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.
Topic: Could I mine Bitcoin with a MacBook Air? - page 2. (Read 10565 times)
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.
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.
dont do cloud mining, most of them are just scam in the making and some are not really profitable or will take year/s before you can get ROI. try to rent a mining rig here https://www.miningrigrentals.com/ and point it to which ever pool you like to join or just use it to mine alt coins
Yes, before you even think about cloud mining please read and fully understand this thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cloudmining-101-ponzi-risk-assessment-878387
After that if you still want to cloud mine then pick one that is not a scam based on the above thread.
NOTE: even if it is not a scam you will most likely lose money.
Based on the above thread, if you want to throw your money away, do it here: https://www.hashnest.com/
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cloudmining-101-ponzi-risk-assessment-878387
After that if you still want to cloud mine then pick one that is not a scam based on the above thread.
NOTE: even if it is not a scam you will most likely lose money.
Based on the above thread, if you want to throw your money away, do it here: https://www.hashnest.com/
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.
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.
Sorry but no. You would only burn up your GPU and would never make enough BTC to even pay for the extra electricity used.
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
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