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Anythign worth in CPU world to mine right now?

It largely depends on your cost of electricity. That alone makes most CPU mining unprofitable (unless the price of the coin skyrockets and/or your electricity is dirt cheap or free). If it's free, mine Monero (XMR).

XMR has loads of miners. Anything else?

i just PM'd you with a possible choice

hello the coin magi is probably best choice for you i think

Riecoin?

Really no point using CPU unless your electricity is free and your equipment, write off.

You don't mine CPU. You just don't...
Faster hashing rates=profit.
CPU=Lazy af.

i do understand risk of electricity but i have some free colocated servers doing nothing ;)
so they better make few bucks than just idle

You can mine Bytecoin - BCN or Monero - XMR with CPU. personally think that BCN is a good pick, its price is not too high, but it should be rising to at least the double.

take a look at minergate.com (http://minergate.com) or you can try to mine it directly.

I'd be a fool not to hop in here and say it might be worth your while to check out mining DogecoinDark. At the very least it would further decentralize the network, which is good for the fledgling coin :)

I agree

axiomcoin
burstcoin
cryptonite
dashcoin       
duck/darknote
globalboosty
magicoin
monero
Riecoin
Unitus   

CPU mining is dominated by botnets so just move on to GPU or give up.

GPU too. Do you think a computer doesn't have GPU? Almost every computer has a graphic card.

I agree with one of the posts above.  XMR or BCN.  For CPU.

And I love how some people tell people that mine with CPUs not to or that you should give up.  I CPU mine daily as well as GPU and ASIC mine.   I mine XMR with CPU and over time the Satoshi that you make does add up.  I take mine and invest in ICOs and sometime double if not triple what I mined.  There for CPU mining can be worth if.  Unless you just plan on mining and selling.   Take the little you get and try the lotto to make a lot.

I hate when people say to give up.

To give you all that think that mining isn't worth it when it comes to CPUs.
I started with only CPU mining.  Even when people said that is wasn't worth it.  I made little satoshi and again invested what i mined.

Today I now sit on over $10k worth of BTC.   And the only investment that I have was The Solar I use to charge my computer.  I turned hardly nothing into something.

So it can be done even with a higher DIFF.  Just wouldn't recommend BTC with CPU.   Takes to long to to earn anything.

OK sorry i went on but I just hate when people say you cant or to give up.

You have to options really: if you go the CPU route you have to mine either Bytecoin (BCN) or Monero (XMR). Those two can be exchanged at www.hitbtc.com (http://www.hitbtc.com) I was mining BCN with my CPU and GPU, getting about 0.6$ a day (with a combined hashrate of 680 H/s). If you mine those, you can use Minergate, but make SURE you use the alternative miners like Claymore's CPU and GPU miners, do NOT use the minergate official miner since it's slower.
The other option is to mine Ethereum with a GPU. It's the most profitable one by FAR. I'm getting 1.2$ daily. It's super easy, you just have to download the ETH C++ windows binaries, create and account, let it sync the blockchain(about 600 MB) and create a .bat file the pool address and account where you are going to receive the ether. Best pools are ethpool, supernva, ethereumpool, etc.

GPU mining is the most profitable at the moment, mostly Ethereum and also SHIFT coin. CPU mining is more cost efficient mining CryptoNight coin, than GPU at the moment. I don't know if AXIOM is still profitable to mine via CPU, but was for a moment. Magi is cool, but minimal profit, mining it is mostly supporting its network.

there a lot of confidence in monero coins (XMR)... try your luck it might get you somewhere

also you can mine aeon coin its algo is cryptonight-light

im doing zifr coin now

which is more profitable, xmr or ziftr?

i have no idea :)

I agree with you.  But 10k cpu mining and you have a month old acct. here.

The problem with all CPU coins is they're heavily ridden by botnets.  As soon as a coin has a better price/difficulty compared to another coin the botnet just switches the coin or algorithm instantly.  Thousands of computers can switch over to a coin and pummel it quickly.

$10,000 CPU mining from one laptop powered by solar?

No not from mining.   I got lucky trading.  But started from mining with a CPU.  And on top of that most of my mining was on a Tablet and Android Quad Core Phone.

still looking for good PCU coins to mine ;)

I've been happily mining MonetaryUnit on two threads for a year now :)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=778322

We have a casino, savings account, payment processors, faucets, web wallets, Android wallet, pools and recently migrated to the 0.10 Bitcoin Core code (one of very few coins to do that).

Sounds cool ill check this out.

Hey man you should turn those servers to GlobalBoost® $BSTY (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775289).  We have a real company, the top team, rising value and you can buy just about everything with it  8)

https://GlobalBoo.st/+/David
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https://globalboo.st/status

Im aware of both Monetary Unit and BSTY - both been suggested as good investments on my blog http://fuk.io in reports during last months - just i wasnt aware of "hashing investment" - need to check those from this side.

Sometimes coins are worth buying but not mining (and opposite). For sure this 2 coins are good.

A program I've been using is called MinerGate https://minergate.com/a/843e05f436bf91cd5b1ca9ae (https://minergate.com/a/843e05f436bf91cd5b1ca9ae)
It will auto switch to the most profitable coin and can mine CPU & GPU if you decide to :D

You'll --NEVER-- get a strait answer to OP's question anywhere on the net. People either don't know or are protective and either way you're going to get a 'google it' reply or some form off off-topic criticism or rant.

I'll throw in an educated suggestion: Dimecoin with a overclocked SSE4 octa-core cpu, or an ASIC, if it exists, that accelerates whatever crypto it uses and quark.

Good luck making decent money off of it even with free electric though. Too easy so saturated market and nobody really wants it. It's on no exchanges. The other mentioned here mine at 1/2 or 1/3 the rate though..

Watch out for referral link spamming here..

Try XMG:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735170.0

Easy suggestion with 'if's ... How is this 'educated'?

Dude you'd make like 0.001$ a month mining on a phone, trust me, I tried it, there's no way this is possible

If you can find someone who has actually benchmarked them by all means.. You'll see in my last post where I point out the likelyhood of strait answers..

To benchmark you'd need to use SSE3 only, SSE3+SSE4, and AES-NI CPUs. I think there are only like 5 alt coins known to be CPU friendly though, but I only remember DimeCoin; which is dead now anyway..

The exact same I quoted? Does not make much sense to me besides guessing. No idea how anyone can suggest to use a QRK ASIC 'if that exist' and talk about that being an educated guess.

I'll ask again: how is this 'educated'? Perhaps the word means something different to me than it does for you.

Educated because I know what can be hashed with CPU currently and I told it. DimeCoin uses AES and 4 other ciphers and the best miner I've ever seen was a SSE3+AES-NI x86 CLI one. I guessed there was an ASIC because a lot of people mine it and it wouldn't make sense to use a lot of x86 processors, but there has never been mention of a miner for it.

Again, there are NO benchmarks ANYWHERE.. If you want to give precision answers by all means Mr.Wisdom..

My final input on the subject since this thread is basically useless: No matter the algo the complexity dictates whether the coin can be CPU mined profitably. Not only are there no managed benchmarks of coins@current-complexity per-algo anywhere, but the people who do have specs from personal-use tend to guard the details because it's currency and they only care about profit..

Doesn't anyone ever read an entire post?   I said most not all.  And I never said how long I've acutely been mining now did I?  Just because I wasn't on here doesn't mean I wasn't trollin.   Which I have stated in many posts.  I been around for a long as time.   Just no one knew it.

And if anyone else noticed.  I said I got lucky trading.  Wasn't all mining.  Pay attention....

Try ArtByte, the official pool pays a bonus to all CPU miners, thereby keeping CPU mining profitable.



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I am looking for some mining stats and I can not seem to find anything on this.  I am interested and I have a number of computer si could dedicate to this mining, however I need to see some mining stats please?

You can also try to mine leocoin if you have many computers.

Did anyone mention MonetaryUnit?

http://www.monetaryunit.org/muestuff/how-to-use-and-set-up-cpuminer/

Hey guys I red all of the comments here, and seems that we can still mine with cpu, I have my Intel xeon 24cores idle now, can I use it for mining?, any suggested coins to mine is highly appreciated.. I just want to try if it is profitable.. Anyway I am using renewable energy.

Can I ask who you are recommending this.  I have a number of computers I can put into this but I do not completely understand why this may be a good starting point.  Should I put the better video cards in my computers in order to make a better mining rate if I do decide to do this.

So XMG price is dropping like a stone. Time to mine something else...
Any suggestions?

I have to ask why you suggest this coin for CPU mining?  Can you recommend me to any threads where I can read more about this mining and if I like this mining, can I upgrade to a GPU or a better miner in order to make more?  Thank you for your opinion in advance.

I am playing with Litecoin right now.  I am not sure how well I am doing since it took me almost 3 days to mine 1/2 of one coin, but it is something I am playing with.  I am just wondering if there is something I can do to mine faster?  I have over 30 computers in my house, of which I can turn all of them on, since my electric is included in my rent, but I do not know what to mine.

You can see all the mining stats when you login to the pool.

XMN ( Magnatoj) A tribute to bytecoin...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1270755.0

Hi guys, can you suggest me what is the best to mine now using CPU ? Is Monero still good  ?

Thanks!

It depends on your price of electricity, the hash rate of the network, and the hashes your CPU can produce, but the consensus seems to be that Monero's value will continue to rise. That makes it worth mining to me, but maybe not for everyone.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=653467.0

 Litecoin, like all Scrypt-based coins, is dominated by ASIC miners. No point to even TRYING to mine it with a GPU much less a CPU.
 

ATM there is really nothing, I really hope some smart guys can come out with something that is really CPU based.  Or else we are totally controlled by those big mining companies.

currently zcoin or cryptonight coins, depends on your cpu. thats what im mining

I am using Zpool now for btc mining through cpu, can you suggest me something to mine through cpu? some one suggest me to mine this through cpu and guide me too as i am newbie to the mining. Help please

Which coin i can mine with intel quad core 3000? Or i will need to upgrade my pc?

Almost anything. The question you should be asking is, which coins can I mine profitably (depending on what your definition of that word is).

One of my mining machines runs a i5-3210m, another an i7-3770 so just because it's from the 3 series of core processors (Ivy Bridge) shouldn't immediately disqualify it. Of course I should clarify that CPU mining on those machines adds very little to my overall mining output.

This is a scrypt coin right?

Yes you can mine scrypt and most algos with CPU... but its a complete waste of time and power.
IF you have a pretty heavy new CPU like Core i7-3960X you still only get like 100kh/s scrypt.... using 200w or more maybe. Loss of money.

Also most light algos are asic dominated... like scrypt.

Why spend i7 time and power when you can get a little gridseed asic doing TEN times the i7 speed with 65W power...
(random example of shit asic still utterly smashing any cpu.... )

So maybe if you have a couple of 100 servers with free electricity ... you could mimic what a few asics could do.


IF the algo is available to asics or GPU .. its a complete waste of time for CPU.
GPUs smash CPUs like asics.
Thats just the way it is.

You can even mine Ethash with CPU ... but again you'll need like 60 machines to mimic a semi ok GPU.... and thats just 1 simple gpu.

Sorry, but this is simply not true. Certainly XMR is quite profitable mining with a good GPU now that the price has jumped like 50%, but even before that, when it was at around $8 at the time of this comment, it was still reasonably profitable. Here are my stats to prove it:

-i7-2600k hashes 210/s
-i7-4790k hashes 310/s
-i7-6800k hashes 360/s

So, a total of 880 H/s using a total wattage of about 120.  That is a daily profit of about $1.50 at current rates, but was close to $1 a day before the current rise in price, so XMR has been profitable to mine via higher end CPUs for quite a while.

Now, of course, there is a big kicker here... this "profitability" is based on existing CPUs in existing systems.  Meaning, you already have the system running and aren't using your CPU for anything else, so you wanna try a bit of mining to make $.  In this scenario, you most certainly can make a bit of profit as I have shown above.  However, if you are talking about justifying the purchase of a brand new higher end CPU like a 6800k at full price vs say a g4400 or something like that, then it really probably won't ever ROI for you, or at least not for a very long time, inless XMR really goes through the roof. If you assume $400 for that 6800k, it would take close to 2 years to ROI fully at current rates. But, I think most people are asking this based on PCs they already have, so those are very good candidates for CPU mining XMR.

Mine XMR with CPU. Coz it uses less electricity and is profitable

@GabryRox : Where did you came up with 120W bro ? maybe in idle . All 3 CPUs should eat around 300W. I have a i7 4790k and it eats 80W alone, the 6700k i think it draws the same power and the 2600k should draw more .

Monero  8)

HODL coin, good time to mine as it's been having some good flip action over at coinexchange.io recently.

https://www.coinexchange.io/market/HODL/BTC
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1317918.0

https://files.coinmarketcap.com/static/img/coins/32x32/hodlcoin.png

I mine Bytecoin (BCN) with my Core i7 2600k at work. I transfer it to Poloniex to keep it there and I exchange it when the price goes up. I don't think that Monero is more profitable to mine than Bytecoin. I have tried to mine it too but I have been much more successful with Bytecoin and price has gone up considerably lately.