Introduction to Cryptocurrency/Altcoin mining

Define what cryptocurrency is, how decentralization and limited supply create value, and how bitcoin and privacy coins like Monero and Zcash illustrate uses and market-driven prices.

Learn how to obtain cryptocurrency from mining, compare major exchanges like polo necks, coinbase, gdax, and kraken, and review hardware and software wallets.

Explore using multiple exchanges like Poloniex and Beatrix, generate wallet addresses, choose online vs offline wallets, diversify holdings, back up keys, and track assets with a tracking app.

Explore transferring mined coins without using an exchange, via wallets and services like shape shift and changelly, and learn about ledger hardware wallets and recovery keys.

Compare popular cryptocurrency exchanges and evaluate security features. Use reviews to choose the best fit, and learn about hot and cold wallets, Coinbase vault, fees, and regional availability.

Evaluate your hardware with what to mine and other calculators to pick the most profitable coin to mine now, factoring power costs, mining difficulty, and future value.

Learn how to calculate mining ROI by balancing secondhand hardware resale value, profitability, and payback periods, with guidance on GPUs, power, and setup.

Learn to use GUI miners such as NiceHash Miner to optimize mining profits for your hardware, benchmark coins, and configure payouts to a Bitcoin address.

Learn to set up the console ewbf miner, compare gui miners, and connect to pools like Supernova and Zcash, including batch file creation and wallet-based worker configuration.

Set up Claymore console miners for dual mining Monero with separate pools, using batch files to specify wallets and pool URLs, and adjust driver versions for optimal GPU performance.

Asic miners are specialized hardware designed for specific hash algorithms; this lecture reviews model pros and cons, profits, noise, resale value, and the impact of network difficulty on payback.