<p>You cannot mine Bitcoin on a desktop (or laptop) computer these days.  If you are trying to mine Bitcoin on Slush, you will need an ASIC.  You can potentially mine ZCash on Slush, <em>if</em> you have a high performance graphics card.  Slush does not support directly mining any other coins.</p>

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2018-01-09T13:11:22.647Z
2018-01-09T13:11:22.647Z
Daniel Morritt
<p>Currently you can't mine BTC on your normal PC or laptop because now bitcoin blockchain dificulty lavel is too high . So you have to mine using cloud mining system and best performanable machine (E.G. Intel i9 board &amp; processor, 8 GB  DDR 4 RAM, Coller master SMPS also with a 1000 watt power supply and Nvidia TitanXP - Pascal - 3840 Cuda Cores - 12GB GDDR5X ) .</p>

<p>That is a only one way to mine BTC now days .</p>

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2018-05-19T11:41:49.807Z
Mining on any kind of CPU is pointless now, ASICs are the only way you'll see any returns. Additionally, the wast majority of cloud mining is a scam.
Raghav Sood
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2018-05-19T09:11:35.220Z
2018-05-19T09:11:35.220Z
Abhirup Bhattacharjee
<p>I've tried BFGminer, CGminer, and GUIminer. I'm registered on Slush's Pool. I can't get BFGminer.exe to even open though and GUIminer refuses to connect to Slush's Pool even if I manually put in the new address. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Can someone please help me? I'm super new to this if you can't tell.</p>

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Why can't I get any miner to work on my PC?
Rose Tyler
# Why can't I get any miner to work on my PC?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-09)

I've tried BFGminer, CGminer, and GUIminer. I'm registered on Slush's Pool. I can't get BFGminer.exe to even open though and GUIminer refuses to connect to Slush's Pool even if I manually put in the new address. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Can someone please help me? I'm super new to this if you can't tell.

**Tags:** cgminer, bfgminer, guiminer


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-09. Score: 1

You cannot mine Bitcoin on a desktop (or laptop) computer these days. If you are trying to mine Bitcoin on Slush, you will need an ASIC. You can potentially mine ZCash on Slush, *if* you have a high performance graphics card. Slush does not support directly mining any other coins.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-05-19. Score: 0

Currently you can't mine BTC on your normal PC or laptop because now bitcoin blockchain dificulty lavel is too high . So you have to mine using cloud mining system and best performanable machine (E.G. Intel i9 board & processor, 8 GB DDR 4 RAM, Coller master SMPS also with a 1000 watt power supply and Nvidia TitanXP - Pascal - 3840 Cuda Cores - 12GB GDDR5X ) .

That is a only one way to mine BTC now days .

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Mining on any kind of CPU is pointless now, ASICs are the only way you'll see any returns. Additionally, the wast majority of cloud mining is a scam.  

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