<p>Mining on both Bitcoin and Litecoin is now dominated by ASICs. Even with Litecoin, you'd only mine at best about US$0.45 worth in a year.</p>

<p>You should have better luck if you can find a cryptocoin based on something besides SHA-256 or scrypt, for which there is no GPU or ASIC mining, such as <a href="http://riecoin.org/" rel="nofollow">Riecoin</a> or <a href="https://www.darkcoin.io/" rel="nofollow">Darkcoin</a>. <a href="http://cpucoinlist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cpucoinlist.com/</a> lists some more CPU-friendly coins.</p>

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Tim S.
<p>Both of these links discuss how to CPU mine profitably.</p>

<p><a href="http://cpucoinlist.com/how-to/how-to-cpu-mine-x11/" rel="nofollow">http://cpucoinlist.com/how-to/how-to-cpu-mine-x11/</a></p>

<p>or </p>

<p><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439874.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439874.0</a></p>

<p>But if you don't pay for power... Try to partner up with someone with a good mining rig and divide the profits.</p>

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onize
<p>I don't need to pay for power to my computer. Is it a good idea to mine LTC or BTC on Intel Core Duo processor?</p>

<p>My CPU is 2 x 2.6GHz  (computer woks 24/7)</p>

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I have free energy; good idea to mine BTC/LTC?
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# I have free energy; good idea to mine BTC/LTC?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-11-26)

I don't need to pay for power to my computer. Is it a good idea to mine LTC or BTC on Intel Core Duo processor?

My CPU is 2 x 2.6GHz (computer woks 24/7)

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-11-26. Score: 3

Mining on both Bitcoin and Litecoin is now dominated by ASICs. Even with Litecoin, you'd only mine at best about US$0.45 worth in a year.

You should have better luck if you can find a cryptocoin based on something besides SHA-256 or scrypt, for which there is no GPU or ASIC mining, such as [Riecoin](http://riecoin.org/) or [Darkcoin](https://www.darkcoin.io/). <http://cpucoinlist.com/> lists some more CPU-friendly coins.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-11-26. Score: 1

Both of these links discuss how to CPU mine profitably.

<http://cpucoinlist.com/how-to/how-to-cpu-mine-x11/>

or

<https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439874.0>

But if you don't pay for power... Try to partner up with someone with a good mining rig and divide the profits.


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