Mining with a Laptop?

[Manue_77Smith]

I actually got 2 old computers(that are way worse than laptop) But they dont really start up. So in order to buy them new  things to make them  work again it would be a huge investment for me(i am only 19 without a job currently).
Should i use  My laptop..? my friend told me that its a bad idea because it wont mine enough btc   and its just not worth.
 my laptop has these
8Gb Ram
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.60 GHz
64 bit...?
I am not an expert at this tbh . Any opinion/reply will be appreciated !! Thanks a lot

[leowonderful]

You certainly can mine, but it’s not worth doing so IMO. Mining usually means fans at full speed on most laptops as most laptops have horrible cooling, and if a fan happens to fail, it’s a hassle to find a replacement and install it. Plus, laptop CPUs are generally pretty underpowered for mining, and your (Haswell?) i7 is no exception. Even if you were to mine, I doubt you’d be making more than a dollar a month.

If you’re looking to make money, scout for jobs in the Services section. People are always looking for workers there, and you’ll likely get paid in crypto for completing a job.

[perri]

Should i use  My laptop..? my friend told me that its a bad idea because it wont mine enough btc   and its just not worth.

First of all, that is proper less statement. It may work for a 7-9 year ago. Even when (BTC) replaced with (some altcoins name), but might it be a more acceptable statement than before. But both just the fastest way to blow your laptop if you were doing mining with that.

Will be better to follow the above advice. And you can collect some money from your followed projects to buy some mining hardware if you want to do mining. 

[whitesites]

You might make 1-2 pennies per hour.
Not worth it.  Go get a job instead, better use of your time.
Then once you have some money saved, if you want to get into mining, build a RIG.
Its a great hobby, that will consume your ever waking hour. 

[dragonmike]

A good thing to use the laptop for would be to use it as staking station.
Buy some PoS coins, install and unlock your wallets on that laptop and leave it on to stake 24/7. There, more profit than mining for less electricity and wear.

[perri]

A good thing to use the laptop for would be to use it as staking station.
Buy some PoS coins, install and unlock your wallets on that laptop and leave it on to stake 24/7. There, more profit than mining for less electricity and wear.

That is a better idea than doing mining using a laptop. 

But it still isn't good enough choice, we were talking about the laptop that we know, isn't a wise way to running 24/7 except it is an unused laptop, and we don't care about what will gonna happen.

[HagssFIN]

Laptop (PoW) mining? Nope. Nope.

[perri]

OP, look at this forbidden sign from the experienced miner. ↓↓

Laptop (PoW) mining? Nope. Nope.

I can say for sure, he was right. ^{101% agree!}

[omarsir]

Laptop mining is the above criticism So I can't agree with other. If you want to do mining, first you have to register a account at any device.....

[swogerino]

The components of a laptop naturally generate more heat than those of a desktop computer. If you put your laptop to mining it will even generate more heat than normal and in no time you will toast your processor easily.

You can only mine with your processor and it will make about 0.30 dollars daily or just a bit more. I don't think it is worth to brick your laptop only to mine pennies as that is what you will get by mining with a laptop device.

[DJohnson]

I would not mine with a laptop if you can help it.  As others have said, it is much harder to dissipate heat in a laptop and they end up working much harder than they need to.

This include CPU and GPU mining from a laptop.  In the long run, generally not worth it. You may be able to say your are profitable mining on a laptop, but there are much more efficient ways to mine.

However, if you just want to try mining to see what it is all about then you are fine!  I just wouldn't recommend leaving your laptop running 24/7.  Good luck.

[slovakia]

setup mining biblepay and WCG: for laptop its OK  

for mining BBP you can get 3 others coins, Byteball,Neumannium and Disitribute Chain Credit

[perri]

First off, if you are interested in learning about crypto's and mining you can learn a lot even using a laptop.

I agree with half of your statement, about how to learn (only).

And the rest, for whatever reason (except you are using an unused laptop and you don't even care what will gonna happens) it's not a proper way of doing mining using a laptop. All the comment above says about technical and experience (that's not a theoretical view).

[Regulater]

Since you have a U chip from intel, you wont really be able to mine. The laptop would go crazy and consistently throttle.

[mathew232]

Sorry mate to tell you but you're a few years late Cheesy Mining bitcoins is only useful now using ASIC miners. You can learn more about them by googling antminer s9 or something. Instead mining on computers still exists BUT on GPUs. And I'm talking about mining altcoins like ethereum or zcash or whatever. If you've got some money and ready to invest into mining get into the Mining section and read some info.

[xvacator]

It's not recommended to mining any coin with a laptop because the laptop is not designed to do a hard job like mining and besides that, the laptop can get heat for a long time if you stand by your laptop for mining. No matter how good your laptop, you are difficult to make any profit and don't think that you can be mining any coins that can give your profitable in one period. Maybe you can buy hardware or VGA so you can start mining with a new computer and vga inside but you need to think about the electricity fee.

[tokexchain]

I actually got 2 old computers(that are way worse than laptop) But they dont really start up. So in order to buy them new  things to make them  work again it would be a huge investment for me(i am only 19 without a job currently).
Should i use  My laptop..? my friend told me that its a bad idea because it wont mine enough btc   and its just not worth.
 my laptop has these
8Gb Ram
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.60 GHz
64 bit...?
I am not an expert at this tbh . Any opinion/reply will be appreciated !! Thanks a lot

Laptops and small devices (with little airflow) are not designed for constant processor threads and will get hot then possibly overheat, lift solder and all sorts of other heat damage can occur.

Of course, you could still mine with the machine, at a reduced rate, turn down affinity on CPU mining software or reduce the thread / footprint.

This is still a good way to take part, even if not at 100% - worth a go still 

And if you do use the machine for data intensive processes, make sure there is free space under the laptop for adequate airflow as many a time these machines have burnt out (with normal use) just because of being put on a table / sofa / bed and the vents blocked - the heat has to go somewhere and is better in than out!

[wesk1212]

If you want to lose your device
I have already tried mining on my machine and burned the screen card
There is not enough cooling in the laptop so you will definitely lose it

[dentolas]

well, mining is definitely the essence of crypto. I'm also a guy that likes to use existing stuff and adapt it to a new use, but on this case you have to reason some facts...... first of all, BTC mining is different because the hashrate needed to gather some value is very high, people are using ASIC and even with these machines, some people are having trouble making is worth (depends on the price of the electricity)
Mining with a laptop, even if you point to new coins with almost no network, is something that will bring very few coins and will highly wear your machine... a stacking station as someone already said would be a much better idea, or maybe as an exit node for VPN, for example
If you want to be a real crypto miner, the best thing to do is taking it serious and gather a bit of money to buy some GPUs, a motherboard and get things going... you can even start with 1 GPU and go on from there...
cheers

[mak013]

I actually got 2 old computers(that are way worse than laptop) But they dont really start up. So in order to buy them new  things to make them  work again it would be a huge investment for me(i am only 19 without a job currently).
Should i use  My laptop..? my friend told me that its a bad idea because it wont mine enough btc   and its just not worth.
 my laptop has these
8Gb Ram
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.60 GHz
64 bit...?
I am not an expert at this tbh . Any opinion/reply will be appreciated !! Thanks a lot

It looks like you have just one chance. You can mine with the CPU shitcoins right at the start. You have to find a new coin, download wallet quickly, and start mining by the wallet. So you can find several blocks by this way. And later you can win if this coin would be on some exchange.