Take a look at http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=cpu_mining
Even a raspberry pi or a beaglebone or something on that scale can be very competitive, and it still looks like it will resist botnets quite well for quite a while yet.
You should always bear in mind that pretty much any "make money on the internet" scheme is only a certain size of pie so the more people who start taking a slice of the pie the less pie they each get. Thus ideally you want things that the masses of computer-illiterate Windows-user types are going to think is too complicated or too hard or not GUI-enough; as once even the most illiterate such users can just "plug and play" the pie gets sliced up into so many parts the amount each slicer gets is so tiny as to hardly be worth bothering with.
This system takes advantage of that by deliberately using a text-type API without the overhead of graphics, so that you can do more stuff with less processing power and bandwidth and, maybe more important, the people who insist everything has to be GUI/graphical will turn up their noses at it, thus leaving more of the pie for people who are literate.
-MarkM-
Topic: What is profitable to CPU mine? (Read 1169 times)
XPM
SRC
BLC
SRC
BLC
in that case i'll begin work on NoirTokens and make it a cpu coin.
The benefits are clear
- cpu is cheap to acquire
- cpu mining is energy afficient in comparison to GPU ( most miners dont own FPGA and ASICs)
- save for botnets, it is pretty fair
- longer viability of mining if the specs are ryt
- less attention needy
i once suggested pledge backing and floating value directly exchangeable for USD, maybe i'll try implement that here.
The benefits are clear
- cpu is cheap to acquire
- cpu mining is energy afficient in comparison to GPU ( most miners dont own FPGA and ASICs)
- save for botnets, it is pretty fair
- longer viability of mining if the specs are ryt
- less attention needy
i once suggested pledge backing and floating value directly exchangeable for USD, maybe i'll try implement that here.
Agree thatnothing is really profitable now but you can at least get some coins from a pay per share pool on coins with a really low difficulty. For example, Digger has a Xen Coin pool and BBQ Coin pool that I used to cpu mine
xen.ltcoin.net
bbq.ltcoin.net
xen.ltcoin.net
bbq.ltcoin.net
Quarkcoin is still around. It is CPU only as far as I know.
Shameless plug - there is GPU miner for Quark, Securecoin and Offerings. Performance is poor on GCN cards, but owners of old 6xxx Radeons can give it a try. 
Nothing really is profitable now..
Yep
Quarkcoin is still around. It is CPU only as far as I know.
Primecoin (XPM) is the best to mine as far as CPU. Blakecoin (BLC) looks promising, but it can be mined by CPU, FPGA and soon to be GPU. Whenever BLC hits a market. But currently, I would say XPM....
I guess XPM.. nothing more and nothing less...
XPM, because it's only one pure CPU coin. Mine XPM or don't mine at all, to mine all others coins with CPU = wasting the time.
Only thing profitable is to get a first month ASIC order of the latest leading edge hashing speed. If you cannot afford that, then just buy BTC as an investment. I learned this the hard way. You have to go BIG or go home as they say...
Nothing really is profitable now..
+1
I would think Primecoin(XPM), that's probably about it for CPUs....
any ideas?
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