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Can I mine bitcoins on a laptop? If not, can I mine with any USB miner or ASIC Miner?

I do on a crappy toshiba I have a bFL Jalipino a USB RED Fury and a block erupter

Best I can get is 11472 MHs

Mines about 2.5 peercoins a day

Hope that helps

cpu mining is outdated a few years ago.
You can't get anything by mining with a laptop

2 options:

• Use a laptop as basic "life support" for an ASIC or FPGA miner, providing power, work, and communication to the network/pools
• Get a good laptop, good cooling, and mine on the GPU. It's only viable really in the hundreds of mhash/sec
• Don't mine, and do work for bitcoin/invest fiat currency in the market

You can mine on a laptop but you will mine much less Bitcoins than you pay for electricity.

Also your laptop most probably will melt because laptops and heat don't go well together.

Use laptops for communication purpose.

You cannot mine profitably.

Give it a go for a while, and do your own math.

Noone teach you perfectly. Observe your results on your own.

You can utilize your laptop in better ways like trading, coding and providing services to earn bitcoin.

I'm sorry but he said he use ASIC or USB miner. Not cpu

and that would be the correct way to go about it even for a desktop. Even GPU mining for bitcoins is not profitable anymore, and low end ASICs like the block erupter have a limited lifetime before they will become obsolete (a few months probably).

Use your laptop for running your USB miner 24/7

But if the ASIC Miner dont need host computer, use your laptop for something else, like offline armory wallet (If you dont need the laptop anymore)

I tried mining on my laptop, temperature raised to like 90 degress.

You can do it, but you will not get any ROI.
It will not be profitable. :P

Yes you can mine but there is no point in doing that. You will loose money in the form of wasted electricity instead of earning BTC
You can try ASICs above 5 Gh/s though to get a decent ROI.

But you have to pay for the ASICs, and BTC price is highly volatile....

No, you don't. Go for a USB miner, ASIC miner and more than that.

You will not make profit. Laptops heats a lot.

For the hell of it? Sure.
For profit? Not unless you have a laptop from 100 years in the future.

With the introduction of ASIC miners, even mining with high end graphics cards has become unprofitable. Some alternative cryptocurrencies may be worthwhile though.

No but you should try to mine altcoins and sell them on cryptsy for profit :)

unles its s a company laptop and you dont like your boss or
 just wanna see how fast you can make it die

it would be a waste of time finanicially though

You can still mine altcoin and make some profit

Mine with special miners. Laptop can't mine coins to your expectation.

technically you cmight  make some off alt coins but also burn out your cpu and need a new laptop running it 24/7
+ the cost in electriuctity maybe unnfavourable to the profits after youve factored everything in 

Well, depending on where you live, electricity might be cheap/free :)

or even leave your laptop on your desk at work ,mining 24/7 and hope nobody notices :D

btw what country has free electricity ?

You can but you will gain very little, a better option
is to mine some scrypt coins.

No, you need dedicated stuff to mine btc (ASIC)

Also keep in mind that usb miners are not profitable as well. Your best option is to purchase bitcoins directly instead of investing in overpriced mining gear.

does it make sense to download the programms on a laptop for security reasons and trade from them, instead of using the CPU with important personal information??

is it worth mining any alt coins with laptop?

What do you mean by programmes? Wallets or miners?


Isn't that what this thread is already about?  :-[