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I have some old hardware lying around. I am considering mining solo for the fun of it. Anyone has luck so far? What coins did you mine? :)

mining solo this days wont make much coin LOL... maybe you can try curecoin btw

i solo mined XDN. and i got more than with pools.

You could look at altcoin mining profitability charts to find the most profitable coin to mine with your equipment.

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

If you want to speculate you could mine something unprofitable and hope it goes up in price. I doubt earthcoin was worth mining a year ago, but you would have made a profit if you held them until now.

Thank you. Which exchanges and pools support most altcoins?

Maybe AEON is still worth it... could solo mine with CPU 2 months ago and find few blocks a day... dunno how it is nowadays.

Search the sub-forum "Mining"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0
Try keywords "Solo Mining" maybe ;)

I have not done it in years now and only did during a coin launch or not long after a new launch.
Over time it usually becomes so hard to find a block on your own it's pointless to try.
Just join a pool.

I was wondering the same today when  my S5 finally can't handle the new bitcoin difficulty of 79..
Looking at Coinwarz for the most profitable you see earth coin namecoin and peercoin. Then again doesn't a multipool do that already by using the most profitable coin? Should beable to make .001 to .002 a day with a multipool. Look at the stats here http://poolpicker.eu/table?algo=sha-256

I solo mined peercoin for a week and got paid in the second week 3 coins.


I'll try again because the difficulty of bitcoin has got me down. Will turn off my S1 today and set on a weekend timer. as for the S5 maybe night time timer on a multipool.

Can't wait to halve bitcoin and have it struggle like litecoin did up until now.

Many people solo mine many coins.

Don't listen to the fools who say otherwise.  It's more enjoyable as well to mine on your own and not a pool.

We are all in debt forever for your precious advice nooby.

It could be worth to try solomining MachineCoin [MAC]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=434190.0
Of course, there is no exchange it’s just for fun.

Solo mining could work during and for a short time after launch, for some less known/popular coins and for dying coins. Probably joining a pool would be better option for currently mainstream coins.

If you are considering CPU-mining, CryptoNote currencies are great for solo mining in their early days just after the launch. Until botnets arrive.

Well I was mining some altcoins, but that is just to experiment.
Now I am just busy to collect more bitcoin thru signatuere campaign and some job online that pays bitcoins.

Can any experts give some opinion on this too, please?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1276543.msg13157616#msg13157616

There are a few coins you can solo mine. One of the coins is called Credits. It is in active development and is the only Proof of Deposit combined with PoW. The hash rate is just 3.7GH/s.

not viable to solo mine currently existing coins..
keep going and be active on forums and check out for the new upcoming coins.. mine it at the start.. save it till it gets on an exchange and just sell it all since even new coins dont have much potential these days.. there are like hundereds of them.. waste

Coming from someone like you who has obviously scammed and trolled this place to death, I don't give a fuck.

Nobody troll.

That is the only way to make good profit from mining now. But that action requires patience and you have to be an expert in mining.

i'm not sure if this counts but back when Idigdoge.com is still up I used to mine there with my gaming computer. The rewards were tiny. No success.

Although many altcoins were mentioned here, but many of them seem to lack market cap and popularity, hence making trading to mainstream coins a little challenging.

Are there any good exchanges that supports a wide variety of coins (apart from Yobit?  ;D )

I don't get your point. :) Perhaps you could rephrase. What is inside that link you've posted? Is it malicious?  And what has that link gotta do with GHS and your development background?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1288050.msg13240308#msg13240308 BrightCoin is the best for small miners

What is the market cap for this coin? Is it supported by exchanges?

I was mining LTC on MAT Excalibur 5 256 MH/s (actually about 230 MH at that moment in my case) at solo.nicehash. I found one block. Right before block reward halving.  ;)

I solo mine Credits, the hash rate is quite low. So it is solo mineable. This is the first Proof of Deposit coin. The developers are quite active.

I saw developers advertising in marketplace claiming to develop an altcoin from mechanism, down to the wallet for various platforms. Price? 0.6 BTC. I think mining for the sake of mining altcoin is pointless if there is no market cap and since anyone can have their own branded coins.

The only coin can have success is the one with active development and not much premine. Otherwise, it is just a scam coin.

There is no point to make another altcoin if it does not offer any new functions. Most of the altcoin is just a clone of bitcoin.

I have three small miners, mining three different altcoins at all times. I don't get much from them, but I do have multiply wallets of different coins so in case there is a massive pump or they go up in price over time. I set them and leave them for 3 to 4 days then change them to something else. I could get lucky with one or two or none at all. LOL
 

may I solo mine with ccminer ?

You can solo miner with the ccminer. Just point the ccminer to your wallet address. It is not very difficult to do.

Espers is becoming popular to mine, still pretty low diff for now

I read a couple of altcoin annoucements that have gone ICO at Yobit. These coins are almost identical to each other except the name. Why would anyone buy them?

I don't get it.

Totally agree with you for newly launch coin it is easy to solo mine it ,but after people stumble the coin and the difficulty re targeting almost impossible to solo mine after a month or two have tried that on Bitcedi

They are the pump and dump coins. For the experienced coin traders, they will not buy them. But there are always new comers.