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Quote from: PriitV on May 23, 2016, 05:40:00 PM

Hello.

I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.

Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.

you need to mine an alt coin. here is my thread on the hottest alt coin ie ETH coin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0

Where do you live? USA, overseas, Canada.

What is you power cost? 10 cents a kwatt is good for Eth coin not so much BTC coin.

I live overseas and like I said - I wouldn't be paying for the electricity as I would use the computer AT WORK to mine. I have come to a conclusion that I would not mine bitcoin due to the difficulty.

Can someone answer my question tho? Is it possible to configure a miner to work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable in a working environment?

Horrible idea mining at work I'm guessing without permission. You will be found out as computers will be slower, and most likely fired. I seriously doubt you find someone willing to help you configure "work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable" as it sounds like you are trying to load without permission.

And forgetting all of that there just are no CPU coins worth mining. It would be GPU coins... which most work places do not have big GPU's it likely is something on the motherboard with little power.

Don't worry about the part of being found out etc, that is not a problem. Can it be done though? Using low resources? It's free electricity for me, so i would have no costs anyway.