05/12/2017
Bitcoin Mining Software Guide
CPU/GPU Bitcoin Mining. … Theoretically, you could use your computer’s CPU to mine for bitcoins, but in practice, this is so slow by today’s standards that there isn’t any point. You can enhance your bitcoin hash rate by adding graphics hardware to your desktop computer.
recommended to join miner pools, it’s almost impossible to crack yourself. At current difficulty, if you mine in a pool, you will probably mine about 0.00001406 BTC per week. That means, if difficulty doesn’t increase at all, it will take about 71123 weeks (about 1367 years) to mine 1 BTC. Of course difficulty will almost certainly increase during that time.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/economist-explains-11