Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

Originally Posted by armygreywolf

No way you can profit off cryptonight cpu mining, you will need to be in the gpu game...which you need at a minimum the following: AMD:R9 270x 4GB or GTX 980 4GB...those cards are on the very bottom of the profitability slope...so if your machines don't already have them, forget about it. You will need a 4gb gpu of either RX generation or 10 series nvidia gpu. For a budget super stable investment I would go to best buy and buy two evga 1050ti ftw 4gb cards and install them as is in a dual pci-e x16 board with an efficient dual core processor or in your office machine. I would also forget about minergate, the fees are too high for the outdated miners they use. Instead download awesomeminer and create a multipool miner account. there are multiple instructables on setting up awesomeminer to work with multipool so follow those to the T. Next, before you benchmark the machine you need to benchmark it traditionally and tweak the settings. For this you need MSI afterburner. It's an advanced setup but its the only way your going to mine profitably, consistently. If your lost with any of this...I have to tell you now your probably better off purchasing mining power than doing the actual mining.

Not all coins require a GPU. Aeon is mined with a CPU rather than a GPU. The goal was to spread production and support as wade as possible.