Altcoins that can be mined on laptop

[Asbab4real]

Hmmm nice topic

[flag39]

If you live your laptop 24/7 mining, for sure you are going to burn you processor soon

[Cordillerabit]

if you used laptop better if you have powerful CPU like Intelcorei7 7Gen  to make it profitable for mining 

[Lamby]

it will cost u electricity more than you produce and u will take for ever to make 1$

I you really sure that it wI'll take forever to make a doolar.

Please enlighten me

[benres]

even dogecoin is difficult to mine now, there are tokens that are for staking to collect and earn no need to use high end hardware.

[wiik]

It is never profitable to mine coins using LAPTOP . It wll kill your system , causing more loss , from electricity to the dage to your laptop .

[Bitcoinbillionaireboy]

This mining of a thing self...how one can learn this in details anyone here can volunteer to help out?

[Rinaxu]

Mining these days is hard, level of difficulty rises and it consumes so much electricity and resources. Better to consider staking coins instead.

[AlexS]

I mine Bytecoin and Aeon with minergate on my laptop.
Of course this is not my personal laptop, it's a laptop from work and I use it on weekends. 

[akmittal]

Would like to make a list of these easy to mine altcoins ....

Here's some important info you need to know first:

It is possible to mine any of the Proof-of-Work coins with a laptop. That covers most of the alt-coins in existence. Proof-of-work Hashing algorithms are what make mining possible.

The problem is that millions of people are trying to do the exact same thing as you, so your chances of actually making money from mining it are slim to none.

For mining to be profitable, a person either needs a huge amount of resources and access to extremely cheap electricity or they need to start mining the coin long before it becomes popular.

Some people mine coins that are no longer popular or perhaps even considered dead coins, in the hopes that one day they will become popular again. This strategy is completely hit and miss.

The reason why mining is no longer profitable is because of specialized hardware called ASICs

 ASICs : short for Application-specific integrated circuit

ASIC are specialized chips that can do the work 100s - 1000s of times faster and more efficiently than any CPU or GPU.

Therefore any coin that can be mined with an ASIC is completely unprofitable for anyone who does not use ASICs.

Because ASICs are so lucrative they are being developed for most of the Proof-of-work Algorithms.

In response to the rise of ASICs some developers have tried to make Proof-of-work algorithms that are ASIC-Resistant. Altcoins using these ASIC resistant algorithms were initially quite successful. So successful in fact, that other smart people figured out how to make ASICs for them. And so it is has become a vicious cycle.

Here is an tiny incomplete list of Cryptocurrencies and their Proof-Of-Work (Hash Algorythms).

Litecoin was initially designed to be Bitcoin ASIC resitant, until someone developed a Scrypt ASIC.

Dash (aka Dark Coin) was designed to be ASIC resistant, until someone developed an X11 ASIC.

Vertcoin was initially designed to be memory intensive and thus ASIC resistant. until someone developed a Scrypt-N ASIC, so then they changed their Proof-of-Work to use something called Lyra2RE

Monero was another coin designed to be ASIC resistant by implementing CryptoNight. I see that some people have developed a Cryptonight FPGA (FPGA is an early stage before ASIC)

Etherium as far as I know does not have ASICs developed for it yet although it is only a matter of time before either ASICs become prevalent OR they drop Proof of work completely.

ZCash is another coin that was designed to be ASIC resistant. It is unknown whether people are working on ASICs for this coin.


The bottom line is that mining with standard hardware (PCs, laptops etc) is generally considered not profitable and should only be done for educational or entertainment purposes.

Caveat: This is of course unless you are willing to put in the huge amount of time and effort required to research the thousands of alt coins in development and mine the promising ones well before they become popular.

Thank you for providing such wast knowledge about mining.

[btcdoll]

The mining with laptop is not profitable. Even than for experience you try coinpot.co for mining Bitcoin and Altcoin. This is very simple and easy.

[khang]

you can stake DeepOnion on your laptop.
read this topic to understand.
newbie deactivated link:https://deeponion.org/community/threads/tutorial-deeponion-staking.2057/ [nonactive]

[btcdoll]

You can mine Doge, Litecoin, Dash altcoins through Coinpot web site on laptop.

[Angelliddy]

This is information is really helpful and needed. thanks for the post.

[RoffoSnake]

Lots of people swear on mining Monero on laptops is ok, I tend to mind DCY, BCN also.