What coin should I 'mine' with my laptops? - page 6.

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Quote from: Ohgreatanotherone on March 31, 2019, 10:01:13 AM

Quote from: Trancelator on March 31, 2019, 05:39:01 AM

Great tips and posts since I last checked.

I was indeed thinking of running a PoS node for a new promising coin. I didn't know there were 'CPU only' mining possiblities.

The heat however is indeed something I have not considered. My laptop is not in use but I don't want to ruin it. It's a Dell M4700 with 16GB RAM. It is quite noisy so at least the fans do their work. But perhaps it's more profitable to simply sell the laptop and invest the money somewhere. Perhaps I can do that after a two week try out.

PoS is what I "mine" these days on my laptop - currently staking Neblio, Nullex, and Stashpay. NEBL is "anchoring" my assets while I experience with Nullex (troubled development and infighting resulting in an upcoming swap) and Stash (newly released blockchain - last week)

Another vote for using an *old* laptop for staking.
Staking is not taking a big toll on your hardware (apart from the SSD I suppose). Bear in mind though that in order for staking to be efficient, your laptop will need to be on 24/7. Which is why I wrote old laptop... as opposed to the one you're working with day in day out. But hey, that's all up to you.

Also bear in mind you can stake several coins simultaneously on one laptop/machine.
I'm staking BEAN, LINDA and VEIL on a small HTPC at home currently, works like a charm.

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Quote from: swogerino on March 30, 2019, 05:42:17 PM

Core i7 and Core i5 are good processors but mining is not wothy even with them, I have tried a gen 4 i7 and it only produced about 15 cent almost one year ago, now I think it should be even less so it is better if you sell those laptops rather than ruin them with mining.

Agree, even with good specs still isnt profitable. Ibe tried to set up as well with my core i7 laptop oh my Goodness my laptop is burning hot. Plus when I checked the rate, oh boy it is not worth it. My laptop will be broken and the earning is not enough for its maintenance. I guess trading is much more okay for now.

In fact, the cooling system in good laptops is designed for long-term high load on the CPU and GPU.I remember a few years ago I started mining on laptops for several days in a row, and no laptop broke. But in any case, it is necessary to take breaks in order to clean the cooling system. For the experiment, I even overclocked a little GPU. But did it on a very old laptop, where HD 5650 was installed, raised the chip frequency from 550Mhz to 600Mhz and memory frequency from 800Mhz to 900Mhz. Although it is better in the laptops not to do it. It is necessary to monitor the temperature so that it does not exceed the specifications. In General, mining on laptops does not make much sense, it's just an experiment.

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Quote from: Trancelator on March 31, 2019, 05:39:01 AM

Great tips and posts since I last checked.

I was indeed thinking of running a PoS node for a new promising coin. I didn't know there were 'CPU only' mining possiblities.

The heat however is indeed something I have not considered. My laptop is not in use but I don't want to ruin it. It's a Dell M4700 with 16GB RAM. It is quite noisy so at least the fans do their work. But perhaps it's more profitable to simply sell the laptop and invest the money somewhere. Perhaps I can do that after a two week try out.

PoS is what I "mine" these days on my laptop - currently staking Neblio, Nullex, and Stashpay. NEBL is "anchoring" my assets while I experience with Nullex (troubled development and infighting resulting in an upcoming swap) and Stash (newly released blockchain - last week)

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Great tips and posts since I last checked.

I was indeed thinking of running a PoS node for a new promising coin. I didn't know there were 'CPU only' mining possiblities.

The heat however is indeed something I have not considered. My laptop is not in use but I don't want to ruin it. It's a Dell M4700 with 16GB RAM. It is quite noisy so at least the fans do their work. But perhaps it's more profitable to simply sell the laptop and invest the money somewhere. Perhaps I can do that after a two week try out.

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Core i7 and Core i5 are good processors but mining is not wothy even with them, I have tried a gen 4 i7 and it only produced about 15 cent almost one year ago, now I think it should be even less so it is better if you sell those laptops rather than ruin them with mining.

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I think VBK is totally hot! everyone i knew is mining it nowadays

VBK seems a cool project, but imo the distro is not for me : /
they had a testnet, then let the coins xfer over? seems unfair to those that didnt participate
THEN an ICO on top of it @bittrex? why?
ya im good lol

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Running it as masternode would be the best choice, mining wont going to do it.
You could hunt down coins like JSEcoin and Bittube to mine aside the node.

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Quote from: Darkoth89 on March 30, 2019, 04:46:07 AM

Quote from: viljy on March 30, 2019, 03:13:33 AM

With such laptops, you should only pay attention to coins that are mined exclusively on the CPU. I also experimented with laptops a couple of years ago, and quite successfully, by the way. Then I got some blocks on laptops. The coin that was mined, it seems the coin Biblepay. There was a very specific algorithm just for the CPU.

Wouldn't it be also possible to mine Monero with your CPU on a laptop? Nothing against BiblePay but Monero does look a bit more like a serious project.

For Monero, it was already too late to use a laptop. I started mining BBP with almost 12 blocks, that is, the blockchain has just been launched. Reward for found block was at first very large. Soon the coin got listed on C-CEX and the price there was about 20sat. By the way, the mining was right in the wallet and without any pools. The pool appeared there later, then the difficulty of the network grew and the meaning of mining on the laptop disappeared.

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Notebook performance is very outdated, mining efficiency is not very high, but doing a POS node is a good choice. Just a suggestion.

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If you mine with your laptop, consider using it a capacity lower than 100% (use fewer mining threads), and make sure it doesn't get too hot.

Speculative mining would be more suitable as you are going to mine very little anyways, so it makes sense to mine newer/less established coins, in the hope their values goes up in the future. I recommend http://webdollar.io.

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I won't recommend you to mine with your laptops because it's not worth it at all. You don't need to follow other people to mining. Your laptop will get to heat, and it could be damaged. Even if you still decide to mine coins, I guess that the rewards still not too big and it's a waste of time to spend. But it's all your decision, you could still try, but I cannot suggest what the coin to mining with your laptop.

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Quote from: viljy on March 30, 2019, 03:13:33 AM

With such laptops, you should only pay attention to coins that are mined exclusively on the CPU. I also experimented with laptops a couple of years ago, and quite successfully, by the way. Then I got some blocks on laptops. The coin that was mined, it seems the coin Biblepay. There was a very specific algorithm just for the CPU.

Wouldn't it be also possible to mine Monero with your CPU on a laptop? Nothing against BiblePay but Monero does look a bit more like a serious project.

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With such laptops, you should only pay attention to coins that are mined exclusively on the CPU. I also experimented with laptops a couple of years ago, and quite successfully, by the way. Then I got some blocks on laptops. The coin that was mined, it seems the coin Biblepay. There was a very specific algorithm just for the CPU.

morion4000

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Take a look over https://www.hostero.eu/cpu-mineable-coins. It contains coins that are mineable with CPU, and for some of the coins you can see profitability calculations.

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the specifications of your computer are fairly sufficient for mining cryptocurrency, I recommend using OS Linux that is much better to use and safe than OS Windows how to mine coins is very difficult and vulnerable to viruses

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You should have a look at SERO, its CPU mineable privacy protocol where developers can build and issue anonymous smart contracts, anon tokens, tickets etc. , the team has achieved 20 times faster encryption against Zcash during testnet, they also have a guild mining program going on, check out them at here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-sero-zero-knowledge-proof-based-privacy-protection-platform-for-dapps-5123382
SERO Discord : https://discordapp.com/invite/mGJGZJT
SERO Telegram : https://t.me/SeroOfficial

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Quote from: pinky1234 on March 29, 2019, 12:05:51 PM

your going to waste energy instead of getting any profit. 2c - 4c day. not a good idea

Mining with GPU is a good idea and it also not a waste of energy since the OP never mention any coin yet and the last time I check only those popular and well used coins not fresh/new coin that can lead to wasting of energy when mine through GPU.

OP, I saw a link posted by a user of this forum which was about GPU mining and you can check it maybe you'll find what you're looking for.

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Quote from: CjMapope on March 29, 2019, 03:18:24 PM

what i would worry more about is HEAT PRODUCED
you will need a way to keep your cpus cold, as i bet you if you run your chip @ 90 degrees , in a few months SOMETHING in the laptop will die likely haha

This ^^ is very true. Don't put your laptop and its CPU at risk of dying. Laptops are not projected to be in use all day long at maximum power. They are projected to be used a while and to shut them down at the end of the day. If you absolutely have a laptop you don't care about, you may try mining, if only for educational purposes. You won't earn much anyway.

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Quote from: Trancelator on March 29, 2019, 01:15:42 PM

That's what I feared. Thanks a lot for the advice.

ya you wont make alot, it will be speculative mining.
find a cpu only coin to get a few 1000 of them, then HODL them for a year or two, see what happens (i did that with PASC when it launched and when it hit polo it was big profit)

what i would worry more about is HEAT PRODUCED
you will need a way to keep your cpus cold, as i bet you if you run your chip @ 90 degrees , in a few months SOMETHING in the laptop will die likely haha

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That's what I feared. Thanks a lot for the advice.

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