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can i start mining on my laptop ?

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You cannot meaningfully mine bitcoin with any computer any more by itself. While you can mine with a computer, virtually all mining is done with specialised hardware called ASICs which are trillions of times more efficient than computers at mining. You can use your computer to control the miners though.

thanks for your reply!

what is smallest and cheapest miner device you advice to use for starters ?

If you're not looking to make a profit, but mine just for fun. You may want to start with a USB miner, like this one for example. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/performance-Stick-Miner-GekkoScience-Compac/dp/B0174YL454)
If you want to make a profit out of mining, you'll want some more serious equipment such as an S9 (https://shop.bitmain.com/market.htm?name=antminer_s9_asic_bitcoin_miner). However you'll want to do some calculations  first(with this calculator (http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator)) to see if you'll make any profit.
Good luck! :)

Yes you can ,but it will only cost you too much electricity bill and it may damage your laptop. I suggest not to mine using your laptop cause it is worthless.

ofcourse you can but the question should be "Is it profitable to mine using laptop?", you can still mine bitcoins using your laptop but you will only get around 1-2k satoshi daily or lower than that. you should use a mining rig nowadays to profit (only if you have very cheap or free electricity) maybe try to take a look on bitmain's s9 miner

Before mining on laptop and computers are profitable. And now mining in laptop is not recommend ,you cant earn from it it will only cost you high bill on electricty, wasting your time ,and one last part is you might destroy your laptop. Think of it before getiing in to it.

You can, but that could probably harm your laptop and you wouldn`t earn anything, however if you want to get some experience and find out how it works, you could download minergate and start mining some altcoin. It will probably start mining monero as it is the best choice for laptop miners.

Mining with laptop is not recommended. I suggest not to mine using your laptop cause it will damage it  ;)

Mining with laptop will damage your laptop if you try to do GPU-mining or otherwise said Ethereum Mining and your laptop will overheat very soon.

However if you want to do mining and if you have a PC of the latest generation, let's say a core i7 6700k you can easily mine the monero coin through the Minergate software. I am pretty sure this will not damage your PC in anyway but the problem is this is not profitable. If you are using your PC daily for a few hours you can leave the minergate open in the background of your taskbar. Monero is a coin that can be mined through CPU.

I do this with my core i5 Pc and it hasn't done any harm so far so why it should do to a core i7.

Never do that. You will destroy your laptop at once. you never have the profit.
The professional mining machine is not effective. Just waste your time and your money.
Or if you are very rich , you can do that .

Its not worth, you will damage your laptop and never make the profit you want.
You can do it for fun, but not for profit  ;)

It's technically possible to do so, but you won't get anything out of it and you'll just end up burning the laptop up. Though I have had some luck mining some minor cryptocurrencies with one of the more capable laptops...

So, short answer yes. Long answer... LOL hahaha No.

I found here that many people answered the best .
But I think you need some more information .
Since mining is not profitable because the cost of electricity is much higher .
But still if you have any computer and working daily , I mean it is open about 5-6 hours daily then you can make some free BTC through CPU mining .
Go to github.com , and search cpuminer and then use the .Rar file and extract the code and follow the instructions .
When you will open your PC then simply open your that coded software .
Through this you can make averagly 5-10 dollers of BTC .

Yes u can, to learn, to have fun, nothing else :)

If that is new coin and there are only a few miners, I will try it for testing because the diff is so low
then you can mine it and get some earnings but when many professional mining machines runs you must stop it.
generally, the laptop is not worth mining coins.

IT is not a good idea it can burn your laptop fast even you are mining altcoin.. and i think bitcoin mining with computer is no longer available they are now using asics like antminer s9 if you really want to mine.. better to try to mine altcoin but the problem it can easily destroy your laptop just like my laptop its very hot if you just let your laptop run in 24 hours..

If you want to mine Bitcoin from your laptop, then you won't make any profit (unless your electricity is unlimited/paid for).
If you want to mine another cryptocurrency then you could look at StorJ or Burst which mine using you hard drive space (you may not break-even on these either).
There are some maining calculators that ou can use online that are mentioned above to see if you will profit from mining before you start. Though if doing it for a hobby, you could use something like the antminer R1 (https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201611210849239281PhfnTJ30689).

And do you have profit with this mining?

Aren't the electricity costs very higher when you are mining Monero this way? If the electricity consume increases when doing this, the profitability will depend the country you are.

I know someone who mined monero for a few days...and made 0.11$ worth of monero.
Faucets would probably give you more for your time than mining.
You may make a decent amount if you write a mining virus, also known as a botnet miner, and infect computer networks to steal their computing power (please don't do this, hijacking CPU power for personal gain uses electricity and wears out chips, and it drives out honest miners by driving up the difficulty, I only mention this because hackers do this every time a CPU coin is released).

You can mine with your laptop if you travel in time six years back (or more), so the difficulty could be low enough to allow mine the coins without spending too much on electricity.

But... laptops are not designed for heavy work, so it would have problems with heat.

Now, the difficulty is so high, so the fees will be bigger than the coins mined. Don't expect more than 0.000 000 10 BTC in a month with 24 hours work.

ASICs use a lot of power to get those big hashes. If you get anything like a S9 then expect to pay a lot in electrical.

You can start mining on your laptop but it will fry your laptop core. You can't afford to lose your laptop right? You should mine using a hardware mining rig like Bitmain Products ref= https://bitmain.com (https://bitmain.com). But if you want big profit you will put a lot of investment in it. You should also take note how much is the electricity cost on your place. So you can calculate your earnings if you are earning moeny or losing money.

I think your laptop will overheat and die off in a few days :D, better to use desktop if you want to start mining bitcoins

Do not use the laptop for mining that will make you a bad hard drive, we suggest you buy a vga or ASIC miner, it is more advantageous :-)

Hey!
Your question was already answered multiple times so I won't repeat what have been said.

Something you might want to know though is that even "mining devices" aren't so profitable...
Problem will be about where you live and how you get your electricity. The mining device is just an initial cost, it's just an investment. But after that you also need to power it! And even if that can seem weird (cause elevtricity isn't your first source of expense normally) electricity is FUCKING EXPENSIVE when mining.
So if you're in a developped country and you have a  normal access to electricity... Don't bother. Mining won't be profitable.

No your laptop will broke if you use for mining, just telling why not are using the money to buy second hand hard miner.

ya you can mining with your laptop but its not recommended because can make your laptop broken:'(. maybe you can try cloudmining

Lol, Op can do mining in the laptop but only cloud mining. If he wish to start mining. He can buy ant miner in Ebay. He can buy it low price and he can get second hand one also there. However, mining is not a easy task and you electricity charge should be low for all time due to heavy electricity consumption.

well, nice information.
thanks for sharing, will read about it.
mining is crucial part of blockchain right?

My honest suggestion will do more research for bitcoin mining.

Apart from this basically mining means solving mathematical problems which can be solved with two types of powers.

1) CPU power
2) GPU power

In cryptoworld there are many other algorithm are also available based on different types of mining.

So finally you can mine any of altcoin for which your computer supports but ROI matters while mining.

I say no with mining on the laptop.

firstly, You should know how much is your laptop? it's 500$ or 1000$ and the purpose of laptop is for working and studying.
secondly, what about the profit when you mine coins on your laptop.? it's nothing and not enough for you to pay electricity fees and laptop maintenance.
Thirdly, Mining coins on your laptop will be damaged all hardwares on it and you will cost more money to repair it.

On conclusion, Never and Never mine any coins on your laptop .

Not recommended. Basically any CPU minning is probably gona make you lose money.

Its true that mining with own computer or laptop cannot be profitable just because our computer or laptop cannot produce that much power for contribution of pool mining, so respected rewards are too low. So better to use external hardware specifically designed for better mining.

And you are saying this from your cpu bitcoin mining experience?  ;D

OP i would suggest you to read this section https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0, take some time and do calculations, electricity, equipment cost etc and don't try to mine with your laptop because you will probably fry it for nothing.

you cant earn any bitcoin by mining with a laptop for sure but you can mine altcoins with a GPU or in some cases CPU to earn some bitcoins. For this you can use sites like Nicehash(referral link in my sig) which directly pays bitcoins for mining altcoins. You can also buy some cloud mining hashrate on Genesis mining especially right when bitcoin price is high, although its mostly not profitable. A third option is to rent rigs to mine altcoins and sell them for bitcoin and make a small profit.

In summary most mining is a zero sum game unless you have super cheap/free electricity or a pump on altcoin you were mining.

Hey! bro! i would tell you not to because its very risky for the laptop its not really for mining laptop are not used to go 24 hours really i tried it and my laptop didn't even get through the month and its not really that strong though but i believe that laptop isn't for mining  if you want to mine 24 hours you must have a family computer that can handle the longest of hours and also you need to protect that pc of yours because someone will hack it really and laptop is just for project for program for games but really its not for mining its dangerous and its a risky if you don't have the family computer or pc you have to buy that strong and fast pc for larger income in mining :D and fast and strong making you have more income :D to gain That's my recommendation i hope you like it >.<

yes you can mine with a laptop but it's not worth it Laptop is not made to work 24/7 and that will ruin your Laptop life also Bitcoin mining is out of the question even if you have a strong GPU i only recommand Altcoin mining for fun as you can later trade it but also it's not realy worth it and you are better do frelance jobs then mining on laptop also Faucets are get you more profit

Basically, mining on your laptop is not highly recommended. You must calculate how much profit you can get from mining on your laptop?
and your money collecting from that action can be enough for to repair you laptop when it's broken. That is problem you must think it carefully before mining on your laptop.

Okay, but if used with a PC, it can not make money at this time! Just to know and learn
 ;D ;D ;D

Bitcoin mining is not really profitable with the laptop, i would look onto altcoin mining instead (you can swap it later for btc).
Site named http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency tells you some estimated profit you can make per hour with some specified hashing power. Example monero has been pretty profitable to mine for a longer time now :)
Or you could just rent has from nicehash if you want to mine for profit, but not to invest on some hardware :P
Was it exactly bitcoin you wanted to mine?

You can check other altcoins when Bitcoin is not an alternative itself to be mined through laptop.
Still, I think that nothing may put you into profits unless your laptop's computing power is good enough and has many things installed such as high quality processor and graphic cards. Try out alternatives like rental mining, you may get something in the end of the day.

Laptop only to understand Bitcoin! Mining is not effective at this time

Yes, you can mine with your laptop. Will you make any profit? Nope, you won't be making any profit. Instead you might end up damaging your laptop. If you have cheap electricity, buy a mining rig and start mining.

Yeah i agree, but OP should get some ASIC's for mining SHA-256 coins pretty much. Scrypt and SHA-256 are not really worth mining on standard computer since they have  ASIC's already designed for them and released.

Why did you choose mining? There are many ways to earn bitcoin without any risk.  Cause if you mine with your  laptop theres a tendency that your laptop will get destoyed. Try others programs that will give you profit without any risk.

True there are many ways to earn bitcoin online without risking his laptop for me the specs of laptop even its had high gpu on it he still get low bitcoin how if his gpu will get crash you will not get money to buy another why try another way of earning bitcoin than risking your laptop.

if you mining on laptop profits that you get maybe not be comparable to the losses you received (your laptop will be burned) I suggest assembling own computer

1. Processor minimum intel core i3
2. Motherboard Asrock H81 Pro BTC ( PCI-Expressnya 6 slot )
3. PSU ( in accordance with the number of VGA)
4. Ram 8GB
5. VGA with ram 3 GB(vga with chipset radeo serie like 7950, 7970, 7990,  280X )
6. PCI - Riser
7. Hardisk, SSD.

It helped me 2. Thx

yes you can start to mine using a laptop but not all coin can be mined, mined using laptop was the result slightly, kept the laptop will heat faster and easier error, it is risky

Now all depends on you want to continue to mine with a laptop or switch to another device
because I had mine zcash using laptop

For mining don't use laptop.
It would damaged your laptop,and it just waste of time.Don't make huge electricity bill.

Laptop? You will only ruin it. requires high voltage doesn't stop. If you still want to do, use a PC with good specifications, because the longer the mine block work, ram will work harder.

Mining through laptops is impossible during these days unless any altcoin pops up with some properties and you start mining it from the very beginning. And if you are interested in mining bitcoins, then laptops are of no use there and you will waste your time as well as electricity. You can always have a check of the altcoins section on this forum to look for newer altcoins which would allow PoW through graphic cards or RAM, where you might use your laptop t earn something good.

You can but you would be earning something less than a satoshi I guess "maybe few satoshi's not sure", You won't be making anything mining bitcoins or even popular bitcoins without a mining hardware nowadays I guess.