<p>The extent of human involvement in mining is to get the software and hardware and then run the software on the hardware. No one actually has to sit at a computer and do anything in mining. They don't even have to come back and check on anything as all aspects of mining are automatic save for computer setup and maintenance.</p>

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Thanks MeshCollider and Andrew Chow, are you both miners?  Is there decent profit in mining?
jmar93
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I do not mine, but it is easy to understand how mining works without being a miner. There is profit in mining if you can sink a lot of money initially into ASIC miners.
Ava Chow
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I do not mine either, agree with what Andrew said :)
meshcollider
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Ava Chow
<p>The latter, the person doesn't have to do anything. The computer/ASIC will usually be running software which creates a block candidate automatically after it receives each new block (or in pool mining, when it receives a candidate block from the pool server), and will then hash the block repeatedly with different nonces/extra data in the coinbase transaction until it finds a valid hash. If it does so, it will automatically send it to the network/pool server and begin working on the next block. Its mostly completely independent unless something crashes and requires a person to restart it</p>

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Thanks MeshCollider and Andrew Chow, are you both miners? Is there decent profit in mining?
jmar93
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meshcollider
<p>You just have to fire it up and wait for the result.</p>

<p>The only human involvement is at the beginning of the process to select the hardware (ASIC, SSD Drive, etc) the best way (solo mining or pool mining), the best pools, if you choose pool mining, and things like that.</p>

<p>Unless and until there is a power outage or hardware failure or network issue, you don't have anything to worry about.</p>

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remedcu
<p>Assuming you have the appropriate hardware and software, does mining involve the person mining to sit at the computer to mine or do you fire it up and just let the software run and check back later to see the results?</p>

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Bitcoin "mining" is essentially solving difficult math problems.
chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
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You can do it by hand. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo
SpiderRico
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Bitcoin mining, do you do the work or does the computer?
jmar93
# Bitcoin mining, do you do the work or does the computer?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-04)

Assuming you have the appropriate hardware and software, does mining involve the person mining to sit at the computer to mine or do you fire it up and just let the software run and check back later to see the results?

**Tags:** mining-profitability

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Bitcoin "mining" is essentially solving difficult math problems.  
> **username_2**: You can do it by hand. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2017-11-04. Score: 11

The extent of human involvement in mining is to get the software and hardware and then run the software on the hardware. No one actually has to sit at a computer and do anything in mining. They don't even have to come back and check on anything as all aspects of mining are automatic save for computer setup and maintenance.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks MeshCollider and Andrew Chow, are you both miners?  Is there decent profit in mining?  
> **username_3**: I do not mine, but it is easy to understand how mining works without being a miner. There is profit in mining if you can sink a lot of money initially into ASIC miners.  
> **username_4**: I do not mine either, agree with what Andrew said :)  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2017-11-04. Score: 5

The latter, the person doesn't have to do anything. The computer/ASIC will usually be running software which creates a block candidate automatically after it receives each new block (or in pool mining, when it receives a candidate block from the pool server), and will then hash the block repeatedly with different nonces/extra data in the coinbase transaction until it finds a valid hash. If it does so, it will automatically send it to the network/pool server and begin working on the next block. Its mostly completely independent unless something crashes and requires a person to restart it

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks MeshCollider and Andrew Chow, are you both miners? Is there decent profit in mining?  

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### Answer by username_5 on 2017-11-04. Score: 1

You just have to fire it up and wait for the result.

The only human involvement is at the beginning of the process to select the hardware (ASIC, SSD Drive, etc) the best way (solo mining or pool mining), the best pools, if you choose pool mining, and things like that.

Unless and until there is a power outage or hardware failure or network issue, you don't have anything to worry about.


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