for mining for this manufacturer. To give you an impression about the current situation, at time of writing, an AMD 6970 is able to produce 0.0077 BTC per day, this is less than 0.8$ at an actual Bitcoin price of 100$. We recommend to do the math before you start mining. A Tip: Use a mining pool where you can share the work (and also the reward) based on the provided calculation power with other miners. The links at the end of this chapter give you information for mining pool pages and Bitcoin itself. We suggest you make use of BTC Guild or Slush’s pool. They provide as a good starting point. Links: Here some comparisons and calculation links to give you an idea and help you to make your math. [1] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf [2] Hardware comparison for GPGPU mining http://mrlithium.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/bitcoin-mining- hardware-comparison-7850.html [3] To give you an example of the power of special mining hardware in comparison to GPGPU http://bitcoinexaminer.org/7-awesome-asic-bitcoin-miners/ [4] Calculation sheet to determine how much money your mining rig brings you http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ [5] Bitcoin Mining pools https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools