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Topic: CPU Mining (Read 481 times)

b!z
legendary
Activity: 1582
Merit: 1010
June 18, 2013, 02:15:31 AM
#9
It's still useless, even for most altcoins.
vip
Activity: 756
Merit: 503
member
Activity: 60
Merit: 10
June 18, 2013, 01:30:18 AM
#6
If your power is free and you already own the hardware it is profitable Smiley
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
June 17, 2013, 11:53:35 PM
#5
CPU mining is unfortuanetly not very efficient when compared to asics
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
June 17, 2013, 10:07:33 PM
#4
ahh I remember the good ol days of CPU mining...
sr. member
Activity: 308
Merit: 250
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June 17, 2013, 09:40:54 PM
#3
good Question  
for new Altcoins i would like this too

most of the new Coins i i know got their own Miners
newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
June 17, 2013, 08:28:45 PM
#2
I haven't done the math, but I presume that the cost of electricity is greater than the value of coins mined.
full member
Activity: 483
Merit: 104
June 17, 2013, 08:21:31 PM
#1
I understand that CPU mining of bitcoins is simply not profitable at the current difficulty level. Primarily for this reason, Con Kolivas removed CPU mining from 'cgminer'.  However, some of the other alt-cryptocurrencies have much lower difficulties, and for the purpose of learning, not everyone has high-end GPU cards or ASIC or FPGA's. My question is, what is the last version of cgminer that does CPU mining, and where can it be found ?
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