Why Mining Crypto Will Murder Your Laptop
What Crypto Mining Does to a Computer Whether you’re mining Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any other cryptocurrency that uses proof-of-work, “mining” works a bit like guessing the combination to a lock. On a three-tumbler lock, you’d definitely get the right combination within 1000 tries, because there are only 1000 combinations of numbers between 000 and 999. Add one digit and that list of combinations goes up an order of magnitude with 10000 possibilities....