In either case, both operations will involve a lot of heat and noise as a byproduct. While noise may not be the biggest concern for GPU configurations, every miner will need to consider a space that permits proper ventilation and cooling for the system’s peak performance. Failure to implement a cooling mechanism will eventually have a negative impact on your operational costs and the lifespan of your mining equipment.
Pools and specialized hardware has unfortunately led to a centralization trend in Bitcoin mining.

A mining hardware has an energy consumption that can be measured in joules per terahash (J/Th), and has a hashing speed that can be measured in terahashes per second (Th/s). For the purpose of estimating a lower bound to the energy costs of Bitcoin mining, we considered at any point in time that the entire network is adopting the most energy efficient machine available at that time. In situations where a mining hardware has different power setting options in which the user may choose to increase or decrease the hashing speed of the machine along with energy consumption, the most efficient power setting is used for calculation.
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