List of CPU Friendly AltCoins

[wonko86]

Darkcoin (DRK) CPU mining only

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0

[MisO69]

Somacoin was released this weekend and I'm absolutely floored by it.

No premine

No instamine (retarget is very agressive, diff went up almost immediately.)
- don't beleive me? Check this out.


"blocks" : 2256,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 23720.48270491,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false

This is a true miner's coin.

[DeathProxy]

What is somacoin? Somalia coin?

[MisO69]

Not sure what the name refers to, the coin is here . https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0

I'm just surprised by it since all we have been getting are premined or instamined coins.

[aso118]

Excellent thread

Could you add YAC?  It's a 'Limited GPU Mining' coin with on going development (launched ~ May 2013).  I'm beginning to realize a lot of people don't know about this coin or it's unique features.  This coin uses something called the N-factor.  As this increases, so does the amount of memory required to produce a hash.  Currently I have an i7-3720QM (mid grade home processor) and a Radon 7970 (upper end home graphic card) mining YAC and they both produce the same hash rate (~1.1 khash/sec).  After the next N-increase (around Spring) a 7970 mining speed will be reduced to about 0.25 khash/s - making CPU more profitable.  As the N-factor continues to increase it is likely that YAC become a 'CPU only coin.'

This coin had a bad reputation on it's launch. People were saying that the developers used malicious code in the original release to withdraw bitcoins from anyone's wallet who downloaded it.

Someone posted rumors like this so they could mine more coins while the N-factor and difficultly was low.  People were confused why they needed to 'unlock their wallet for minting' and someone used it as a stepping stone to claim 'its a virus to steal your bitcoins'. It was a cleaver scheme.  No 'malicious code' was ever found and no one reported any coins missing.  Feel free to review the code - I've looked at most of it as well.  https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin

[RedDiamond]

Not sure what the name refers to, the coin is here . https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444273.0

Never read Huxley's Brave New World?

[bit0x]

Only intel pentium 4! Only hardcore!

[RedDiamond]

What is somacoin? Somalia coin?

"there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."

[bojos]

Chaincoin (CHC), CPU mining only:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

Accordingly to the last messages in that thread, the coin seems to be already dead... or nearly.
Have a look.

This coin is not dead.
Three active pools.
http://chc.minepool.cc - 38 miners, 36.464 MH/s
http://cpu-pool.net/chc - 21 miners, 2.405 MH/s
http://chc.goodpool.cn:10045/ = ~20 miners, 36.4 MH/s

I have i5-3470S , 4 cpu  , 20 CHC / day. in cpu-pool.net
Miner burden on the computer very little. It will be just fine without restrictions work.

[spadespade]

Chaincoin (CHC), CPU mining only:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

Accordingly to the last messages in that thread, the coin seems to be already dead... or nearly.
Have a look.

This coin is not dead.
Three active pools.
http://chc.minepool.cc - 38 miners, 36.464 MH/s
http://cpu-pool.net/chc - 21 miners, 2.405 MH/s
http://chc.goodpool.cn:10045/ = ~20 miners, 36.4 MH/s

I have i5-3470S , 4 cpu  , 20 CHC / day. in cpu-pool.net
Miner burden on the computer very little. It will be just fine without restrictions work.

agree! CHC has a very long time of half rewarding (2 years) and high starting difficulty, so many miners think it is less profitable than other easy coins. But it is fairly launched and has totally new algorithm (not simple copy), I think it will slowly warm up.

[btc-mike]

TODO
- Check on adding pnut.
- Consider how to add scrypt-jane coins
- Check on adding Somacoin.
- Check on adding Darkcoin

I believe going forward I will list the scrypt-jane coins as limited GPU until the nFactor increase makes the GPU mining too hard. At that time, I will move them to CPU only.

What does everyone think?

Ok this exchange very fresh.

Q2C new pair Q2C/USD https://c-cex.com/index.html?p=q2c-usd

Exchange is too new. I will add once it has been around a while.

ALSO, would you please make your graphic smaller or remove entirely?

Chaincoin (CHC), CPU mining only:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

Accordingly to the last messages in that thread, the coin seems to be already dead... or nearly.
Have a look.

It will stay all you CHC lovers!

[DeathProxy]

What is the most profitable now with this cpu only coins?

[iwantcoins]

What is the Most Profitable CPU Mined Coin you say let me answer that for you.
first of Just want Huge thanks to btc-mike i've been checking this thread like every day! I like the fact you put up what you think of the Coins Like
High Risk CPU-Only AltCoins and such any way just want to say a huge thanks and keep up the good work.
I tested the more popular coins you have listed and posted the results
http://www.reviewoutlaw.com/most-profitable-cpu-coin-list-alt-coin-profits-24-hours-mining/
http://i1.wp.com/www.reviewoutlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mining-DD.gif
Please let me know if you have any other Tests or coins you think are better will be happy to test on my hardware and post the results for everyone
i prefer coins that have exchanges already setup

[btc-mike]

... I tested the more popular coins you have listed and posted the results...

Wow! I was typing my reply when i saw yours. Awesome work.

Here is what I was typing -

Nobody has coded that yet. Most of these coins have their own formula to calculate coins per day. Then there are three or four different exchanges to convert them to BTC. Then you need to pull from one of the major exchanges to figure out the profit in fiat.

[tygarbyte]

looks like you can take MTC of the CPU only list - there seems to me a GPU miner for it now @ page 47

[btc-mike]

UPDATES
- Moved Metiscoin to limited GPU category.

TODO
- Check on adding pnut.
- Consider how to add scrypt-jane coins
- Check on adding Somacoin.
- Check on adding Darkcoin

[Aalesund]

There is no longer "only CPU".
Each CPU Coin can be mined with GPU 
and if CPU Coin uses a special algorithm, it's just a matter of time for someone to make GPU miner.

[itsik78]

There is no longer "only CPU".
Each CPU Coin can be mined with GPU  
and if CPU Coin uses a special algorithm, it's just a matter of time for someone to make GPU miner.

True, but the question is how efficient is GPU mining compared to CPU mining...
A resilient coin is a coin where GPU mining is only max 2 times better than CPU mining.
As a comparison - Scrypt coins are 10-15 times faster to mine on GPUs.

A MemoryCoin (MMC) example:
My computer has i7-4770 CPU with ASUS R290 GPU.
The GPU (very high-end) gives me 19 HPM while the CPU (also pretty high-end) gives me around 15-20 HPM.
So in this case, there's no question if this should be considered a CPU coin or not.

[rea77]

Why AnimeCoin not added ? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423339.0

[tromp]

Each CPU Coin can be mined with GPU 

You mean each CPU Coin with memory requirements below what the GPU has.
We just haven't seen any CPU coins yet that require, say, from 4GB to 32GB of memory,
but it's perfectly feasible to introduce such coins, that won't "fit" on a GPU (let alone ASIC).