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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: h3m96 on December 04, 2013, 05:38:14 AM



Title: Newbie
Post by: h3m96 on December 04, 2013, 05:38:14 AM
I am a newbie.  I really like the alternate coins like Feathercoin, Peercoin, etc., and of course I like Bitcoin as well.  I think I understand the basics of how it works though it gets complicated.  I'm interested in CPU mining for some alternate coins like Litecoin or something else like Peercoin, those sound very exciting to me.  What is a good miner for CPU for Windows or Linux?


Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: arun48 on December 04, 2013, 06:49:50 AM
Check pooler cpuminer.. i like it for purpose you are stating.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0)


Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: h3m96 on December 04, 2013, 10:48:54 AM
Okay thanks, I'll do that.  In fact, I think I tried it out last night but it didn't work for some reason.  I'll retry.


Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: CrypticWritings on December 04, 2013, 10:52:09 AM
Don't CPU mine it's too inefficient and sucks too much power, GPU if possible


Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: wh1pp3d on December 04, 2013, 10:57:34 AM
h3m96, you should first decide on which coin(s) you want to mine for, then determine what is the best rig (CPU or GPU) that you can get within your budget.


Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: DeboraMeeks on December 04, 2013, 02:05:45 PM
I like mining YAC coin with CPU,You can use CPUMINER as your software for mining (I guess there are some tutorials in yacointalk forum).I doubt it will be profitable to mine BTC or even LTC with just CPU but I could be wrong.