Laptop mining is not profitable.
You can burn your GPU if you mine 24/7 and CPU mining it's not worth it unless you use the laptop for something else too.
Monero/XMR is pretty good for CPU mining, but again, it will not make you profit.
USB miner - there are 2 types of USB miners: SHA265 (Bitcoin) and Scrypt (Litecoin, Dogecoin) (actually there are also SHA256+Scrypt which allows even to mine both).
Bitcoin miner cannot be used for Litecoin / Dogecoin.
Litecoin / Dogecoin miner cannot be used for Bitcoin.
I think that Gekkoscience miner is Bitcoin miner.
And from what I know there's no such USB miner that gives you profit, their electricity/hash rate ratio is not too good.
USB miners are hobby miners.
Correct, I am not looking to mine BTC, only altcoin
Do you know if there are any USB miners that only do Scrypt? within the $50 range? any tuturial setup?
I'm brand new to this, so sorry for the questions, I'm sure I could find all this with some research, but I figured it would be faster to get it from people who already know.
Honestly trying to find a USB miner under 50$ is going to hard
And 1 year roi isn't even going to happen not with how big asic miners are running freely
Best thing to do is learn how to CPU mine since you have one of those then go from there
If you can setup a CPU miner on windows or Linux then you'll be able to set anything up
Start with the CPU then move up if you want to really invest
Gpu mining is really the way to go if you just want to play around
Only because it's less of a investment and you can actually roi in less than 200 days plus resale the gpu
