Topic: List of CPU Friendly AltCoins - page 18. (Read 72517 times)

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2258.0
there now you can finally add it to the same category as MMC,  PTS now has AMD and Nvidia GPU mining, including pool mining

Excellent thread

Could you add YAC?  It's a 'Limited GPU Mining' coin with on going development (launched ~ May 2013).  I'm beginning to realize a lot of people don't know about this coin or it's unique features.  This coin uses something called the N-factor.  As this increases, so does the amount of memory required to produce a hash.  Currently I have an i7-3720QM (mid grade home processor) and a Radon 7970 (upper end home graphic card) mining YAC and they both produce the same hash rate (~1.1 khash/sec).  After the next N-increase (around Spring) a 7970 mining speed will be reduced to about 0.25 khash/s - making CPU more profitable.  As the N-factor continues to increase it is likely that YAC become a 'CPU only coin.'

Datacoin is now exchanging on https://openex.pw also if you want to update

List of CPU-Only coins is getting short....

Good Topic! Congratz.

UPDATES
- Moved Protoshares to limited GPU section.

TODO
- Add Siriuscoin
- Add FAQ

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2114.90 proof GPU miner PTS

TODO
- Add Siriuscoin
- Add FAQ




Datacoin is number two on the list.

hi,

You missed out datacoin(primecoin fork) & siriuscoin(SHA3). Thanks

UPDATES
- Added Secondcoin to high-risk category.

TODO
- Add FAQ



I am keeping an eye on that thread.

From what I've seen prime coin was demonstrated to not be faster than CPU mining with a GPU.

Memorycoin is 5-10 times faster depending on your CPU.  There is no public or pool limited GPU miner for proto shares but it seems to be common knowledge that private tools exist.  And since mmc and pts both use momentum variations as PoW it isn't a huge leap to make that one could exist for it.

Edit. Open source cuda miner created with speculation that private ones have existed for a while. Open cl coming https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2114.15

Note that CPU-ONLY can be made botnet resistant by increasing the memory requirement sufficiently, yet I am not aware of any Altcoin which does.

MemoryCoin and ProtoShares

MemoryCoin and ProtoShares can both be mined faster with a GPU and especially an ASIC, although if anyone has bothered to make a GPU miner for PTS then they are apparently keeping it to themselves:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.msg23874#msg23874
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4166700

For MMC apparently the 2 - 3x limitation assumption on speedup of AES on GPUs from the above linked thread, is incorrect and 16x is theoretically possible:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1958.msg22532#msg22532

Primecoin and derivatives

I am doubting the entropic security of Primecoin. Also I doubt the security due to lack of botnet resistance.

Since Primecoin is compute bound it is surely not FPGA and ASIC-resistant.

Also the 48X performance reduction logic on why it should be GPU resistant is incoherent and/or incomplete. The claim is that modular exponentiation can't be parallelized (i.e. that the internal and recursive steps of a single copy are serial), thus claiming a limit of 2 - 3X speedup. However that author did not respond to the sound idea of running multiple orthogonal copies in parallel. I've sent that author a PM and hope he will respond in one of the threads. Note he didn't disappear, but hasn't posted since the time the author of ReaperMine disappeared.

The 10X performance reduction logic relies on CPUs being 64-bit with GPUs 32-bit. But GPUs have more FLOPs to throw at this and some GPUs have some FP64 cores confirmed by wikipedia but if these are only floating point they may not be useful.

I've read that after receiving 75 BTC, the developer of ReaperMine appears to have disappeared?


The above logic is that the ReaperMine GPU miner has probably not been properly designed and optimized yet to full potential, or it has and is being kept private. Even the author stated the sieve portion needed to be improved to process more candidates as his implementation was underutilitizing the GPU.

What are these people who purportedly donated 75 BTC to the developer of ReaperMine saying? Apparently he was using the typical saleman trick of a time-deadline to induce more donations. He releases something half-baked then disappears $75,000 in pocket (if true). And he reported having a private problem that was a "rough patch in his life". Hmmm.

UPDATES
- Added BTC-e to Primecoin exchanges.

TODO
- Add FAQ


It looks that way to me too but DOGE was a joke that took off. I will wait on it. Anyone else have an opinion?

About Bernankoin (BEK), I think this should be put under "high risk".

Background: as far as I understand the coin is meant to be a political joke. The idea was to demonstrate practically a system based on the principle: "a more money already issued, a more money will be issued". This means, a more miners will partake, a higher the block reward will be. As of a statement of the author I think to recall, that the coin cannot have long term value, and is not meant to.

Very helpful thread, thanks.

I believe that it is very hard to mine XPM and PTS with GPU. It is not impossible, but not valuable to mine with GPU. As I know, there is GPU miner for XPM, but, it is even slower than CPU. There are two obstacles for GPU mining for these two coins:1)coding efforts, many hard work needed to move to GPU; 2)efficiency or optimization, a valuable GPU miner should be much faster than CPU. Even for the Quark miner, Smelter, it is not very fast over CPU.

UPDATES
- Added Frozen to limited GPU section.
- Added CDNcoin to high-risk CPU section.
- Added website for Protoshares.
- Added website for Quark.

TODO
- Add FAQ

Thanks 

it's very useful 

UPDATES
- Moved Protoshares back to CPU Only section.
- Added Atom to limited GPU section.
- Added Particle to limited GPU section.

TODO
- Add Frozen to limited GPU section.
- Add FAQ

I checked more. Frozen appears to only be GPU mineable with smelter so it will be added.

good thread.

Thanks for clarification. Your list is quite useful for me to do CPU mining, as well as others. I heard some people say there could be Script miners available in the near future. If that happens, I guess GPU mining is nearly impossible then.