• 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.