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Considering that ASICs have taken the lead over most cryptocurrencies' mining process, only a few have remained ASIC-resistant where they could only be mined with a GPU, and in some cases, with a CPU.

As such, I'm looking for CPU only coins which are worth mining nowadays. I know that CPU mining is not as great as it used to be, but it would still be a fun and rewarding task to do as a hobby.

Therefore, which are the hottest CPU coins to mine right now? I would like to know your opinions and recommendations about this. :)

Probably Verus at the moment given that the early tests of GPU mining don't seem to show sufficient advantage over CPU miners, plus limitations on bandwidth from risers also curbs many of the large GPU farms.

look JSECOIN , You can mine simply by web browser or with an application
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4782844.0

I amn't fan of CPU mining and everyone here prefers GPU or asic. As far as I know Monero is profitable for cpu mining but everything depends on cpu also, which model it is and etc. Even if we not talk about which coin is more profitable, just see nicehash profitability calculator, they really give you great profit, difference would be very, very low with actual coin mining and mining on nicehash. From their stats, CPUs aren't profitable, they can't mine more than 30USD in month.

you kidding, what are you talking about? bandwidth of pci-e 1x will be enough for mining unit our generation die.
does the gpu mine faster if it is in x16 or in x1? No. and when you are out of pci-e lanes, I bet that gou aint going to mine.

I don't know which is profitable coin for CPU mining but there are some website and calculators that you can see all list of CPU mining coins.
you can use this site https://newcpucoins.com/?cpu_only=true and this site http://cpucoinlist.com/

You clearly have no idea what Verushash is and are blindly applying logic of other algos. Try hard and use that little brain of yours to reread what I originally posted instead of haphazardly taking things out of context.

Verus is a new coin for me, and looks quite interesting IMO. I'm surprised to see that this altcoin is not listed yet on Coinmarketcap, as well as big and popular exchanges. It's only listed on a single exchange with very low trading volume which shows that there is not much interest from people into acquiring the coin after all. Still, it looks like it's easy to mine on a CPU, but lack of trades on the market, will make it worthless in the long term unless the community and development team decides to promote the coin for adding it into other exchanges.

Nevertheless, I'll be mining on hodling this coin just in case it skyrockets in value within the future. ;)



Thanks for the tip. I know that CPUs aren't that profitable at all, but they're a great entry point for any average person looking to get into mining cryptocurrencies without much effort. Nowadays, GPUs and ASICs are highly expensive and sometimes inaccessible by an average person. That's why, I believe that CPU-based coins are much more decentralized than those which are mineable by GPUs only or even ASICs.

I'm only looking for coins which have not been abandoned by its dev or community, which are easily mineable by a CPU. Right now, I only have 2 on the list which are Magi, and Verus, but there could be a lot more which are popular and highly supported by people in crypto land. One thing that I'm looking forward to is the emergence of an altcoin that uses Cyckoo Cycle for its PoW consensus. It is said that coins with such feature, can be easily mined on any device, including smartphones and tablets. According to my knowledge, aeternity will become such coin, but it hasn't launched its mainnet yet (it's only an ERC-20 token in the moment).

Nevertheless, maybe as time passes by, we would be able to see new cryptocurrencies which are easily mineable with a CPU, further decentralizing the mining process as it would be open to anyone around the world. ;)

You have to consider that for mining you need great cpu which is pretty expensive too. At some point I agree you, CPU mineable coins are more decentralized. If we consider this fact too, then I would mine Monero with CPU. Personally I see big future in this coin because it's more anonymous compared to any current active coin and easily exchangeable too.

BiblePay (BBP) is great CPU Only coin that is still very profitable

Windows - https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/6umlqq/how_to_mine_biblepay_on_windows/
Linux - https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/6ummuj/how_to_mine_biblepay_on_linux/

Yes. Luckily, I have a powerful 6th generation Intel Core i5 CPU which performs nicely on my PC. I haven't tried mining Monero with it yet, but I think that I could obtain good results doing so (although it is best to mine XMR with GPUs). However, I believe that CPU mineable coins will be the future of cryptocurrency if there's enough interest from people in the mainstream world. Monero has a big future, since it can be mined by a CPU or a GPU while maintaining ASIC resistance. And it's one of my favorite cryptocurrencies too. ;)



Nice. I didn't think about this mining algorithm earlier. While these coins are not well-known in the crypto space, they could be hidden gems waiting for someone to mine them, to reap the rewards at a later point in time. Aside from the CPU coins you've mentioned earlier, I've found out that Hodlcoin is CPU mineable too, and it provides you with the ability to "HODL" your coins in fixed terms up to 12 Months or 1 Year. If you make a fixed deposit of your Hodlcoins for a year, then the rewards will be bigger. Hence, Hodlcoin might be worth mining after all.

Lastly, Magi (XMG) and Cryply (CRP) are CPU-only coins and are easily mineable within any device. The first one, is a hybrid PoW/PoS coin with an outstanding community and developer, which is worth mining these days. However, the latter one (CRP) is not listed on Coinmarketcap yet since it's relatively new, but it has a great development team behind it, and a very nice user-friendly miner for newbies.

Nonetheless, I'm on the hunt for new and promising coins that are easily mineable with a CPU. I’ll appreciate if someone could keep me up-to-date with this :)



Awesome. I'll add this one to my CPU-only coins to mine. Thanks for sharing!  ;)

Arionum (ARO)

There's also a Discord that compiles a list of CPU mineable coins:

CPU Miners Club
https://discord.gg/wg8cTDs

Thanks, mate. This is highly appreciated. Glad to know that there are new coins being released with the aim to be easily mineable with a CPU. For years, GPUs and ASICs have dominated the crypto space, but CPU mining has been left behind. I believe that mining only with CPUs would greatly contribute towards a more decentralized blockchain infrastructure.

Speaking of CPU mining, I've heard that Cyckoo cycle cryptocurrencies can be easily mined by any device. New cryptocurrencies such as aeternity and Grin will make use of Cyckoo cycle for CPU mining. On the other hand, there's Magi (XMG) which has a unique PoW algorithm not available in any other cryptocurrency (as far as I'm aware) which is super easy to mine with a CPU. The cryptocurrency discourages big miners from obtaining greater rewards, by simply reducing the network's block reward. Hence, the bigger the hashrate on the network, the lower the reward will be, making this a unique CPU coin.

Nonetheless, I wish that more CPU-only coins would emerge so that any average Joe could get into mining without much effort. But it would all depend on people's adoption within the mainstream world.  ;D

Hi! Do you guys know of a updated cpuminer with support for SOCKS proxy (-x in cpuminer) ?  ???

I love how no one is saying turtle  :)

If you mean Turtlecoin, then I guess no one has mentioned it because it's relatively new to the market. Upon reviewing its technical specs, I've found it to be a nice alternative to many CryptoNote coins like Monero and Bytecoin. The newly proposed CryptoNote Soft Shell PoW Algorithm by the Turtlecoin dev team, shows that the cryptocurrency has active development and innovation. It's a very undervalued cryptocurrency with low difficulty (compared with leading CryptoNote coins).

While CryptoNote is not CPU-only, the new CryptoNote Soft Shell PoW Algorithm seems to be like so. Basically, any ASIC-resistant PoW algorithm can be easily mined with a CPU, unless the difficulty is too high. Because most CPU coins (except for Magi) can be mined also with GPUs, it increases the barrier of entry for any average Joe looking to get into mining.

Nonetheless, I believe that the hottest CPU-only coins to mine right now are Turtlecoin (TRTL), Magi (XMG), Hodlcoin (HODL), Monacoin (MONA), and Vertcoin (VTC). 8)

Turtlecoin has never been a CPU only minable coin, still is not. You can GPU mine it. Currently I'm CPU + GPU mining it. It's more than a year old, devs are very active, >400 forks and counting.

Thanks for the link. Looking for such list as I'm looking for coins dedicated for cpu mining only.
Maybe I can find profitable coins from the list. Back reading the comments in this section to check what they have in mind also.
The energy consumption of gpu miners in my area is pretty expensive. Stopped gpu mining for so long already.

I would go with Tera > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4573801.0

TPS and features speaks for itself.

Well, that sucks. While GPU mining is great for those who have high-end graphic cards, it's not suitable for the average person. CPU mining is much more accessible to anyone around the world, resulting beneficial towards the decentralization of any cryptocurrency. Upon researching different PoW coins, I've concluded that only two mining algorithms are easily mined with CPUs than GPUs or even ASICS. Such algorithms are M7M and yescrypt.

Magi uses the M7M algorithm for mining, which it's extremely easy to mine with any CPU. On the other hand, we've got Cryply (CRP) which uses yescrypt and it's highly accessible by average CPUs. The most interesting one is Magi, since it has a mechanism that lowers the block reward the higher the hashrate on its blockchain network. Additional security against 51% attacks is implemented, via the use of PoS. With Magi's unique algorithm, big miners cannot join the network resulting in greater decentralization by giving the power back to the small miners or the average person.

Nonetheless, I believe that the hottest CPU-only coins to mine right now would be Magi, Cryply, and Hodlcoin. Just my thoughts ;D

I could be wrong, but last time i checked. If you won virtually every Hodlcoin block each day, i think you struggle to make $1 a day, and Magi is in a right mess. No leadership, multiple forks, pools up and down like yoyo's.  Most original Magi miners left last year, and now a few bigger miners have it it, again, virtually impossible to hit $1 a day.

Prob best to stick with cryply.
J

There are effective Yescrypt GPU miners already.

Thanks for letting me know about this, mate. I didn't know that Magi was in such as harsh situation, as it had one of the most supportive communities within the crypto space. Even if Magi used to be quite unprofitable most of the times, it was fun to mine it with ease. One thing that I've noticed though, is that Magi has a single developer working on it, which is often bad for the longevity of the cryptocurrency. The project needs more people working on it, to maintain itself as a solid cryptocurrency among the market.

Despite this, there are many other good CPU coins that can be mined today. I believe that Monacoin goes easy on the CPU, as well as, Cryply. If you tend to have a powerful or mid-range CPU, you can easily generate a side income even if the money earned is not as much as a regular job. CPU-only coins are much more decentralized than many PoW coins which are only mineable via ASICs or GPUs. But, it's only a matter of adoption whenever these coins will succeed or not within the future.  :(

Just lloked at Monacoin, if i found the right one, its Lyra2rev2, which now has an ASIC...sorry

That sucks. Considering how it's possible to design an ASIC miner for any kind of PoW algorithm, decentralized mining could be just a dream. If a cryptocurrency which claims to be ASIC-resistant becomes extremely popular, there's nothing stopping manufacturers from devising their own ASIC machines. Of course, ASICs greatly strengthen the security of Blockchain networks, but their biggest flaw is that they leave the small miners out of the equation. I believe that CPU-only mining is the only way to go towards being decentralized in any way possible.

Despite this, it seems that only yescypt coins are CPU-only mineable (for now). That leaves us with Cryply as one of the best (if not the only one) CPU-only mineable coins within the crypto space. Aside from that, there's the option of PoS coins which are much more accessible than PoW, IMO. But their security is highly questionable relative to PoW coins.  :-\

What about big memory coins, like IMACredit use to be?  It was n-scrypt based with N=16 requiring 16MB of memory per thread back in 2014.  The best scrypt ASICs back then (like the advertised but never delivered GAW Vaultbreaker) could only handle N=14.  IMACredit was tested to work with an N up to 20, although that reduced it to hashs per hour back then instead of hashs per second.

It is my understanding that most ASICs excel because of the parallelism they have, with each chip running lots of threads.   Use an algo that eats memory and the ASIC becomes impossibly expensive, since memory is not cheap.  Right?

Turtlecoin plans to fork for argon2id at block 1.8M

I think verus coin is a good coin to mine for CPU mining  and the difficulty is still low  ;)

Its not exactly 'hot' right now. But on my gpu mining rig, I also mine with the cpu JSEcoin.

Its browser cpu based mining and is easy enough to set up. Doesnt use much electricity. But don't expect to get rich quick I'm talking maybe 10 cents a day as an estimate.

Is CPU mining really profitable? do you have to use a high CPU to get good profits. maybe in the future the CPU can become the main mining competing with GPU mining.

Hearing rumors of a throw-back CPU only coin coming up.

No pools, mining will only function via the wallet in order to foster decentralization.  One wallet, one thread of mining.  Yeah, VMs can be used but pools won't work.

ASIC resistant of course.  That would be compounded by actively preventing pool software from working, which doubles as an ASIC and GPU block.

Thinking this has some possibilities... or at least will be fun to see how it progresses.

I'm now mining this coin using Mozilla firefox I just notice that if you leave the tab where you are mining it, the hash rate drops you need a dedicated pc to mine JSECOIN so the hashes will not drop, I'm also using the advertising code to mine JSECOIN on all my websites and it's more profitable than mining in your computer.

I think that this sounds very interesting. I think that this is a good step towards decentralization. It will be interesting if these coins become popular this year.

I mined NIM for a few months and was one of the first miners when the mainnet launched.
Is it really profitable now? I'll try to start mining again.  ;D

Thank you so much mate for provide this website link. I can see so many coins which is CPU mine able coin. I can choose best and profitable one for mine. Also from this list I can suggest to my some friends about the best CPU mine able coin.

don't be naive
almost all "cpu-only" coins are gpu mineable
nimiq, wavi, cryply and more, and more
maybe you should calculate hashes per watt, but...
maybe only cpu-solo-mineable coins that mine from wallet via built-in miner are cpu-true , but i'm not so sure about that either

Myriadcoin (XMY) just got a new (as far as I know) CPU-only algorithm - Argon2D(4096).
There's a few pools up and running - one of them is mine (pokemongomongo dot tk) .

Mining is best when few people know about the coin and the difficulty is low.
Mining and do not sell the coin. When more people learn about the coin, the difficulty increases, trading on the  exchanges is more active, the price rises, then you have to sell.
For example, this year I mining uplexa, the price of 5 satoshi, when the price rose to 18 satoshi, the difficulty also increased and it became less profitable to mining.
But it is beneficial to those who mined at low difficulty and sold at a high price.

Well, this approach could work (although there's nothing stopping manufacturers from developing ASICs for any cryptocurrency), if the cryptocurrency becomes extremely popular and valuable across the market. So far, memory-intensive PoW cryptocurrencies have been resistant against ASICs. But, they would need to keep increasing their RAM requirements over time in order to maintain themselves away from said hardware.

Nonetheless, coins like cryply, Turtlecoin, and Hodlcoin seem to be the best bet for CPU mining these days. :)



Cool. Let's hope that Turtlecoin remains ASIC-resistant, as well as, other cryptocurrencies which make use of ASIC-resistant algorithms. It's hard these days for the small miner to actively support a specific cryptocurrency's network, given how ASIC have dominated the industry for quite some time.

Despite this, even if mining CPU-only coins are considered a hobby, they serve as great learning tools for anyone who's new into the world of crypto. So far, Electroneum (phone mineable), cryply, and Hodlcoin are my favorite CPU-only coins to mine. Magi (XMG) used to be good, but it seems to be abandoned in development now.

Hopefully, more cryptos which are ASIC-resistant would emerge in order to further decentralized the mining industry. ;)



Thanks for the tip. I'll have a deeper look at Verus for CPU mining. Komodo cryptocurrency seems to be actively promoting this coin, which means that it might be worth mining after all.



This new coin looks interesting to mine, especially on phones while you're on the road. Of course, this venture is not profitable at all. But at least, it's something. If it remains active in development, then it'll last for long.

Still, I'm on the hunt for new CPU-only coins with active development and innovation. It would be a better alternative than most popular coins out there which can only be mined with a GPU or an ASIC. :)

Actually, the coin I'm hearing about is a bit of a throw-back and uses nScrypt, with a high N.  Memory requirements are something like 64X Litecoin (which is just nScrypt with N=10).  What sets this coin apart from what I can tell is that it doesn't support pool mining.  Its strictly one miner, one thread, one wallet.  Lightweight for a Windows or Linux box, running around 100MB in Windows for a single thread, although if I'm doing my math right, only about 64MB of that is for the CPU algo buffer.

There have several CPU mineable coins in the market. But I will recommended you to mine Zcash, Monero, Electroneium and xvg. Especially Monero is the best cpu mineable coin in my opinion.