How to mine using my laptop

[joyjeet]

Hi All members, Am new to this forum and wanted to know of how can I use my laptop to mine bitcoins, is it possible to do so if YES then how, which pool should I join and which client should I use

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[lightlord]

Don't bother. Mining for laptops is very bad.

If you haven't heard about the bitcoin asics, you can spend $25 or so get a USB miner, that will mine 10 times faster then your laptop.
Lets say your laptop does 300 Mhashes with a good video card.

0.00000897 BTC Per day. You are better off going to https://primedice.com/
And claiming 0.00000250 BTC every 1 minute, instead.

Also if you consider electricity costs, it will cost more to mine BTC, then it is to not.
You can consider N-factor coins and probably get 0.00075 to 0.001 daily assuming 150KH mining rates.
But you will still harm your laptop, and kill it, not recommended.

[bbeesley]

go buy a fist full of devices like this http://shop.rockminer.com/goods.php?id=33 and plug them into your laptop

You need an ASIC if you want to mine...not just a CPU  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#ASIC

[notlist3d]

Most likely you will lose money.  You could gpu or cpu mne, but laptop mining is never suggested.

[Loophole]

Hi All members, Am new to this forum and wanted to know of how can I use my laptop to mine bitcoins, is it possible to do so if YES then how, which pool should I join and which client should I use

Theoretically, you can mine bitcoin at a very low hashrate.
Realistically, you will just waste your money on electricity costs, and will easily fry your laptop.

[Vortex20000]

You'd need at - at current difficulty - several tens of years, on an average crappy desktop to reach even the minimum payout for most pools: 0.01 BTC.

[byt411]

You'd need at - at current difficulty - several tens of years, on an average crappy desktop to reach even the minimum payout for most pools: 0.01 BTC.

No, you would never reach it since difficulty will increase.

I think that we should add a red banner or an automatic PM to newbies, telling them that Bitcoin isn't a gold rush and that they can't mine with their PCs.

[gelar24]

Hi All members, Am new to this forum and wanted to know of how can I use my laptop to mine bitcoins, is it possible to do so if YES then how, which pool should I join and which client should I use

I think you have to have a god-spec laptop: D

if you are a regular spec is very regrettable, later on your laptop may bsia short lifespan air: D

as well as unbalanced income: D

[notlist3d]

Hi All members, Am new to this forum and wanted to know of how can I use my laptop to mine bitcoins, is it possible to do so if YES then how, which pool should I join and which client should I use

I think you have to have a god-spec laptop: D

if you are a regular spec is very regrettable, later on your laptop may bsia short lifespan air: D

as well as unbalanced income: D

Regular or great laptop specs it's still not advisable to mine on it.  And most likely not profitable.

[ALToids]

Laptop mining has its chance when Bitcoin and Litecoin were in their infancy.  Now the network has grown and gone past CPUs, GPUs (for the most part), FPGA, and is not entering ASICs.

In basic English - the only things that can make cyrpto currency are specialized miners.  Either buy the hardware, cloud mine, or buy the coin.

[chup]

What specs your laptop has? Especially what graphics card? I found that new laptops are very power efficient, quiet and therefore better for mining than desktops. My laptop with AMD 8850 hardly reaches 61-62 degrees mining and one with Nvidia 840M does not pass 64. Both can mine close to 1Mh/s with X11 algo. Yes, I agree that there is no point buying laptop for mining and expecting ROI, but when one already has it, why not mining with? Look around and read about mining software capable of mining X11, X15 or cryptonight coins, who knows, maybe You will mine thousands of coins that will jump in value thousands times over next couple of years.

[notlist3d]

What specs your laptop has? Especially what graphics card? I found that new laptops are very power efficient, quiet and therefore better for mining than desktops. My laptop with AMD 8850 hardly reaches 61-62 degrees mining and one with Nvidia 840M does not pass 64. Both can mine close to 1Mh/s with X11 algo. Yes, I agree that there is no point buying laptop for mining and expecting ROI, but when one already has it, why not mining with? Look around and read about mining software capable of mining X11, X15 or cryptonight coins, who knows, maybe You will mine thousands of coins that will jump in value thousands times over next couple of years.

The reason would be wear/tear.  24/7 laptop mining is not good on it no matter how you justify it.

And hat doe not bring in cooling/electricity vs amount earned.

[chup]

The reason would be wear/tear.  24/7 laptop mining is not good on it no matter how you justify it.

And hat doe not bring in cooling/electricity vs amount earned.

You could say the very same for ANY KIND OF MINING HARDWARE. Should we all stop mining? Or one could spend 10$ per month on electricity collecting Curecoins, help finding cancer cure and in 5 years be surprised with CUR price.

[Bitsaurus]

The reason would be wear/tear.  24/7 laptop mining is not good on it no matter how you justify it.

And hat doe not bring in cooling/electricity vs amount earned.

You could say the very same for ANY KIND OF MINING HARDWARE. Should we all stop mining? Or one could spend 10$ per month on electricity collecting Curecoins, help finding cancer cure and in 5 years be surprised with CUR price.

No you can't say the same thing for desktop GPU mining.  If a GPU fan fails and kills the video card you can easily replace the video card.  You can take it out and RMA it and still have a function system (use on CPU video or spare video).  Have you ever tried to repair a laptop?  I swapped a fan on a HP DV4 last week and it took me 2 hours to pull it apart and reassemble.

[chup]

Yes, laptop repair is equally difficult as video-card repair and equally easy to RMA. ASUS X550 NL wih Nvidia 840M is in a 400$ price range with 2 years warranty. Why should I avoid mining with it, if I get fan replacement when it fails? Distribution of mining on more small miners is much better for cryptocurrencies and here existing GPUs, desktops, laptops are taking place.

[notlist3d]

Yes, laptop repair is equally difficult as video-card repair and equally easy to RMA. ASUS X550 NL wih Nvidia 840M is in a 400$ price range with 2 years warranty. Why should I avoid mining with it, if I get fan replacement when it fails? Distribution of mining on more small miners is much better for cryptocurrencies and here existing GPUs, desktops, laptops are taking place.

The difference is most miners with desktops have multiple cards so they are down a card, not a entire machine.  Plus depending on GPU company their RMA policy's can be pretty amazing. They were not meant for miners.  

For most mining does not make sense with a laptop.  Mine with it and i think after disappointment of earnings from one GPU come back and update us.  I don't like it but sadly for a lot of people including myself GPU days of mining are dead.   I shutdown all of my GPU rigs beginning of summer.

[DiamondZ]

Don't even think about mining with laptop.I made the same mistake when I was new to these Cryptos.Your Laptop will get enough hot to damage itself and you will not even make a Dollar running it 24 hours.Instead you will have to pay high electricity bills so it is a total loss.If you really want to mine then buy Specialize Mining Equipment.Hope that helps