Hottest CPU-only coins to mine right now?

[minerja]

Turtlecoin has never been a CPU only minable coin, still is not. You can GPU mine it. Currently I'm CPU + GPU mining it. It's more than a year old, devs are very active, >400 forks and counting.

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

I could be wrong, but last time i checked. If you won virtually every Hodlcoin block each day, i think you struggle to make $1 a day, and Magi is in a right mess. No leadership, multiple forks, pools up and down like yoyo's.  Most original Magi miners left last year, and now a few bigger miners have it it, again, virtually impossible to hit $1 a day.

Prob best to stick with cryply.
J

[Zorg33]

There are effective Yescrypt GPU miners already.

[Abiky]

I could be wrong, but last time i checked. If you won virtually every Hodlcoin block each day, i think you struggle to make $1 a day, and Magi is in a right mess. No leadership, multiple forks, pools up and down like yoyo's.  Most original Magi miners left last year, and now a few bigger miners have it it, again, virtually impossible to hit $1 a day.

Prob best to stick with cryply.
J

Thanks for letting me know about this, mate. I didn't know that Magi was in such as harsh situation, as it had one of the most supportive communities within the crypto space. Even if Magi used to be quite unprofitable most of the times, it was fun to mine it with ease. One thing that I've noticed though, is that Magi has a single developer working on it, which is often bad for the longevity of the cryptocurrency. The project needs more people working on it, to maintain itself as a solid cryptocurrency among the market.

Despite this, there are many other good CPU coins that can be mined today. I believe that Monacoin goes easy on the CPU, as well as, Cryply. If you tend to have a powerful or mid-range CPU, you can easily generate a side income even if the money earned is not as much as a regular job. CPU-only coins are much more decentralized than many PoW coins which are only mineable via ASICs or GPUs. But, it's only a matter of adoption whenever these coins will succeed or not within the future. 

[minerja]

I could be wrong, but last time i checked. If you won virtually every Hodlcoin block each day, i think you struggle to make $1 a day, and Magi is in a right mess. No leadership, multiple forks, pools up and down like yoyo's.  Most original Magi miners left last year, and now a few bigger miners have it it, again, virtually impossible to hit $1 a day.

Prob best to stick with cryply.
J

Thanks for letting me know about this, mate. I didn't know that Magi was in such as harsh situation, as it had one of the most supportive communities within the crypto space. Even if Magi used to be quite unprofitable most of the times, it was fun to mine it with ease. One thing that I've noticed though, is that Magi has a single developer working on it, which is often bad for the longevity of the cryptocurrency. The project needs more people working on it, to maintain itself as a solid cryptocurrency among the market.

Despite this, there are many other good CPU coins that can be mined today. I believe that Monacoin goes easy on the CPU, as well as, Cryply. If you tend to have a powerful or mid-range CPU, you can easily generate a side income even if the money earned is not as much as a regular job. CPU-only coins are much more decentralized than many PoW coins which are only mineable via ASICs or GPUs. But, it's only a matter of adoption whenever these coins will succeed or not within the future. 

Just lloked at Monacoin, if i found the right one, its Lyra2rev2, which now has an ASIC...sorry

[Abiky]

Just lloked at Monacoin, if i found the right one, its Lyra2rev2, which now has an ASIC...sorry

That sucks. Considering how it's possible to design an ASIC miner for any kind of PoW algorithm, decentralized mining could be just a dream. If a cryptocurrency which claims to be ASIC-resistant becomes extremely popular, there's nothing stopping manufacturers from devising their own ASIC machines. Of course, ASICs greatly strengthen the security of Blockchain networks, but their biggest flaw is that they leave the small miners out of the equation. I believe that CPU-only mining is the only way to go towards being decentralized in any way possible.

Despite this, it seems that only yescypt coins are CPU-only mineable (for now). That leaves us with Cryply as one of the best (if not the only one) CPU-only mineable coins within the crypto space. Aside from that, there's the option of PoS coins which are much more accessible than PoW, IMO. But their security is highly questionable relative to PoW coins. 

[ccgllc]

That sucks. Considering how it's possible to design an ASIC miner for any kind of PoW algorithm, decentralized mining could be just a dream. If a cryptocurrency which claims to be ASIC-resistant becomes extremely popular, there's nothing stopping manufacturers from devising their own ASIC machines. Of course, ASICs greatly strengthen the security of Blockchain networks, but their biggest flaw is that they leave the small miners out of the equation. I believe that CPU-only mining is the only way to go towards being decentralized in any way possible.

Despite this, it seems that only yescypt coins are CPU-only mineable (for now). That leaves us with Cryply as one of the best (if not the only one) CPU-only mineable coins within the crypto space. Aside from that, there's the option of PoS coins which are much more accessible than PoW, IMO. But their security is highly questionable relative to PoW coins.  :-\

What about big memory coins, like IMACredit use to be?  It was n-scrypt based with N=16 requiring 16MB of memory per thread back in 2014.  The best scrypt ASICs back then (like the advertised but never delivered GAW Vaultbreaker) could only handle N=14.  IMACredit was tested to work with an N up to 20, although that reduced it to hashs per hour back then instead of hashs per second.

It is my understanding that most ASICs excel because of the parallelism they have, with each chip running lots of threads.   Use an algo that eats memory and the ASIC becomes impossibly expensive, since memory is not cheap.  Right?

[Iamtutut]

Turtlecoin plans to fork for argon2id at block 1.8M

[Alucard2425]

I think verus coin is a good coin to mine for CPU mining  and the difficulty is still low 

[TheHas]

Its not exactly 'hot' right now. But on my gpu mining rig, I also mine with the cpu JSEcoin.

Its browser cpu based mining and is easy enough to set up. Doesnt use much electricity. But don't expect to get rich quick I'm talking maybe 10 cents a day as an estimate.

[naufals4]

Considering that ASICs have taken the lead over most cryptocurrencies' mining process, only a few have remained ASIC-resistant where they could only be mined with a GPU, and in some cases, with a CPU.

As such, I'm looking for CPU only coins which are worth mining nowadays. I know that CPU mining is not as great as it used to be, but it would still be a fun and rewarding task to do as a hobby.

Therefore, which are the hottest CPU coins to mine right now? I would like to know your opinions and recommendations about this.

Is CPU mining really profitable? do you have to use a high CPU to get good profits. maybe in the future the CPU can become the main mining competing with GPU mining.

[ccgllc]

Hearing rumors of a throw-back CPU only coin coming up.

No pools, mining will only function via the wallet in order to foster decentralization.  One wallet, one thread of mining.  Yeah, VMs can be used but pools won't work.

ASIC resistant of course.  That would be compounded by actively preventing pool software from working, which doubles as an ASIC and GPU block.

Thinking this has some possibilities... or at least will be fun to see how it progresses.

[robelneo]

look JSECOIN , You can mine simply by web browser or with an application
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4782844.0

I'm now mining this coin using Mozilla firefox I just notice that if you leave the tab where you are mining it, the hash rate drops you need a dedicated pc to mine JSECOIN so the hashes will not drop, I'm also using the advertising code to mine JSECOIN on all my websites and it's more profitable than mining in your computer.

[CryptoKush]

Hearing rumors of a throw-back CPU only coin coming up.

No pools, mining will only function via the wallet in order to foster decentralization.  One wallet, one thread of mining.  Yeah, VMs can be used but pools won't work.

ASIC resistant of course.  That would be compounded by actively preventing pool software from working, which doubles as an ASIC and GPU block.

Thinking this has some possibilities... or at least will be fun to see how it progresses.

I think that this sounds very interesting. I think that this is a good step towards decentralization. It will be interesting if these coins become popular this year.

[Alpha0One1]

For CPU-mining I'd go with coins using the Argon2d-algorithm like Credits (CRDS), Dynamic (DYN) or Nimiq (NIM).
According to my experience I'd say Nimiq is the most profitable "CPU-only coin" currently (just make sure to use the external miner and not the browser-mining).

Nimiq (NIM) ★
Website: https://nimiq.com/
Pool (list): https://www.reddit.com/r/Nimiq/comments/8gb8bi/a_list_of_all_nimiq_pools_available_right_now/
Miner: https://github.com/nimiq-network/core  (Official - for pool-mining check the respective pool's instructions)
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/cMHemg8
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nimiq/

I mined NIM for a few months and was one of the first miners when the mainnet launched.
Is it really profitable now? I'll try to start mining again. 

[jonhn772]

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/

Thank you so much mate for provide this website link. I can see so many coins which is CPU mine able coin. I can choose best and profitable one for mine. Also from this list I can suggest to my some friends about the best CPU mine able coin.

[casper77]

don't be naive
almost all "cpu-only" coins are gpu mineable
nimiq, wavi, cryply and more, and more
maybe you should calculate hashes per watt, but...
maybe only cpu-solo-mineable coins that mine from wallet via built-in miner are cpu-true , but i'm not so sure about that either

[pokemongomongo]

Myriadcoin (XMY) just got a new (as far as I know) CPU-only algorithm - Argon2D(4096).
There's a few pools up and running - one of them is mine (pokemongomongo dot tk) .

[cryptomaxsun]

Mining is best when few people know about the coin and the difficulty is low.
Mining and do not sell the coin. When more people learn about the coin, the difficulty increases, trading on the  exchanges is more active, the price rises, then you have to sell.
For example, this year I mining uplexa, the price of 5 satoshi, when the price rose to 18 satoshi, the difficulty also increased and it became less profitable to mining.
But it is beneficial to those who mined at low difficulty and sold at a high price.

[Abiky]

What about big memory coins, like IMACredit use to be?  It was n-scrypt based with N=16 requiring 16MB of memory per thread back in 2014.  The best scrypt ASICs back then (like the advertised but never delivered GAW Vaultbreaker) could only handle N=14.  IMACredit was tested to work with an N up to 20, although that reduced it to hashs per hour back then instead of hashs per second.

It is my understanding that most ASICs excel because of the parallelism they have, with each chip running lots of threads.   Use an algo that eats memory and the ASIC becomes impossibly expensive, since memory is not cheap.  Right?

Well, this approach could work (although there's nothing stopping manufacturers from developing ASICs for any cryptocurrency), if the cryptocurrency becomes extremely popular and valuable across the market. So far, memory-intensive PoW cryptocurrencies have been resistant against ASICs. But, they would need to keep increasing their RAM requirements over time in order to maintain themselves away from said hardware.

Nonetheless, coins like cryply, Turtlecoin, and Hodlcoin seem to be the best bet for CPU mining these days.

Turtlecoin plans to fork for argon2id at block 1.8M

Cool. Let's hope that Turtlecoin remains ASIC-resistant, as well as, other cryptocurrencies which make use of ASIC-resistant algorithms. It's hard these days for the small miner to actively support a specific cryptocurrency's network, given how ASIC have dominated the industry for quite some time.

Despite this, even if mining CPU-only coins are considered a hobby, they serve as great learning tools for anyone who's new into the world of crypto. So far, Electroneum (phone mineable), cryply, and Hodlcoin are my favorite CPU-only coins to mine. Magi (XMG) used to be good, but it seems to be abandoned in development now.

Hopefully, more cryptos which are ASIC-resistant would emerge in order to further decentralized the mining industry.

I think verus coin is a good coin to mine for CPU mining  and the difficulty is still low 

Thanks for the tip. I'll have a deeper look at Verus for CPU mining. Komodo cryptocurrency seems to be actively promoting this coin, which means that it might be worth mining after all.

Its not exactly 'hot' right now. But on my gpu mining rig, I also mine with the cpu JSEcoin.

Its browser cpu based mining and is easy enough to set up. Doesnt use much electricity. But don't expect to get rich quick I'm talking maybe 10 cents a day as an estimate.

This new coin looks interesting to mine, especially on phones while you're on the road. Of course, this venture is not profitable at all. But at least, it's something. If it remains active in development, then it'll last for long.

Still, I'm on the hunt for new CPU-only coins with active development and innovation. It would be a better alternative than most popular coins out there which can only be mined with a GPU or an ASIC.

[ccgllc]

Well, this approach could work (although there's nothing stopping manufacturers from developing ASICs for any cryptocurrency), if the cryptocurrency becomes extremely popular and valuable across the market. So far, memory-intensive PoW cryptocurrencies have been resistant against ASICs. But, they would need to keep increasing their RAM requirements over time in order to maintain themselves away from said hardware.

Nonetheless, coins like cryply, Turtlecoin, and Hodlcoin seem to be the best bet for CPU mining these days.

Actually, the coin I'm hearing about is a bit of a throw-back and uses nScrypt, with a high N.  Memory requirements are something like 64X Litecoin (which is just nScrypt with N=10).  What sets this coin apart from what I can tell is that it doesn't support pool mining.  Its strictly one miner, one thread, one wallet.  Lightweight for a Windows or Linux box, running around 100MB in Windows for a single thread, although if I'm doing my math right, only about 64MB of that is for the CPU algo buffer.