<p>You're not going to be able to mine Bitcoin with a CPU. This has been covered before. You'll need to buy an ASIC.</p>

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2014-10-22T14:38:02.713Z
2014-10-22T14:38:02.713Z
Wizard Of Ozzie
<p>You can run a miner on a CPU, you just won't generate any measurable revenue. But as an experiment, it's certainly possible to do. I run cgminer on a CPU as an integration test for one of my node.js modules.</p>

<p>This is a rough outline of the steps you can go through to install an older, CPU-supported version of cgminer on your computer: <a href="https://github.com/hashware/node-cgminer-api/blob/master/.travis.yml#L11-L24" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hashware/node-cgminer-api/blob/master/.travis.yml#L11-L24</a></p>

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2014-10-22T19:27:34.650Z
2014-10-22T19:27:34.650Z
Travis Webb
<p>I just downloaded Bitcoin Core and BFGminer on linux and I would like to start CPU mining just to see how it works, maybe later I'll buy ASIC. So, how can I configure CPU mining on BFGminer?</p>

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How can i set up CPU mining on bfgminer?
Greps
# How can i set up CPU mining on bfgminer?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-22)

I just downloaded Bitcoin Core and BFGminer on linux and I would like to start CPU mining just to see how it works, maybe later I'll buy ASIC. So, how can I configure CPU mining on BFGminer?

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-10-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

You can run a miner on a CPU, you just won't generate any measurable revenue. But as an experiment, it's certainly possible to do. I run cgminer on a CPU as an integration test for one of my node.js modules.

This is a rough outline of the steps you can go through to install an older, CPU-supported version of cgminer on your computer: <https://github.com/hashware/node-cgminer-api/blob/master/.travis.yml#L11-L24>


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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-10-22. Score: 1

You're not going to be able to mine Bitcoin with a CPU. This has been covered before. You'll need to buy an ASIC.


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