Quote from: MarsResident on July 06, 2016, 06:01:30 AM

Quote from: merelcoin on July 06, 2016, 05:53:26 AM

Quote from: MarsResident on July 06, 2016, 03:33:39 AM

I am new to bitcoin and my friend who uses bitcoins told me that it is better for new people to mine other coins what coins are best for new people and what coins are easiest to mine

Depends on your goals and resources.
If your goal is learning how to mine, i'd pick up a dirt cheap second hand miner (a geccosciense stick for example, or an old S3) and experiment with mining bitcoin. You will not make any profit this way.

If your goal is making a profit, you'll need to tell us your budget, electricity rate, knowledge, maybe even which GPU's you have at hand...

Right now I just have a laptop and pretty much no resources I am just looking for an easy coin to mine so that I can have my computer on during the day and get a few coins even if they arent worth anything my goal is just to figure out coins and maybe eventually find a way to start my own my friend has been telling me about all kinds of coins and told me that people make like 5 new ones every day

Well... If it's just the learning experience you're after, you can try to download cpuminer-multi. I think this is their github page https://github.com/lucasjones/cpuminer-multi . You can search the forum for windows binaries.

Afterwards, you can go to coinwarz.com and select the different algo's, maybe run a little benchmark for the different cpu-minable coins. In coinwarz, pick a coin with low diff, that way you have a (small) shot at mining a block and getting the real mining-experience

Mind you: this is not the way to make any money... It's just an easy way of getting some experience without buying hardware!!! CPUmining is bad for your laptop!!!

My advice would still be to pick up some obsolete ASIC, they're allmost free nowadays, and then use it to mine a sha256 coin. If you want the full mining experience, use the same trick as before: go to coinwarz, pick a sha256 coin with very low diff and mine that one