CPU mining on a Macbook makes no sense. You will not earn more than electricity costs. Expect max $10 a month.
I'm not worried about the electricity bill. Mostly just doing it for fun. Plus if the price of my alt coins ever goes up it will get covered. |
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I use Ubuntu and Debian and Arch Linux to mine. There are some advantages to using Windows: better video drivers and more tools to tweak your video card. So if you want to squeeze out every last Hash per second, then use Windows. The advantages of linux is that it's more stable and secure. Also, Linux is available for Raspberry Pi.
I'm only doing CPU mining so I can't really tweak my video card. Do you think windows is still the better choice? |
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i would look into the ubuntu.
Good point ubuntu is probably a lot less cpu intensive than windows. |
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Hey all,
I've got an old macbook that's being used as a coaster. I decided to add it as a worker for mining alt coins. As it turns out MAC is freaking awful for mining I can't even get it running. So as a result I decided to reformat my macbook to windows. My question is as long as I'm formatting it how can I st it up to be the best possible platform for CPU mining? Would linux be better? Is there anything in particular I can do to increase mining when the machine is purely a miner?
Thanks!
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I have 1600 bTC. I don’t know what to do with them. Should I take them out or should I keep them? I had the coins since 2012, I had over 5,000+ but all I can remember is this account. The best advice will get some of my coins. Please let me know what you guys think. I was thinking the following:
1 - take the coins out via MTgox or bitstamp as I have registered with them and pay the 5,000 commissions to cash my coins out
2 - set up my own site via a PHP developer and cash out
3 - use the coins I have to buy and sell, i.e. buy high and sell low in the market (could have made $300,000 today)
4 - buy items with the goods and sell them in real life
5 - make my own site like localbitcions and pose either as seller or just use localbitons services
6 - start my own bit coin gabling/betting site
7 – make my own bitcoin currency
8 – spend my money on LTC and namecoins
I have a few more ideas but I think these were the best. I live in UK and I think there a tax law comes in to place in January. But the coins usually go even higher then you can think when there is a crash. But if the tax law comes it mean for sure BTC will not be anonymous and therefore lose one it highest traitors, maybe namecoin will be market leader one day?
Please justify what you say and I know you guys are smart are there so, tell me what you would do if you was me. If we go with option three I will pay up to 20 people to give me advise when to buy and sell and give them all a very small cut of the profit. I am also stable I don’t need house or anything. This is change I have that I want to use to change my family life before I die.
If you're trying to sell you could consider going through coinbase. Wont get mtgox prices most likely but it's crazy convenient / secure & very minimal fees. no 5000 comissions |
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Stop worrying because you posted that graph? Well excuse me but you should try harder.
Look at the prices, and look what happened after. Everyone thought that sell off was the end of Bitcoin, now it's just a little blip in the charts. |
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Found the issue. Had to remove -a sha256d. Thanks for the help.
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Whenever the price drops a lot and everyone freaks out about how it's crashing and it's all over I just laugh and think back to this and all the insanity that came with it.  If you're one of the many many people freaking out about the few big sell-offs recently, stop worrying  |
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I'm mining CasinoCoin, can I not do this with my CPU? Is there a better easy coin for me to be mining if I'm using CPU? I don't have a GPU yet.
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If it's any help, I've noticed that the mining pools will only report your hash rate based upon the time it took for your client to find a share. I spent a lot of time and frustration figuring this out until I found a random post talking about it.
Example, I have 8 miners running a pool on Quark but only a few of them show up at a time as doing work since not all of them find a share at the same time. The server side estimate of your hash rate has nothing to do with what you're getting paid, its all about what you find.
Makes sense, so maybe I just need to wait and cross my fingers then. Is it possible to tell if it's even worth mining on my pc? I've been mining for over an hour with no shares. |
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hmm doesn't seem like it. what does that mean, can i just not keep up? I'm only CPU mining on a laptop for the fun of it, is it just no use for me? Edit* It's a p2pool if that helps.  |
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Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners.
And do you finding and submiting shares ? Not sure, how can I tell? |
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Hello all, So I've started mining casinocoin over at xpool. ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217139.0) Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners. I'm using the following line minerd.exe -o stratum+tcp://csc.xpool.net:8840 -u CLEqizar7PHgm7QcXRqu1nSgwjA6Rf9nqG -p abcd -a sha256d -R 2 -t 4 Mostly making this post so I can wait my 4 hours and ask the pool owner about it, but any suggestions in the meantime would be appreciated. Thanks  |
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