that is unless your plotting which you want speed and threads.
R 3 to 5 dollars a day?
Monthly, probably.
Nathan Carbo sorry, price per TB. I average about $90 - $100 dollars a month. But, that's because of higher internet band with and speed of scans. But, Burstcoin losses 5% of profit a month. It's good, but it's a bust if your just getting into it. All profits for 18 months are positive. Now I wouldn't get into it at $0.02 a coin if your starting.
That damn music sounds like Linus's phone kept ringing.
That's the sound of success.
Sounded like deep purple
psygn0sis half the music Linus uses makes me think my car alarm is going off so I have to repeatedly check (cause one day my car alarm went off for 30 minutes twice)
psygn0sis X
Linus'*
Yikes... BURST is now worth $0.005438 USD at the time of this comment. Those coins lost over 68 percent of their value since you made this video!
Darcy Cardinal That’s not that bad. I know a ton of other shtcoins that lost a lot more.
Lol his rig drove up the complexity
now $0.012 and like a month ago it was over $0.02, so quadrupled again there for awhile. But regardless, if this is ever going to blow up, it would not be now, it would be later on with heavier bitcoin adoption when the energy costs start creeping beyond like 10% of human electricity and people start getting more and more furious about it.
This video has inspired me to gather my 2Tb old hard drives, jam them into PCs that were previously used for ethereum mining (gfx cards sold long ago), and mine some sweet BURST. I'm sure to get a dollar sooner or later.
CatsMeowPaw did it work with you
Do you recommend it
@@ahmeddammam1464 I mined for about 6 months and then gave up on almost all PCs. I now just have a 1Tb laptop hard drive spinning away that uses virtually no power so I don't mind mining what is essentially a worthless currency.
Can't everyone just *mine* their own business?
:D
If we did then we'd only make the money back
But that wouldn't make *cents*
Don't give up, keep at it spunky.
Inb4 Burstcoin takes off and Linus becomes the first trillionaire.
thats the first thing i thought about, that's not sup[er likely, but highly possible
this stuff makes me want to go back to a barter system. I get the idea of currency having value but it is literally wasted energy on computer parts. So you have actual resources and then a bunch of energy and materials being used to be used to trade actual resources.
@@jacobnunya808 you obviously dont understand the fundamentals of crypto
@@glowingone1774 when people go crypto mining are they are are they not buying parts and using energy just to get currency?
@@jacobnunya808 its a proof of work currency
What’s next? Minig with RGB lights?
You could have mining with internet speed.
There is also TONS of variations of the "mining using cryptocoins" idea.
Alex 0474 no companies already do that
Linus, please overclock the Almighty Pentium 4! (Attempt #3)
SlapThatBurger - WT keep commenting till he listens, I'll like every attempt of yours👍
I would watch that
vivek sood same and i shall keep saying the same comment
YES! do this
PLEASE do this
what's next, mining off of printers?
Tushar Sadhwani no toasters
Printers are hell
i just put to mining my epson wf2060, with 32mb of cache memory, hope tomorrow have some millions for a new lamb
That's the Fed's job.
There's no need. Printer companies already mine you.
New storinator bracket already bent....linus, did you drop it? :P
No, it said *"DON'T DROP"* on the box.
Well i am sure he didn't drop the box now did he?
Vincent Carrière well get ready for hdds raising in price
Darnit Bibasikm I wiped my screen
*Next: Mining with a empty chassi*
Jakob
dear miners, keep your dirty hands off of hdds. I can live with pricy gpus, but hdds are essential
they're cheap as dirt atm
2tb is worth like 40 bucks
Lethal Oxyclean Clorox Bleach
GPUs were cheap as well, before mining became popular
allasar yeah they were the most expensive but I think he means that suddenly a 1080 TI went up $400 when crypto mining became popular and how they suddenly became extremely expensive. A 1050ti now goes for $250-$350 new when it should be $150 at the most and mind you the 1050ti is not a "crappy card" it runs nearly everything at a great fps and at good settings. It's getting ridiculous with how expensive it's getting.
allasar do you have any suggestions for any good graphics card that is still at MSRP or close?
allasar yeah what Abel Vasquez said, what's your suggestion. But not AMD, nobody wants an AMD card lol.
Now hard drive prices are going to go up! Great!
Better that than gpus. Also ssds are taking over the market anyways.
People aren't gonna stop doing one to do the other
Ville well you’re kinda right
Guys I was just joking lol 😂
HDD is hardly a thing anymore tho so its fine lmao. Buy and SSD for your modern personal pc... or your living in the past, and so dont complain about price change. just catch the fuck up with the world
yes yes, lure the miners from the GPUs to the harddrives linus... good plan
Owh chia here we go again.
vomit frosting on a moldy cupcake
Brolivia Wilde lol
Overclock that moldy cupcake to 6ghz bro
6:42 Linus: Correct. Edzel: Wrong. -way to lift a server.
That's what i came to say - Linus should call him out, since it'll affect his insurance payments - (assuming linus is paying his employees benefits...)
LMAO the "Do Not Drop" Warning.
it was DEFINITELY meant for Linus. We all know it
Mining with Hard drives? What’s next mining in Minecraft?
Let me introduce you to Minecraft were u mine to get stuff
one ruble per dimon, selling now! plz buy
Can I get some of those "old" drives? probably still better than mine.
Nicholas Mills no... For legal reasons. The same reason why his cast had to pay for their own PC's
[Redacted] [Redacted] what? Why? What is the legal reason for that? İm confused..
its possible to get clasified or prifate information from old hard drives so you shouldnt sell those.
i have 3 out of 4 drives from biggest UK bear factory office pc that i got for free(my uncle was taking apart their office and he got some stuff for free so he gave me them becouse i had only 250G drive) and there could still be important stuff hidden on that drives. also whoever was first owner they can sue you for selling them
GGPL thank you.
It's really not that hard to write random data over the whole drive a few times so anything meaningless gets lost in the noise. Unless it's government secrets or something, physical destruction of the drives is a waste.
If people shared the same enthusiasm for protein folding. Well I just wonder.
Ardal tell me why i have to have interest in protein folding
You'd help make the world better and further science.
Mr. Scram but burstcoin give me mooney
There is a cryptocurrency called Gridcoin which promotes scientific research but it was from the early days of cryptocurrencies and has since lost popularity.
www.gridcoin.us/
didier mashaba
Proteine folding give you health.
Power cost vs value of Burst Coin?
Seems like a terrible waste of effort.
that's more like a fetish, wtf how could someone have fun with that
0.001% monthly ROI if you include power consumption
crypto mining is such a meme, buy 10k$ in gold mining equipment and go prospecting in alaska, you will get better returns than memecoins
Paul Ross he said hard drives dont use tonnes of power though
Sajed Khan
HDDs use a lot of electricity because they are mechanical in nature [Newtonian physics? to get 8 internal HDD discs spinning in each drive and the heads for each disc read/writing - ie, a HDD is a mechanical drive which has a LOT of moving parts].
A lot of moving parts in every HDD = a heavy power use.
SSDs use microvolts but the cost for each SSD is so expensive that it kinda defeats the point.
The only useful thing about HDDs is we all have about 4-8 of them lying around unused.
dava noncom oh ok
Linus you predicted current HDD mining madness in china
I need a crypto currency that can mine on my coffee machine.
There is proof of stake and proof of burn.
Proof of stake= Pick an random wallet weighted by the amount of coins you have. (some coins take into account the amount of time each of your coins is at your wallet)
Proof of burn=Send some of your coins to a place where you can't get back and no one can get it. The coins at this separated place are the weight used to pick the random winner.
You idiot ha
Well they have a router that mines litecoin so I imagine that's possible lol.
You guys haven’t heard of Keurig Koins? Smh
IOTA aims to run on IoT devices, sooooo...
I hope the mining hype ends soon. There are more cryptocurrencies than there are names for it. They increase pc costs and there are more and more websites that use the visitors pc power to mine.
Is that such a bad idea though? Using some of a visitors processing power while they are on the site instead of advertisements seems like a pretty fair deal to me.
Evan Anderson yeah extra stress on your hardware so it dies quicker or empties your laptops battery faster nice
Still, there's some sites I would gladly opt into that instead of obnoxious ads for.
This isn't new, and won't change. There were hundreds of altcoins back in 2013
+Roshan
Would you rather a load of advertisements that stress out the CPU and empty your laptops battery 3x faster?
Or would you rather have the website use like 10% of your CPU or GPU's processing power which would barely have any negative impact on your hardware over-all?
CPU's and GPU's can literally last forever. The only thing that kills them is heat, which laptops are generally known for getting so hot you could literally cook a egg on them...
Electricity cost?
Also, sell the old drives?
30KM a year which equals to 3 football stadiums
Anti KM??
More than $100/month :-). That box would be eating around 1200W going full out.... between $200 and $400 a month in electricity.
-Matt
In general, BURSTcoin is about 400x greener, or uses 400x less power per transaction, that Proof of Work coins like bitcoin and ethereum. Once your initial plotting is done, its just having a pc at idle most of the time really. Especially if you are already running a pc 24/7, its almost negligable.
not verry much after ploting, thats the point of burst its a green crypto, tbh, you could probably run it on a raspberry pi with usb hdds
The whole concept behind this currency really emphasizes the value we place in absolutely nothing.
do u really need that much storage to install minecraft?
what are you talking about ?!
you can't even run mincraft on the lowest settings on that potato .
Have you even tried minesweeper at 480p potato?
IkingKwI I'm going to start mining Craftcoin on my smartphone! 😂
No but you do for RuneScape
IkingKwI if youre playing with 500 mods and a custom map... Welp, rip your PC XD
Could you run 3 miners on the one system? A cpu miner, a gpu miner and a hdd miner
You'd be pretty strapped for resources, but it's possible. I know several Burst miners who use their GPU for plotting, then let it mine some other coin once plotting is complete.
I do exactly this.
I wish I could do that too but in LA now and electricity cost sucks. but its just fine for HDD mining
Might as well get your own powerplant at that point to decrease energy costs
Get ready to pay the electricity bill!
I wonder if law enforcement thinks the LTT house is a grow house since it uses so much electricity. How much is the electricity bill?
one million dollahs
He don't know you have to ask his mom.
Derrell Ray rofl
over $750 (maybe)
R Age what do you mean? Does anyone actually not use LED lamps for growing nowdays?
What a great time for this to show up in my feed.
You must have seen a video about chia coins not that long ago then. Maybe GamerNexus, Pauls Hardware or J2C? I think all 3 covered it like a week or two ago.
@@alphapt9370 Yea, I don't remember which channel I saw it on. I think it was techlinked maybe?
Linus Tech Tips: Useless experimentation since 2008
That's why I'm here
What does that thing in his pocket do? Why he is always pressing a button there?
I don't know how much more linus nonchalantly reaching toward his crotch I can stand to watch.
I think he uses that thing to synchronize his voice and video recording. Though I am not sure about it.
he is pressing the forward on his telepromter
No he is not.....because he cant read.
Is THAT what it is or is he paying homage to Michael Jackson?
Submerge the server in mineral oil
submerge it in mercury for a 0.0000000000000000000001% thermal performance increase
submerge in liquid nitrogen for 1000000000000 X cooling
Spectra Or even better absolute zero cuz why the fuck not LOL
OiL
And season to taste.
I miss the days when no one had heard of crypto-currency and Bitcoins were only used for drugs and other illegal things.
The good old silkroad….. ;(
thankfully bitcoin mining is getting a lot more complex now that so many already exist and it’s getting much much slower to mine them while the price is dropping at the same time
thats how crypto was supposed to be
We want that day back
@@perkypears why is that a good thing...
What about mining on a power suply or on a sound card
Why not mine in the case it self
I mine with the stickers on my case
Keyboard mining is the shit man
linus sak i prefer monitor mining
Nothing will ever surpass mousepad mining....
*Hard drive prices start rising*
not even by a bit.
its been a thing for 10 years. also companies are buying hdd's in thousands and prices are just fine why? oh well maby becouse HDD companies are not just as gready as manufacturers and sellers.
crap Good that i have some old 256 gb hdd's
It's because of the SSD's prices dropping that cause HDD's to drop even more.
*_*rising intensifies*_*
*Next* - Mining using Floppy Discs
Niraj Sarvaiya That's not even remotely realistic...
Perhaps using flash drives or SSDs...
Josh Gerhards it is, and is perfectly possible, yet very un rewarding... you could mine with anything that is off value to someone else, hence HDD space of any form of storage, so I wouldn’t say it’s unrealistic.
crip I wasn't saying it's impossible, I'm saying it would be entirely unrealistic for _anyone_ to even try this. I looked for an estimate of how many hard drives it would take to equal 1gb, and found it would take approximately 6,550 floppy discs. I don't remember because I can't watch the video now, but there's 50tb+ in Linus' setup here? Multiplied by 5000, that would mean you would need 32,750,000 floppy discs to get 50tb of storage. And worse, you would need 32,750,000 floppy disc DRIVES. You would NOT make a profit in any way from this, and would take up unimaginable space.
floppy discs are *already* a fungible commodity with limited supply, letting a few people make a pretty penny investing in remaining stocks once they stopped making them... they're pre-mined
6:17 did i just have a stroke or did that box just frame perfect open itself
PoW - proof of work... PoS - proof of stake... PoC - proof of capacity... new in 2018 PoE - proof of energy consumption, all old equipment consuming way too much electricity will be able to mine with the most efficient returns, newer equipment with its energy savings will give the least returns, so dust off all that old junk, and put it to work making you coins!
bob dole Proof of energy consumption? Lol, that would be so bad for the planet.
Bob - couldn't be any worse than bitcoin already is, so why not give old equipment a competitive edge!
Proof of burn is a thing, too.
sarcasm ?
PoE ≠ Power over Ethernet???
Well is not enough that i can't affort a GPU. Now i can't afford even a hard drive to keep my games on it. In 1 year i will can't affort a chinize phone because is gonna be used to mine shitcoin or something.
we will be mining shit on indian streets and we will have shortage of indian tech support
Look at it this way: way too many people are mining now, it's becoming hard to profit meaning the bubble will burst soon, then hardware prices will plummet
Patrick Mcdaniel I hope so
Wtf is a "chinize" phone?
Josh Gerhards A phone made in China... it can be very cheap and good or cheap and made like shit. (like anything chinize do)
My little sis uses Barbie doll to mine Kencoin.
Luka Dragovic FUCKING GENIUS
Ken doesn't have any bits.
I have bits. What are you talking about?
"This video is brought to you by i- *clicks skip button* -cha- *clicks skip button* -ay"
Don't you love it when those ads are 2 clicks away?
Yay now hard drive prices are going to go up...
Thanks linus
love you tho
If someone is going to buy hard drives to mine burstcoin, they will buy high end-high value enterprise drives so they won't have to replace them often. 40 dollar 1 terabyte drives probably won't go up in price. SSD's will 100% stay at the same price.(unless the nand shortage situation will change.)
Shiny Shinx I assume mining burstcoin will affect the drive and degrade it's performance, so miners will probably pick more high end, durable drives for better value.
Aditya PAram I mine burstcoin, I get 650$/month , power cost is 50/month.
Amd RyzenFan but how much did you pay for all those drives?
CoAddixt 50 tb
*I work at a tech company and there is currently 3 E-Waste bins with thousands of SSDs in them, I might want to grab some of those and give this a shot*
shit get a 1 tb hdd and email me lol il buy one i only have a 250 gb lmao
Dude, hell yes. Can they be for sale or are they in E-Waste due to technical issues?
Mr Anderson throw me some hahahaha
Mr Anderson hey man can I reach out and buy some components from you guys?
Are you kidding? Everyone is saying “Next is mining on fans”... “Next is mining on cases”.. obviously it’s mining on RGB!
mine with the ai- oh
wind turbines exist
if you're this desperate for 0 effort money buy a bunch of wind turbines and power your house from it & sell the excess back onto the power grid
i mine with my thermal paste!!
Wow...how much electricity is everyone going to be using?!
You can't think of it that way!
You are making hundreds of bucks for free!
The fact you are spending thousands on electricity is neither here nor there....
I think the trick is to also buy solar panels at the same time.
I mean, you'll still be out a load of money, but at least it's a fixed amount.
free money from thin air.... I like that, I mean if you're on your computer anyway. It would be neat to mine floppy discs.....
or you could use the money from solar power and sell it to the national grid
jochenstacker this is very much like a gambling addict isn't it? The gambling addict spends £1,000 a month to win back £200, £800 down per month but the buzz of winning £200 is some how worth losing the £800.
Spending so much on electricity is somehow worth it because you get free money even though what you get doesn't cover what you spend.... is this some trick by the electricity companies?
Did you put away your filming equipment?
sometimes i think these type of stuff is made for company's to make profit on lol.
Exactly! Let's sell 4 video cards, 2 CPU's to a person who only needs one.
Rain
what? Craigslist?
Absolutely and it's smart they dont do just sterile computations oriented only towards transactions solving, but they actually store crypted files on the computer of anybody who wants to participate. It's a pretty nice concept and useful, in the future it might become more and more important
J Lock bro it's not that way, it's just that these components are useful, the true power of a computer lies into GPUS and high end CPUS, they are required for research, movie making and high load graphics stuff, and obviously for gaming, so they dont want to sell you more stuff, it's just if you do particular work with your computer you just need their equipment :(
Damn it's almost as if a companies single main motivation is to earn profit
People who don't work with computers have no idea how heavy hdd really are. Specially a box of them. Thank god for SSD taking over.
case in point when these meek nerds start moving cases of hdd lol
Stop "mining" people's business...lol
Welp.
Well shit
#ncix
"real funny"
What's one business worth? lol
And... There goes HDD prices...
Edzel not bending his knees when he was setting the storator on the ground gave me hella anxiety
and here we are... with chia.