<p>You can try to mine Novacoin which is maybe less difficult to mine, but be careful, this money is 'a sacm' for certain people (the creator has pre-mined the money).</p>

<p>You also have the TerraCoin, the NameCoin or the PPCoin.</p>

<p>Check out <a href="http://cryptocur.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cryptocur.com/</a> to see how to mine these.
Coinotron is also a great pool to try to mine alt money.</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

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-1 novacoin is patently crap, even if it's not a scam (and it likely _is_).
o0'.
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<p>Namecoin is mergemined with Bitcoin, so the difficulty is near as high as bitcoin.
You may as well mine bitcoin and connect to a pool that allows Merged Mining Namecoins -- and you'll get uBTC bitcoins with no additional effort.</p>

<p>I recommend to leave the CPU alone especially if you're on windows, because i've noticed mining with both GPU and CPU is terrible because the CPU is required to submit and if the CPU is tied up with another application -- say NMC mining then the KH/s from litecoin will go down.</p>

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<p><a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet" rel="nofollow">TestNet Bitcoins</a> - the chain is usually at difficulty 1, so one can mine it reasonably well with a CPU. However, the coins themselves are worthless - it's just a system for testing your Bitcoin solutions.</p>

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The difficulty is not really 1; see this question: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18554/how-can-i-find-the-real-difficulty-on-testnet. Cpu mining on testnet is still not so easy.
Nate Eldredge
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<p>I have tons of CPU and a reasonably good GPU.</p>

<p>Should I used the CPU to mine namecoin and the GPU to mine litecoin? Or perhaps some other combination? Or what?</p>

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What's the alternative to bitcoins that can be profitably mined by beginner?
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# What's the alternative to bitcoins that can be profitably mined by beginner?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-14)

I have tons of CPU and a reasonably good GPU.

Should I used the CPU to mine namecoin and the GPU to mine litecoin? Or perhaps some other combination? Or what?

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-04-30. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

You can try to mine Novacoin which is maybe less difficult to mine, but be careful, this money is 'a sacm' for certain people (the creator has pre-mined the money).

You also have the TerraCoin, the NameCoin or the PPCoin.

Check out <http://cryptocur.com/> to see how to mine these.
Coinotron is also a great pool to try to mine alt money.

Good luck

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: -1 novacoin is patently crap, even if it's not a scam (and it likely _is_).  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2013-04-30. Score: 4

Namecoin is mergemined with Bitcoin, so the difficulty is near as high as bitcoin.
You may as well mine bitcoin and connect to a pool that allows Merged Mining Namecoins -- and you'll get uBTC bitcoins with no additional effort.

I recommend to leave the CPU alone especially if you're on windows, because i've noticed mining with both GPU and CPU is terrible because the CPU is required to submit and if the CPU is tied up with another application -- say NMC mining then the KH/s from litecoin will go down.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2013-11-30. Score: 0

[TestNet Bitcoins](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet) - the chain is usually at difficulty 1, so one can mine it reasonably well with a CPU. However, the coins themselves are worthless - it's just a system for testing your Bitcoin solutions.

> **Comments:**
> **username_5**: The difficulty is not really 1; see this question: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18554/how-can-i-find-the-real-difficulty-on-testnet. Cpu mining on testnet is still not so easy.  

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