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Have any coin that's profitable for CPU mining with my Desktop !  ???
My desktop configurations:

Manufacturer              : ASUS
Model                        : H81
OS                            : WIN-7
Processor                   : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4150 CPU @3.50GHz 3.50GHz
Installed memory(RAM)  : 6.00 GB (5.87 GB usable)
System type               :64-bit Operating System


I am not a technician at all .  ;D

Thank you !  :)

Unfortunately no. You can mine with CPU at the same time as your GPU for some added revenue, but CPU mining solo cant even cover the electricity cost... because most coins are optimized for GPU or ASIC mining... hope this helps (you can also test for yourself and find ouit the answer :P)

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Thank You !

 i dont think so ... not even if you have free electricity :)

You cannot make profit from CPU mining in the short run but you can use CPU mining to mine BCN(Bytecoin) which is performing well and your electricity cost will not be big because the i3 4150 CPU only consumes about 55-65 watt. You can mine BCN directly through the official wallet.

Download it here:

https://bytecoin.org/downloads/ (https://bytecoin.org/downloads/)

you can keep mining and collecting some coins on the long run , but its never going to generate any profit :)

Few days ago, I've tried to mine VTC with my CPU Core i7 through a P2pool. The fan had a hard day though, but the result is very little, just less than 0.02VTC {less than 2 cents} for a full day.

It's truly not worth it, to be honest.

But in my case, I just want to confirm the PoW, to make sure the coin I have in my bag worth the fiat I used to buy them. It's worth, really.

There might be some altcoins that can still profitably CPU/GPU mined and traded for Bitcoin thereafter, but I am not sure even they are worth when you factor in time investment.

i3 is pretty low end to try to mine on - it MIGHT be profitable on Monero (XMR) but it's going to be a VERY SMALL profit.
i7 would be a much better choice, they can argue with low-to-mid range GPUs on hashrate for usually similar to a little lower power usage.
Ditto higher-end Ryzen.

 A LOT of Monero mining is done on used E5-based servers, thanks to serve.the.home and their articles and forum posts about the subject.

here are 3 cpus mining xmr

https://www.nicehash.com/miner/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3

they pulse from 0 to 2 khs  due to the high difficulty

they earned

0.00170330 BTC  that is about 8 bucks in about 5 days

cpu =
amd 1800x       about 530h  1.30 usd
intel i7 6700t    about 150h    .30 usd
intel i5 7500t   about  100h    .21 usd

total of 780h on average     about 125 watts extra

so if you have a gpu miner  they are okay  the three above have 5 1080 ti's between them

A recent gen i7 or any of the Ryzen CPUs is profitable to CPU mine on (Ryzen being significantly better). If you are already mining with a GPU and have your PC on 24/7 anyways a recent gen i5 or an FX 8 core may be worth mining for a a little beer money on the side.

Exactly.  Even with nicehash a CURRENT gen mid-high end cpu will generate .50-$1/day.  Not really worthwhile by itself but as others have said if you're running a GPU already it's a nice bonus.  However the net after electricity is probably nil or negative, so if you're worried about daily net profit it's probably pointless.

I can turn a tiny profit on this rig  just cpu


https://www.amazon.com/ThinkCentre-M700-Business-Desktop-i7-6700T/dp/B01H5L2EMS/ref=sr_1_2?

it will do 170h  and use 40 watts

that is 30-35 cents  and 1 kwatt a day

or 20 -25 cents a day profit

and that rig can be built for about 500  but 25 cents a day  means 2000 day roi ;D

buy this and drop in  a used i7 6700t

http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/outletus/commercial-desktop/thinkcentre/thinkcentre-m-tiny-series/ThinkCentre-M700/p/10JRX50100

Or you may also use your CPU to mine some new cpu algorithm coins, such as Verium, Biblepay. Biblepay is a very new algorithm, worth to take a look.

i've been searching for this.. to improve my rig.. i think ryzen 7 1800x is profitable enough..

1800x doesn't hash much if any better than the 1700 (when OC) or the 1700x (when OC) - they all tend to OC to the same clock speed or very close.

 If you want the 1800x for gaming, or already have it, then it makes sense - but for JUST mining on go with the lower-cost CPUs.

 For that matter, if you're building the rig from scratch for mining, and can find a good AM3/AM3+ motherboard at a reasonable price, the FX 8320e pulls 70-80% of the hashrate of those Ryzens while costing about ONE THIRD of the price of a 1700 (and even less compared to the 1700x or 1800x which have some added costs due to NO COOLER INCLUDED over and above their higher cost for the CPU itself - 1700 normally includes a Wraith cooler).

I'm running 7KH/sec with CPUs mining our XMR pool.  We do plan to add a GPU mining rig if/when we solve a block.

At current prices, it appears to be about 1000$ per year, per 1KH/sec (XMR).  You can obtain 1KH/sec (we are using XMRIG/Ubuntu) with Dual Xeon E5-2695 v2s on a monero pool.

This isn't viable for most people though... you pretty much do need free power (although I'm fairly certain our power costs are not near 7K a year), and access to a decent amount of hardware.

i3 might make a profit if the electric cost is low enough - it's not a high hashrate CPU though, due to the much smaller cache size vs. the i5 or i7 lines limiting how many threads you can run EFFECTIVELY on Cryptonight miners.


 Xeon E5 series by current standards isn't very power efficient - but the older E5 servers CAN often be bought cheap, which might make them worthwhile if you have very cheap power.
 Quantum "Windmill" open-compute servers in particular go for a song any more, and the Winterfell versions aren't much if any more on a per-CPU-socket basis.
 Down side is those particular servers only accept EARLY generation low-to-midrange power E5 CPUs like the 2520L/2550/2560/2570 and such (might be there's a BIOS update that lets them take later-gen CPUs but the later-gen CPUs tend to COST a lot more).

You can definitely profit from Cpu mining if u have low electricity cost and if u mine good alts and hold them till their prices soar but in my opinion u should only use Cpu mining in combination with you mining as not only are u stressing ur Cpu for a few bucks a month but the transactions fees have also rises to a few bucks per transaction so all in all I don’t think it worth it unless u are just using it to increase the profits from GPUS , Some Ryzens have good Monero hashrate and they defiantly are profitable

Check out BiblePay, its a newer CPU Only Mining coin, 10% of mined coins go to Charity

there is a possibility to do cpu mining rig, see verium thread, but it's not so profitable, but not bad either, i think you can do some profit, with zoin or verium other coin have gpu competition

yes but if you have a free electricity off course  ;D ;D. but you can try mine VRM or zoin coin ( this cpu only minner ), or you have to try mine some cryptonote algo like monero, bytecoin, sumokoin or you can try mine intense coin, for intense coin the dif is still low with your cpu I think it can run approx 70-100 h/s ( 10 ITNS coin per day & price per coin $0,03 ) with 3 thread to mine

earn certainly possible, but there are a penny, a month is not incident to display, such as a browser-based mining

Yes, if it is possible to obtain cheap electricity and standby powerful computer can mine. For example, soon will be available to mine place

I would go with ETN or Sumokoin for CPU mining at the moment but its not going to be very profitable.

Mining altcoin as they are profitable and turn it into bitcoin. Some of them can be mined with hardware such as graphics cards. Some pools are set up to do this automatically.

Check yenten, is cpu only. Gpu is possible but will give less coins and no asics.

I mined 7400 ETN on my first day of mining..... using CPU, and a measly 300H/s ... luck? for sure...

No you cant, But there are some Cryptocurrencies in made, where you can just mine with CPU's. Those cryptocurrenciews want to fight the centralized mining farms in china and russia.

Yep, you can. It all depends on the coin and the difficulty!

Many people mined XMR in the early stages using CPU only, even BTC too!

Currently, BiblePay, Yenten and ETN (may change soon and many GPU miners are already on it) are best coins to mine using CPU.

Hopefully we see more CPU mineable coins in future and make the CPU mining community stronger :)

BiblePay (BBP)
- 10% mined coins always go to Charity (already sponsoring 180+ Orphans monthly)
- ASIC-Resistant like Vertcoin/Groestlcoin (CPU Mining Only)
- fork of DASH (Masternode Governance Model, Budget Proposals & Voting)
- POBh Proof of BibleHash Algorithm, All Nodes are Full Nodes

Launched July 23rd 2017, current market cap ~1-2 million
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.0

Guys plz advise as i am new to mining..

i have i7 CPU
RAM 10GB, HDD 1 TB
Win 10 PRO
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600

You can try to mine ETN

Depends on what hardware you have, I have 3 old servers mining Verium and I'm making around $10-15 a day!

Try to mine ETN.Its cryptonight algorithm.still you can mine using CPU.

My friend changed to smaller coins and makes good profits from it these days....

I am a newbie in the space, but let me tell you something: in 2011 I mined bitcoin for two or three days with a dual core CPU just for fun. I got 0.1BTC that I forgot to backup. At the time, It was not profitable due to electricity costs. I learned the hard way that it's worth to mine for future profits.

For low powered CPU's my best bet goes for newly created coins that are easy to mine.
Are they profitable? No, but they are easy to mine. As time passes, higher the difficulty it time it will get too hard to mine. Hold those coins and find a new coin. If one of thoe coins thrives, it will probably get added on a exchange, and will get you profit.
You will also learn about different kind of coins, mining software and pools, blocks, etc, etc. That kind of experience can make you profit in the future: you'll know what to mine and what to buy for best results.

Upgraded my GPU two weeks ago, on a dekstop computer I did not used for the last 3 years. I know have a RX580 mining Zclassic.
I get 0.02ZCL/day and they are not for sale - soon i'll get 1:1 BTCP when Zclassic+Bitcoin Core get forked into Bitcoin Private (BTC owners also get 1:1)

Looked if there was anything worth to mine with my Core2Duo E7400 from 2008. Started mining Dagger this sunday - .main net started January 5th 2018 - not a blockchain, but Directed acyclic graph (DAG). Just like IOTA or Railblocks, but those are already pre-mined.
got a few hundred coins in the first hours and now is getting hard for my low powered CPU, but why not? I also want to see this project from the start. I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
I'll make my profits later.

tried to mine Zcash on a good processor, but it doesn't bring up anything. Maybe other coins that are easier t mine.

  profit can be made in CPU mining becuase  CPU mining has been  marketed for some special products

For your cpu you will need to mine the cryptonight algorithm.  To be honest though I don't think your processor will work.  Cryptonight requires 2 MB of cache per thread and your cpu only has 3 MB.  This will only allow for 1 thread to run at a time and you are looking at maybe making 5 cents a day.  You are almost certain to pay more than that in electricity.  You could get something like this for $25 which would actually probably give you decent cryptonight performance and fit into your motherboard:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-X5460-3-16GHz-12M-1333-LGA775-Quad-Core-CPU-better-than-QX9650/282594396138?epid=74093793&hash=item41cbf047ea:g:lTAAAOSwhvFZBI1D

yes you can.but there are some conditions. if your electricity cost is low then it will not so hard.
another thing is that you should choose the right coin to mine.if you choose right one and wait for the time of the price to rise high and then sell it.I hope you will get some handsome amount.

Thanks for the sugestion, i might upgrade de CPU, but i'll rather invest in more GPU's and riser cards.
I'm mining XDAG with weak CPU, but i think this coin get's noticed someone will make a GPU miner.
First minable DAG coin, full node,  anonymous skilled dev that did not copy anyone. One week old, over 5 dedicated pools, already strong comunity with over 200 users on discord. Get on board :) 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2552368.1480 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2552368.1480)

which coins are best to cpu mine?

Here you go: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683343.0

stake clam, mine VRM, or mine XRM but won't result in instant gratification.

Will it be listed on an exchange soon?

You can mine JCEcoin (https://jsecoin.com/o/?a=70613) via any browser.
That means you can CPU mine on any computer, while it's being used.
I tested it and i have no problem watching moveies, listening to movies or browsing.
Once I leave it idle it speeds up. It's almost transparent and at the same time
computer is completely usable.

It also has a real purpouse - to replace web adds and monetize websites content.
If you have a website, you can integrate it in it.
Your visitors will be asked if they wish to cpu mine JCEcoins (https://jsecoin.com/o/?a=70613) during their stay.