<p>I've been running a full <code>bitcoind</code> node (Ubuntu) for a while now and would like to experiment with mining for educational purposes.</p>
<p>Googling anything to do with &quot;Bitcoin mining&quot; is fraught so I was hoping some more informed user can sanity check my plans.</p>
<p>I was going to buy a 20-40 G/H USB ASIC, plug that into the node and run BFGMiner on the same system, using its solo-mining configuration to communicate with my <code>bitcoind</code> RPC service.</p>
<p>Is this a good way to proceed? If not, any other recommendation would be appreciated.</p>

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2020-10-30T23:30:17.533Z
Hi Garreth, your question might be covered by https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/41276/5406, check it out!
Murch
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2020-10-30T23:49:26.203Z
It doesn't. My interest is educational.
Garreth McDaid
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2020-10-31T00:10:26.933Z
Well what do you want to learn about? There are many aspects to mining; the protocols used, the hardware available, infrastructure and maintenance, latency aspects, economics of it all, ... how to learn about those will depend on what you're interested in.
Pieter Wuille
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2020-10-31T10:19:21.237Z
I basically just want to know that buying something like a Gekkoscience USB miner and running it with something like BFGMiner of GGMiner will work. These are essentially legacy technologies at this point, and I don't want to waste $70.
Garreth McDaid
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Recommendation for educational mining
Garreth McDaid
# Recommendation for educational mining

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-10-30)

I've been running a full `bitcoind` node (Ubuntu) for a while now and would like to experiment with mining for educational purposes.

Googling anything to do with "Bitcoin mining" is fraught so I was hoping some more informed user can sanity check my plans.

I was going to buy a 20-40 G/H USB ASIC, plug that into the node and run BFGMiner on the same system, using its solo-mining configuration to communicate with my `bitcoind` RPC service.

Is this a good way to proceed? If not, any other recommendation would be appreciated.

**Tags:** mining-hardware, miner-configuration, bfgminer

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hi Garreth, your question might be covered by https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/41276/5406, check it out!  
> **username_0**: It doesn't. My interest is educational.  
> **username_2**: Well what do you want to learn about? There are many aspects to mining; the protocols used, the hardware available, infrastructure and maintenance, latency aspects, economics of it all, ... how to learn about those will depend on what you're interested in.  
> **username_0**: I basically just want to know that buying something like a Gekkoscience USB miner and running it with something like BFGMiner of GGMiner will work. These are essentially legacy technologies at this point, and I don't want to waste $70.  

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