Topic: Mining With My Laptop - page 2. (Read 2915 times)
Yeah, mining simply isn't worth it at this point unless you have dedicated hardware such as ASICs and cheap power. Mining on a laptop is a sure fire way to overheat and damage the laptop. And a USB miner will be quite slow at mining and you'll likely end up losing money anyhow. Not worth the hassle.
May be you can earn as well as learn about mining if you try some newly arrived altcoins. Still better, don't try mining with your lap and as above said, you messy try with power hubs!
I would say it depends. Does your laptop look like this? 
Sorry man, you are years too late to mine with a laptop.
Sorry man, you are years too late to mine with a laptop.
I recently got a pretty powerful laptop with a 1060 gpu, but mining on it turns close to no profit, and overheats the device. Im looking to start mining for fun, but dont want to invest too much money. Therefore using a USB miner seems like the perfect option. However, will mining with a usb miner on my laptop still damage and overheat my PC?
Laptop for mining was definitely not good idea. Looking at the current difficulty level and overall volume, mining with proper bitcoin miners-hardware are best suited for cause. I would suggest to check the mining[1] section of this forum. You would get better answers there.
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.40
Not if you connect the miner to a powered hub that's plugged into a wall socket. But you will still lose money, sadly.
I recently got a pretty powerful laptop with a 1060 gpu, but mining on it turns close to no profit, and overheats the device. Im looking to start mining for fun, but dont want to invest too much money. Therefore using a USB miner seems like the perfect option. However, will mining with a usb miner on my laptop still damage and overheat my PC?
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