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Albert Szmigielski
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Albert Szmigielski is a thinker, a computing scientist, a software engineer, and a blockchain professional. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Digital Currency. He has been involved in a number of start-ups and software projects. He believes in a decentralized, distributed nature of storing information, and hence has an interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Albert is a researcher at CryptoIQ and a mentor at the Blockchain Institute. He frequently contributes to his blog at blog.cryptoIQ.ca.
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GPU versus CPU mining


As you can see from a comparison between Table 3-1 and Table 2-1, GPUs hash much faster than CPUs. The fastest in our list reaches 800 MH/s. This is a significant improvement over various CPUs and is due to the massively parallel nature of graphics cards. Even though GPUs mine much faster than CPUs, the mining speed of a GPU compared to the total mining power of the Bitcoin network is still just a tiny percentage of the total.

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Albert Szmigielski

Albert Szmigielski is a thinker, a computing scientist, a software engineer, and a blockchain professional. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Digital Currency. He has been involved in a number of start-ups and software projects. He believes in a decentralized, distributed nature of storing information, and hence has an interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Albert is a researcher at CryptoIQ and a mentor at the Blockchain Institute. He frequently contributes to his blog at blog.cryptoIQ.ca.
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