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I know it´s not a very good idea to mine with a laptop, but I was wondering if there are some coins I could mine with my laptop.
Can you explain why?
Thanks

it is a bad idea... because laptops cooling systems aren't built to handle full cpu/gpu usage all day long and will likely be damaged  (ok may-be some new laptop from msi with external liquid cooling could work though... but probably a bit expensive considering what you want to do with it)

Don't even try bro. Your risking your laptops' life for such small profit. It requires electricity + the power of your laptop. You might burn it if you will stay on it wven for half day. :D

strictly not allowed !!! it is very dangerous for your hardware. the more heat your laptop and it will make you have to change their spare parts !! Never did mining with a laptop !!

Laptop mining is still possible, May be try www.minergate.com for laptop mining. But be careful with heat. And you should have some high end PC, at least you could earn some dusts

indeed could. but it was a strange and risky. mining the laptop is bad idea. I'll say it over and over again. although it with a high end laptop.

Mining with a laptop is a bad idea and have an high risk. You have to think about that you can be killing your laptop life.

Just don't do it. end of.

Not yet.


All existing PoW coins use mostly compute-bound PoWs, which puts 100% load on your cpu,
and is considered unhealthy for laptops.

When coins adopt a memory-bound PoW like Cuckoo Cycle that spend a majority of time waiting for memory latency, your cpu will keep running cool.

For details, see this article explaining there’s more to mining than hashing:

http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mining-hashing/

Maybe with some beaste of laptop but then it cheaper to buy a rig :)

you will only make your laptop into a junkyard

You can easily mine Burst coin from a laptop and not worry about heat generation.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1195687.0

Yes you can but what kind of profit are we talking about?

yep.. i once tried burst, result:
broken hdd, thats it.

I vaguely recall that 42Coin was designed for better payouts with lower hashes, and the difficulty went through the roof when more MH/s were poured on...

They've got two forks running side by side (and two competing wallets) and the OP hasn't been heard from in a while.

Really not worth it, I tried last year on some alts and it really isn't worth it.  You would be better renting a rig and joining a pool.

It depends on your Hard Drive space and you can also use an external drive.  I make about 0.0027250BTC a day with a 3TB external drive. Never had any HD problems.

is it worth it?
3tb is not cheap one..

Do not ever try mining on your laptop.

1. Laptops suck.
2. Just, no.

If you have a spare drive or free drive space yes. If you are going to buy a new drive just to mine BURST, probably not.

Mining with laptop isn't profitable anymore but if you want to still test -> http://www.coins2day.com/altcoins/cpu-mineable-cryptonight-coins.html

Yea, very bad idea to try to mine on a laptop.

Yup this man is right. So better don't do it.

I can also back this up. Bad idea to even try regardless of your GPU or CPU.

Way back, I fried a fairly decent 4 core laptop with a gtx680M.  They simply lack the cooling to making mining possible.

Not worth it.

Strato

Thanks for this option, I´ll look into it

well mining with your laptop you'll have 2 possibilities
1. it will melt your laptop al over the table
2. it will burn a hole through your table


don't keep your box of tissues on the same table when in need for cry, ... for obvious reasons lol

( immagine an acme lable stamped everywhere)  ^^

I'm glad I am not the only one who learned a hard lesson about mining on a laptop. The cooling just isn't designed to handle full loads constantly.

....Live and learn.  ;D

Just don't do it ;)