Submitted my entry this morning! Does it make any difference if I only mine on my laptop (compared to someone mining with a rig)? Will I have the same chance to win?
I am very new in this game and still learning. Sadly every how-to and advise article is like a year old which is about 10 years crypto time.
I am getting into the game mainly as a hobby, and to investment long term. Not to make a profit of expense/energy vs mining profit. In terms of mining, I am looking to mine low difficulty coins that have potential (a trivial and opinionated thing) for growth a couple years from now.
I had my sights set on ETN, which lured me in because of the low difficulty and potential for growth. Sadly it seems the difficulty is already to the point where CPU mining is almost pointless, I get like maybe 1 share accepted like every 2 hours on my core i7 laptop, half of which say they are rejected (tried claymore and xmrig). I see little point in ruining my $1,500 laptop unless I can see regular "share accepted" or "yay" or something else positive coming from the miner software.
I am buying a few Nvidia GTX 1050 Tis, and have an 8 core Xeon server desktop I plan to put them in. The server is already a personal file server, I figure I might as well mine with it. I am also thinking of building a gaming rig with 3 graphics cards slots and throwing some AMD hardware in it, when not gaming, it will be mining.
It seems a bit late for a noob miner with low-end hardware to focus on Monero, or am I wrong on that? Some other coins I have my sites on are Electroneum, ZenCash. Maybe AEON with spare CPU power. Thoughts?
Knowing my goals of hobby and invest (not power vs immediate profit), what should I mine? Taking suggestions.
uPlexa and Zumy are great new coins, both performing well after a short time and both with a low enough difficulty. uPlexa actually has a proper android miner (something that Electronium just BS'd they're way through).