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Day two of my active BitCoin adventure. One thing I realised I can't be GPU mine. Well I have a notebook computer. I understand the economics so spare that for the moment. However, I am simply curious about this concept. So I am happy to use CPU mining and finally figured out how to setup CPU mining using minred.exe. It is working.

My questions is, will it count towards the pool contribution? Will the efforts be worth for benefit of the pool? Will all pools accept CPU mining?

Thanks in advance.

CPU mining in Slush's pool is where it's at!

But going to freebitcoin will work faster than the pool!

even if i HAD a GPU i wouldn't mine at Slush's pool.

what u want to do is go solo.  then at least u have the guts and the glory (25 BTC potential prize)

Or you could stop the mental retardation of destroying a perfectly good laptop for absolutely no gain at all. Nothing you do will likely contribute to the pool, you'll likely hurt the pool by wasting their bandwidth sending work that will never, ever, be solved. Of course that is an insignificant amount, but still...

GPU mining is dead, and you using a CPU!?! A laptop cpu no less.

There are ways to actually make bitcoins with CPU mining, but it's a lot of research and a lot of pure dumb luck (which seems to have gone south lately.) You aren't mining bitcoins though, more or less digging garbage to trade for bitcoins. Of course it's highly probable that whatever your laptop is carrying isn't near enough to even dig garbage.

Laptops have no business with anything but asic/fpga mining.

CPU mining is dead, GPU mining is dead. You are late to the party with this. Or you can try CPU only alt coin like Quark coin (QRK) where your chances are multiples higher than on BTC or LTC.

I was CPU mining DOGE, made ~2k pretty quick.

Stopped as difficulty increased though.