Mining cryptocurrency on CPU

Bitcoin mining. Who did not hear this term long ago? This was the primary way of getting Bitcoins. True, he collapsed because of the cost effectiveness, because the Chinese have everything cheaper and they can build all "miner farms".

But thanks to Zcash you can still dig and earn a lot! At least for a month / two (looks like this).

But many people do not have high performance equipment. Or have a server without a graphics card - and many people asked - can you dig on the processor? How about with earnings?

Until I tried it myself.

On this occasion I would like to thank @jamzed for the help in the miner configuration.

1) Engineer, what are we going to do?

Zcash. Recently, it is very profitable to dig it, lack of AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. Graphics card prices have increased by several tens of percent up.

However, not everyone can afford to spend $250 on a graphics card, where profitability digging is estimated at 2 months. Probably will return, but however ...

I have one server - 6 cores (12 threads), but no graphics card. So computer can mine on the CPU - very unprofitable, but I do not pay for electricity, I do not pay for the server ...

2) Theoretical assumptions of the project

The premise of the project is to mining up "as long as you can" Zcash Cryptosystems on the 6-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2420.

Miner works on 5 cores. Increasing the number of cores / threads above does not increase digging performance. (If not enough to make it important).

I will work for flypool.org. Flypool refreshes data every 15 minutes, so I know roughly how much I get.

Another unreachable requirement (in my opinion) is the free current. Maybe some VPS is free and allows you to dig or have access to an unused server.

3) Mining

For mining I use nheqminer with optimizations from the kost. It allows for much more efficient digging on the processor using the same power.

The average result is: 4.32667 H/s, 8.23 Sol/s.

4) Statistics

On 18.06 at 1:30 I measured the number of ZECs it held - it was 0.00107, and the day after that was already 0.00128. This means the earnings ~ 6-8 cents / day. Perhaps the difficulty of mining is increasing.

5) Millionaire

Of course the earnings are low. But this is an alternative way to get cryptocurrency. Of course he is not the best. But not everyone has access to the right equipment.