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Topic: Mining at home on a laptop CPU (Read 118 times)

member
Activity: 174
Merit: 15
May 13, 2020, 10:20:27 AM
#6
You can mine martkist using online Asic rental sites like Genesis
member
Activity: 462
Merit: 19
May 13, 2020, 10:17:58 AM
#5
Also you will need Monero mobile wallet since the desktop wallet requires hefty blockchain synchronization, you are better off with coinomi wallet, it support Monero and make sure you backup your recovery seed
member
Activity: 462
Merit: 19
May 13, 2020, 10:16:40 AM
#4
Presently RandomX algorithm is the most CPU friendly algorithm in crypto world today, since all you have is that i7 CPU I suggest you check out RandomX algorithm for Monero, best miner are
1. Xmr stack
2. Xmrig
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
May 12, 2020, 11:47:08 PM
#3
Like the above poster has said, the only coin you can mine these days on a CPU is Monero. What kind of i7 do you have on the laptop? They range anywhere from 2-4KH/s. If you compare it to the latest Ryzen's which get about 20KH/s you can see what a disadvantage it is.

So assuming 2KH/s and FREE ELECTRICITY you would earn about $0.10 a day. Not really worth it. Especially on a laptop you can easily damage to due excess heat and poor ventilation since they are not designed for 100% CPU usage. Also the battery can explode or swell due to high heat.

My advice if you want to mine is get a desktop, get a better CPU or get a GPU and just mine ETH.
sr. member
Activity: 633
Merit: 267
May 12, 2020, 02:49:57 PM
#2
Mining on laptop is not recommended as cooling isn't as efficient as desktop.

For CPU mining try monero.
Benchmarks on https://monerobenchmarks.info/
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
May 12, 2020, 02:32:46 PM
#1
What coins would you guys suggest mining on a regular Intel-i7 laptop CPU?
I have heard about Veruscoin, but haven't tried it yet
Any other suggestion?
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