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I have been having idea on bitcoin mining and if possible altcoins mining. Currently, I do have laptop and living in a place with almost free electricity. I will like you to advise me on tools to add to my laptop in other to start mining.

You need an ASIC box that can pay for itself in a reasonable time. Or build up a GPU miner.
https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator

what are the advantages of the GPU rig over ASIC please?

ASIC is a lot faster, a lot more efficient, and generates a bit more heat. In order to make much profit off of Bitcoin mining, you have to get an ASIC miner. With a GPU though, you could mine altcoins

Only advantage with using a GPU setup is that it can mine many different coins (except Bitcoin - difficulty is too high). ASIC-based miners can only mine the one coin it was designed for but being designed for that 1 purpose they are also hundreds of times faster than a GPU-based system.

Now a days bitcoin mining with laptop is not possible i think. All i know is if you want to start mining you need a beast desktop with powerful gpu's. ;)

if we want to mine through the laptop we only need to determine the specification of a suitable laptop so as not to risk too severe if using low spec. by using the spec above the average will definitely make it easier to mine its kits.

DO NOT ever mine on a laptop.

This is good advice.  You will fry the laptop out really quickly.

Buy a cheap motherboard throw some gpu's on there and mine with that or any desktop that can hold a few gpu's

Laptop is a very very bad idea.

 Don't try to mine on a laptop.
 They are NOT designed for 24/7 operation at high load levels like mining puts on a machine.

 The only VIABLE option is to use your laptop as a USB hub controller for a USB-based miner, as that doesn't put a lot of load on the laptop itself.

Agree with what the users here are saying.  Mining on a laptop will severely decrease the lifespan of the components and could lead to hardware failure, especially since some already have thermal issues to begin with.  Not only that, but usually laptops are a lot slower to begin with so mining wouldn't be worthwhile. 

You will need to add a magic wand

In my opinion your laptop won't be able to mine really that much if you are just mining on GPU, you need ant miner or you can build your own miner with graphics card and connect it into you laptop but I do prefer that you should buy ASICS if you really want to earn on mining because mining in GPU now is really useless. Lucky for you that you have free electricity which really is a big advantage for you but don't do GPU mining in you laptop because it will fry up you laptop.

What if you wanna buy a specific laptop for only mining bitcoin, and also mining certain alt-coins. What kind of laptop would you recommend?

Thank you for your advice. I would like to clarify one thing for myself - what is it the "24/7 operation"? You have meant it. What computer or advice would you recommend for this operation? Sorry for disturbing you, but it is really an interesting topic and fery actual for me now. I am thankful to you for your answer.

I agree, most laptops has no dedicated card to support high resolution graphics so then even if it has a dedicated GPU then it's still not enough because the difficulty of mining is very high and maybe it will take weeks or months 24/7 to generate profit from it.
should set a good rig in order to mine with multiple coins.

Laptop GPU mining is NOT recommended, even if it doesn't destroy your GPU, it will definitely decrease the lifespan of your GPU. Mining takes loads of energy and heats up your GPU too high, furthermore, electricity costs for running a laptop GPU at 100% for long will be much higher than what you can profit.

Now, when you get an ASIC, it is much more power efficient, and it will earn you much more of a profit, it won't be ruined that easily, but electricity costs will still be a factor if you want to break even, as there will be major cooling costs also.

Just consider electricity also we manage it and cannot able to provide the profit. It will be burst the heat from your laptop and there is condition to find the electricity shortage in the laptop.
Better check the computer market in your city and make the mining rig with the 6 radeon or nvidia graphics cards. That will really give your profit without no efforts.

You can try MinerGate or NiceHash, they are a simple and good softwares for mining BTC and alt coins
They allow to mine with CPU too

My suggestion is better to use the computer directly to do the mining because the smoothness is also guaranteed but if you insist on using your laptop just add the cpu then it will run.

Mining coins on a laptop is a very bad idea. Your laptop will die faster than you will earn half of its value. What is the point to reinvent the wheel? All the possibilities have already been tested and if you don't want to repeat the mistakes of others listen to advice from experienced miners. For mining altcoins quite an old PC which you can buy very cheap. Why risk your laptop?

I would not suggest you to mine anything on your laptop or compute. Kindly buy the proper equipment and mine what ever the need be to mine the coins. Your laptop life will drastically go down and its possible that your maintenance will increase a lot and expenses will be higher to repair or buy a new laptop then your earning would be.

Yes that’s good idea. Laptop for mining is not really good. If you want to do mining then you must have a very heavy system for this as it requires a lot of energy to be consumed. So better use a computer or I must say you should also add something in your CPU to mime well.

That's right. I have the same thought too. Laptop is not worth it to mine. Desktop can run 24 hours and I have more confident in desktop. I'm afraid that laptop cannot handle the 24 hours mining process.

We better build a monster computer to mine crypto. But I think mining Bitcoin is dead right now. Only with a powerful rigs you can mine. But with CPU or GPU, I don't think so. GPU mining still profitable, but that is not for Bitcoin. It's only for other crypto.

With all this discussion I found that mining is not a profitable job. Too much you are investing on hardware like laptop or desktop and investing time and power for it and getting only12$ to 30$ per month. This is not  a profitable system.

Yes, agree with you. Just after analysing all the information before - it became clear for me that mining via GPU or CPU - and cooling systems as well will not guarantee that everything will work perfectly, and that it will give you a great profit. But buying some special equipment - it is also not so cheap, and first you have to offset the cost of all the the equipment and after that only some profit will be yours. And taking into account the fact that you will get 30$ the max per day.... Wow... This is somehow quite sad....

I have tried to do altcoin mining on my laptop as test using MinerGate. Good thing is it has a smart miner that selects 2 coins that are more suitable to mine and mine them in dual mode.

Laptop has i7, 8GB RAM, CPU and low level GPU.

I mined actually XMR and FCN and after running it for almost a week 24 x 7 with 90% processer speed (on average), it's earning average was around $6-$7 per month.

Hope this helps.

Mining with a laptop will just give your laptop an unnecessary load to carry and it wont even be worth it looking at what you will be getting from it daily. If you have some cash, I will suggest you get the present D3 from Bitmain made for Dash. It is very effective, more like the cheapest so far and you can quickly hit the ground running.

Although, unless you want to buy from retailers, you may have to wait for the next batch. Did you say free electricity? May I know the country you are from please? If you feel like sharing. ;D

Are there any great software to take a look at for optimising?

Try to add your gpu to laptop in order to facilitate the better performance system to do the mining without having to require big enough capital in buying and gain also can be satisfactory.

Thank you for your advice. I would like to clarify one thing for myself - what is it the "24/7 operation"? You have meant it. What computer or advice would you recommend for this operation? Sorry for disturbing you, but it is really an interesting topic and fery actual for me now. I am thankful to you for your answer.

its not a good idea to mining bitcoin using your laptop because it will makes your laptop become hottest in short time. i think you should buy hardware like s9 antminer or L3 for mining litecoin so your laptop can be used for another things. even if you add gpu to your laptop, it won't work for a long time, your laptop become hot but its up to you.

lots of good information in this thread. I'm going to start mining soon, so this was exactly what I needed. thanks!

CPU Mining
Mining Bitcoin with a CPU is pretty easy, because it only requires a computer device that can connect with a bitcoin mining network. This Bitcoin mining network, commonly referred to as a mining pool.
Many bitcoin aging factors are missing this CPU device. This is because Bitcoin results are not worth the cost.

GPU Mining
GPU (Graphical Processing Unit), commonly known as graphics card. GPU, can be used to mine Bitcoin. When compared to CPU, mine using GPU is still better CPU.
GPU or graphics card, is part of the video rendering system on a computer. Outline, GPU, there are special functions that are not performed by the CPU, this difference makes the GPU more profitable to mine Bitcoinuhkan CPU.

Mining FPGA
This device is a bitcoin mining hardware that is in the fold by the butterfly labs company "ztex german". This device uses chip technology at a price of $ 1 - $ 2.5 per Mhs.

ASIC Mining
ASIC mine device, based on SHA-256 / GHS algorithm. This device is widely used by Bitcoin cloud mining company. The ability to mine Bitcoin is certainly comparable with a price that can be considered quite expensive. However, using this hardware, will be able to optimize the results in mining Bitcoin.

Scrypt Mining
Scryp mining uses an algorithm that is simpler than the SHA-256 algorithm. In addition, the resulting hash mean is in kilohashes per second (kh / s), and Megahashes per second (MH / s). Harware used to be able to use scrypt mining does not have to use ASIC or other special hardware.

with laptop its not posible to start mining u need a strong pc for that which can provide full power to miner software

I think a Laptop will get burn if you try to mine Bitcoins.

Hey check all the posts buddy. Mining bitcoins with the laptop is not possible at all. Even with the multiple graphics cards mining bitcoin is not profitable bro. If you wish to start mining buy any higher end ASIC miner with the good hash rate and efficiency is fit mining with the decent profit. If you wish to do with the GPU, you have to go with the any altcoin only. Now Monero seems good for mining.

Bitcoin? Nothing will make that really pay for you. Mining other coins is still a loss, but it is better than Bitcoin. All you need is the software. It is too hard to upgrade the GPU, but you can add more RAM if needed. IF your video card mines, then that is nice, but either way a laptop really doesn't cut it, even a PC doesn't work these days.

The tools will I add to my laptop to mine bitcoin are the GPU (Graphical Processing Unit), commonly known as graphics card. GPU, can be used to mine Bitcoin. When compared to CPU, mine using GPU is still better CPU and this are tool add in laptop to mine bitcoin.

Try and mine some monero (XMR), you can mine monero with your laptop and is profitable you have cheap electricity. You do not need a GPU, or asic or whatever, an I3 laptop is sufficient for this. With an I3 (withouth paying for electricity) you will get about 10-15 cents/day, if you have an I7, you will get about 25-40 cents/day, which is very good if the price of monero will appreciate.

CPU mining not possible ?

Man it is not like you think of it. what you get depends entirely on what kind of system you have for mining. And using laptop for mining is like asking a 1 year old child to lift a 10 kg wright. So if you spend on your system then that will be only once. Then you will only get profit higher and higher.

I feel you mate! Mining is more like having a far and planting some crops, then waiting for a while before you can even get your capital back. It is capital intensive and if you are going in for it for the future, you can still set up a simple ASIC and just do your little thing hoping for the best in value over time.

I believe with the presence of the D3, a whole lot of mining gadgets will start springing up which should make mining eventually easy, fun and cool to invest in.

Wow! Did you find that article from 2010?

Come on, if you are going to spam, put some effort in it atleast.

novice question, Can we unplug and move the system without any issue.

Probably the main thing you have to watch out for will be the network settings. Otherwise I suppose the rest should be fine.