 Do you like money? Better yet, do you like free money? Well, the value of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies has rocketed so high that even if you're running an older PC, it could be worthwhile for you to start mining while your system is idle. So, NiceHash sponsored this video, where we'll be showing you guys how you can mine on your existing hardware as an easy way to make a couple of bucks with almost no downside. Especially while the weather is cold and you'd be paying to heat your house anyway. You're probably already familiar with cryptocurrencies, decentralized digital currencies with no direct tie to government-issued notes or coins, particularly if you already watched our mining series from a few years ago. But how many of you are actually doing something about it? Particularly those of you with a graphics card that has 6 gigs of memory or more. It may come as a surprise, but if your power rates are cheap enough, thank you PC Hydro, it's gotten really, really easy to tune your system to profitably mine crypto when it would otherwise not be doing anything. And conveniently, it's still winter and a gaming rig is actually no less efficient for heating your house than an electric heater would be. But then there is the question of why bother? Didn't Bitcoin just have a major correction and we have no way of knowing what's going to happen to Ethereum now that ETH2 is live? Sure, but there's also almost a two-year window for you to mine Ethereum normally until it's supposed to fully transition to a proof-of-stake system rather than proof-of-work. And yeah, Bitcoin is currently down, but also sometimes it goes up. So if the whole setup can be done in less than an hour, which it can, it's probably not a bad idea. Like subscribing, not a bad idea. Don't miss our upcoming GPU reviews. Now, NiceHash Miner has been available for years now, but it's also been a few years since we've talked about it and they've made some pretty cool changes. In a nutshell, NiceHash built a system where you essentially sell your computing power to the highest bidder, who then uses it to mine a specific coin. They get the coins that are generated and you get paid in Bitcoin based on current market rates. This is really helpful for folks who are looking to acquire Bitcoin since Bitcoin now requires ASICs to be mined effectively. And of course, if you want something else other than Doge, you can trade for it on the exchange. Now, NiceHash isn't the only option and large-scale commercial mining operations wouldn't use it. But frankly, we don't have much interest in helping those guys and NiceHash has been our tool of choice for small-time personal mining for ages now. One of the reasons is that pretty much every piece of mining software requires you to either turn off your antivirus for all third-party algorithms or allow absolutely everything through, both of which are obvious security risks. By contrast, NiceHash's new QuickMiner is digitally signed and doesn't require any third-party software for overclocking, undervolting or mining. And since it only uses their in-house developed Excavator Miner and OC tuner, you don't have to grant permissions to any suspicious software. For those of you who are concerned about security risks, this should be a huge load off your mind. Of course, it does come with a drawback. With NiceHash's traditional miner, you can swap algorithms on the fly to make a bit more money by targeting the algorithm with the highest payout. QuickMiner only mines Ethereum using Dagger Hashimoto. With that being said, Ethereum is currently dominating the market, so it shouldn't be a huge deal for the moment. One of the other big concerns that gamers have about mining is, of course, wear and tear on their, especially right now, expensive graphics card. Now, as we demonstrated a few years back, there is no performance difference between a worn-out GPU and one that's brand new, at least as long as everything else is equal. The challenge here is that modern graphics cards dynamically adjust parameters that do affect performance, like core clock, according to thermal and power limits. And here's the thing, silicon does degrade over time, and the more heat and the more voltage, the faster it degrades. So we want to minimize both of those things. That's where QuickMiner's built-in automatic GPU tuning functionality comes in. So all we got to do is go to nicehash.com slash my slash mining slash rigs, and there's a yellow optimize button here. This is pretty sweet. So you can either light or medium optimize. Let's just go light mode, and then you can probably actually hear the fan profile change over there. But that's not the only thing that's happening. At the same time, it's going to undervolt and overclock the video memory to maximize the efficiency of the card. Actually, they're reducing the core clock and then reducing the power target to match demand. It's not quite undervolting, but I mean, I guess it's close enough. They'll be getting to that a little bit later. Now, it only works with 20 and 30 series Nvidia GPUs, at least for now. But as long as you have at least six gigs of VRAM, you can also use their guides to manually tune your 10 series card. It should be noted that for now, AMD cards require an alternative overclocking utility. If you want even more efficiency or if you're like, I'm heating my basement with this thing, who cares? You can right click the system tray, go to OC tune, and go all the way down to the bottom. This auto tune right here should be able to get you either slightly better efficiency or maximum balls to the wall speed. If you want to play around manually, you can do that as well. And NiceHash has a full set of guides that you can check out on their website. Based on the method we just showed you guys, we're sitting pretty at around $5 per day of Bitcoin. That is, depending, of course, on current prices, which isn't at the point where I would recommend spending scalper prices on a new GPU hoping to make back your investment. But as my grandpappy always said, you can never have enough free money to spend at lttstore.com. He's right, you know, great water bottles over there. By the way, before you leave, we do want to offer one final bit of advice, not about tuning your rig or buying graphics cards, but about wallets. If you're going to hold any amount of cryptocurrency, we would strongly encourage you to get some sort of hard wallet or your own digital wallet that you control. Because whole crypto exchanges have basically vanished overnight, and you never know who's going to get DDoSed or hacked or have their founder die next. So it's always best to keep your own coin safe with yourself. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, NiceHash was actually hacked a couple of years ago. However, unlike most other services and exchanges, they actually used their own money to eventually pay back everyone who had any crypto missing in full during the attack, which is actually the only reason that we were comfortable working with them on this project. Because remember, guys, it's not your mistakes that define you, it's how you handle the fallout after. Just like I would never make the mistake of not telling you about our sponsor. NiceHash, if you guys haven't figured it out yet, it makes it easy to turn your PC into a mining machine. No registration is needed, and they even act as an exchange so you can trade your coins into other cryptocurrencies. You get paid in Bitcoin every four hours, and their quick miner was made completely in-house to make it safer and easier to use than ever. So to learn more and register today, check out the link down below. How many of you are already mining with NiceHash, or another service, by the way? Leave a comment below, and if you haven't already, make sure you check out our Mining Adventure series from a few years back. It's obviously a little older now, but there's still a ton of really good information in there about cryptocurrency and mining.