Can I mine Cryptocurrency with my Computer or Laptop?

GeForce RTX graphic card — GPU running and fans spinning on a workhorse crypto mining computer

Most modern computers include a graphics processing unit. The GPU works with the CPU (central processing unit) to process and display images, video, and video games as quickly as possible. GPUs can process information up to 800 times faster than the CPU, making them ideal for cryptomining.

Though the process is much more complicated, mining breaks information into blocks which the GPUs verify for accuracy. These blocks of information form the blockchain. Chains can be used to store everything from food distribution paths, legal contracts, business transactions, and more. Any information can be stored on the transparent ledgers within the blocks. Once the block of information is committed, the information is then replicated across the network, making it permanently stored for anyone to see.

Blocks are like links in a chain, each one links to the one before it and the one after it. Breaking the chain is not possible as the records are shared around the world with millions of miners.

Using your existing equipment to try crypto mining is easy. First let’s find the GPU in the computer.

Open the Device Manager on your Windows computer.

Windows Device Manager — Open the Device Manager in Windows in order to find out what your graphic card is

Find and expand Display Adapters.

Display adapters in the Device Manager — The device manager can tell you what graphic card is running in your computer.

This laptop has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti.

NVIDIDA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti — This example laptop has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphic card that mines around 17 Mh/s.

Use Minerstat’s calculator to figure out what to expect from your GPU

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