Cpu-Mining: Is it profitable...probably not (anymore) ...I dunno about GPU -mining. I tried it, but my Geforce780 just gets to hot to quickly in my iMac.....and I don’t like to fry it...
Minergate software won’t let you mine Dash btw....
For Cpu-mining I’d suggest running on Linux (seems I get better hash rate), and play around with the some different mining software. But don’t expect profit from it, unless you have a lot cpu’s you can cook.
Sometimes I use Miningrigrentals.com: Basically you can rent a miner for a specific algorithm and point it at a pool of your choice. The hardware is owned by users, not the site-owners. If there are issues, you can get refund etc, they have their own pool too but I never use it.
But for mining Dash it is not profitable either or you should find a person offering his gear for an extended amount of time at a low low (probably a typo) price.
Hate to say that in a Decentralized Crypto-world the mining is centralized by the peeps that could afford it, before there even was cryptocurrency...(Real world cliche: the rich get richer, the poor.......blablablabla...)
BUT:
You can however mine some shitcoin for a while, go to exchange site, wait for a whale to pump that not-so-useless-coin to higher regions....surf the wave! Get out of the tube BEFORE the whale makes a dump and dives back to the depths of the crypto-ocean.
By that I mean: Sell those coins for a high price before they get even more useless
With the PROFIT you made >>> BUY DASH or whatever coin you like!!! (Notice how I used the word “profit” without a negative word in front of it
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This probably is not a lot of help, but at least you got some sort of an answer. If you can afford it, buy a Baikal miner or some other piece of hardware....dunno what all the brands are......
...Good Luck...
