Probably Verus at the moment given that the early tests of GPU mining don't seem to show sufficient advantage over CPU miners, plus limitations on bandwidth from risers also curbs many of the large GPU farms.

I amn't fan of CPU mining and everyone here prefers GPU or asic. As far as I know Monero is profitable for cpu mining but everything depends on cpu also, which model it is and etc. Even if we not talk about which coin is more profitable, just see nicehash profitability calculator, they really give you great profit, difference would be very, very low with actual coin mining and mining on nicehash. From their stats, CPUs aren't profitable, they can't mine more than 30USD in month.

I don't know which is profitable coin for CPU mining but there are some website and calculators that you can see all list of CPU mining coins.
you can use this site https://newcpucoins.com/?cpu_only=true and this site http://cpucoinlist.com/

Verus is a new coin for me, and looks quite interesting IMO. I'm surprised to see that this altcoin is not listed yet on Coinmarketcap, as well as big and popular exchanges. It's only listed on a single exchange with very low trading volume which shows that there is not much interest from people into acquiring the coin after all. Still, it looks like it's easy to mine on a CPU, but lack of trades on the market, will make it worthless in the long term unless the community and development team decides to promote the coin for adding it into other exchanges.

Nevertheless, I'll be mining on hodling this coin just in case it skyrockets in value within the future.



Thanks for the tip. I know that CPUs aren't that profitable at all, but they're a great entry point for any average person looking to get into mining cryptocurrencies without much effort. Nowadays, GPUs and ASICs are highly expensive and sometimes inaccessible by an average person. That's why, I believe that CPU-based coins are much more decentralized than those which are mineable by GPUs only or even ASICs.

I'm only looking for coins which have not been abandoned by its dev or community, which are easily mineable by a CPU. Right now, I only have 2 on the list which are Magi, and Verus, but there could be a lot more which are popular and highly supported by people in crypto land. One thing that I'm looking forward to is the emergence of an altcoin that uses Cyckoo Cycle for its PoW consensus. It is said that coins with such feature, can be easily mined on any device, including smartphones and tablets. According to my knowledge, aeternity will become such coin, but it hasn't launched its mainnet yet (it's only an ERC-20 token in the moment).

Nevertheless, maybe as time passes by, we would be able to see new cryptocurrencies which are easily mineable with a CPU, further decentralizing the mining process as it would be open to anyone around the world.

BiblePay (BBP) is great CPU Only coin that is still very profitable

Windows - https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/6umlqq/how_to_mine_biblepay_on_windows/
Linux - https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/6ummuj/how_to_mine_biblepay_on_linux/

Arionum (ARO)

There's also a Discord that compiles a list of CPU mineable coins:

CPU Miners Club
https://discord.gg/wg8cTDs

Hi! Do you guys know of a updated cpuminer with support for SOCKS proxy (-x in cpuminer) ? 

If you mean Turtlecoin, then I guess no one has mentioned it because it's relatively new to the market. Upon reviewing its technical specs, I've found it to be a nice alternative to many CryptoNote coins like Monero and Bytecoin. The newly proposed CryptoNote Soft Shell PoW Algorithm by the Turtlecoin dev team, shows that the cryptocurrency has active development and innovation. It's a very undervalued cryptocurrency with low difficulty (compared with leading CryptoNote coins).

While CryptoNote is not CPU-only, the new CryptoNote Soft Shell PoW Algorithm seems to be like so. Basically, any ASIC-resistant PoW algorithm can be easily mined with a CPU, unless the difficulty is too high. Because most CPU coins (except for Magi) can be mined also with GPUs, it increases the barrier of entry for any average Joe looking to get into mining.

Nonetheless, I believe that the hottest CPU-only coins to mine right now are Turtlecoin (TRTL), Magi (XMG), Hodlcoin (HODL), Monacoin (MONA), and Vertcoin (VTC).

Thanks for the link. Looking for such list as I'm looking for coins dedicated for cpu mining only.
Maybe I can find profitable coins from the list. Back reading the comments in this section to check what they have in mind also.
The energy consumption of gpu miners in my area is pretty expensive. Stopped gpu mining for so long already.

Well, that sucks. While GPU mining is great for those who have high-end graphic cards, it's not suitable for the average person. CPU mining is much more accessible to anyone around the world, resulting beneficial towards the decentralization of any cryptocurrency. Upon researching different PoW coins, I've concluded that only two mining algorithms are easily mined with CPUs than GPUs or even ASICS. Such algorithms are M7M and yescrypt.

Magi uses the M7M algorithm for mining, which it's extremely easy to mine with any CPU. On the other hand, we've got Cryply (CRP) which uses yescrypt and it's highly accessible by average CPUs. The most interesting one is Magi, since it has a mechanism that lowers the block reward the higher the hashrate on its blockchain network. Additional security against 51% attacks is implemented, via the use of PoS. With Magi's unique algorithm, big miners cannot join the network resulting in greater decentralization by giving the power back to the small miners or the average person.

Nonetheless, I believe that the hottest CPU-only coins to mine right now would be Magi, Cryply, and Hodlcoin. Just my thoughts