How to mine with Litecoin-qt w/o 3rd party miner

[sonulrk]

I want to mine with Litecoin-qt without any 3rd party miner and that too with more than 1 thread. Please help me if there is any workaround.

[QuintLeo]

Litecoin, like any scrypt coin, hasn't been worth mining on GPUs for ages - much less CPUs which is the only option the QT client EVER supported.

 I don't think CURRENT versions of the QT client support mining at all any more due to that.


 ASIC took over all of the Scrypt coins a few years back.

[sonulrk]

Litecoin, like any scrypt coin, hasn't been worth mining on GPUs for ages - much less CPUs which is the only option the QT client EVER supported.

 I don't think CURRENT versions of the QT client support mining at all any more due to that.


 ASIC took over all of the Scrypt coins a few years back.

Thanks for your reply.

But still I need to mine with multithread for experiment only. I am using Litecoin-qt v0.13.1 in which "generate" command is working but use only 1 physical core in my cpu. I want to use all physical cores. I know there are other third party cpuminer where we can use more than 1 core for mining but I want to specifically use Litecoin-Qt with multithreading.

Any workaround or command?

[QuintLeo]

Try using an actual miner (probably have to go back a few generations as I'm pretty sure ALL current miner software has removed Scrypt support) instead of the wallet.

 The wallet miner was ALWAYS a low-performance thing, and very quickly got abandoned by pretty much everyone once the dedicated miner programs started showing up BECAUSE it had horrible performance - even when Litecoin WAS still cpu-mineable for profit.

 I'm very shocked that any recent wallet version CAN mine at all.


 WHY do you want to "specifically use the wallet" to mine with, even as an experiment?
 That's just not making any sense to me.

[sonulrk]

I can't say Litecoin-qt is mining or not. But it takes the generate command and use 1 physical core at it max. It got busy and you cannot give any further command even you cannot stop it. To stop the software you have to kill process.