Any suggestion on which cpu miner does everyone use?
Currently using xmr-stak, wondering if there's a better alternative

I too know the some cheap altcoins can be mined with the CPU alone but can you tell me is that still profit to make money in mining the cryptos with the CPU. I suggest you to start mining with the GPU rig. You can mine almost all the cryptos with the GPU cards so you can make money also with the decent growth.
You can choose XMR, ETH, ETC, SIA and equihash to mine with the Rx series and Nvidia model cards bro. I am sure you can more than 500 USD with the any of the series cards.

I have no experience mining on an Intel NUC, the CPU is basically a low powered CPU made for laptops but in a better vent mini PC so you should be able to get a couple 100H/s with it. I think you will be better off going Balls Out on the CPU has a whole though rather then breaking it up into 3-6 VMs.

For some reason xmrig is the only miner that my windows defender dislikes, but I guess it is indeed false alarm. Will try later and compare with xmr-stak

It IS still profitable, although it's a different story if you use low-end CPU like Celeron or Pentiums.
And of course, I do have GPU rigs.

Bitzeny is CPU only.and they have good community! Check it out.

Hello,

Great work. Could you please post link for the sites where i can find step by step mining procedure?

Thanks for sharing! This type of feedback helps a lot for me to decide on my setup. I guess I have to settle for a good sized desktop now or just run PoS as space is consideration for me.

surprised Riecoin is no where on the list, it's quite profitable at the moment as prices have risen to nearly 50 cents recently.
Riecoin is one of the oldest CPU coins out there, it's using the primesr hashing algorithm which is designed to find large prime number constellations.

ANN thread
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/446703.0

Exchanges
Poloniex
AEX.com

Fastest miner (open source)
https://github.com/dave-andersen/fastrie/tree/stratum

A test machine i've run over the last month is an older i7 laptop Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ
It's generated about 160 RIC or about $66 at current prices. Ryzen and any high end Xeon CPU will generate many times that number.


Some pools have issues with block withholding attacks, best pools in my opinion are https://ublock.it/ and http://www.xpoolx.com/.
uBlock is a private pool, if you need an invite pm me for more information.

It's on c-cex, don't know how good it is though.