Note: NVIDIA has since patched the RTX 3060 hash rate limiter across multiple driver versions. The developer driver 470.05 used in this article is no longer available from NVIDIA. Crypto mining on consumer GPUs is generally no longer economically viable. If you still have the card, it is far more useful today running local LLMs. See running Ollama in a Proxmox LXC with NVIDIA GPU passthrough. ...
Cryptocurrencies have been back on the popular agenda lately, thanks mostly to the surging value of Bitcoin. I have been interested, but not massively invested in cryptocurrency for many years. If I had the courage to buy and hold all those years ago, I might be writing to you from a beach – I assure you, this is not the case! I have been getting into InfluxDB lately and its fantastic ability to store heaps of time series data. Well, using python and Coinbase, I am going to show you how to collect bitcoin (and other crypto assets) price data and store it in InfluxDB… then we are going to make some neat panels in Grafana to help us realise our data. This is going to be a longer write up than most, so here is here are links to each section: ...