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The CPU Coin List is a sortable page of Alternate Cryptocurrencies that can be mined on your CPU.

A new feature is the GPU Advantage calculation. Coins that are GPU mineable have the hash rate of current GPUs and CPUs compared to determine if the coin is still worth CPU mining. We have the calculations up for most coins.

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History - This first post contained the original list. After several months, I figured out I would need a website to manage the list.

The main thread for the website is: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483976.0

MemoryCoin 2.0 (MMC)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=370806.0

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P.S.
WTS 2433 MemoryCoin 2.0 (MMC)
WTS 44000 Molecule (MOL)
PM or ICQ: 105747785 or skype: fablio2


Will be sold to any one who offers the highest price.

ATOM Coin coming soon

Frozen: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366762.0

Frozen, pretty much the same as molecule, but older by a day or 2 andmined more with fewer total coins.

anyone have a difficulty list of these coins? Would be interesting to see which are profitable

BernanKoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375010.0

Where can they be sold?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=373396.0

Datacoin is also at coins-e.com

By the way, I think quark and it's clones can all be gpu mined now. Skein coin too.
Primecoin is a true CPU only, protoshares too last time I checked. No idea with memory coin.

CPU only has no future. Want it to be fresh meat to botnets? Quite insecure network

Say no to CPU only coins.

I did a very quick check and didn't find anything about quark being GPU mined. If it is, post and I will remove it from list.


This thread is not for you then.

A good thread,thanks!

Offerings and tr011 coin

Of those the only serious and innovative are Primecoin, Datacoin and Protoshares...

Quick check - tr011 appears to be GPU minable

Thank you very much for the list.

Keep update this thread on regular intervals.

Thanks for the list, could come in handy

Offerings
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294383.0
AFAIK it's gonna hit Sci-Fi exchange that is being tested now

  ATOM Coin is here!


http://www.atocoin.com (http://www.atocoin.com)   :D



    ATOM - EM9YQok2aFRdHhTDahM45j91e9ZMCPj8kW

added

thx,

its in the quark/frozen/atom/molecule threads. The smoltz (not sure thats right) works. It's about 4 times faster but can only.be used for solo mining. It's surely just a matter of time until it works on pools.

Give me a link on this website and I will add it.


i will look into more. don't have time until later.

Atom coin is a scam coin. Molecule was premined, then someone fixed it, so he released it again premined, as Atom.
The dev is just desperate to premine a coin and scam money out of people. It is best ignored. Molecule is a fair coin, but only accidentally, the dev is still a scammer.

I think that Quark based coins are GPU minable with smelter. The relation CPU/GPU is around 1/5 in a 7970, less than scrypt ones. As long as I know only Primecoin, Datacoin and Protoshares haven't GPU miner yet.

bernankoin is a good one

yeah i have plenty of it that's why i think is good  :D

The RVD is CPU only

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=357196.0

This coin makes me want to start adding descriptions to the list. Reading the thread makes me think this is a scam coin.

[Preview] Smelter - GPU miner for Quark-based coins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310975.0

I will be traveling most of today. I will remove Quark when I am back online.

Smelter GPU miner works only with old HD5xxx cards (read that thread). Most of people still mining quark with CPU's.

Updated list a little. I will leave the QRK coins for now since smelter is still in early development.

**edit**

Updated DTC link

unioncoin

Thanks, i am looking into cpu mining (and gpu mining also) and this is the sort of list i really need. If you could also do a gpu only and maybe a cpu/gpu one as well, would help out us noobie miners :)

MEPH

Which coin mining is Profitable  For CPU ?

My Hash  rate is 500 c/m on PTS

Any coin given free electricity. If it's not dead of course.

hi,

 may i mention  OFFERINGS, they have been out for 6 month you can use all of the miners for quark pretty easy, and it has not been plundered yet so you can still mine and get some, or use the pools and get more.

j

No exchange there. If a coin doesn't hit an exchange in a month or two at least, it's a bad sign.

PTS is easily the most valuable of the CPU coins @ .02x per BTC but it's hella hard to mine out.

http://mrx.im/pts.php?cpm=200 (not my work)

For reference, a 3770k @ 4.6ghz does ~310CPM with yvg1900's M7H miner.

Dumb question - what advantage does a CPU coin offer over a GPU or ACIS coin?  Why would someone mine a CPU in preference?

Mining it On Trial vps so , Free VPS and Free  Electricity .

Which coin mining is Profitable  For CPU ? 

my guess is your average mum or dad and use any pc to get a cryptocoin and not need to invest in high end video cards / rigs to get them. So its open to everyone that doesn't have a gaming rig with the latest ati card. but then they are competing against not only botnets but sysadmins that can throw their idle resources at it. By the time these coin get mainstream its already gone or too hard to compete.

So the only advantage i would see is for those that cant afford ATI cards or ASICs.

OFF has been on the list.


I recently put an 8-core CPU in my main computer and wanted to give it something to do that was profitable. I could have it churn away at BTC or LTC. But what value would the CPU add to what I am already GPU mining? Nothing. BUT, that same CPU could mine something of value if it was only competing with other CPUs.

I looked for a list to figure out what I wanted to mine but didn't find one. So I created this list. I will probably make some kind of profitability calculator but don't know when.

I tried mining on my CPU for PTS. After 1 week, there was nothing, so I stopped.

Protoshare (PTS)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325261.0
exchange - Cryptsy, bter

You did something wrong. I am mining with my slowest computer and still get shares on ypool.

Dimecoin is cpu

CPU only -> GPU does not have large advantage over CPU? Then Momentum PoW, Prime PoW are CPU-only, others are not

Also YaCoin's algo might be too hard for GPUs come the next N-factor increase

can any computer mine cpu? is there any way of testing speeds? Thanks!

Apparently there are GPU miners for these coins now

It is also 8% premined. I am going to add it as one to avoid.


No. Generally ASIC>FPGA>GPU>CPU

This list is for people that want to mine but only have their CPUs. The coins on this list will give them a chance to do that and get a few coins.


I will check and update as necessary.

Add MMC to limited GPU too, since there is a pool that uses a GPU miner now.

PTS GPU miner is in the wild and hasn't been release publicly.

Any computer can mine CPU. You shouldn't mine for long on a laptop unless you want to kill it. They are not designed to take the constant heat generate by running the CPU at 100% for long periods of time.

Test the speed of mining? Just start mining. If you want to compare two CPUs without mining, look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/. Higher score will usually mean better mining.

i am mining with my laptop for a month now. Mostly datacoins. I mine on 2 threads though when i work. 4 threads when i sleep. I have it a bit high so air can go and cool it easier. Laptop is half the temperature than when i play battlefield 3. So i dont think there will be a problem. Its 2.5 years old laptop anyway.


btw protoshare and memorycoin i think should be in the list with quarks as of now.

I am caught up with changes for now.

UPDATES
- Added Unioncoin to list
- Added Dimecoin to high risk list
- Added websites for all coins that have one
- Added section for coins removed from list
- Moved Memorycoin to removed section
- Moved Protoshares to limited GPU section
- Moved coins with marketcap values to top of list
- Added donation address to sig :)

TODO
- Add FAQ

You should move all the Quark algorithm coins to the Limited GPU list.

Also do you know about SIFcoin, ancestor of Quark?

UPDATES
- Added reference to Sifcoin (thanks meta.p02).
- Moved Molecule to limited GPU section.
- Moved Unioncoin to limited GPU section.
- Moved Offerings to limited GPU section.
- Added referral links on exchanges.

TO DO
- Add FAQ
- Add Atom (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380546.0) and Frozen to limited GPU section.

Good thread,keep it update!

Thanks!  :D

Add particle.
It is good because it is not premined and it quark based.

:)

Hard to understand that you are saying PTS is GPU miner rumored to be out. Checked through PTS thread, can't find any information of GPU mining. Please update more details, would like see how to GPU mine. Thanks.

I've read a few that it IS GPU mineable. Someone said they were able to make a miner and sold it exclusively to someone. Not sure if true. You do need a 2gb AMD card though.

I took some time to look for the GPU miner last night and there is not one available. I will be moving Protoshares back to CPU only.

Also, Frozen will not be added too list at all since it was GPU minable from the start.

TO DO
- Move Protoshares to CPU Only section.
- Add Atom and Particle to limited GPU section.
- Add FAQ

-Particle [PRT]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0

for add:

2CHcoin, russian coin: http://2ch.hk/cc/res/16469.html

I think Frozen should be added. There are two arguments:
1. It is in the same limited way GPU mineable as any other Quark clone
2. The GPU mining for Quark / Frozen is currently very limited:
- There is currently only one GPU miner available ("Smelter": a closed source project which supports only a few GPUs and takes 10% of the profit)
- Smelter is not supporting pool mining
- At the current difficulties of Frozen the GPU miners report that they find no more blocks by solo mining => GPU mining impossible now
- Even if the difficulty is low so that solo mining of Quark / Frozen with GPUs work it has shown not have give that big gain compared to CPU mining

Thanks for clarification. Your list is quite useful for me to do CPU mining, as well as others. I heard some people say there could be Script miners available in the near future. If that happens, I guess GPU mining is nearly impossible then.

good thread.

UPDATES
- Moved Protoshares back to CPU Only section.
- Added Atom to limited GPU section.
- Added Particle to limited GPU section.

TODO
- Add Frozen to limited GPU section.
- Add FAQ

I checked more. Frozen appears to only be GPU mineable with smelter so it will be added.

Thanks  ;D

it's very useful  ;)

UPDATES
- Added Frozen to limited GPU section.
- Added CDNcoin to high-risk CPU section.
- Added website for Protoshares.
- Added website for Quark.

TODO
- Add FAQ

Very helpful thread, thanks.

I believe that it is very hard to mine XPM and PTS with GPU. It is not impossible, but not valuable to mine with GPU. As I know, there is GPU miner for XPM, but, it is even slower than CPU. There are two obstacles for GPU mining for these two coins:1)coding efforts, many hard work needed to move to GPU; 2)efficiency or optimization, a valuable GPU miner should be much faster than CPU. Even for the Quark miner, Smelter, it is not very fast over CPU.

About Bernankoin (BEK), I think this should be put under "high risk".

Background: as far as I understand the coin is meant to be a political joke. The idea was to demonstrate practically a system based on the principle: "a more money already issued, a more money will be issued". This means, a more miners will partake, a higher the block reward will be. As of a statement of the author I think to recall, that the coin cannot have long term value, and is not meant to.

UPDATES
- Added BTC-e to Primecoin exchanges.

TODO
- Add FAQ


It looks that way to me too but DOGE was a joke that took off. I will wait on it. Anyone else have an opinion?

Note that CPU-ONLY can be made botnet resistant by increasing the memory requirement sufficiently, yet I am not aware of any Altcoin which does.

MemoryCoin and ProtoShares

MemoryCoin and ProtoShares can both be mined faster with a GPU and especially an ASIC, although if anyone has bothered to make a GPU miner for PTS then they are apparently keeping it to themselves:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=22.msg23874#msg23874
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355532.msg4166700#msg4166700

For MMC apparently the 2 - 3x limitation assumption on speedup of AES on GPUs from the above linked thread, is incorrect and 16x is theoretically possible:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1958.msg22532#msg22532

Primecoin and derivatives

I am doubting the entropic security of Primecoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=367965.msg4383462#msg4383462). Also I doubt the security due to lack of botnet resistance.

Since Primecoin is compute bound it is surely not FPGA and ASIC-resistant (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279194.msg2986643#msg2986643).

Also the 48X performance reduction logic on why it should be GPU resistant is incoherent and/or incomplete. The claim is that modular exponentiation can't be parallelized (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279194.0) (i.e. that the internal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation#Memory-efficient_method) and recursive (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279194.msg2996374#msg2996374) steps of a single copy are serial), thus claiming a limit of 2 - 3X speedup. However that author did not respond to the sound idea of running multiple orthogonal copies in parallel (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279194.msg2989865#msg2989865). I've sent that author a PM and hope he will respond in one of the threads. Note he didn't disappear, but hasn't posted since (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=137874;sa=showPosts) the time the author of ReaperMine disappeared.

The 10X performance reduction logic relies on CPUs being 64-bit with GPUs 32-bit (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15373/hashing-algorithms-on-gpu-32-bit-vs-64-bit). But GPUs have more FLOPs to throw at this and some GPUs have some FP64 cores (http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/2) confirmed by wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Kepler_Architecture#Next_Generation_Streaming_Multiprocessor_.28SMX.29) but if these are only floating point they may not be useful (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg2934188#msg2934188).

I've read that after receiving 75 BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279194.msg2985616#msg2985616), the developer of ReaperMine (http://xpmwiki.com/index.php?title=ReaperPrime) appears to have disappeared (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9010;sa=showPosts)?


The above logic is that the ReaperMine GPU miner has probably not been properly designed and optimized yet to full potential, or it has and is being kept private. Even the author stated (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg3008508#msg3008508) the sieve portion needed to be improved to process more candidates as his implementation was underutilitizing the GPU.

What are these people who (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg3170820#msg3170820) purportedly donated 75 BTC to the developer of ReaperMine saying? Apparently he was using the typical saleman trick of a time-deadline to induce more donations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg3053420#msg3053420). He releases something half-baked then disappears $75,000 in pocket (if true). And he reported (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258540.msg2903777#msg2903777) having a private problem that was a "rough patch in his life" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273637.msg3047071#msg3047071). Hmmm.

From what I've seen prime coin was demonstrated to not be faster than CPU mining with a GPU.

Memorycoin is 5-10 times faster depending on your CPU.  There is no public or pool limited GPU miner for proto shares but it seems to be common knowledge that private tools exist.  And since mmc and pts both use momentum variations as PoW it isn't a huge leap to make that one could exist for it.

Edit. Open source cuda miner created with speculation that private ones have existed for a while. Open cl coming https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2114.15

UPDATES
- Added Secondcoin to high-risk category.

TODO
- Add FAQ



I am keeping an eye on that thread.

hi,

You missed out datacoin(primecoin fork) & siriuscoin(SHA3). Thanks

TODO
- Add Siriuscoin
- Add FAQ




Datacoin is number two on the list.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2114.90 proof GPU miner PTS

UPDATES
- Moved Protoshares to limited GPU section.

TODO
- Add Siriuscoin
- Add FAQ

Good Topic! Congratz.

List of CPU-Only coins is getting short....

Datacoin is now exchanging on https://openex.pw also if you want to update ;)

Excellent thread

Could you add YAC?  It's a 'Limited GPU Mining' coin with on going development (launched ~ May 2013).  I'm beginning to realize a lot of people don't know about this coin or it's unique features.  This coin uses something called the N-factor.  As this increases, so does the amount of memory required to produce a hash.  Currently I have an i7-3720QM (mid grade home processor) and a Radon 7970 (upper end home graphic card) mining YAC and they both produce the same hash rate (~1.1 khash/sec).  After the next N-increase (around Spring) a 7970 mining speed will be reduced to about 0.25 khash/s - making CPU more profitable.  As the N-factor continues to increase it is likely that YAC become a 'CPU only coin.'

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2258.0
there now you can finally add it to the same category as MMC,  PTS now has AMD and Nvidia GPU mining, including pool mining

TODO
- Add Siriuscoin to limited GPU category.
- Add YAC to limited GPU category.
- Add FAQ
- Add ZUR to high risk category.


I will wait until that exchange is a little more mature.


Still limited since most people have problems trying the GPU mining. It has a lot of people working on it so it is just a matter of time.

Is Dime in the high risk category because of the number of coins or something else? Virus?

dont you see that 8% premine? Before the huge rush of noobs here even 0.1% premine was a scam. I cant believe it is not obvious now! lol

and you want to know why? Because when and if ever the coin gains any price at all nothing stop the Dev from dumping all of it and killing the coin for good.

and before anyone speaks about Satoshi, it doesnt compute for him to dump because by killing the coin he cant gain money. When he will dump everything will collapse so he couldnt gain by dumping...

Particle is on Guogao and CoinedUp.

There's also a virtual horse game, similar to just-dice, for Particle and a few other altcoins + Bitcoin here: https://coin-horse.com

PTS is not CPU-only anymore

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2225.0
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2114.0

How is that different than Dime or any of the other pre-mines?

If someone dumps for example a few millions or billions dimes he will get a few BTC that actually have value. If HE dumps , and the word dump has a reason to be here, his thousands BTC, price will drop so low that he wont get even 10% of what he can get if he slowly sells. And actually if he dumps it is highly probable that the system will collapse and noone will actually get fiat...But there is no reason for him to do that. He will get money by selling slowly since btc market has services and actual value.

BTC is backed by many services and there is no reason for dumping. . But dime and every other premine coin has no value at all cause there are no services! Only value is speculation. And speculation dies with dumps. I hope you understand what i mean...

I will add CoinedUp. Guogao is in Chinese so I will leave that out as well as the gambling.


PTS was put back in the limited GPU list a couple of days ago.

new cpu coins

Bullcoin

Qubitcoin....

UPDATES
- Moved Bernancoin to high risk category.
- Added Qubit Coin to cpu only category
- Added The Bull Coin to high risk category.
- Added Yet Another altCoin to high risk category.
- Added Siriuscoin to high risk category.
- Added Zurcoin to high risk category.
- Added FAQ

Thanks for the add.

I think it's worth mentioning YAC code was published by pocopoco, who has never been seen again (just like with Satoshi and Bitcoins).  A few days later Windmaster took over the development and the 'main' development thread is here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206577.0

Windmaster announced a few months ago that he no longer had time to continue developing the coin and has pasted the torch to Joe_Bauers and Sairon.  Joe has helped established an official logo, name (Your Alternative Curreny), and upgrade the qt-wallet.   Sarion has developed a block chain, charts, raffle, and other useful information that can be found here: http://explorer.yacoin.org/. But probably most improtantly, Sarion has added 'coin control' to the wallet which allows users to pick which transactions to send - to minimize the loss of coin age.

I'm not an expert in these matters - I'm not sure I'd say the coin is having problems with the block chain.  There are some discussions (in the on going development thread I posted above) about upgrading the code to have PoS produce 'chain trust.'   With a block target of one minute (and PoS blocks happening even quicker) sometime two PoS blocks are created at the same time - creating an orphan PoS block.  I believe this is what the development team is looking to correct.

I mine CPU and GPU (while GPU is still an option - at least until the next N-increase) this coin and trade it on bter and cryptsy.  The coin has been around for a while and has a strong community (which includes the forums at yacointalk.com).  I personally feel although this coin best fits under 'limited GPU' instead of 'high risk.'   Out of all of the coins listed here - (AFAIK) YAC is the oldest has has had the most development work done.

Does a CPU only coin community/forum exist? It's difficult to search bitcointalk for anything specific....

I wouldn't mind buying a bunch of $25-50 laptops to mine cpu coins with if there were some decent devs making good coins for the purpose. This of course is coming from someone that has only ever gpu mined. So it may not be that easy. Sounds feasible though doesn't it? 1mh/s worth of laptops :D

The only CPU coins are Primecoin and Datacoin. The rest is either not strictly CPU but are quark based and therefore can be mined with GPU smelter or are shitcoins.

Add 2CHCoin plz. :)

Please add Memorycoin MMC again.
There is a new CPU miner that improve 400% and beat/egual the GPU miner.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=370806.msg4480804#msg4480804

TODO
- Move Memorycoin back to limited GPU section.


I don't think there is enough interest to have a dedicated forum. Most coins have their own forum already. If there was enough interest, I could easily set one up.


Cheap laptops have cheap CPUs. Additionally, they will run hot and eventually die. Just use the CPU in your GPU rig. Leave one core idle to handle the GPU mining functions.


Not yet. Most info is in Russian and more importantly, I cannot find source code.

I mined Quark on a couple of CPUs for a few weeks, and was just about covering electricity costs. But since it's gone down in price, I'm actually losing money by mining. I tried Protoshares too, but rather than the ~$2/day I was making on Quark, I got a few cents each day. I see people talking about Datacoin and Memorycoin as CPU coins, but is anyone actually even breaking even with CPU mining?

If something was actually profit making all miners would go for it. So every coin has a profitability window which nowadays is like 1 day. When they learn whcih coin is profitable the mine that coin!

So you have to see which coin actually has something to offer in the future and support it by mining it or buying. This at least what i am doing with Datacoin. I believe it is undervalued and in the future it will grow up. Same happened for me with the first days of protoshares and i got money from cloud mining which is expensive ;)

Hey. Could you add the coinedup exchange to PRT please? Thanks!

Also, new site is available here: http://www.bitparticle.com/ but still under construction.

Hey I would be willing to Donate some 3-5 Securecoins to anyone who will do a Review of CPU coins, mining Difficulty, just run a miner like Securecoin on a system for 24 hours see how many coins you get then run Quark, and so on so we can see which is the best or Most Profitable coin to mine. then convert those coin's into BTC or USD and we will have a Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Anyone else willing to Donate for this very Valuable information?

How about www.advertisingcoin.org

ATC, which was based on xpm

But none of these on your list are going to be ASICs resistant if ever they have a large enough market cap to justify the development costs.

You do not seem to be addressing that fact?

Or is your list merely a "CPU only for now, and the future I don't care about"?

If yes, please clarify in the OP.

Please update?

UPDATES
- Moved Memorycoin back to limited GPU section.
- Added CoinedUp exchange to Particle.
- Added CoinedUp exchange to Frozen.
- Added Advertisingcoin to high risk category.


The site in the list is from the official announcement


What updates?

I could add something to the FAQ. How would you word it?

2CHCOIN
Possible Quark fork. Minable with smelter.

TODO
- Add 2CHcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=398100.0) to high risk category.

List of CPU coins.

"with current technology"

Hi btc-Mike. Please remove Frozen from the gpu mineable coins. Smelter does not work with Frozen any longer. Only Cpu mining now.

I thought it was an interesting list.

Shared it at scforum.info, here: http://goo.gl/C0zEqu

Peace!


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Goodbye XPM
Hello Q2C
xpm It is not profitable anymore even best cpus NOW
Im mining Q2C NOW
i hope soon add one exchanger
Please mine Q2C ::)

To mine MemoryCoin you need to use the new miner which is far more efficient : MemoryCoin.org (http://MemoryCoin.org)

Vertcoin is also only GPU mineable with a custom cgminer, so should perhaps be in the second category. The first day, it was CPU only, but as with most things, people worked around that pretty quick. It's intent is to be resistant to ASIC and multipool mining by changing N-factor over time.

Bernankoin is not dead. Active network, difficulty increasing!

OP please correct it !

Agreed, the new Memorycoin CPU miner is amazing. Just as fast as equivalent GPU mining while using less power.

It's so helpful!
Thanks

TODO
- Add 2CHcoin to high risk category.
- Change description to add coins are CPU Only "with current technology"
- Add Ducats to high risk category
- Add Vertcoin to CPU Only category.


Please provide link


I don't see any real activity in the thread.

Right now just using the general release version of minerd and curious if I can get a little more performance out of my i5? What do you think is the best quark mining software for my processor and what kind of performance increase will it give me? I'm getting 60-80 khs per core right now... Thanks for any suggestions!

BernanKoin  might not be dead, the diff near 9.0 and increasing quickly

FairQuark - Quark based algorithm with less instamine: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422599.0

No activity in the thread = Unilaterally declared dead ? (and the thread is actually active from time to time)

Check here http://bek.gpool.net/tuhao 1000+ workers in this pool alone. This is not what I call *dead*

PS: thx for the useful post anyway ;)

Please move YAC to limited GPU, update the name (Your Alternative Currency), update the development link (listed above), and update the description - the 'block chain issues' have been resolved.  See the below thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423519.msg4608851#msg4608851

Thanks!

UPDATES
- Moved Bernancoin back to CPU only category.
- Added 2CHcoin to high risk category.
- Added Ducats to high risk category.
- Added Vertcoin to CPU Only category.
- Changed description to indicated CPU Only coins can change.

TODO
- Update YAC info. Mineable with https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=247782.140
- Check on adding FairQuark

CDNcoin, a Chinese fork of Primecoin, is also CPU-only. Do not let the name confuse you, the coin is not Canadian.

This one is already in the high risk category.

what about the metis coin...?

I thought there was no such thing as cpu only coins haha

CPU Only with current technology.  ;)

Link for what? We never supported Smelter, it was a third party app, and it does not work with the coin after the v1.1.0.2 wallet.

Also please update the Frozen website to www.fzcoin.cc as frozencoin.org is old and invalid.

The forum post is in need of updating to: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=411291.0

And the Exchange address is: https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=FZ&base=BTC

Thanks,
TFS

You are right, I must have missed it. I can verify that the network is active, but the source code is broken and needs to be modified slightly to compile correctly.

So, I'm CPU mining on Frozen on the coinmine pool...

I see users with hashrates of 20,000, 50,000, and much higher than that even.

How are they accomplishing this? Are they botnets? Are they network admins? Are they cloud computing clusters?

How?!?

Hey Love the Guide i use it all the time! If you know anywhere to check CPU Coins Profitablity That would be the one thing this guide is missing!
If someone had some VM they could run each coin and see how many coins they got and post the results that would be pretty sweet!
any way I am using this software http://www.reviewoutlaw.com/best-cpu-mining-software-simple-alt-coin-gui-miner/
to CPU mine it just added Primecoin super simple just enter address and hit start.!
if any one else is getting confused on all the stuff to click.

UPDATES
- Moved YAC to limited GPU category.
- Updated YAC info.

TODO
- Move Frozen to CPU only category.
- Update Frozen info.
- Check on adding FairQuark
- Check on adding Metiscoin

To those that have requested profitability info, I have heard you.

Anyone that requires help with their specific setup should create a new thread in the altcoin mining sub-forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0). More people will see it there.

I just want to inform you that now qubitcoin - QBIT is exchanged on: https://poloniex.com/exchange

Another CPU coin, ChainCoin. It is very hard to mine this coin.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

I prefer "It is unknown if any of these coins will be resistant to ASICs when their market caps grow sufficiently to justify the development costs of an ASIC design".

As evidence, Litecoin now has ASICs under development since its market cap jumped significantly recently.

I understand the technology very well, and no coin which is compute bound will be ASICs resistant. So none yet on your list will be. But since I haven't written a white paper to explain and prove that, I would suggest you use the word "unknown" instead, yet with the strong implication that the ASICs resistance isn't really challenged until the market cap grows sufficiently to justify ASIC development costs.

Please do not remove any CPU coin of the list if it become minable with GPU.

Just say that it can also be mined with GPU.

Thank you. Best list ever.

why not? Thats the purpose of this thread. Or you could just add all coins that exist here...

No, when a CPU coin become minable with a GPU it doesn't mean that it is efficient. Very often it is still better to use CPU than GPU.

Thanks for the update on YAC.  It looks like your thread is getting a lot of view - I know I've passed it on to several of my friends.  (Read 11277 times)

Has anyone made an attempt to making a 'CPU mining profitability' calculator?  There are a lot of good ones for SHA-256 and Scrypt mining, but there really isn't a way to tell which 'CPU Coin' is the most profitable.  Any sites out there or anyone tinkering a a google spreadsheet?

UPDATES
- Moved Frozen to CPU only category.
- Updated Frozen info.
- Sorted coins by approximate market cap.

TODO
- Check on adding FairQuark.
- Check on adding Metiscoin.
- Check on QBT/Q2C and update.
- Check on adding Chaincoin.
- Add more to FAQ about "current technology"

Thanks to all those that like list. If anyone wants to donate to my beer fund, lmk!!  ;)


I have not and will not remove any coins. If/when necessary, I will create new section.

UPDATES
- Moved Memorycoin back to CPU only category.

TODO
- Check on adding FairQuark.
- Check on adding Metiscoin.
- Check on QBT/Q2C and update.
- Check on adding Chaincoin.
- Add more to FAQ about "current technology"

great list. I was actually looking for that kind of list to make sure I saw all of them

Please update information about Q2C (qbit) coin
 
site: http://www.q2c.cc/
exchanges: https://poloniex.com...cyPair=BTC_QBIT

AnimeCoin seems to be a CPU coin - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423339.0

Fairquark too

What measures can coin creators use to ensure their clients can't be used on a botnet... other than restricting them to iphones :p

UPDATES
- Added FairQuark to CPU only category.
- Updated QBT/Q2C info.

TODO
- Check on adding Metiscoin.
- Check on adding Chaincoin.
- Add more to FAQ about "current technology"

There is one calculator for MemoryCoin :
http://agran.net/memorycoin2_calc.html

MINIcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=429105.0

Again, another CPU coin, net2, based on quark. Fair launch and with long time of half rewards.
The wallet looks pretty nice, with showing real-time total coins and network hash rates -- really very nice!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=425267.0

UPDATES
- Added Metiscoin to CPU only category.
- Added NetII coin to CPU only category.
- Added Minicoin to CPU only category.

TODO
- Check on adding Chaincoin.
- Add more to FAQ about "current technology"

Awesome list :D
but Frozen (FZ) should be under limited GPU as it can also be mined with smelter.

Doesn't the newest FZ wallet break smelter?

APPLECOIN.org
VELOCITYCOIN.com
QQCO.IN
RADIOACTIVECOIN.com

All of these are Scrypt-Jane Coins similar to  YAC  which utilizes the NFactor difficulty adjustment to reduce GPU efficiency and thus turn it into a CPU mineable coin.

Most of these are listed on Coinedup.com
and there is an online store  http://cryptosmack.com/store/

Wrote a tutorial for mining MemoryCoin (MMC)
As simple as 2 clicks :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439874

Enjoy

Can you point me to comments on each one indicating that CPU mining is better? I am checking on applecoin forum now.

Thanks for the list adding to watchlist :)

Chaincoin (CHC), CPU mining only:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

Can you add a new category please:

CPU mining with botnet protection

Worldo [WLD]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435803
www.worldo.org
exchanges : none

pnut is also a cpu coin...

TODO
- Check on adding Chaincoin.
- Add more to FAQ about "current technology"
- Check on adding pnut.
- Add worldo


No new category (for now). The botnet protection is untested.

Aloha!

is there a list or a calculator with which I can see the most profitable cpu coin?
coinwarz seems not to be the right one for this

thx

UPDATES
- Added ChainCoin to CPU only category.
- Added Worldo to CPU only category.
- Updated FAQ about "current technology."
- Updated Fairquark info.
- Added exchange to Frozen.

TODO
- Check on adding pnut.

Please update Q2C.
New exchanges: Swisscex.com  and FreshMarket.co.in

Swisscex is too new and FreshMarket doesn't even load.

new cpucoins

Ultracoin
Xedoscoin
Wikicoin
SOMAcoin

Ultracoin is not CPU only. I was mining it yesterday with GPU.

If you want me to check others, post a link to their thread.

its a scrypt jane coin....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444014.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444014.0)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445651.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445651.0)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0)

It is. And a GPU miner was available at launch.

I will look at others when I have time.

GPU mining is faster, but not as much as with e.g. scrypt. Also I think that with higher nFactors the GPU efficiency lowers further. So obviously not the right choice for a thread titled CPU-only, but maybe another thread with CPU-minable coins would be useful in addition.

This coin had a bad reputation on it's launch. People were saying that the developers used malicious code in the original release to withdraw bitcoins from anyone's wallet who downloaded it.

Ok this exchange very fresh.

Q2C new pair Q2C/USD https://c-cex.com/index.html?p=q2c-usd

http://www.q2c.cc/posters/poster1.jpeg

Darkcoin (DRK) CPU mining only

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0

Somacoin was released this weekend and I'm absolutely floored by it.

No premine

No instamine (retarget is very agressive, diff went up almost immediately.)
- don't beleive me? Check this out.


"blocks" : 2256,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 23720.48270491,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

This is a true miner's coin.

What is somacoin? Somalia coin?

Not sure what the name refers to, the coin is here . https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0

I'm just surprised by it since all we have been getting are premined or instamined coins.

Someone posted rumors like this so they could mine more coins while the N-factor and difficultly was low.  People were confused why they needed to 'unlock their wallet for minting' and someone used it as a stepping stone to claim 'its a virus to steal your bitcoins'. It was a cleaver scheme.  No 'malicious code' was ever found and no one reported any coins missing.  Feel free to review the code - I've looked at most of it as well.  https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin (https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin)

Never read Huxley's Brave New World?

Only intel pentium 4! Only hardcore!

"there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."

This coin is not dead.
Three active pools.
http://chc.minepool.cc - 38 miners, 36.464 MH/s
http://cpu-pool.net/chc - 21 miners, 2.405 MH/s
http://chc.goodpool.cn:10045/ = ~20 miners, 36.4 MH/s

I have i5-3470S , 4 cpu  , 20 CHC / day. in cpu-pool.net
Miner burden on the computer very little. It will be just fine without restrictions work.

agree! CHC has a very long time of half rewarding (2 years) and high starting difficulty, so many miners think it is less profitable than other easy coins. But it is fairly launched and has totally new algorithm (not simple copy), I think it will slowly warm up.

TODO
- Check on adding pnut.
- Consider how to add scrypt-jane coins
- Check on adding Somacoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0).
- Check on adding Darkcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0)

I believe going forward I will list the scrypt-jane coins as limited GPU until the nFactor increase makes the GPU mining too hard. At that time, I will move them to CPU only.

What does everyone think?


Exchange is too new. I will add once it has been around a while.

ALSO, would you please make your graphic smaller or remove entirely?


It will stay all you CHC lovers!

What is the most profitable now with this cpu only coins?

What is the Most Profitable CPU Mined Coin you say let me answer that for you.
first of Just want Huge thanks to btc-mike i've been checking this thread like every day! I like the fact you put up what you think of the Coins Like
High Risk CPU-Only AltCoins and such any way just want to say a huge thanks and keep up the good work.
I tested the more popular coins you have listed and posted the results
http://www.reviewoutlaw.com/most-profitable-cpu-coin-list-alt-coin-profits-24-hours-mining/ (http://www.reviewoutlaw.com/most-profitable-cpu-coin-list-alt-coin-profits-24-hours-mining/)
http://i1.wp.com/www.reviewoutlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mining-DD.gif
Please let me know if you have any other Tests or coins you think are better will be happy to test on my hardware and post the results for everyone
i prefer coins that have exchanges already setup

Wow! I was typing my reply when i saw yours. Awesome work.

Here is what I was typing -

Nobody has coded that yet. Most of these coins have their own formula to calculate coins per day. Then there are three or four different exchanges to convert them to BTC. Then you need to pull from one of the major exchanges to figure out the profit in fiat.

looks like you can take MTC of the CPU only list - there seems to me a GPU miner for it now @ page 47

UPDATES
- Moved Metiscoin to limited GPU category.

TODO
- Check on adding pnut.
- Consider how to add scrypt-jane coins
- Check on adding Somacoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0).
- Check on adding Darkcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0)

There is no longer "only CPU".
Each CPU Coin can be mined with GPU  :)
and if CPU Coin uses a special algorithm, it's just a matter of time for someone to make GPU miner.

True, but the question is how efficient is GPU mining compared to CPU mining...
A resilient coin is a coin where GPU mining is only max 2 times better than CPU mining.
As a comparison - Scrypt coins are 10-15 times faster to mine on GPUs.

A MemoryCoin (MMC) example:
My computer has i7-4770 CPU with ASUS R290 GPU.
The GPU (very high-end) gives me 19 HPM while the CPU (also pretty high-end) gives me around 15-20 HPM.
So in this case, there's no question if this should be considered a CPU coin or not.

Why AnimeCoin not added ? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423339.0

You mean each CPU Coin with memory requirements below what the GPU has.
We just haven't seen any CPU coins yet that require, say, from 4GB to 32GB of memory,
but it's perfectly feasible to introduce such coins, that won't "fit" on a GPU (let alone ASIC).

I think DRK could be added as well..
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0

UPDATES
- Added pNut to CPU only category.
- Added Darkcoin to CPU only category.

TODO
- Rewrite intro to take into account scrypt jane.
- Check on adding Somacoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0).
- Check on adding Animecoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423339.0).

I'd like to add our newly announced, soon to be released coin. TakeiCoin [TAK] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452902.0

Please let me know if you have any questions concerning it.

I will add if it is CPU mineable. But, it will be added to the high-risk category unless it gets endorsed by Takei.

I have no comment on that at this time  ;D

but i'll surely keep you updated.

MaxCoin should probably be added.

MetaCoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=454848.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=454848.0) Quark Based. Just launched.

You used a new  i7-3930k for Memorycoin and an old i7-960 for the other coins.  You are comparing apples and oranges.  You also said Protoshares had zero earnings, without bothering to say what the estimated earnings would be.  Memorycoin may be the most profitable, but you should at least make it clear at the start of the review that an old i7 won't work for MMC.

Net2 coin  can exchange on  http://beedui.com/index.php?controller=user&action=reg&inv=6027

No way - maxcoin was cuda raped real hard.

Riecoin?

seems a CPU only. but, but, I've mined two days with 2 8-core servers and get 0 !!

DRK appears to have a GPU miner now  :(

This is a very helpful list.I always mine coins by cpu.Thanks

UPDATES
- Moved TODO list to first post.

Currently working on making this list sortable. Next will be a profit calculator. I should have something in a few days.


I will only add exchanges that offer English translation.

Ow, do you have a link for that?

Anyone have any thoughts on which of these is the most profitable right now?

I'd love to see a profit-switching pool coming up for them. Or, even better, multipool could add a third mode for cpu-coins. I know it's not that easy, but one could start with quark-alg coins first.

Riecoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=446703.0)
CPU only atm, similar to Primecoin in that the algorithm calculates prime numbers, making it an actual meaningful coin.
http://riecoin.org/
Exchange: https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_ric
Pools: ypool

Price is really low right now compared to the difficulty.

Update Darkcoin info - it's now GPU mineable.

Add FairQuark, fair launch and solid development:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=417700.0

CNOTE is CPU minable.  Didnt see it on the list.  Its even trading on Poloniex now.

UPDATES
- Update to do list
- Added Riecoin to CPU only category.
- Moved Darkcoin to limited GPU category.


It has been on the list for a while.

usually they make them cpu only in teh hopes of avoiding you and your multi-pools lol

The link for siriuscoin is wrong

UPDATES
- Fixed Siriuscoin link.
- Removed Worldo. It has not been released.

you can update main page for Vertcoin..
VTC was added to cryptsy quite a while back now..

and maybe add a not that most of these allegedly CPU only coins are widely believed to have private GPU miners.
for example if the guy who made smelter can take open source gpl code and add in support for gpus
and then add restrictions forcing you to solo mine only AND to force you to give him a percentage of all your earnings,
breaking the GPL license lol ..then you got to admit it's likely there is many mods for cudaminer and cgminer floating around
probably since Securecoin / Quark's release.. i know i have worked on a bunch since myself and quit out of laziness pretty much.

good topic idea though and gj :)

I believe that it is very hard to mine XPM and PTS with GPU. It is not impossible but not valuable to mine with GPU. As I know, there is GPU miner for XPM, but, it is even slower than CPU. There are two obstacles for GPU mining for these two coins:1 coding efforts, many hard work needed to move to GPU; 2 efficiency or optimization, a valuable GPU miner should be much faster than CPU. Even for the Quark miner, Smelter, it is not very fast over CPU.

metacoin!

qubit has big potential with new algo (qubit algo).

In May of 2013, YACoin introduced the Nfactor of scrypt-jane (https://github.com/floodyberry/scrypt-jane) to the cryptocurrency world  and was also the first to use SHA-3/Keccak-512 for hashing and ChaCha20/8 for mixing.

I can't speak for the other coins, but I'm sure there are some that are also innovative.

can I lock a cpu mining to a specific type of processor ? for instance ARM architecture ? how emulators could be used to avoid it ?

UPDATES
- Added Cryptsy to Vertcoin.
- Added Soma to cpu only category.
- Added AnimeCoin to cpu only category.


I know they probably exist but they are still private. What if I said that these coins are still profitable when CPU mined?

not sure, dougcoin

based off quark apparently with *Kimoto Gravity Well

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464267.0

Dougcoin

http://dougcoin.org

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464267.new

BitQuark

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=468018.0
http://www.bitquark.info/

Probably GPU minable with smelter

Also, ChainCoin can be traded here https://openex.pw/index.php?page=trade&market=90

qubitcoin from yesterday is gpu minable

Heavycoin ==> Maybe Scam

http://heavycoin.github.io/ (http://heavycoin.github.io/)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=470391.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=470391.0)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0

nice ;D makes me wish i had more video cards

UPDATES
- Added Dougcoin to CPU only category.
- Added C-NOTE to CPU only category.
- Moved Qubitcoin to limited GPU category.
- Added Bitquark to limited GPU category.
- Added Metacoin to limited GPU category.
- Added sph-sgminer to QRK, DRK and Q2C.
- Updated to do list

Not adding Maxcoin to list as it is fully GPU minable.

DRK is also traded on c-cex and coins-e.

CNOTE has an ANN page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397916.0
FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CNOTE/674784285916863?ref=settings
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CNote_Currency
And its currently trading on Poloniex.

Just launched the CPU Coin List

CpuCoinList.com (http://cpucoinlist.com)

Here is the Announcement Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483976.0).

Main Page:  www.fasbit.com

DougCoin and Soma are Quark-based, so they are Limited GPU. Also I think you should change all Quark clones to Limited GPU, since you can mine them with sph-sgminer.

UPDATES
- Moved Soma to limited GPU category.
- Moved Dougcoin to limited GPU category.
- Updated C-Note website and exchange.

The CPU Coin List (http://cpucoinlist.com) will be the only updated list. It is too much work to maintain two separate lists so I will only be focusing on the website (http://cpucoinlist.com) from now on.

mike

You should add a "Date released" column to your list.

That is on my to do list.

I am currently checking all coins with GPU miners available to see if they still are CPU minable. So far I have removed PTS, QRK and CNOTE.

coin back plus update time may be better

coin back?

对不起  楼主 英文不好   就是 每一个币后面加更新时间 

我看您24日更新的  就是不知道那个是更新的币。

I'm sorry I English is not every coin back plus update time

I see you update 24 is not to know that is updated.

eg：Primecoin (XPM) Release July 07, 2013,

Exchanges:

Chaincoin
https://openex.pw/index.php?page=trade&market=90

MINI
http://www.wabigong.com/trade/mini_cny.php

Unioncoin
https://cryptorush.in/index.php?p=trading&m=UNC&b=BTC

Why not add this coin as well.

Sha1coin (SHA-1 as a proof-of-work algorithm. (CPU-only))

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=487560.0

http://ohac.github.io/sha1coin/

You can take Myriadcoin off the list sir.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483515.msg5442093#msg5442093

Is there a good GPU miner for Quark now (well, one that is publically available, that is), or is it still Smelter?

Any of these algorithms could have a GPU miner developed for them (hmm, or maybe not primechain?)?  The only difference is how many people have access to them?... but there are some where the difference won't be as pronounced, eg protoshares/bitshares/whatever it is now.  Could get ~725c/m on a i7-4770 (not overclocked), best public GPU miner gets you around... 4000-4500 cpm on a 290x?  (so i'm not sure why PTS is eliminated, it probably should be CPU/GPU.. doesn't even compare to something like Vertcoin, where CPU is blasted away)

for quark (and ton other algos) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0

OK, agreed, quark is crap then.

Though I don't really agree that the 5-6:1 ratio of 290x vs i7-4770 should relegate protoshares to the 'eliminated' list..

You can get around 1000cpm from a dual core Opteron 6274, which would be something like 4-4.5:1

I understand. I will do this later.


I am only adding major exchanges.


I will add.



I knew that was coming. I will remove it.

I will remove Q2C.

PTS - I mined (ypool) for about 12 hours on my FX-8320. Didn't get a lot. I will do a more thorough test and re-add if still profitable.

Right now it's been junked out because the difficulty level is out of whack, due to all the ppl that were mining prior to Mar 1st.    It should be better once difficulty adjusts... then I guess you just wait for the next "DAC"...  but CPU performance vs GPU isn't unreasonable and it *used* to be profitable, even w/ the 4000 c/m GPU miners...  profitable, as in, you could actually get dedicated servers & make money off of them (if you knew where to get them from and/or if you know some host that you can get a good bulk deal from)

I have updated the OP of this thread with the current CPU coins.

Which coin on the list is the most profitable to mine?

Thank you very much from the inside stuff I published a lot of education to useful knowledge

UPDATES
- Removed Heavycoin


I will checkout Fatecoin today

Hi btc-mike,

feel free to use the watchlist for defining any kind of coin list
on my site http://www.crypto-coins-table.com.
394 coins listed in the moment

I made a sample of the CPU-Coins you listed.

http://www.crypto-coins-table.com/?wl=lPreUi93

pNUT and BEK are not listed yet, if you want them on the page,
please provide the information as described here:

http://www.crypto-coins-table.com/index.php?var_action=submit

regards

what is profitable one in this list,mining on vps

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515285.0

Rhinohorns are CPU-only until block 24200.  ;)

Advertisingcoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=419536.0

PopulaceCoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=502135.0

Can someone update list in main page with new pool n exchanges if please.

Some of them are on exchanges and some are coming up in few days.

Please keep the list updated.

10x

What changes are needed?

UPDATES
-Added Rhinohorns
-Added Fatecoin
-Removed YAC

Please add Particle,Quark algorithm
the new wallet

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0

https://i.imgur.com/H2gLNE2.png
https://i.imgur.com/GDcwHD9.png

particle was removed after gpu miner for quark became widely available

I think you shouldn't even bother listing coins that use hashcash with some alternative,
easily computed hash function (or combination thereof), where there's no reason
whatsoever to think that it couldn't be implemented on a GPU...

UPDATES TO WEBSITE
-Added Hirocoin
-Fixed algorithm on Darkcoin.

Need to add populace to webpage and first post
Need to add hirocoin to first post.

Long story short: All worthless besides Darkcoin, right?

Populace is a usual quark clone with no new features, but for some reason it has a great community in China, now leading the vote on Mintpal

Worthless for what?
For long term hold, probably yes, Darkcoin is the most promising. For short term mine and sell I believe Darkcoin is not the most profitable at this moment.

oh never mind then. it is a pain to keep track of these quark clones that just rearrange the algos.

UPDATE
-Added Hirocoin to first post.

Sha1coin from  Japan .
Uses Sha-1 algo.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=487560.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=487560.0)

I checked out Sha1coin a while ago. It looked dead then and still does.

Hirocoin claims to be GPU coin....  ::)

Hirocoin and Darkcoin use the X11 algorithm. X11 does not give GPUs a huge advantage over CPUs. My CPUs are mining DRK right now.

Please, add to the list

Bytecoin (BCN)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.0
https://bytecoin.org/
Exchangers - not known

It's not bitcoin clone BTE, it's old cryptocurrency that was named bytecoin much earlier than BTE. And it's not based on BTC code at all.

Is that based on hash delivered or hash vs electricity?

Hash delivered - X11 does not give GPUs a huge advantage over CPUs

electricity - i know x11 consumes less electricty when gpu mining. not sure if same is true for cpus.

hmmm interesting. Will take a closer look at that.

Thanks sir.

I will add but this coin is very odd. It seems to be a members only thing and we were not invited.

Will it be then faster to mine DARKCOIN on win8 cuz if much faster then win7.

i dont know. i only use win7

OK. Thanx for quick answer. I will try this for weekend and see for my self

ask in drk thread. someone in there will know. my guess is that win8 will be a few percent higher or lower then win7.

It's rather a philosophical question. They're not members-only according to their blog, so it's the informational asymmetry. Bitcoin was also not known for the 99.9% of its current users when it started, but you can always hop on the train.

All these 11 hash functions have efficient circuit implementation as a design criterion.
So they're all very ASIC friendly, just like SHA256.

If the GPU implementation doesn't have a huge advantage over CPUs,
it can only be due to lack of proper optimization.


This is all the "X11 whitepaper" has to say about X11:

Darkcoin  uses  a  new  chained  hashing  algorithm   approach,  with  many  new  scientific  hashing algorithms  for  the   proof­of­work.  X11  consists  of  blake,  bmw,  groestl,   jh,  keccak,  skein,  luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, and echo. 
Because  it is more complicated than a SHA256 ASIC implementation,
the use of X11 will prevent the  use  of  ASIC miners for  the  short­-term  to midterm future. It will also allow for a longer period of mining for CPU/GPU users.
GPU   miners   that   mine  with  the X11  algorithm  are  currently  experiencing  reduced  power  usage (up to 50%) and reduced heat generation compared to scrypt.

Please update when you do. I'm mining DRK using Ubuntu. If you find significant increases in performance I may play a bit to try something also.

A good thread,thanks!

Is the GPU power savings (compared to other coins) also due to inefficient coding?

There are rumors about CHC GPU miner
It would not be difficult to "fork"

im thinking state switches are what is causing the cooler work enviroment for the gpus, you are talking about changing between 11 different hashing algos, so either it has to be compiled as 1 long stream or optimised in other ways

Not a rumor. I updated first post with link.

anyone have a difficulty list of these coins? Would be interesting to see which are profitable

Thanks for the list!!! my cpu is working now!!!  ;D

you should list QuickQuickCoin , both CPU and GPU.

Each coin has its own algorithm so you can't compare difficulty


Great!


I am not going to add because the developer is missing. If the dev returns or someone takes over, I will consider.

This made me realize that any coin on the list without an active developer should be removed. I will be making changes. Removed pnut.

Considering about current situation best are X11 to mine for now.

Hi,
the groestlcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=525926.660) may be also a coin worth to mine.
I've got an E5-1620 and I can mine at 1200 kh/s (~500 kh/s on hirocoin X11).
at this speed it seems to be more profitable (or less bad :P) than Hiro or Riecoin

That coin is GPU mineable since day 1. This list is intended for coins that are CPU only or were CPU only in the beginning.

Is there any pool that can be mined through proxy server I have on work several i3 n i5 machines that i can use post here pls.

Found some but no connection.

The original intention of the list was CPU only. As the list evolved, I realized that some coins were still worth CPU mining even when there was a GPU miner available. It doesn't matter to me when the GPU miner becomes available, as long as the CPU is still competitive.

I will check it out.

 

Look for pools that allow you to connect on port 80. You should be able to connect without proxy.

Isn't Primechain/Primecoin the only hashing algorithm that GPU is no faster than CPU with current software?

The jury is still out on Cuckoo Cycle, as little effort has been put into GPU implementations.
A direct port of the current latency-bounded CPU implementation performs
much worse than the CPU one, but that's not saying much...

Which one is the most profitable CPU coin now?

Not anymore.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=548230.0

Let me know if you need a tester with 5830, 6950 !

Cuckoo Cycle isn't used by and coins yet, is it?

Nope:-(

Wow, very impressive. I know tons of people have been volunteering to test and you probably don't need anyone else, but just in case, I'd be happy to run it on my Windows 8.1 64 bit system with a Diamond R9 280X.

Has anyone calculated which hashing algorithm has the LEAST advantage from a GPU vs. CPU?

I'm always in search of the best coin to mine on all but 1 of my cores along with my GPU miner.

I got ~3 XPM in 1 week mining on RapidPrime with their optimized CPU miner with my i7-3770 @ 3.4 Ghz x 7 cores and am curious if I can do any better.

you can try Groestlcoin - fairly new, the hashrate difference between the CPU and GPU miner isnt 1000x different ( heavycoin gpu vs cpu ), its more like 10x or less ( dollar for dollar - ie $200 cpu vs $200 gpu )

spreadsheet of hashrate for groestlcoin below for different hardware
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atmcd1XbwbURdFVhT0w5RXdvcUdKdXVQVUt1blZZSHc#gid=0

I looked at Goestlecoin some more. It is not a good sign when nobody will take the time to compile the optimized CPU software.

Also, it doesn't matter that the CPU hash rate is about 2.4x higher than x11. The GPU hash rate is almost 4x higher.

I am going to start working on this. Tromp had suggested it earlier but I didn't like the idea at the time.

I will get a CPU hash rate from my CPU (AMD FX8320 - 8 cores, 3.5Ghz) and compare to average score of a GPU (R9 280x perhaps).

Could help you with that. I have a FX8350 & 270x

That would be great. My thought was to actually only test the CPU mining. The GPU hash rates can be pulled from elsewhere. Everyone posts their hash rate for comparison so it shouldn't be too hard.

I will PM you.

Does there happen to be a multipool for cpu coins?
sort of like middle, wemineall, or others but for just cpu.

No, there is not one. The multipools all mine the scrypt algorithm and switch between the various scrypt coins.

The CPU coins have many different algorithm, so it is not possible to put them all on one multipool. Some one could make a multipool for each of the algorithms. For example, an X11 multipool would have hirocoin, darkcoin, muniti, etc.

I can start with X11 hashing data CPU vs. GPU:

Intel i7 3770 3.4GHz 7 cores: 450 kH/s
Diamond R9 280X: 2.2 Mh/s
GPU advantage ratio = 4.9

Are you using the optimized miner? I get 458kh/s on my cpu. I expected yours to be higher.

nevermind - i see you said 7 cores. can you get all 8 cores?

Yeah it is not much higher, ~470 kH

I have changed the name of this thread from "CPU Only" to "CPU Friendly". Many of the coins on the list have GPU miners but are still able to mined with the CPU.

A couple days Hashcoin (HASH) was launched. It is very similar to Darkcoin (X11 and DGW). It is already in a few exchanges (none of the big ones though: Exarena, Swaphole and Europex, that I know). I cpu mined a bit in the beginning with the same settings I use for DRK or HIRO, so I guess it belongs in the list. This is the ANN thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=560955.0;all

There are bunch using x11:

* Edgecoin
* ElectronicYen
* GiveCoin
* HighFiveCoin
* Limecoin
* Quebecoin
* VirtualCoin

I will check out hashcoin first.

Try Memorycoin. The CPU yam miner gets me 13h/s with my 3770k OC, which is more hash than my 280x with the GPU miner.

http://memorycoin.org/

All further updates will be on The CPU Coin List (http://cpucoinlist.com/).

I have added the GPU Advantage over CPU for several coins and will continue to do that. Primecoin has been removed due to two GPU miners being released.

Nice but why so little coins on the list, will u add more or it your personal favorite list of all altcoins?

Not my personal favorites. Here are the X11 coins I will be checking:

* Edgecoin
* ElectronicYen
* GiveCoin
* HighFiveCoin
* Limecoin
* Quebecoin
* VirtualCoin
* hashcoin

I should be able to add them today.

What others do you think are missing?

So which one do you think is the most profitable ATM?
I've been mining noirshares for a while getting $1 per day using 28 threads
:/

Day 2 Mining mmc for 24hrs 28 threads got 30 mmc value $1  :/

Note: I can not complile Groest miner :/

I can only mine with CPU. Now I am mining mmc and the yam miner is really great!!

Is the site down? Cannot access it.

Yes. Problem with host, all my sites are down. I rarely have probs with them and when I do, they usually fix in minutes. I will call if not back up in a few minutes.

It is back now.

"List of CPU-ONLY AltCoins, http://cpucoinlist.com/" canceled marucoin coins
why

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0;all

maru has a gpu miner, MARU ~ 1.8 MH/s

Your list was a catalyst for convincing us to make JuggaloCoin X11.  We would be honored if you could add it to the list.

Papa Nutt

The GPU has over a 10x advantage on the CPU. The reason was given in this blog post (http://cpucoinlist.com/maurucoin-eliminated/).

Any experience with Bytecoin or clones?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.0

Edit: actually Cryptonote and clones.

Cryptonote is very interesting software and I predict there will be a solid coin that uses it in the near future.

Bytecoin is a great implementation but I do not consider it a usable cryptocurrency. It was mined for around 2 years by the developer group before it was "released." Bitmonero is a copy/paste job by one developer that does have the knowledge or support to make it succeed.

Bitmonero will be added to my list soon, as it meets all the criteria but I doubt it will last long.

The Research Support Coin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=566608.0) is CPU only, since it's distribution is based on computing scientific tasks from World Community Grid through BOINC client and all the tasks at WCG can currently run only on CPU.

I won't add coins with a 100% premine.

updated list of CPU coins

http://www.crypto-coins-table.com/?wl=lXDyPcay

How come datacoin doesn't have a GPU miner yet? Isn't it based on primecoin?

There is probably a private one. Datacoin is almost dead, so there is not a big rush to make a miner.

Interesting. Can you tell me why it's almost dead? When it will be dead completely? Or maybe it will reborn?
I'm asking seriously - have started mining it based on your list. Reason: no public GPU miners and can be traded at beer.

That is my opinion. There are several reasons I think that.

-First and foremost, no one has taken the time to publicly post a GPU miner. A coder could release binaries only with a small dev fee and make some coin simlar to what Claymore did with Primecoin
-There have been no code updates since Nov 2013.
-The original poster for the announcement thread has not posted since Jan 2014.
-The DTC twitter account has been quiet since March 19
-The DTC thread is very quiet.
-Trade volume is very low on all exchanges
-Market cap (http://coinmarketcap.com/dtc_90.html) has been sliding for months.

Currently mining GRS but I was mining DTC before and I was making more profit than GRS now.
I have pretty bad CPU's: 1x Athlon II X4 615e & 1x Celeron 430 (i also mine a little on a VPS).


I was making something like 0.01 BTC every 1,5 weeks.
Now I am mining GRS and haven't made 0.0001 yet in 5 days.
If you have an i7 DTC profitably might be a different story. I read somewhere that MemoryCoin is supposed to be great to mine if you have powerful CPU.

I'm thinking about switching to Riecoin next.
What are you guys mining and what have you found out to be the most profitable?

try dougcoin, not that many ppl mining it.
miningpool            http://doug.ext-pool.net/
exchange has a 0.08BTC buy at 1 sat      https://comkort.com/market/trade/doug_btc

Thx!
I was thinking about this also: -First and foremost, no one has taken the time to publicly post a GPU miner. A coder could release binaries only with a small dev fee and make some coin simlar to what Claymore did with Primecoin.

In fact, the Claymore miner works on one DTC mining pool (http://dtc.xpool.xram.co/).

I pulled MMC from the list a few days ago. There is no dev and it still uses KGW. KGW can be exploited.

I have not personally mined Riecoin, but it is a solid coin.

Here is what I do
- Mine coins at launch. Mine them for a few days until difficulty gets high. Wait for price increase and sell.
- Do some research and find a coin you think has a future. Mine that at all other times. My current choice is Darkcoin.

I feel that potential exploitability should be left out of consideration for what CPU-coins to list.

PS: please update the Cuckoo Cycle synopsis as follows, to reflect recent implementation improvements:

I looked for info about this on the forum yesterday with no luck. I will pull it from the list today.

Hirocoin is great.thx for you make a list.

KGW is also an indicator that the coin has no active developer. Coins with an active developer replaced KGW shortly after the AUR mess.

PS: Updated the page

Hi!
btc-mike, what is your opinion about Monero?
It looks very very very interesting and and I'm in. But I would like to know the guru point of view ;-)
Will it be the new Bytecoin (as I would like to think) or maybe its future is very hard to predict?
Thx!

english links?

Bytecoin is interesting but it was mined for 2 years by the "dev team". The team itself still remains in hiding. I am not getting involved with it.

Monero was rushed. TFT is doing what he wants to do. There was lots of input pre-launch but he ignored most of it and continues to.

I like CryptoNote technology. I am waiting for a new coin to be released using it that has a community.

 It would be interesting to see which of them are profitable. I haven't ever heard about most of them!

I'm interested about CPU friendly altCoins using X11 algorithm. Which is most profitable? I paid attention on DarkCoin as a lite version of Bitcoin using X11 as a proof-of-work algorithm.

X11 is not the most profitable algo for CPUs atm. Cryptonight is.

The correct name is CryptoNote (https://cryptonote.org/).

Do you have numbers?

The proof-of-work algorithm is indeed

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNight

damn

I'll look into those coins! Cool for distribution to be CPU mined. After hearing more and more about these abusive ASIC manufacturers, I'm moving away from that scene

It is really nice to see that even btc-mike makes mistakes :-D
Sorry, just kidding.

Thank you for your opinion about Monero. As usual - very accurate and very useful for me.

Which CPU-mineable coin is most profitable right now? I'm mining GRS but I keep them bcs selling in this price is not good idea...

I don't follow the prices that closely so I am not sure.

Also - the main thread for The CPU Coin List -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483976.0

I don't post any updates in this thread, I have only been answering questions.

Follow The CPU Coin List on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cpucoinlist)!

AppleByte, which launched May 1, 2014, has a built in CPU Mining Tab on the wallet. You just click "Start Mining"
To download the wallet, just go to our website: AppleByte.me (http://applebyte.me)

Please add YACoin

https://i.imgur.com/SidMIXE.png

Whoah btc-mike, I hadn't visited this post for a while. Camre here to notice that you're avtively maintaining it and you even added a website now. That's sweet, thank you!  ;)

Slimcoin is CPU only currently.

Cryptoknight/note has a GPU (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0;topicseen) miner out.

I read the i7-3770 gets 511khash/s on X11. It gets 410 hash/s on YAC. YACoin has to be the most profitable cpu coin, looking at www.whattomine.com ! The recent NFactor change had a huge effect on 1gb and 2gb GPU cards.

cryptonote exchange has closed since all the volume was at poloniex

OP

Why is Yacoin not on this list?

I believe he's said a few posts before that now he only answers questions in this thread but that he doesn't update it. He does all the updates in a more comprehensive website he's done for this:
http://cpucoinlist.com/

Thanks, I might have been more specific as I was referring to the website.

[ANN][PEOPLES CURRENCY][PPL][FIRST 17ROUND CRYPTOHASH ALGO]VOTE POLONIEX MINTPAL
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=684854.0
so far only the CPU

Phoenixcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330956.0) is very CPU friendly with NeoScrypt (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712650.0) now. Although a GPU miner is in the works, it's very unlikely to kill CPU mining.

http://phoenixcoin.org/archive/neoscrypt_ad.png

Myriadcoin with algo Qubit

Same as Qubitcoin.. very CPU friendly.

+1, add Phoenixcoin....and others with NeoScrypt soon.

i am no longer involved with the CPU Coin List

boooooo!

Then who is running it sir?

Why?! What happened? :(

Is CPU mining not as profitable as before? Or what made you quit?
And who is now maintaining the site?

The website will be maintained by user CPUcoinist. CPUcoinlist will post here as well as Twitter updates.

Hard to say without any specification of the biblehash PoW.
What *exactly* is it computing?

Another CPU coin with a new algo...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2329470.msg23686620#msg23686620

Pool doesn't work very well but anyway this is a very new coin and you can get some before hit a great exchange...

I saw a new one yesterday.  ROI Coin.  Looks very similar to HODLCOIN, which I mined for a while, but it's dying.  Even uses the same hodlminer.  A few complaints about it being buggy, though.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2361848.580

The hyperlink for siriuscoin is incorrect

What do you mean by CPU friendly altcoin?

coin back again plus revise time might be better

Nice to see this thread reborn, which is a sign there are still some coins for CPU only. Did someone test the new ones reported now in November?

Nice thread but discovered that's so old. Are there any new CPU altcoins in 2017?

I still do not understand with your explanation, do you think pc that I use there ability as much / strong as what coi / token that can be accommodated by cpu on pc?

Best coin currently is Minexcoin, you can mine it with your PC or laptop.
I mine Minexcoin and can earn like 1.02 MNX daily which is 6-7$ a day, i have low electricity fee in my area so it is a profit for me.

Wasn't Ducknote one of the coins that did well? I am sure that the coin was able to be mined via CPU without much issues.

This is a very helpful list.I always mine coins by cpu.Thanks

This is a really old list. I am not sure why it came on top of the discussion. Some of the coins are no longer in active development or trading.

I think that moderators must close this thread. It can be possible harm for the new forum members cause this lists are really old. Someone will mine coin which passed years ago then what? Plz close thread.

I believe YACoin is STILL the most profitable coin to mine with your CPU. The volume is extremely low, but how much volume do you need mining with your i5/i7...

BiblePay (BBP) - fork of DASH, is ASIC Resistant (CPU Only) like Vertcoin and 10% of mined coins will always go to Charity, the project is already sponsoring 186 orphans monthly through the charity Compassion International, Masternodes are going live this December!

Is mining altcoins with your CPU profitable? Experts think otherwise.

Monero (XMR) - CPU is still ok
Zcoin (XZC) - CPU is still ok, when MTP released, CPU and GPU gap will be closer.
and also
NEM (XEM) - harvesting, and you can close down your PC without joining any pool

 It can be possible harm for the new forum members cause this lists are really old. The volume is extremely low, but how much volume do you need mining with your i5/i7!!!

Exactly!

Is this a new altcoin? Is this legit?