Good coin for the not so serious miner?

[syp]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

[Dogecoin]

There's only one answer -- dogecoin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaltexImW0
http://doge.wf/start/

[Grox]

This doge knows what hes talking about

[paradiselife]

check out bosscoin

http://bss.altminers.com/index.php

[blandana]

doge is wow you can get very many coins

[Number6]

Doge for sure if you no such serious. much fun so profit

[GreekBitcoin]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

If something can bring money to someone with a laptop why shouldnt someone buy a desktop and mine it for more profit? Dont be naive.

Try to find a coin that you believe that will succeed because of the idea...Mining with a laptop wont make you anywhere except if you mine the first/second day a coin is out seriously...

[nobodysbusiness]

I'm going to try to do some memorycoin mining.

There's an easy howto over here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375389.0

(It's a howto for Linux, BTW. You didn't mention your preferred platform. )

[mackcowanii]

Honestly I have to say that the guy talking about BOS is probably right. The coin is mostly dead and might get revived sometime in the future, regardless you can make a large number of them right now because the hashrate is so low.

[burnum]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

I am mining stablecoin on a not so fancy desktop and on a laptop, its a script coin so you can setup cgminer and mine from your cpu, check out the mining threads on the forum http://forums.stablecoin.net/index.php

[digimag]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

DOGECOIN FTW
GOOD MINING POOL http://doge.pool.webxass.de/index.php?page=dashboard
MUCH DOGE EVERY DAY

[syp]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

If something can bring money to someone with a laptop why shouldnt someone buy a desktop and mine it for more profit? Dont be naive.

Try to find a coin that you believe that will succeed because of the idea...Mining with a laptop wont make you anywhere except if you mine the first/second day a coin is out seriously...

That's not really what I asking. I honestly don't believe any altcoins (in their current state) will overtake bitcoin so I don't want to spend money on a new computer and electricity to seriously mine them. Sure, some of them will go up in price but it seems like a guessing game on which will. I'm really just trying to get my head around cryptocurrencies in general and I'm the type that learns more by doing than by reading.

[syp]

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys. I can use either Linux or Windows so I'll check out some of those soon.

[GreekBitcoin]

Hey Guys,

I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?

If something can bring money to someone with a laptop why shouldnt someone buy a desktop and mine it for more profit? Dont be naive.

Try to find a coin that you believe that will succeed because of the idea...Mining with a laptop wont make you anywhere except if you mine the first/second day a coin is out seriously...

That's not really what I asking. I honestly don't believe any altcoins (in their current state) will overtake bitcoin so I don't want to spend money on a new computer and electricity to seriously mine them. Sure, some of them will go up in price but it seems like a guessing game on which will. I'm really just trying to get my head around cryptocurrencies in general and I'm the type that learns more by doing than by reading.

then i would suggest peercoin primecoin datacoin and maybe namecoin but i dont know much about the latter...