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524 sats \ 18 comments \ @jasonb 18h bitcoin_Mining

Hey sn! Does anybody know what's the best open source CPU mining software for someone who is not a rocket surgeon? I'm looking for something to run on an old desktop with a burnt-out hard drive. Ideally:

Not Nice-hash or anything else like that, open source, "the real deal"
Easy to set up, I mean within reason, I'm not THAT dumb
bitcoin, not looking to secure the Monero network or anything silly like that

I know that this is looking like a tall order, but I'm finding a lot on github, and am hoping one of you knows which one of these programs fit these criteria. If nice-hash can do it, I know the open source world can too.

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 15h

CPU mining is dead.

And I don't mean this in a "very low money earned" kind of way, I mean that mean that in a "basically zero" way.

I can't stress this enough. Walking through the neighborhood to find pennies on the sidewalk has higher revenue. This isn't an exaggeration, it really is.

150 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 16h

Can't say for certain anything has even been maintained for CPU mining, odds are if you find something that looks maintained and easy it's going to be malware.

I recall mining on a video card with this 1000 years ago when it was the standard, probably the best place to start if you're just doing it for the research:

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer

btcd might also still have the CPU miner in it, or there's like 2012 archive versions of bitcoin core

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 16h

Thanks so much! This is helpful in a couple of ways!

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @random_ 14h

I'm not THAT dumb

tbf you did ask about CPU mining which has been dead since 2013

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14h

OK, fair enough. The hope though was to ultimately learn a little more about how mining software interacts with hardware. Remind me to send you a picture of my increasing collection of burnt out s9s sometime. I'd really like to do SOMETHING with these controllers at some point.

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @HardMoney 15h

Better off getting a small home miner like avolon nano or bitaxe. CPU mining will probably not even generate more than 1 or 2 sats a day

63 sats \ 4 replies \ @chairman_pretense 15h

This is precisely why CPU mining interests me, I don't really want to buy toy hardware like a bitaxe - which will never have enough hash rate to be a serious concern. If we are doing lottery mining, why can't I have it as software and just run it low TH on my CPU?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @HardMoney 15h

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @HardMoney 15h

For scale 1 TH is 1,000,000 MH so a bitaxe or nano are orders of magnitude more powerful than CPUs for mining bitcoin Sha256

https://minerstat.com/hashrate-converter

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 15h

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxwtVpBujSe7rdlkuN-Lawl-6tvLW78exE?si=ie8r3wJ3OUTe5g47

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HardMoney 15h

Hashes are produced by any miner (cpu, gpu, asic). CPUs would generate such a small amount of hash it’s basically not going to produce revenue. The bitaxe at 1-2TH is 1000x+ more powerful than cpu mining bitcoin.

That’s why most cpu mining options are mining a shitcoin on a different algorithm than selling it to BTC via nicehash or whatever

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 15h

I actually have a handful of nano 3. This venture is more of me figuring out how mining software works.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @HardMoney 15h

There is likely no modern software for cpu mining bitcoin because it’s been displaced by asics since like 2016 / 2017 or even before

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 18h

I believe you will see an extremely low amount of sats running mining software on a CPU. I’m not saying it’s not worth it for the learning, just make sure you adjust your expectations accordingly

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 17h

Yeah, I'm just trying to learn more. I have a growing amount of broken s9s and would love to get to the point in which I could scavenge those parts into some sort of Frankenstein rig. I've already successfully combined them together to make new machines, but I'd love to be able to get to my understanding of the software in which I could use them with non-proprietary parts.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 18h

Good call on nice hash I have an account but have not checked my account in months

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 18h

I don't got anything against them. I just want KYC free sats and full control over what I'm doing so I know it's fighting mining pool centralization.

Do you have machines actively mining with their software right now?

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 18h

I joined before their KYC requirement