Newb trying to mine alt currencies

[Maxon]

Hello all.

I have a few computers setup with free internet and electric and I have been trying to solo mine Digital coins for the past
18hours with the wallet and I am not having any luck at all.
The only thing I can do right now is CPU mine, the computers I am using have 6 core Intel extreme processors,


I ran the command setgenerate true-1 on all machines, I ran getmininginfo and it shows it is doing something, is there another setting to tweak?

I would think I would see something by now, is this to be expected does it take awhile to cpu mine?


Thanks

Maxon

[FrankyBoyle]

A CPU will have a hard time getting DGC, unless you use a pool (would still be low)

There are CPU coins though, DGC's sister coin is one of them (SRC - Securecoin) - you'd have much more luck with them, and they're worth a bunch.

[Maxon]

Thanks for the tip... I might try SRC,  Is there alot of CPU coins? I read about Quarkcoin and thought about that one but the dif is high..

[FrankyBoyle]

Thanks for the tip... I might try SRC,  Is there alot of CPU coins? I read about Quarkcoin and thought about that one but the dif is high..

There are protoshares, Yacoin and primecoins that I know about aswell. not sure which is best to mine though.

[Maxon]

Thanks I tried to mine Primes XPM but after 3 days I had 0 luck.

[FrankyBoyle]

Thanks I tried to mine Primes XPM but after 3 days I had 0 luck.

Yeah Primes are very popular, and very hard to get solo mining - I use a pool for SRC, but even that is getting lower returns as the price keeps going up.

[NUFCrichard]

As others have said, get into a pool unless you have hundreds of CPUs available to you.
It's pretty downheartening when you are new to leave you computer on for weeks and get absolutely nada.

[Maxon]

Thanks, yea I am looking into pools atm, can you mine for a pool using a wallet or will I need to use a dif miner?
and will I be able to cpu mine a pool..

[LupinS]

Pool will definetly be a better option in this cas, highly recomended.

[PenAndPaper]

Thanks I tried to mine Primes XPM but after 3 days I had 0 luck.

What do you mean 0 luck after 3 days. I 'm mining some dust of primecoins with an old athlon. You should do fairly well with your xtreme hexacore!

[Maxon]

Thanks I tried to mine Primes XPM but after 3 days I had 0 luck.

What do you mean 0 luck after 3 days. I 'm mining some dust of primecoins with an old athlon. You should do fairly well with your xtreme hexacore!

I am totally new at this and I used the prime -qt wallet but I did not add a config file, do I need to add this??

Thanks

[jari76]

Try getting into a mining pool, bacause on your own you take a very long time to do a block

[PenAndPaper]

Thanks I tried to mine Primes XPM but after 3 days I had 0 luck.

What do you mean 0 luck after 3 days. I 'm mining some dust of primecoins with an old athlon. You should do fairly well with your xtreme hexacore!

I am totally new at this and I used the prime -qt wallet but I did not add a config file, do I need to add this??

Thanks

You should join a pool and download a miner like jhprimeminer in order to mine. Go to ypool.net and check  the how to section.

[Maxon]

Thanks I will check out jhprimeminer and Ypool.

[tarbozus]

do litecoin its the best now

[PenAndPaper]

do litecoin its the best now

He said that he can only mine coins with cpu.

[Ecurb123]

For this setup I'd try mining an alt-coin like feather coin and then find a mining pool for that coin.

[gendersplit]

My suggestion would be go with coins that are somewhat better close to bitcoin or litecoin.

[humblebtc]

Your best opetion is to join a pool. If you are trying to do this solo then you are likely never going to find anything.  Joining a pool will give you a lot more "luck" in finding coins over the long term.  Wish I had free electricity lol

[surivrox]

Leave it, it's worthless. Try https://cex.io, it's the best way to invest your money at this moment.