What is a "crypto miner"?

Well,I had a question but then forgot it,this will keep me wondering all day and night,now what was it?



I'm going to assume this question is related to the shortage/price of video cards. "Crypto" means a cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies are created by running a specific set of mathematical calculations, looking for a value that "solves" the calculations in a specific way. This is referred to as "mining." When such a value is found, that's a "coin" which can then be traded to other users in exchange for goods and services (if the other user is a merchant who accepts that cryptocurrency) or for other currencies, including real world money. The values that constitute coins are quite rare and thus generally require doing a huge amount of mathematical calculations to find.

As it turns out, those mathematical calculations happen to be similar to some of calculations used in creating 3D graphics, and modern graphics cards are basically little supercomputers with hundreds of little calculating engines that can run simultaneously. So for the last several years people hoping to "mine" Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies have been buying video cards, and since they're not actually trying to display the output of all those calculations on a screen they can put as many cards in a single computer as that computer can support in terms of electricity and cooling. And if they're serious about it, and can afford it, they may well be running multiple computers with multiple cards each. So with these folks buying as many cards as they can get their hands on, per the law of supply and demand the price of video cards has been very high.

So depending on the context the phrase "crypto miner" might refer to either a person running one or more computers that are working on those calculations ("I can't find the new video card I want in stock anywhere because the damn crypto miners have bought them all out"), a computer equipped with one or more video cards being used for those calculations ("I was shocked when I got a $300 electric bill, until I discovered my housemate's cryptominer hidden in the garage"), or the software that runs on computers and uses video cards to do the calculations ("I installed a crypto miner on my computer but I uninstalled it after just a couple of days because I couldn't deal with the noise of the fans running full speed all the time").

ok. BUT WHAT DOTH LIFE?!?!?!?!?!??!????????????????

Sorry, neighbor. I'd love to help you, but I have no idea. If you ever find the answer by all means please let us all know. I can't speak for anyone else but I can always use another reason to keep breathing for another day.

Has my GOG account ever appeared to be offline? The reason as to why I asked the question is because I never logged out from my GOG account. What I would do is that I would close the tab in my browser and open other sites that I intend to visit or just close or exit the whole browser enitirely before proceeding to open other programs without ever logging out of my GOG account. I'm just wondering because I don't want other users to mistake me for someone who never leaves his laptop for one whole day lol.

Thank you so much for the knowledge I never knew I needed!

Are you screaming at your fridge hoping that Eric Idle will pop out of it ?

Because there's only Zool in there.

I don't really get captain Planet. How did he get that rank, was he lieutenant Planet before ? Is there a whole staffed order ? Is it not required, can I call my crayon captain Crayon ? Must other crayons obey it, if I don't name a commandant Crayon ? But what about unique items ? What are they captain of ? Is captain Caveman a ranked caveman or is he a caveman named Caveman like captain Sailor ? Is the case of captain Obvious supposed to be obvious ? Is there a transversal hierarchy of captains with captain Planet ranking above captain America ? Would he rank above or below colonel County ? Actually would anything be different at all if he was sergeant Planet, nurse Planet or assistant professor Planet ? Why don't ancient scriptures talk of captain God, wouldn't that be cooler ?

Do they ?

Somebody who mines cryptonyte, usually under the employ of Lecks Luzor.

Why isn't Cobra Mission in GOG's catalog. WHY, WHY, WRYYYYYY?!!!
I think he got his rank from the same guys who named a sword hoarding blond Sumerian arsehole "King of Heroes".

Crazy Japanese people.

Are there any threads about GOG games on tablets? As in, ones that work, ones that require some tweaking or a specific device, that sort of thing. Thanks in advance.

There was a couple of GOGmix lists (one made by me), but GOG recently decided to destroy all the GOGmix lists, so, nope.

But, as a source, I was mostly using two lists from steam :

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6857883-Touch-friendly-games/

and

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7473504-Touchscreen-Games/

so you can browse them and check which games are on GOG. It's a start.

Coulda sworn there was one in the last week or so. I don't recall a mega-thread dedicated to tablet gaming, though.

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Why do people always get the cat and buttered toast thing wrong? They always talk about putting the toast on the cat's back, but that just means the cat-toast combo will land on the cat's feet - or the toast, if the dry side is on the cat's back. To work, the buttered side of the toast would need to be attached to the cat's feet. Since the cat's back and the dry side of the toast can never touch the ground, those would need to be the sides facing outward.

Thanks for the links. GOG staff keeps the Good News™ coming......