Its good if there are actually supporters in the project. Based on the network hash & the miners in the 2 pools, I reckon there's about a total of 22-30 give or take... I used to mine this for about a couple of days and stopped for the lack of activity and response from the devs.

Its one thing about being in early... but if this project is not gonna take off, its losses in terms of electricity & opportunity costs of mining other coins.

Hi Ben,

How's the progress/development like? What are currently in the works? Who are in the dev team (it feels like its a one-man operation)?

It'd be good if this forum was more active...

Also, just a feedback, the website should be improved to look more professional. People are very perceptive today, and in order for them to start vesting their interest in this project, it should capture their attention with a well laid out website integrating elaborate roadmaps and the competitive advantage this project has over the other (how is spotmecoin different?).

I use https://intense.hashvault.pro for the easy to use interface, low payout threshold with ability to set your payout preference and they have an asian server.

CPU mining = Cryptonight coins.

You can probably check out the profitability of cryptonight coins at https://www.cryptunit.com.

I personally use it (not affiliated to it tho) but as with all calculator, use it with a pinch of salt.

Cheers!

Try setting your connection as "Metered Connection" and active time from 6AM to 12AM.

That works for me.

I totally agree with kriskarthik about not mining on Apple devices at all... unless you have some really old Macbook that you don't mind "trashing" in exchange for the knowledge...

The current line of Macbooks or MBP series are designed with aesthetics and mobility in mind rather and longevity. Im sure those MBP owners can still get their 2008 or perhaps earlier models still running even to-date (albeit very much slower and a lot of wait times) but the newer line of MBPs are a different story - really finicky and I dare say not long lasting.

I have a 2008 macbook and a late 2016 MBP Touch Bar. Both of which I sampled and tried with mining. The 2008 model with a Core Duo 2.5Ghz hashes about 20-25H/s while the 2016 MBP hashes at about 90H/s.

With the 2008 model, I've got nothing to lose since its set up to be a server and it a really old model. I also used it to learn about crypto. But while waiting for my actual rig to arrive, I got tempted to start mining on the MBP. I didn't mine for that long, perhaps about 5 days total (with a power timer to switch on and off the charging every 2.5hrs), cause the heat coming off the MBP was a concern to me. Alas, I did use it to plot my HDD for BURST mining perhaps for another week. After that, while I was working on a spreadsheet, the MBP suddenly shutdown & would not start again!

Learn from my experience ... For those on Macs or any laptop for that matter, while the idea of earning some bucks may entice you to use your lap, its really not worth the electricity and increased risks of damaging your hardware. Better get yourself a rig that is dedicated to mining - at least you have the flexibility to add more cooling aside from the obviously significant increase in hash rate


Salaam Husna. With what I have said above, and if your purpose is to learn about cryptocurrency and mining, then you could look at mining cryptonight coins. I used XMR-Stak to compile and run the miner on Mac. The instructions are pretty straight forward.

You can look at how you can do that > https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/blob/master/doc/compile_MacOS.md

Brief instructions:

1. Install Homebrew.
a. Open Terminal (press Command + Spacebar to open spotlight; search for terminal and press Enter)
b. Type the following in terminal >  /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Once homebrew is installed, go to the XMR-STAK directory and type the following step-by-step (below taken from XMR-STAK's compiling instructions)
2. brew install hwloc libmicrohttpd gcc openssl cmake
3. cmake . -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl -DCUDA_ENABLE=OFF -DOpenCL_ENABLE=OFF
4. make install

After you have compiled, go to the Bin folder and run the miner with "sudo ./xmr-stak". The first time you run, the miner will ask the coins that you want to mine, the pool address, your wallet address, etc. Better have them ready.

Once that's completed, you should already be mining...

But be warned with my experience above.

If you are using the miner made by the devs, you need to set the verbose level to at least 4 to see something (i.e. set_log = 4). Otherwise, its not gonna show anything... I thought that it was hanging the first time i ran it.

Alternatively, if you have GPUs, you're better off using xmr-stak and mine @ pool.crypto-me.com (its the only pool out there currently).