Bitcoin

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Originally Posted by glatt

You can pay companies to mine for you. I can see how the companies would make money but I am not sure how the customer could make money. Is hitting paydirt, so to speak, basically random? Kind of like gambling?

Those are great questions, glatt. My only answer is that I don't know yet.

Everything is based on the trading price I suppose.

And hitting pay dirt, mining coins has been described to me as more difficult and costly as you approach the maximum number of possible coins.