How many newbies are mining?

[lfgomez]

Hi! I'm new here and I started mining alt coins, just to have a feeling of how it works.
Now I have a litle bit of DOGE and Primecoin, mined with a i7 laptop.

[digitsmith]

scrypt mining with 4x 7950s myself

[Trail48]

Only mining for a few days. Mainly Quark in a pool (with limited success) but have tried solo mining Earthcoin from the wallet (with no success as yet).

[matt4054]

With DOGE falling back to "sane" profitability levels, those who are mining with CPU will be better off with CPU-only coins.

There are currently Primecoin (XPM), Quark (QRK) and Protoshares (PTS), mostly.

MemoryCoin is not really a CPU coin but it has some special features that makes GPU mining less interesting.

[lfgomez]

matt4054, thank you!
I will take a better look into these CPU coins.

[foader]

Sorry took my screen shots but can't figure out how to upload them to the site the image button only does this. http://

Thanks foader, I figured it out last night. It's weird, the games (I tried both) do seem to affect cudaminer, although I didn't get a drastic increase. Which switches are you using to launch it? It was hard to make it run because it was crashing a lot. But then it went to a bit over 70 MH - before it was a bit over 60 (it's an old 550 Ti). Weird. 140 to 600 is kind of spectacular though. I've noticed the Sony game was installing some additional graphics components, maybe it makes a big difference for newer cards.

Well I went to that one image site this morning and uploaded the screen shots while getting ready for work. When I got to work I can't find them on the site. So I'll try again when I get back home and see if i can knock it all out at once. Now the 600 isn't the norm i's what it spikes to on occasion. Normally it's running around the 400-480 level. I do have a newr card though it's a evga ftw 780. As for switches I don't have any set as of yet. Most of my friends said that the rates I am getting now are real good for and nvidia card and said they wouldn't mess with it to much. This is on my gaming machine so I don't want to mess up the card. You also said MH and I'm only getting Kh doing scrypt mining so that might be a big difference to.

[prolom]

Oh no. khash obviously.That was a typo.

[coincoin77]

Mining litecoin, dogecoin, lottocoin and so on..

I am currently running three 280x gpus.
Gonna buy some more gpu soon.

Electricity becomes money!!! haha

[coinme.info]

Mining litecoin, dogecoin, lottocoin and so on..

I am currently running three 280x gpus.
Gonna buy some more gpu soon.

Electricity becomes money!!! haha

Same but with 6 x 280x and have 2 more on backorder.

280x are all out of stock it seems. Wonder why?

Been mining on and off since beginning of 2013 when you could still get BTC with GPUs. ASICS took over there.

Then mined LTC but the diff is so high its better to mine alts and exchange for BTC like you're doing.

Happy mining 2014

[drifting]

I've been mining for a few months. Nothing big, just small scale. Started off with a couple dozen USB block erupters. Also have a BFL @ 8GH/s. Currently looking to get new hardware, which kinda sucks since my current hardware has only just paid for itself. My plan is to buy some new gear and then sell my old stuff. This way the "cost" of the old gear is lessended and I would have made a profit from it.

[arcke]

I have been mining Protoshares and Primecoin. Both try to be CPU only. Besides being used as a currency these shares will automatically give you a share in all distributed autonomous comanies who honor Invictus Innovations social contract. All holders of protoshares together get an automatic 10% share in every new company.

[ripe_kumquat]

I started litecoin mining with my $70 NVIDIA, which made pennies.
I then got a $200 ATI card, and while the online calculators and specs were saying $4.50 a day, I got $1.50 a day, possibly because my power supply was not sufficient.

My most successful mining so far has been through CEX.io website, which allows hosted Bitcoin mining. It's simple and I don't have to worry about setup. Plus I can compound my earnings as often as I want.

I'm now trying the Bitmain AntMiner S1. I hit a few snags and still working to get it started. I'm hoping to get some help here.

[rgiskard]

Have been reading about bitcoin for a while, but only started mining a month ago.
I was fortunate enough to pick up a KNCMiner Jupiter in the 1st week in December.

It's been mining perfectly since setup. I would have liked it have it set up sooner, but the device has more than paid for itself in a month.

Onward and upward from here! Enjoying all the info on this forum.

Cheers.

[aint_no_enthusiast]

Mining on and off since late 2011, now with 3 mh/s on scrypt altcoins. I'm pretty confident this time, lets see how its going for the next few weeks... good thing with mining: You can always make a huge portion of your investment back with just selling the hardware 

[badam]

Hi i am also a newbie mining here. My main occupation is web developer and programmer but minning as a profitable hobby is the best.

[foader]

Oh no. khash obviously.That was a typo.

Alright I'll try it again. That was a pain in the butt. But It finally loaded to where you can see them. The first image is with the patcher in the back ground hashing along at mid 400s. The second one I've turned the patcher off and it slows down to 180s. I turn it back on in the third and it goes back up to 400s. The only changes made to the computer between screen shots is the patcher being turned on and off no other programs or settings were touched. This doesn't work on my laptops NVidia 460m card.

https://i.imgur.com/ipF8xDe.png

https://i.imgur.com/rDk2t1t.png

https://i.imgur.com/h1KooB5.png

[raveldoni]

I am a newbie mining with a little luck.

[Jgaf]

hi,

i have started day 28 dec, only because of i liked the coin image ( dogecoin). i have tried before in the begening of bitcoin but to slow and not profitable, if i have keeped digging now i have money to buy a football team! Anyway atm running 8800 gt just for trying to understand how this work, mayby in the future upgrade the gpu to try make some coins for the future.

cheers

[bibib]

Just Doge and LTC at the moment. Tried getting in on a couple of new alt coins during launch.

Using my gaming PC which has a 7950, which I run between 650kh/s (max range without crazy temps)  and 550kh/s (normal range, really undevaulted)

Not really serious about mining though, just using it as a way to get a hold of some coins, so I can play around with trading.

[Xenopus]

I just started learning about cryptocurrency and mining about a month ago, mostly for fun. I don't have a lot of mining capacity, but I bought myself a new Radeon R9 280x for Christmas. That, I hope, should make both games and mining a LOT better.

So far, I've mined LTC, DOGE, QRK, and now, OFF.

Oh, and I'm a CG artist by profession.