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Is it still possible to mine for bitcoins using a normal desktop computer nowadays?

No. Nowadays you need expensive specialized equipment in order to mine any substantial amount of Bitcoin. You also need low electricity prices in order to turn a profit.

A normal desktop with intergrated graphics card?
It is impossible to make anything with that. You would need a medium sized and powered desktop to be able to handle the power supply to have a dedicated graphics card to make it worth your while to be able to mine anything even equal to the amount of electricity you would be using to mine.
All in all. It is not worth it to compete with asic miners. They have any desktops without the highest gpu out done.

Expensive not necessarily, you can buy secondhand parts if some conditions apply.

1) don't buy crap. some ASICs are of limited durableness, falling apart. Take a dive into the "Mining" section before you believe any offer to be "cheap"

2) take a close look at your power costs. Those are the bigger factors next to hardware costs. Can you use the heat resulting from running this equipment somehow? And if it's just standing in the garage heating that room. If you save on fuel oil the numbers are changing vastly.


Most of the equipment will not need a desktop PC on standby, except for monitoring and BTC wallets storage.

With a normal or expensive desktop you cannot mine bitcoins. However with a latest generation PC with 2 good cards , i.e GTX 1070 you can mine LBRY or ZCASH which are still profitable to mine with your graphic cards. 2 GTX 1070 should give you about 100-120 USD per month with the actual price of LBRY and the GTX 1070 hashing power of 350-400 MH/S each card when mining Lbry.

Since for mining bitcoin is not possible through desktop but mining altcoin surely is, why don't you give a look here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0)

You can put your computer to good use.

In the end you can exchange altcoins you mine to bitcoin through exchanges like Poloniex.

It is possible to mine with a desktop that we use in our home. The risk is that you won't be getting big profit on this, as well the power consumption and relative technical issues will be more. Investing on Asics equipment is the good way to make a better earning.

ofcourse you can , but your main aim should not be bitcoin mining .
With the bitcoin mining I am making 30-40$/ month without spent any money .
First I started mining of bitcoin at cryptopia ( which is a exchange  of altcoin with respect to bitcoin ) .
I made download of software for CPU miner from the github and and tried with my pc it was working but I usually not using my pc open more then 1-2 hours .
Then a idea comes in my mind ( that can be used by anyone ) .
I created worker for the mining and puted the softwares in the about 10 computer of my area in cyber cafe ( use task manager to open your software of cpuminer .bat file )
Now I am making money easily from the mining . Here all the software are free to use , So try at once ;)

So you're telling us that you make $30-$40/month running a cpu miner on 10 desktop computers... I find this hard to belief, any proofs to back this up?

I'm about to ask about this same thing mate, because its really hard to get a percentage of btc when it came from mining and having 10 computers getting interesting if how this mining works and how did hr created the bat file i want to have it as well. lets wait if previous reply will answer us if how did he make it so we can also copy his method.

Your only destroying your computer if your going to mine bitcoin in it.  Nowadays mining bitcoin on computer or laptops is not adviceable or not recommended. Cause its not profitable and slowly destroying your pc.

It is possible? Yes. But the question is it worth it? No.Its just a waste
of time and your money. I dont think you will earn a decent btc,
you will earn just a penny. Mining today uses specialized specification
hardware design for mining not just an ordinary.desktop PC.

Yes it is. However, you need to spend expensive money im order for your computer to be capable in doing mining. It is better to invest in only software which only has a one purpose, to do mining. This is quite expensive to buy however, it has more hash that helps to gain bitcoin faster, it consumes less eneergy consumption for cheaper electric bill and lastly, it is durable than can last for years.

For everybody answering yes, yes but, yes with special software, yes with x number of PC's,... i leave following calculation:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison

1 PC with a new CPU and a decent GPU, having both the CPU (all cores) and GPU running 100% for mining, the above link quickly shows that the hashrate will be <3Gh/s (GPU) + <0.2Gh/s (CPU).

It should be obvious that there is overhead, and that not everybody will run a PC with XEON's + an AMD 5870x6 GPU, but let's assume we have 10 PC's with such hardware. The total hashrate would certainly be lower than 50 Gh/s.

Let's assume you're stealing the electricity from the cybercafé...  :P, so you have no extra costs... Now let's punch in the numbers at a calculator:

http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=50.00&p=2600.00&pc=0.00&pf=1.00&d=422170566883.83700000&r=12.50000000&er=1042.04050000&hc=0.00

As you can see, even in this utopian example, at current diff, block reward and price, you would make a measly $11 A YEAR running 10 PC's equipped with XEON CPU's and a really good GPU 24/7 at 100% (both CPU and GPU).

Now, let's conclude this topic by saying: NO, there is no way you can mine bitcoins using your computer... Not if you have the hottest gaming PC around, not if you steal resources from a cybercafé, not even if you install a cpu miner in your schools computer lab. The only thing that will happen is that you'll get suspended/fired/sued.

The only way to mine BTC is having a really, really cheap electricity rate, and using the latest ASIC gear. Everything else is a waste of hardware, power and money.

Well said mate its possible to mine but nothing would worthy if we are talking about profitability its so difficult to find blocks and shared maybe even you took some months or years the value that you will going to get from your ordinary desktop would not be enough from your consumption.

doesn't worth

It depends on what hardware you use and also depends it on specs of your computer nowadays those normal spces can't even run a single software for mining bitcoin nut if you really interested you need to spend money and you will get back you've spend approximately 8-12 months.

It is possible to mine even on CPU. But u won't earn anything, you will only burn money on electricity.

A top-of-the-line PC will mine less than a dollar's worth of bitcoins in a year and cost hundreds of dollars in electricity.

If you are living from 2010 you can mine bitcoin but right now like other said you can not mine bitcoins right now you need to buy an highspeed hardware miner like miner s9 or avalon. or any available hardware that can mined with the speed of 8 th/s i think is enough if you are paying cheap electricity.. for now for normal desktop you can only mine altcoin POW algo that you can found in altcoin section..

No don't mine using your desktop because it will damage your desktop,because as of now bitcoin is mining at hard level to mature the coins. So you need to buy a specialized software for mining the bitcoins.

the honest question and answer have been said already, yes it is possible to mine with your normal desktop but you will not earn anything as bitcoin mining has evolved to use much larger and expensive dedicated hardware.

It is conceivable to mine with a desktop that we use in our home. The hazard is that you won't get enormous benefit on this, also the power utilization and relative specialized issues will be more. Contributing on Asics hardware is the great approach to improve an acquiring

Nope! Bitcoin solo mining is not at all profitable now. You need to have expensive rigs and not just one, a lot of it. Then only you will be able to mine bitcoin. Also consider the electricity cost in your area. At the end of the day, you will be paying out of your pocket. SO it is better to trade and buy bitcoin.

Alternatively, you can mine few altcoins through your computers and exchange it to bitcoin for good. This way you can still earn some profit. But direct mining through computer is not profitable and it may take 3 years to even find a single block.

It is possible but in my opinion don't try it. You can gain some profit but what about you electric bills ? Desktop's PC required high voltage power supply you might pay high bill also

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Time of pc mining was many years ago. It seems you are new and don't have knowledge about bitcoin. Now with latest antminer s9, it's still hard to mine bitcoins and get profit plus electricity costs makes things harder. If you want, you can use desktop pc only for GPU mining, you need many video cards, better if you have AMD. Also solo mining is very hard and you need to be in pool.

It could take you 120k years to find a block. I am just guessing but I would not be surprised if the correct figure was twice that many years.

It is possible but you will not get any profit with usual cpu, you need to bought a great miner tool to earn money from mining, and mining is a difficult way to earn bitcoin unless you are going to build miner farm

Bitcoin mining is critical to handle by newbies. Desktop Cpu is not preferable to start the bitcoin mining. I have noticed that many thread were created in the beginners and help about mining process. Please move the thread the mining section. If any op of the other mining threads in this section noticed this. Please move to there.

Yes Start Atomic Coin POS Mining than convert your mining reward in btc through any exchange in which atomic coin listed

Mining Bitcoin nowadays with desktop is totally useless as the difficult level has gone up and their are so many miners which are costing the same can be used to mine it but even then their are other expenses like maintain the miner cooler system, electricity bill etc their are lot of expenses which makes it difficult to mien bitcoin and take profit.

So it is much better to mine the good Altcoins and sell them on exchange and get bitcoins against it.

Based on earlier posts from several other posters on this subject, I'll assume by now you probably know that you can't make any money mining bitcoin on your desktop. An alternative for you could be to invest into a legitimate cloud mining program, some of which you could start with only $ 10. But then if you decide to go this route, you would have to be extremely careful as most cloud mining operations are scams disguised as investments. So do your homework and never invest money you can't afford to lose. Just my 2 cents.

Very clear and perfectly said about outcome of bitcoin mining through CPU/GPU so if anyone wants to start it then it is better to buy the ASIC gear with atleast 10 nos and a low electricity supply. or else it is much better to mine altcoin and be in profit from starting of mining itself

Well you could, but you won't make a profit.  You'll get tiny fractions of Bitcoin which are worth next to nothing and the cost of electricity will be higher.  The solutions are as follows:

Join cloud mining services which are supposed to use the hardware for you (not recommended as most of them turn out to be Ponzi scams and you can't know who to trust).

Buy several ASICs, set up your own electricity source, etc.  Bitcoin mining profitably requires A LOT of hardware and often barely breaks even with the cost of electricity so you need your own power which is VERY expensive.  You could get a huge loan which is risky or do it yourself which you might not afford to.

Go to the altcoin boards and find out how to mine altcoins (this might be risky because most altcoins are unstable, but you could try Litecoin or Ethereum or something).

Frankly, I wouldn't recommend mining cryptocurrencies unless you're pretty wealthy already and can afford to go big.

it is still possible but you get it will be very little, having lost by those who use you right tool designed specifically for mining bitcoin
I suggest, should not be used because your time will run out and the results are not comparable, the better your desktop is used to look for ways other than mining bitcoin, such as participating logo design competition, ico altcoin, trading and others

You need a special hardware like Asic Miner to mine using Bitcoin. Mining Bitcoin using a desktop computer is profitable only during the days when Bitcoin started. But If you insist to mine using a desktop computer for 24 hours , 7days a week, you will earn for as low as $0.03 per month. So its a total waste of time.
But this is still possible if you mine newly hatched coins, then later on trade this coins to Bitcoin.

Great idea thanks for sharing , so average how much you are earning now per month ?

0.03$ per month is a little bit hyperbolic statement. If a Desktop has a good GPU like latest GTX series, it is possible have profit that exceeds on what you are expected, But the main disadvantage is the GPU is to expensive and almost same price to Ant Miner, So in typical condition, Miners bought Asic miner instead for Expensive GPU. I say this because i mine on my gaming desktop and have some profit. But that is not frequent i just setup my computer if I'm done playing on it.

Yes you can mine bitcoins using desktop but you need video graphics card to be able to mine at least few cents but if you are truly serious in mining bitcoin then you need a fully mining rig that can mine bitcoins well. Btw, mining is not a good choice in earning bitcoin if you don't have enough money to invest because there is a lot of things to consider like electricity,internet bills etc.

They said that it is really  possible to mine in such simple computer. Though others requires a fast computer with really high specs hardware.
There are a lot of downloadable softwares used for mining and videos to guide you using those applications. I think i will suggest the video tutorial of 99bitcoin on youtube.
It is really great and I think it will help you a lot like it helped me too.

Of course it is possible. Everyone who is connected to Blockchain make good thing, because is working for all network. The thing is that simple desktop don't have chance to hit block... With this difficulty like we have right now.

Mining is not possible, contributing the network yes!

I would say no.

You can not make even a mbtc in a week mining. It is not possible.
Maybe if you mine alt coin since they are looking for support they will allow to gather more in a short amount of time then try your luck on seeing how much you can get for them exchanging into btc.

the answer is no, i think you should buy some hardware like antminer s9 for mining bitcoin or avalon, asics hardware to mining scrypt coins, or buy video card for mining other coins because your desktop computer can not to use for mining the coins. my suggestion is use some video cards on your computer and then you can mining coins beside litecoin and dogecoin, there are many coins that will give you profit as long as you know what coins that work for you. its really hard to mining bitcoin with your desktop computer without using any hardware inside the computer because bitcoin itself have high difficulty to mine.

Yes it is Possible But Now a Days It's not Profitable Because Now a Days Even Mining is not Profitable Because you will get just 12.5 BTC for Solving a Block now and it will not Cover your Expenses So I Suggest you to Never do Mining with a Desktop, Do it with a Hardware.......

Even if it were a little bit profitable it would never last for long. There is always some huge mining farm that will just totally destroy you and your mining will be worthless. That's the problem with mining even with asics.thise farms just take over.

yes its posible, but its just waste of time and money, because you willnot earn even electric energy fee. the difficulty is so high, that is not profitable any more, so forget about it and try another one.

good luck

If you were to mine something nowdays, you'd be better off going with some alt-coin rather than the bitcoin. The difficulty is too much and you'll need an expensive equipment and money for the huge electricity bill. 

And that is the big reason why we are not doing it. Had it been possible then all of us can be mining using our desktop at millions of homes worldwide. I am wishing though that there would be a coin which is decentralized and democratized allowing people at their homes to do mining and make some money. I have seen some programs like this but all of them either failed or really scam right from the very start. It would have been a very good idea.

It had not been possible after bitcoins reached $5 and some USB sticks came into existence to evolve the technology higher by increasing the speed of mining. You can try out some altcoins, but during these days, even alts need some hi-fi technology like GPU to mine them too. You can see the best option of getting mining power on rent in order to mine your desired coins.

For now I don't think it still possible to mining bitcoin using desktop computer as the processing capacity is very minimal. But you can still mining altcoins. I wish that is possible I could have used my computer for it. Though buying tools that you can use to mining bitcoin is a worthwhile investment if you have the capital.

You can use your normal computer mine bitcoins, I did use GUIminer to mine in my computer, it is working and it is great. But the problem about this is it's profit, don't expect to have a lot of profit from these type of mining because it is not really profitable.

theoretically, you could mine bitcoin blocks using pen and paper... But personally, at current day and age, i would never say that you can use a cpu to mine bitcoins to a newbie.
Saying that you succesfully mined bitcoins using GUIminer might lead new users to the conclusion that this is something they could do.

If you re-read my first post in this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1783157.msg17790187#msg17790187 you can see that if you a server with XEON dual core CPU's AND 6 GPU's, you'll make $11/year BEFORE having to pay your power company and BEFORE having to pay for hardware/repairs.

I did the calculations for an i7 (wich is currently found in high-end desktop pc's):
http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=0.02&p=130&pc=0.00&pf=1.00&d=422170566883.83700000&r=12.50000000&er=1042.04050000&hc=0.00
The earnings per year are so small coinwarz doesn't even register them, so less than 0.5 cent/year (that's < $0.005/year), but you'd be burning +130Watt 24/7 to make less than this half a dollarcent a year... So imagine your face when you receive the powerbill for mining this 0.5 cent/year...

At current diff, it would, on average, take you 1049310635 days to mine a block with an i7 CPU mining at 100% 24/7, that's about 3 million years. Since the diff is rising, the time to mine a single block will even be a lot longer in reality.

Mining with your CPU in 99.99999999999999999% of the cases will result in negative profit, even with free power! The chance of hitting a block with a cpu is smaller than the chance of winning the lottery, but the earnings from a lottery win are much higher, and the ticket price is lower.

So, altough it's THEORETICALLY possible to mine bitcoins with a CPU, please don't make these statements because they'll confuse new members.

Possible, yeah, but not ideal. I am not a master on the topic, but I think mining requires a powerful computer which works 24/7. The cost of the equipment + electricity cost is greater than the one you'd be mining using a regular desktop.

(I once asked if I could mine using a laptop - no. Not ideal. Mining will burn the laptop + it will cost electricity)

Please read my post right above your post...


Now please, stop stating that it's possible to mine using a CPU... Statements like this will cause new members to try it, burning their pc's/laptops for literally 0 profit.

It's also possible to shave with a rock.... That doesn't mean you should. There is special hardware for that.


Burn ? Why would anything burn ? It should all be well ventilated and at correct no information temperatures. Noobs are not going to over clock anything. If the so then maybe they will burn something yes.

Some altcoins can still be worth mining for. Depends if you get in early or not and if it is asic resistant.

bitcoin mining business are now unprofitable. we do mining on a large scale if it still does not want to lose.

i think i don't want to risk my personal computer to just doing mining bitcoin, my reason is bitcoin difficulty is high and its need medium until high hardware although our spec of personal computer is high, i think our chance to gain much of bitcoin is small. if you have more money then i will suggest you to buy the hardware and you can start mining but i don't suggest to mining bitcoin because of difficulty is increase so high and its better to mining altcoin.

Mining also a profitable business if you look into start as small scale business. Sure you will be looser. Most of the miners started using solar miners due to electricity cost issue. Therefore, if op would like to use simple desktop to mine the coins means it would not work at all in the earning part. If still he wish to do miner, he could buy some old antminer and start mining.

Not possible.

Only one way available for mining bitcoin. With expensive mining devices.

And electricity cost very important factor for earning.

Possible to do but it's not profitable because the cost for electricity more than bitcoin that you get and it will damage your desktop . so its useless  ;D

I cannot understand one thing, which is making me amazed every single day, when I log-in on the bitcointalk.org.


For understandable reason, looks like decent number of people want to be involved in mining, which is a very good thing because we may have more and more miners which will lead to smaller fees and faster transaction.
But big part of these people, tend to believe that all they need to do is to keep their PC 24/7 with mining software on, just to make endless profits.

Guess what, the times where you could make up some decent number of bitcoin with PC, are gone.
We are in times of mining rigs, we don't use our PC's anymore, except using them for full node.

Mining is a very expensive business nowadays, you should remind that to yourself everytime you think about mining bitcoin ( it is different with some altcoins anyway ).

Very impossible mining Bitcoins using dekstop, if you still do this will crash your dekstop and not profitable, you need to buy equipment to built your mining.

that's right aside from electricity cost the possibilities to damage your Desktop components is also need to think even you can mine dust btc
its worthless compare to the price that you needed to pay for bills and if ever your cpu or your videocard will give up you needed to buy for
a new one.

I think you can't do that anymore if really want to mine bitcoin then you should but ant miner this could help you to earn bitcoin. But if using desktop high end computer maybe expensive that much like dekstop worth 10k dollar

if that was true I would wear desktop
I am grateful for this I put on the desktop.

One can do it but you should not expect big earnings. It won't be that effective same as that you mine through ASICS that are specifically developed for the mining purposes. Most of the desktop miners end up in loss based on the electricity consumption charge levied.

It's true my brother, my desktop got damage as a result of mining at home with it.

I really thought that mining bitcoin would be equal to expensive hardware with high requirements and a specialized software to be used. Thank you for this broad explanation. You must know a lot about mining bitcoin to be able to explain it like this. Good job!

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That is not true, and I am a little bit shocked that you didn't mention that, because you should many occasions to know, that bitcoin once was mined only on PC.
The reason why we dont see PC mining currently, is because the difficulty of decrypting block is so high, that only mining rigs can do that.
However these are machines made specially for that purpose - to mine bitcoins, or other cryptocurrencies.

It is possible to use PC as a way to mine bitcoins, but it is not worth it because of the electricity costs.
Every month you will see that the profit from bitcoins sold ( those which you have mined ) will be lower that the costs that you have got thanks to the electricity.

Don't use your desktop . It will be destroyed in some weeks . Also if you mine with desktop you will get just some bucks in some months .
You will earn maximum 10 euros monthly , if you really want mining just buy a rig

I need some advice regarding mining using Desktop. I can continuously run my desktop for up to 20 hours a day. But please tell me whether I should go for Bitcoin mining, or altcoins such as Dash or Litecoin. Which one is more profitable?

Did you read the rest of this topic before making this post?
It has been pointed out by tons of people that you can not make a profit mining for BTC using your desktop.
Litecoin uses scrypt, there are ASIC's available, so you can not make a profit mining Litecoin using your desktop.
Dash uses X11, baikal generated an ASIC to mine X11, so you can not make a profit mining Dash using your desktop.

Since you asked the question, you'll lose the least money by mining Dash, since the X11 asic is pretty scarce, so using a GPU might still give you a small negative profit, while mining scrypt or sha256d will give you a big negative profit.

What you mean by negative profit? If I am getting electricity for free, then there will be no loss, right? Anyway, I don't care if I get any profit or not. Mining will be fun, and I want to experience it.

I mean that mining with a good, new i7 + decent GPU PC 24/7 will net you less than a dollar a year at current diff, block reward and BTC price.
Even if you get free electricity, i doubt that you'd find a free PC + network equipment + ISP + power for $0 a year. As soon as you pay $10 for a new power cable or a new PC keyboard, you'll never be able to recuperate this cost by mining, hence you'll make a negative profit.
As soon as you decide to mine with an old "free" PC, do realise that you won't even come close to $1/year... It'll probably only be a small fraction of this.

Next to this, the concept of "free" power is pretty confusing. Either you're stealing power, or somebody is paying for it... Either you yourself (maybe it's calculated into your monthly rent), maybe your parents, maybe your employer,... But somebody is footing the bill, and one way or another, most of the time, the bill is passed on to you (maybe your parents make you do chores, maybe your employer sees your power consumption as part of your salary, maybe your rent gets higher after a couple of years because the landlord pays so much for his power bill,...).

It is possible to mine bitcoin using desktop but it is impossible to have a good profit in mining in your desktop as they all said there are so many people who is mining bitcoin this days thats make the mining harder and harder so all most impossible to mine bitcoin in your desktop but you can still do it for fun.

The thing is, that it doesnt look like that.
You are not able to make any profit from mining bitcoins with PC, the electricity costs are just too high, and the difficulty has risen so much, that it kills the whole idea pretty much.

There is no point in even considering getting bitcoins through mining with desktop, but you can try it with some other cryptocurrencies, there are some altcoins which are actually possible to be mined with desktop successfully, but I would say that most of them are rather shit-coin, because the mining business is very big, if we consider how much funds you need to just start a mining project.

It's possible but not worth. Need high spec desktop to mining but still can't compete the mining device like Asic, Ant ext. Also your chance to find a new block almost 0. 

I'm mine zCash on common 70 desktop computers, and i get 0.01BTC per week. One computer gives 10-20 cent per day. These computers not work 24/7, because i get lower.

Not really.

You always have a chance to do that but the chance is so slim that there is really no point.

You will waste your electricity, your time, and your desktop will probably die, and you will die too because of the overheating of the desktop and the noise that it produces... Just crazy if you ever owned a rig and don't have the proper equipment.

Mining revenue of $1 per year? If this is true, then there is no point in doing desktop mining. I would rather purchase BTCs from some exchange site for $1, rather than wasting time and effort in mining.

Yes you can still mine bitcoins with you PC using some of the Windows based Mining software. But the returns would be negligible as Bitcoins prices have gone much higher.

Why year? I get 1$ every 10 day from one desktop with equihash :)

That's possible, but AFAIK, the discussion is about mining bitcoin using a desktop PC (which is close to impossible). Equihash means you're mining altcoins, which is fine to, but such discussions belong in the altcoin mining subforum.

It is not impossible to use your pc to mine, you can easily join a pool with your pc, slushpool for example, however your #mhash is going to be so small, that your earnings will be almost nothing.

I guess it is good for education purposes, but indeed, it is not worth it nor will you ever be close to breakeven.


Why should it be destroyed if you set a max hash the pool/program is allowed to use from you? Care to eleborate?

Yeah that's right. In my view mining is quite possible with desktop but the miner won't be benefitted much. Altcoin mining through desktop seems more profitable, so it's good to mine with the specific equipment  that are available for mining purpose.

I don't know if this mining are compatible with desktop even you had the most powerful specs of computer maybe it can be go with mining much better if you do buy a mining hardware like antminer s9 the lastest one with the mother board mining then you can start with this, Once you tried it to mine with your pc maybe you will regret in the end.

even with single antminer s9 if you are going to start the mining of bitcoins.then it will surely be in loss , so it is much better to do trading in bitcoins which will give you more profit.

i think it's not possible but maybe you mining altcoin

Yeah, i'm mine zCash, but, get bitcoins. I'm use NiceHash for this.

It is possible? Yes. But the question is it worth it? No.Its just a waste
of time and your money. You offer, GPU minning.
There are many reasons for this; When you get away from being lucrative, at least you have a good gaming computer.

However the GPU process will not enough to do mining with the profit and continuous use of the mining process will consumes a high electricity and cost would be high. Therefore, don't do the desktop mining and cloud mining. If you look into go for mining investment you can try on the antminer or solar mining which will provide the decent income.

I would suggest cloudmining rather than desktop if you have enough funds...

Please don't suggest cloud mining. Most cloud mining sites are scams and the few that are not are not profitable investments.

OK guys.... I have tried desktop mining many times, and here is my advice for all the noobs: Never ever try this. It is a complete wastage of time and effort. I can give you a list of thousand things to do if you have spare time. But never try desktop mining. If you are still that determined to spend your time in desktop mining, then please watch some porn instead and relax. Even that is better than wasting your time in desktop mining.

it possible to mining bitcoin using desktop if you're PC using an external VGA not onboard, you can mine.

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