This guy really shouldn't have nice things especially a laptop air.
Topic: Could I mine Bitcoin with a MacBook Air? (Read 10565 times)
No ! It's not ment for that. Don't be ridiculous. Dude its a portable computer its not ment to be under high strain like that. There is no logical use that way puts a tablet or phone under that strain for so long , not even the most the graphic and technically challenging games will cause that much strain. And you probably will leave it over night. It can't do that for 8 hours or so. And I suppose you will also leave the charger in too. It will burn out and it will mine like 2 satoshi a minute. So enjoy high earnings of $0.0003 per day. Soon you will be rich.
This guy really shouldn't have nice things especially a laptop air.
This guy really shouldn't have nice things especially a laptop air.
My mom actually bought my MacBook Air for me a few years ago, and it was really for education purposes and stuff like that. She's super strict. I never get money of my own because I'm only 14 and I come from a single parent family with 2 kids (me included) so we don't make as much income 
. The MacBook Air was kinda a one time thing.
If all this is true then the LAST thing you would want to do is burn up and destroy your precious MacBook Air to get no Bitcoins for your efforts. Or best case waste a ton of electricity and run up your electricity bill for a few cents in Bytecoins.. The MacBook Air was kinda a one time thing.I like your enthusiasm but Bitcoin mining is not a way to make money for you. You will have to find another way. Perhaps you could use your MacBook Air in some other way (write programs, web sites, etc. - I don't know you will have to be creative) to make money?
I have a Macbook Air and I think Bytecoin is a nice alternative.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
How much does Bitcoin make a day? If you have advanced mining hardware, how much would you make in 24 hours?
I have a Macbook Air and I think Bytecoin is a nice alternative.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
So is bytecoin a type of altcoin?It nets a couple cents every day at least.
Yes Bytecoin is a type of altcoin, you can check here how much worth a bytecoin on exchange: https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_bcn which seems to worth around 7-8 Satoshis
I have a Macbook Air and I think Bytecoin is a nice alternative.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
So is bytecoin a type of altcoin? It nets a couple cents every day at least.
I have a Macbook Air and I think Bytecoin is a nice alternative.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
Not a mackbook air but neither with a macbook pro you should start mining bitcoin because it does not worth, you can do many other thing but not mining. Mining bytecoin 24h for couple of cents does not worth either.
I have a Macbook Air and I think Bytecoin is a nice alternative.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
It nets a couple cents every day at least.
If you do not care about the ROI then you could buy Bitcoin directly. I do not know where you come from or how much money you have, but when you could buy a MacBook Air then I would assume that you can afford to buy some small amounts of Bitcoin directly 
If your just wanting to learn mining look at compacs from sidehack, also RPI to run it vs a laptop is smarter on saving electricity. I would look twords this is your just wanting to learn mining.
It will not ROI though it's more for fun. If your looking at ROI it's a another story and we need to know a lot about your electricity.
I just kinda wanna have Bitcoin, I don't really care that much about ROI
Ok, good to know, so could there be any alternatives? I've heard about cloud mining, but I'm not entirely sure how that works.
If your just wanting to learn mining look at compacs from sidehack, also RPI to run it vs a laptop is smarter on saving electricity. I would look twords this is your just wanting to learn mining.
It will not ROI though it's more for fun. If your looking at ROI it's a another story and we need to know a lot about your electricity.
I just kinda wanna have Bitcoin, I don't really care that much about ROI
My mom actually bought my MacBook Air for me a few years ago, and it was really for education purposes and stuff like that. She's super strict. I never get money of my own because I'm only 14 and I come from a single parent family with 2 kids (me included) so we don't make as much income
. The MacBook Air was kinda a one time thing. 
If you do not care about the ROI then you could buy Bitcoin directly. I do not know where you come from or how much money you have, but when you could buy a MacBook Air then I would assume that you can afford to buy some small amounts of Bitcoin directly
If your just wanting to learn mining look at compacs from sidehack, also RPI to run it vs a laptop is smarter on saving electricity. I would look twords this is your just wanting to learn mining.
It will not ROI though it's more for fun. If your looking at ROI it's a another story and we need to know a lot about your electricity.
I just kinda wanna have Bitcoin, I don't really care that much about ROI
Ok, good to know, so could there be any alternatives? I've heard about cloud mining, but I'm not entirely sure how that works.
If your just wanting to learn mining look at compacs from sidehack, also RPI to run it vs a laptop is smarter on saving electricity. I would look twords this is your just wanting to learn mining.
It will not ROI though it's more for fun. If your looking at ROI it's a another story and we need to know a lot about your electricity.
I just kinda wanna have Bitcoin, I don't really care that much about ROI
Ok, good to know, so could there be any alternatives? I've heard about cloud mining, but I'm not entirely sure how that works.
If your just wanting to learn mining look at compacs from sidehack, also RPI to run it vs a laptop is smarter on saving electricity. I would look twords this is your just wanting to learn mining.
It will not ROI though it's more for fun. If your looking at ROI it's a another story and we need to know a lot about your electricity.
I just kinda wanna have Bitcoin, I don't really care that much about ROI
So I did a little research to find out if I could use my MacBook Air laptop for Bitcoin mining, and the only thing I found was that the 2013 version has a pretty good GPU, I guess an Intel quad core GT3, and I didn't really get any farther than that in terms of figuring out mining efficiency and whatnot, because I couldn't find any specs on the wiki where other GPUs were.
This is where I found the chart on the wiki:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison#Intel
This is where I found the chart on the wiki:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison#Intel
Don't think of mining with CPU or GPU, maybe some alt-coin but with a laptop/desktop, nah.
You can, but I would not recommend it. The power of the Macbook is the low in order to mine some recognizable amount of Bitcoins.
Try to join a cloud mining service. It makes more sense in my opinion.
Try to join a cloud mining service. It makes more sense in my opinion.
Cloud mining there are a ton of scams out there. So be careful when doing it. If you do decide that route look into hashnest.
It allows you to buy and sell. And is legit where a lot are not.
You can, but I would not recommend it. The power of the Macbook is the low in order to mine some recognizable amount of Bitcoins.
Try to join a cloud mining service. It makes more sense in my opinion.
Try to join a cloud mining service. It makes more sense in my opinion.
Short answer: NO. You might want to try some altcoin though but don't expect to much.
you can only try some altcoin, like ethereum, you should be on par unless your electricity is very cheap or free, but usually gpu on macbook are poor, so not recommended because of this not because there are not possible profit
Bitcoin is not your option to mine actually. You should look into mining CPU-only coin which will be much much more efficient
mining with a pc is not profitble since a long time ago so i think if you realy want mine with it you should not use it on full power and try to gamble on mining Altcoins because when their prices go higher you will be making profit
As you are still newbie, i recommend you not to invest in mining at all, mining by PC is just a waste of power and money. and if you want to buy a miner, they are quite expensive and consume a lot of electricity so to get your ROI it may take years with this current difficulty
Ok, good to know, so could there be any alternatives? I've heard about cloud mining, but I'm not entirely sure how that works.
Buy ASIC miners which are dedicated mining hardware. 99% of cloud mining services are scams so stay away from them.Though even when buying mining hardware, you need to calculate very carefully because the difficulty to mine is rising and profits going down constantly. I think a lot of miners are happy when they get their investment back at least.
Why mine?
By far much cheaper way to get some BTC is to simply buy it.
Mining on the cheap is been dead for awhile now, if you have a truly free power you may have a shoot by buying
some older less efficient hardware.
Macbook = forget it, you wouldn't mine a single 0.01BTC in a century!
You wanna Bitcoin, = BUY it.
Cloud mining is not 99% scam, is like 99.999999% scam, remember that.
By far much cheaper way to get some BTC is to simply buy it.
Mining on the cheap is been dead for awhile now, if you have a truly free power you may have a shoot by buying
some older less efficient hardware.
Macbook = forget it, you wouldn't mine a single 0.01BTC in a century!
You wanna Bitcoin, = BUY it.
Cloud mining is not 99% scam, is like 99.999999% scam, remember that.
Yeah I wouldn't really trust cloud mining, nor would I invest now in ASIC miners, nor try to mine on a laptop (you will just be left scratching your head when your laptop won't work anymore and hot as a stove).
This is the whole argument that is going on right now. The only people that are profiting from mining are large mining farms, which pretty much insinuates that mining has become centralized.
It's too much of a headache to mine, and you will more than likely get nothing out of it for a very long time, especially if you try to solo mine... plus you have to worry about the fact that mining rewards are going to be cut in half in 5 or so months now.
Just buy if you want to get into owning some.
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