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viseres
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CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 04:47:40 AM
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Hey everyone.
I got a question about CPU mining and how it works from inside wallets.
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0
That just posted and I've been trying to figure out how to get the miner to actually start and operate. Looks like a few people in the thread have also started to ask with no results.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 06:50:43 AM
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CPU mining isn't all that profitable unless you're mining an obscure new alt coin. You're better off starting with GPU mining using something like cgminer but you will need a higher end graphics card, preferably an ATI/AMD RADEON. These are used for scrypt mining which is a bit different than Bitcoin SHA mining. In that case you would want to research ASIC miners. I hope that helps.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 07:23:42 AM
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Look at it this way. While mining with GPU, let the CPU do some work rather than idle. Save those CPU coins, they might be worth something in the future. Look at Quark......
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 07:33:07 AM
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Quote from: TulipFever on January 19, 2014, 07:23:42 AM
Look at it this way. While mining with GPU, let the CPU do some work rather than idle. Save those CPU coins, they might be worth something in the future. Look at Quark......
Yep, I mine primecoins on the side.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 07:50:54 AM
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If you want to do some cpu mining, then you probably want to take a look at minerd
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 08:05:30 AM
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Yeah primecoin is the way to go with the CPU. Dont even waste the cycles on a scrypt coin unless your jumping on a brand new coin, and even then, the window for it to be effective is very short. Get in one of the primecoin pools and go from there.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 19, 2014, 08:22:20 AM
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How about datacoin? It's new and cpu only as far as I can tell.
I'm thinking about giving it a go myself, there is some info here -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=384112.0;all
I'm not sure if this is up to date with the best miner though, as far as I can see there is a linux one based on the high performance primecoin miner here :
http://datacoin.info/index.php?id=datacoind-build-instructions-linux
- if anyone knows a windows x64 version I would be very grateful.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 20, 2014, 05:38:18 AM
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Quote from: jcarl987 on January 19, 2014, 08:22:20 AM
How about datacoin? It's new and cpu only as far as I can tell.
I'm thinking about giving it a go myself, there is some info here -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=384112.0;all
I'm not sure if this is up to date with the best miner though, as far as I can see there is a linux one based on the high performance primecoin miner here :
http://datacoin.info/index.php?id=datacoind-build-instructions-linux
- if anyone knows a windows x64 version I would be very grateful.
In the thread that you posted there is a win x64 miner. also the website of the pools have miner links too. But i am also asking currently if there is another updated miner out.
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Re: CPU Mining
January 20, 2014, 06:23:20 AM
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is bfgminer a good program to mine with on cpu? or are there better ones?
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Re: CPU Mining
January 20, 2014, 06:58:36 AM
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Quote from: cybershawrk on January 20, 2014, 06:23:20 AM
is bfgminer a good program to mine with on cpu? or are there better ones?
Yes it does, but really supported anymore
A lot of wallets will let you cpu mine right from them.. i.e.
Open Console Window - Use Help/Debug
Console Window - Click the Console Tab
Just showing the cpu usage without mining - Notice it's only 0% CPU
Start the Process with 1 Thread (1 Core) - With the command "
setgenerate true 1
"
Showing the CPU is now much busier 26% and you can see your hashrate with the command "
getmininginfo
" look for the hashespersec line
Please do not use quote when replying
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Re: CPU Mining
January 20, 2014, 07:06:53 AM
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I would like to point out how pathetic mining Scrypt and SHA-256 would be with CPU... I'm not going to say I have a godly processor but 1606 hp/s or 1.6k is pathetic, even a nvidia card would do better. That is unless you are going to mine a specific coin which requires cpu, and those pools usually provide the exe you would need anyhow.
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