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Not so fast. You might be quite surprised at the answer to these questions!
You might be surprised to learn that not only is mining with CPU still a thing, but that there are actually some coins that are designed to only be mined with a CPU (meaning you can’t mine them with GPUs or ASICs. Period. Some of these coins were specifically designed this way to stop what happened with Bitcoin and to keep miners with lots of money from centralizing the network into just a few small pools.
The coins in this list can only be mined with CPUs.
These coins can be mined with a CPU, but using a GPU will give some advantage.
We will update this list as more coins become available. Mining with a CPU is still possible.
Mining cryptocurrencies with a CPU is possible, regardless of the coin. The same goes for GPUs. Just because a coin is mined with an ASIC doesn’t mean you can’t mine it with a CPU or a GPU too.
The problem is that you’re not likely to every find a coin and you’re going to spend an absolute fortune in electricity. Mining a Bitcoin for example with a CPU would be like trying to win the lottery by gambling in a pool with a million other people and you only contributed a penny. Even if the pool wins, you’re not going to see any of the return.
The game is all about hashing power. The more you have the more likely you are to get some of the pie (or coin).
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9 Responses
You can mine any coin with a CPU. You just won’t ever find anything.
Can’t you still mine Monero with a CPU?
Love your site man. The amount of information you are providing is great. I know that mining with a CPU/PC is usually out of the question but I keep searching for information on the subject. Also check out the [removed by editor], I’m reading that it’ll allow CPU mining at first then eventually switch over to GPU. Anyway, awesome site!
All coins can initially be mined with a CPU.
Is it correct that the amount mined is just extremely limited using CPU compared to GPU/rigs?
Not really. Its about the difficulty of the coin. Before there were 10 million computers mining bitcoin, you could mine with a Raspberry Pi and find coins. The more machines mining the harder it gets.
What if i got 100 pc (quad core) mining? Is there a way to make them all work together in a network like “network rendering”? Thanks.
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Better to built a SPECIAL SUPER MINING MACHINE just to suck out all the bitcoin left out by Satoshi Nakamoto in just a few minutes. I think chinese miner are working on this. What if someone built a bulk circuit board and a bulk graphic card which could generate 1Yh/s (Yottahash)
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Kilo 1000 K
Mega 1,000,000 M
Giga 1,000,000,000 G
Tera 1,000,000,000,000 T
Peta 1,000,000,000,000,000 P
Exa 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 E
Zetta 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Z
Yotta 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Y