• Anarch157a@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Not anymore. Bitcoin now requires dedicated hardware (ASICs). Other coins were designed to make use of ASICs impossible or impractical, requiring GPUs, but those still require a CPU to drive them.

      New developments, such as Ethereum moving away from proof of work to proof of stake made GPUs unnecessary, but you still need a computer with a CPU to validate the blocks on the block-chain.

      Edit: Even with ASICs mining bitcoin, you still need servers to distribute the work to them.

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      you have different methods of calculations for different types of crypto. most use gpu calculations, some may favor cpu calculations. there are a handful that do so using hard drives for instance.