How much money will i make in a day with this cpu:
Mining bitcoin. Nada.Mining altcoin. Sure
Topic: Is it worth mining bitcoin with CPU? - page 2. (Read 3007 times)
Mining altcoin. Sure
Look under the altcoin annoucement page. You will have better luck mining newly launch cpu coins and then convert it to btc rather than mining btc directly, which basically yield nothing.
I had to check the date that this was posted. Twice.
Excuse me now while I got outside and wait for nickels to fall from Mars.
Excuse me now while I got outside and wait for nickels to fall from Mars.
I used to mine Primecoins on my two CPUs. Was fun to get the blocks, I think the reward was almost 20 then. Then the difficulty kept rising and I shut them down when it crossed 9.
I doubt there is any profitable enough CPU coin these days.
I doubt there is any profitable enough CPU coin these days.
Yeah, I forgot to say that it should be possible to mine CPU and GPU mineable altcoins and then convert them to BTC using an altcoin exchange such as Cryptsy. You wouldn't be mining Bitcoin directly, but you'd earn much more BTC this way. Here is a list of CPU mineable coins:
http://www.cpucoinlist.com/
And here is a site where you can compare the profitability of mining different coins:
http://www.coinwarz.com/
Don't bother mining any coins that use SHA-256 (e.g. Bitcoin, Peercoin) or Scrypt (e.g. Litecoin, Dogecoin) since these are dominated by specialized ASIC hardware.
http://www.cpucoinlist.com/
And here is a site where you can compare the profitability of mining different coins:
http://www.coinwarz.com/
Don't bother mining any coins that use SHA-256 (e.g. Bitcoin, Peercoin) or Scrypt (e.g. Litecoin, Dogecoin) since these are dominated by specialized ASIC hardware.
How much money will i make in a day with this cpu:
Perhaps ethereum whenever it finally gets released can be mined on a cpu.
A few satoshi, CPU mining is a thing of the past. GPU took over CPU mining late in the 2010. ASIC took over GPU at around 2013, the smallest ASIC miner, USB block erupter can mine Bitcoin more efficiently in terms of power consumption and space requirements. You can try mining GPU and ASIC resistant coins but there is no guarantee that the price will crash and you would lose your profits.
Its not worth mining any coin unless the coin is new, from a joe pov.
Definitely not worth it today. It used to be that CPU mining was worth it, but that was back in 2009 and 2010. By late 2010, CPU mining became obsolete because GPU mining was developed. Then in 2013, ASICs were developed which made even high-end GPUs obsolete.
To put it into perspective, your CPU would be capable of ~6 MH/s while consuming 80W of power. A single USB Block Erupter which can be bought for $8 used on eBay can achieve 333 MH/s while consuming 2.5W of power. Even so, that Block Erupter would only earn you ~150,000 satoshis per year (worth about 30 cents) assuming that the difficulty doesn't increase.
To put it into perspective, your CPU would be capable of ~6 MH/s while consuming 80W of power. A single USB Block Erupter which can be bought for $8 used on eBay can achieve 333 MH/s while consuming 2.5W of power. Even so, that Block Erupter would only earn you ~150,000 satoshis per year (worth about 30 cents) assuming that the difficulty doesn't increase.
I'm getting about 6,000Khash/sec with a 6-core, 3.33GHz Xeon Mac Pro. I tried the -4way switch but it didn't seem to help.
Without question, the answer is no.
You would literally be better off standing outside trying to catch nickels falling from Mars.
You would literally be better off standing outside trying to catch nickels falling from Mars.
You would be lucky to get even a cent with a CPU at the current difficulty (Even with free power)...
Zero, no, sorry.
The network is too powerful for a single CPU to have a chance.
The network is too powerful for a single CPU to have a chance.
How much money will i make in a day with this cpu:
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