randomstrings
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Hi, I have got access to like 20 old i3 laptop with 8gig of ram, and have access to free electricity, what miners I can use to make some extra buks.
Which coin to mine on old laptop ?
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ProgressNow
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Download nicehash mining software and let it do testing. It will test and find the most profitable coin to mine and will start mining and send the rewards to you. All the best!
Lczq
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I'd rather set up some bots than mine crypto
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I3 laptop is not enough for this. If there is some option to combine them, then you might mine some altcoins.
Intuition
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Some bots to do what exactly?
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Setup a VPS and use it for your own purpose or rent it out
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Sell them, you will make a good profit. You might end up finding a good stable method of earning.
Proxy_prinz
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It seems that it’s hard to mine something profitable with them now
Patrick Molcer
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Sell them and buy some coins with that money. And waste this time for something more profitable 
doubledhamal
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This is sounding funny but it is a good advice. The money is blocked as desktops which is not giving you any return.Sell them and buy some coins with that money. And waste this time for something more profitable
I also thought about mining on a laptop, but I couldn't figure out the settings without help. I thought that my asys rog strix would pay off for me 3 times if I could mine monero. I was told by an experienced person that this would not make a problem on a laptop. It will be a year before the laptop can be thrown away.
ryan-isra
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Nicehash would be the best option if you have free electricity...
Sell them and buy some coins with that money. And waste this time for something more profitable
I bet those are not his laptops. Maybe he has access to 30 laptops because he is a computer lab administrator at his school/workplace, and the electricity is paid for by the school/office, so after school/working hours, he turns on all the laptops to start mining using software like nicehash, then the next morning he stops all progress and repeats all processes in the evening just for a few extra bucks with no effort.
Meanwhile, buying a dedicated miner will cost you few hundreds to thousands at start, something he wanted to avoid.
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randomstrings
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Part one is partially correct, I work as a network admin and as many knows we have one internet line which is only for backup of backup and hardly used so this is like a always on access and I do have access to laptops,
In my country buying miners is really hard,
DavidG1510
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you don't have Free electricity so... don't do it.
randomstrings
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Downloaded cudo miner, will post after one week, even if I am able to make 100 usd a month I will consider that as success.
jamb0ss
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yeah, your electricity bill will probably be higher today than the profit from mining
ryan-isra
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Which country do you live?
Yeah, it's not literally free, it won't be slighly higher but jump up twice.
Does your search show that cudominer is better than Nicehash or any of other miners mentioned? (I don't know if any miners were mentioned before in this thread, lol)
Are you sure if it's going to reach even $100 a month with 20 laptops and (let's say) 12 hours of mining every single day?
An example of a thread that goes into this tip in more detail would be great if you had some recommendations.
Likri
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what is the progress so far?
I was looking for the same