Crypto to put my PCs idle time to work

[DrMacintosh]

Hello, so I've never really mined before, but as my title suggests, my PC has a lot of idle time where it will at most be playing back Netflix, Hulu, or YouTube videos. I don't intend to take this too seriously but I was just wondering what would be a somewhat effective coin to mine with my rig and where to get started. Or tbh if there is a coin that has really low value but is somewhat decent to mine I'd love to mess around with that. 

 

My Specs: R5 2600, RX 580 4GB, 16GB 2666

 

My power cost is 11.81¢/kWh. I'm not necessarily looking to make money form this btw. 

 

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Doge Coin

[aisle9]

Monero or, yes, Dogecoin. Assuming Dogecoin still has its wonderfully low transaction fees.

[porina]

I don't know what's hot or not these days. Haven't really done it since the boom. If you don't want to think too much, assuming nicehash is still a thing, that will pick what it thinks is more profitable for you and manage the process. You just need a bitcoin wallet to get paid into. I think they offer their own internal store too, but they got hacked a while back and I don't know if they rebuilt trust since then.

 

If you really want to do something more directly, they're all pretty similar. You need a wallet, and the mining client. Often you would also join a pool, which increases your chances of getting paid especially as a small miner.

 

One more thought, since it was mentioned this wasn't necessarily doing it for the money but making use of otherwise idle resources. There are distributed computing projects you can join. There's a whole load of different projects. See it as donating computing power towards causes. Folding at home is a popular one on this and other forums, runs on CPU and GPU. There's also World Community Grid on Boinc trying to help the world in various ways. Or maybe help solve a mathematical mystery by calculating through it. One of my interests is finding prime numbers, and finding some of particular forms could help close conjectures.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 hour ago, porina said:

One more thought, since it was mentioned this wasn't necessarily doing it for the money but making use of otherwise idle resources. There are distributed computing projects you can join. There's a whole load of different projects. See it as donating computing power towards causes. Folding at home is a popular one on this and other forums, runs on CPU and GPU. There's also World Community Grid on Boinc trying to help the world in various ways. Or maybe help solve a mathematical mystery by calculating through it. One of my interests is finding prime numbers, and finding some of particular forms could help close conjectures.

Yeah, distributed computing is what you want Dr!

 

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