Hi

I was about to give up getting in on the coins as BTC is pretty much out of my reach for mining as my PC is to old and it takes to long using my MacBook Pro to get anywhere then I discovered Litecoin and the Asteroid app and started mining those for a week at WeMineLTC.com. Again after letting my miner run  for a long time at about intensity 11 I wasn't really getting anywhere. I currently have 0.014368460000000005  LTC after about a total of maybe 30 hrs of mining. The hash rate was on average 17-20.

So I was rather discouraged thinking hmmmm I really don't want to spend money on this yet is there a way to perhaps make some then reinvest it?
Then I found DogeCoin which at the moment is not as hard to mine as the difficulty level is lower and I started to look into mining it using Asteroid and after
ac couple of attempts I was successfully mining the new underdog currency. After just a day I have got 18 doge.

I know that Doge is not worth as much as LTC and LTC is not worth as much as BTC but as the demand goes up the value should increase so I am hoping I can at least make enough to invest in some better tech.

To serious miners this may sound sad but the point is this. If cryptocurrency is going to really take off it has to be accessible to a majority of people and unfortunately this means hardware and software that is a few years old. As the majority of people do not upgrade every year. Which is why I was happy when I found I could mine with my MacBook Pro that I bought in 2010 as long as I watch the heat. I have been able to keep it at around 88 c while mining at intensity 11 sometimes 12 if everything else is shut down.

I have been able to collect BTC by going to faucets and at the moment after a couple of weeks of just doing it in my spare time I have gotten 0.00106789 BTC which isn't much only about .91 CDN

I think I'm gonna give up on LTC and just do dodge coin my doge is up to 120 right now and I have found a few faucets for it.

I want to look into the USB miners but don't know much about them yet does anyone use these? If so are they self contained or do they need to access your GPU as well?

Grimwald