Hello,
I'm new to bitcoin and mining. Do you have any advice for me? I have a laptop with low specs. I wonder if anyone has experience with a good cloud miner program that can be used together with binance pool? Or software that can be used for Windows laptop software? That you can trust..
Sorry to break it to you, but no...
Bitcoin mining is an ASIC only operation, it has been for years.
You cannot mine with a laptop, a desktop, a cpu, a gpu, an fpga... You can't even mine with an older ASIC nor can you mine if you pay to much for your electricity. (well, theoretically, all these types of hardware can produce sha256d hashes, the thing is that there is no way to compete agains latest gen asic's with this kind of hardware... The odds of finding even a single share with a cpu/gpu is so small, it's easyer to say it's 0)
As for cloudmining: >99% of those company's are scam. The few that are "real" sell you 100% of their risk for a very small cut of their profits.
Read this pinned post if you want to learn more:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415854.0--snip--
3. Mining BITCOIN is done exclusively with dedicated BITCOIN mining hardware based on ASICs -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit . You CAN NOT meaningfully mine bitcoin today with CPU, GPU or even FPGAs. Bitcoin difficulty adapts to match the amount of mining done on the network and has reached levels trillions of times too high to mine meaningfully with PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, webpages, javascript, GPUs, and even generalised SHA hardware. You will not find software in this section to help you mine bitcoin in this absurdly inefficient manner in this subforum. It would cost you thousands of dollars in electricity per year to earn only a few cents in bitcoin. Even if you combined all the computers in the world, including all known supercomputer, you would not even approach 0.1% of the bitcoin hashrate today. Any discussion outside of ASIC related mining, except in the interests of academia, will be moved to the altcoin mining section. There isn't any point attempting to mine bitcoin with CPU or GPU even in the interests of learning as it shares almost nothing with how bitcoin is mined with ASICs and will not teach you anything.
TL/DR Summary:
- You CANNOT meaningfully mine bitcoin with your PC or laptop no matter how powerful it is.
- You CANNOT meaningfully mine bitcoin with your tablet or phone no matter how powerful it is.
- Mining apps for your phone or tablet that claim to mine bitcoin are almost certainly scams.
- You CANNOT find software here to mine bitcoin with your PC by itself.
- You MIGHT be able to do one of the above with altcoins, but such discussion goes into the altcoin mining section.
- You CANNOT find or post software here to mine on other peoples' PC without their permission.
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