Any CPU mining worth the cost of electricity? What about Helium and Helium miners?

[The red spirit]

Old Xeons or Opterons might be worth it since they cost next to nothing, but they guzzle power and in terms of hasrate/power ratio they might not be worth using.

Yeah. It wasn't thrilling having to have an account with them at all frankly, but I wanted to see where Helium goes. It's sort of a "one and done" account tbh.

What I had to do to get an account:

Take a photo of my state ID front and back.

Submit a selfie to ensure it matched ID.

Use my phones depth sensor to confirm it was a real face and not a photo (could not upload a simple image of myself, had to be a selfie from a phone with a depth sensor).

Submit a pdf bank statement with proof of residence (address on it, essentially).

By the time it was done I just wanted to go to sleep.

I trust them enough to know they are not going to sell my details but damn, where do I put my drop of blood? I was ready at that point.

They are similar to bank so they have to know that. It's not really that much. If you ever cared to open stock broker or other investment account, it can be a lot worse. I never finished my Interactive Brokers account setup, because I was really confused and lacked blood to complete it. They won't ask for blood, they will ask you a million questions about your blood, when you are bleeding out.

 

[lexluthermiester]

So no photos of the setup because that will come later, but fun fact: new "curved screen" android phones seem to currently have an issue with the Helium app where you cannot press the button to tell the miner where to send your payout. Pretty amazing.

Fortunately, I had an old Iphone SE and was able to complete setup with that. But yeah, that was a serious rough edge that almost ended this before it began.

Now THAT'S a weird glitch! Are the app devs aware of the problem?

 

[R-T-B]

Now THAT'S a weird glitch! Are the app devs aware of the problem?

I'm fairly certain they are. Looking at play store reviews it apparently happened during the last UI overhaul. I would not expect it to be a bug that floats around long, but still a disconcerting place to mess up.

They have to be aware because it's tanked their app rating bad (from a decent 4 to a 2.0).

 

[lexluthermiester]

They have to be aware because it's tanked their app rating bad (from a decent 4 to a 2.0).

Ouch!