Quote from: vlad230 on February 06, 2018, 03:25:39 PM

I have seen a lot of users that want to start mining or have already started but do not know what to mine. I though of creating this thread by including all of the new CryptoNight coins that are worth while mining using your CPU and will get you a decent amount of coins in return.
I will maintain this thread and add more coins on it, feel free to bookmark if you like.

I think the average mining power of your low to mid level CPU is about ~100-150 h/s so, I will create a guide on what to mine and how to do it based on this hashing speed.
Note: With this hashing speed you will definitely loose money if you sell what you mine because electricity is expensive. This approach is going to work only if you're OK with the idea that their value will probably appreciate in time.

What coins to mine?

The most lucrative coins from a "low difficulty & good returns" perspective are:

Qwerty Coin (QWC) - you will get ~315,000 tokens/day
TurtleCoin(TRTL) - you will get ~3500 tokens/day
PinkStarCoin (PNKS) - you will get ~600 tokens/day - swap coins until May 27th
Stellite Coin (XTL) - you will get ~270 tokens/day
DinastyCoin (DCY) - you will get ~200 tokens/day
ByteCoin (BCN) - you will get ~26 tokens/day
CrepCoin (CREP) - you will get ~49 tokens/day
Intense Coin (ITNS) - you will get ~7 tokens/day
Fonero (FNO) - you will get ~9 tokens/day
Graft (GRFT) - you will get ~1 tokens/day
Electroneum (ETN) - you will get ~4 tokens/day
LeviarCoin (XLC) - you will get ~2 tokens/day
Dero (DERO) - you will get ~0.3 tokens/day
Alloy (XAO) - you will get ~15 tokens/day
Haven (XHV) - you will get ~0.4 tokens/day
Karbo (KRB) - you will get ~0.2 tokens/day
Sumokoin (SUMO) - you will get ~0.1 tokens/day
NioBioCash (NBR) - you will get ~20 tokens/day
Solace Coin (SOLACE) - you will get ~2000 tokens/day
Loki Coin (LOKI) - you will get ~0.4 tokens/day
Triton Coin (TRIT) - you will get ~25 tokens/day

What pool should I use?

Usually all of the legitimate pools will charge a fee, from my experience, the good ones charge up to 1%. None of the good ones are free.

The pools I use or heard they are good:

DCY - dcy.poolmining.us
BCN - bytecoin.uk
ETN, KRB, SUMO, ITNS, GRFT - easyhash.io
XLC - xlc.dark-mine.su
TRTL - turtlepool.space
DERO - pool.dero.live
XAO - cryptoknight.cc/alloy/
FNO - fno.cryptopool.space
XHV - xhv.luckypool.io
PNKS - pnks.poolmining.us
XTL - communitypool.stellite.cash
QWC - qwertycoin.site
CREP - crep.miner.rocks
NBR - nbr.4miner.me
SOLACE - solace.luckypool.io
LOKI - loki.miner.rocks
TRIT - cryptoknight.cc/triton

Where can I get a wallet address?

The best place to get a wallet address is on the website of the coin. I have also used FreeWallet or Jaxx but usually none of the new coins are supported in these.

The most secure wallets to use are the paper wallets, you can mine directly to them.
Note: Please do not use a wallet address from an exchange, you will most likely loose your mined coins.

What software to use for mining?

I am using Xmrig for mining. In my opinion this is the best & easy to use command line CPU miner.
Note: They charge a fee for mining which is between 1% - 5%. You can configure this to the amount you like to donate.

First you need to download the correct file from here: https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases

You should have 3 files:

config.json
start.bat
xmrig.exe

The important part is the config.json file, this is the only file (read the comments in it too):

Code:

{
   "algo": "cryptonight", // cryptonight (default) or cryptonight-lite
   "av": 0, // algorithm variation, 0 auto select
   "background": false, // true to run the miner in the background
   "colors": true, // false to disable colored output
   "cpu-affinity": null, // set process affinity to CPU core(s), mask "0x3" for cores 0 and 1
   "cpu-priority": 2, // set process priority (0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
   "donate-level": 5, // donate level, mininum 1%
   "log-file": null, // log all output to a file, example: "c:/some/path/xmrig.log"
   "max-cpu-usage": 85, // maximum CPU usage for automatic mode, usually limiting factor is CPU cache not this option.
   "print-time": 60, // print hashrate report every N seconds
   "retries": 5, // number of times to retry before switch to backup server
   "retry-pause": 5, // time to pause between retries
   "safe": false, // true to safe adjust threads and av settings for current CPU
   "threads": 3, // number of miner threads corresponds to the number of cores you CPU has, recommended 3 for quad core processors
   "pools": [
{
   "url": "", // URL of mining server or: etn.fairhash.org:3333
   "user": "", // username for mining server
   "pass": "x", // password for mining server, usually "x" or ""
   "keepalive": true, // send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
   "nicehash": true // enable nicehash/xmrig-proxy support
   }
   ],
   "api": {
   "port": 0, // port for the miner API https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/wiki/API
   "access-token": null, // access token for API
   "worker-id": null // custom worker-id for API
   }
}

After you properly change config.json, you can start the miner by opening start.bat (on Windows). That's it!

Another mining app for CPU mining is XMR-STAK, you can use this as well, a guide on how to install it was provided by neosi1 here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2891680.msg33070715#msg33070715

A more detailed mining thread which showcases multiple mining apps (CPU & GPU) can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345911.0

Please let me know if you have questions/suggestions or feel free to share the coins you are mining with your CPU and could be added on this list.

The payment for mining is shown as the unit of tokens. However, it should be better to use BTC or ETH per day. That will make the profit clear.