How to mine with idle graphics cards? Buy at the bottom of the bear market with one click!

Although the price has rebounded slightly compared to the previous few days, it has been halved compared to the peak period of over 100,000 yuan per unit.

In a bear market, mining is the best choice for both newcomers and veterans. For novices, how to mine is a difficult problem to get started. In fact, mining is not that difficult. As long as you have a good graphics card, you can mine. Today, I will teach you how to mine with one click!

What is mining? How to mine cryptocurrency?

Mining is a word that we often hear, but we don’t know how to start. It’s not like coal mines, iron mines, and gold mines in reality, where you can just pick up a pickaxe and dig.

Cryptocurrency mining can actually be simply understood as "calculation" or "cracking". A complex formula is calculated by "picking heads" such as CPU, GPU, ASIC chips, etc. After a large number of calculations, if the calculation is correct, you can get rewards, namely cryptocurrency.

Professional mining machines have powerful computing power and are expensive (Image source: Bitmain)

In the early days of cryptocurrency, mining was easy and you could earn a lot of money using ordinary home computer hardware. But now, the total computing power of cryptocurrency is getting higher and higher, and the difficulty of mining is also getting higher and higher.

For mainstream cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it is almost impossible to mine coins using graphics cards. Only mining machines with professional ASIC chips can do the job.

Unlike graphics cards, which can be used to play games even when not mining, ASIC chip mining machines are designed for mining and have no other uses. They also have high power consumption, high noise, and high heat generation, and are obviously not suitable for home deployment.

Newbies are confused when they see the parameter settings

So how can we mine? Apart from Bitcoin, Ethereum or some less mainstream cryptocurrencies can be mined using graphics cards.

However, this mining method is more complicated. You need to search for mining programs and mining pools online, and you may also need to edit the mining programs in command line form.

If you accidentally download a mining program from the Internet, it may contain Trojan viruses, which is a big challenge for novices. Since this article is called "One-click Mining", it can be solved with just one click! How to solve it? Read on!

Good news for newbies: Nicehash one-click mining

You don’t need the professional mining machines we mentioned above, nor do you need to configure command line mining software. My approach to mining is just one word: “reckless”!

"24/7, just mining!" After keeping it a secret for a long time, let's reveal the answer quickly, or you will be beaten by the netizens' father! NiceHash is a simple and easy-to-use mining software. When using it, users only need to click the "Start" button to automatically mine.

The editor’s income (hey, don’t complain about it being too little!)

It is worth noting that nicehash will automatically calculate the most suitable mining algorithm based on the user's hardware configuration, and finally convert it into Bitcoin and send it to the user's wallet.

After all, Bitcoin is the "hard currency" among cryptocurrencies. Various altcoins and air coins may run away at any time. New coins generally need to download special mining software from the official website, which is more troublesome. This method of converting to Bitcoin is very suitable for novice users. Now we will teach you how to use nicehash mining!

Visit nicehash official website

Register an account (verify that you understand)

After registration is complete, scroll down and find "Nicehash Miner"

Choose different clients to download according to whether your graphics card is N card or A card.

First, you need to visit nicehash's official website "https://www.nicehash.com/". Then click the "Register" button in the upper right corner. Google verification is required during the registration process (you know).

After completing the account registration, find "Nicehash Miner" at the bottom of the nicehash homepage. Next, choose to download the client that supports N cards or the client that supports A cards according to the user's graphics card brand.

Start mining and easily play with nicehash miner

Enter your username

After downloading and installing "Nicehash Miner", double-click the desktop icon to open "Nicehash Miner".

First, click the "wallet" button and enter the username you just registered. The system will automatically associate the user's Bitcoin wallet address on the nicehash website. Click "SAVE" to save.

In this way, the income generated by our mining will be sent to the wallet of the account. Then click "workers", name it whatever you want and save it. Finally, we click "START" to start mining!

Mining detailed status

After mining starts, we can find "view stats online" on the control panel of the software to check our mining status.

The interface shows the current mining profitability, which mining algorithms are currently being used and have been used, and can also display mining graphical data. It is convenient for users to have a comprehensive understanding of their current mining capabilities, and it will also show when the next profit will be credited to the user's account.

Profit Calculator

Roughly calculate the benefits of my existing hardware

Finally, I would like to recommend a practical function on the nicehash official website - the profitability calculator.

Users can calculate mining revenue based on their current hardware status and electricity prices. For example, I am currently using NVIDIA's GTX1060 6GB graphics card. The electricity price for residents in Beijing is about 0.5 yuan per kilowatt-hour.

After filling in the parameters, nicehash will show that you can make a profit of 110 RMB per month. Although it is very little, because I only have one graphics card, and its performance is not very outstanding, it is better than nothing. And if the price of Bitcoin goes up in the future, the Bitcoins obtained from mining will also be a considerable income.

In this long bear market, in addition to learning blockchain knowledge to enrich yourself, if you have an idle graphics card at home, you might as well start mining!