I spent a rainy Saturday learning how to mine 'Straya coins

I'm no tech head. But I know how to use a PC.... It was raining today, and I had nowhere to be so I thought I'd try my hand at mining cryptocurrency.

The 'Straya coin is new, and as I understand it that means the difficulty of mining it is relatively easy. At least in comparison to other, established cryotocurrencies. So my slow laptops have a chance of actually yielding some coins.

I read as much as I could on reddit/strayacoin then decided to give it a crack.

I followed the instructions at https://www.strayacoin.org/minestrayacoin/ to set up my wallet and start some CPU mining. Apparently this is not an efficient way to mine the coins anymore as they increase in popularity.

Somehow managed to fluke a 50 strayacoin hit on the computer's 5th attempt to find something! It takes a while for this to be confirmed so I'm hoping this was a real success!

After all my reading I decided to see if I could set up my laptop to contribute to a mining pool, using its GPU. I had a few snags but got there in the end... My 6+year old laptop is now happily contributing to this pool at Kh speeds compared to Gh speeds by some other contributors, but by tomorrow I should have some more strayacoin to my tally. And it was more about the technical challenge for me today anyway.

So now I'm running 2 laptops in the pool concurrently. I'm 2nd and 3rd last of 95 in the pool in terms of processing power contributions, but I'm doing it 😀.