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This is a guide to mining Litecoin, on a mac, using a CPU (the instructions have always been right in that sense, it was only a misuse of the term “linux” instead of “terminal”). Why on earth we said “Linux” a few times instead of “terminal,” I haven’t a clue? It was an error on our part.

The guide really is for OSX. I will be beefing up the mining section and include a range of guides in the upcoming months.

Annoyed at myself for letting that error stand this long. We wrote this guide for OSX and terminal. For some reason we used the term Linux command instead of terminal command (I assume because we were shifting between different operating systems at the time; unfortunately it was written in 2015 and I can’t remember the details of this). From a very general point of view though, look a the differences between the command we use below and the one you do. It could be a matter of differences between Linux and OSX terminal, but notice we use // before the url../minerd –url=stratum+tcp://freedom.wemineltc.com:3339 –userpass=WORKER_NAME.1:WORKER_PASS NOTE: The comment section is turning two “-” into “–“ that is confusing. I assume you are using two “-” in your command. Maybe there is a clue in there.

One of my next projects is to do more mining and more writing about mining. I’ll aim to have guides to mining the major coins using different operating systems and mining hardware in the next few months so I can properly answer questions. Right now, I think the problem here is we used the term Linux a few times on the page (for some reason) despite it being a page on mining Litecoin on a Mac with a CPU (meant as an introduction to hobbyist mining written in 2015)!

The page has been updated, moving forward I’ll do a Linux version as well. I can’t answer the question without having it in front of me.

I will put this on the list though. The problem here is that we wrote the guide back in 2015 using a mining pool that has since closed. We need to rework the guide and update it for 2017 – 2018 (that means going through the newest quality pools and working out explainers that takes time).

Looking around the internet it seems that there is more than one site that ran into this problem. I sincerely apologize and will be working on getting a quality mining section up soon. In the meantime, you can try this guide to see if it clears up some of your questions. Too long for my tastes. The aim will be early January. It is a bit more work to get this right and re-write the whole guide than I anticipated (I thought I could perhaps just fix one section, but really its a guide from 2015, it needs a complete reboot). Really sorry about that.

As it was in 2015 and still is today, the internet is full of price speculation on crypto and a little lacking on simple guides to mining. Over the course of 2018 we should have a solid section on mining. I’m pretty stoked about creating it actually but its going to take a few weeks. Until then I sincerely apologize and hope what we do have in place helps guide people in the right general direction. Absolutely 100% it is a better investment to buy a couple litecoins than to mine them with a CPU. Hands down, no doubt about it. Mining isn’t something to do to get rich, mining is something to do as a hobby first and foremost.

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Some miners make money, but you need a very specific set of skills and setup to make it work. The average person will do much better by investing and/or trading. No reason you can’t mine and invest and trade, but if you want to “be in Litecoin” and have limited funds or time, then skip mining and buy a few lite coins (I suggest dollar cost averaging into a position, but that is another story). Honestly Litecoin prices are pretty good right now in the $100 – $200 range. Motherboard Litecoin LTC Mining.

It has already tested $400 and $100 has a ton of support. TIP: Let’s say you have literally no money, but have a PC. In this case you could mine a very small amount of LTC and then use that trade. If you can mine enough over time to have the minimum amount needed to trade you could technically use that to create more value on paper via trading. That is an uphill battle though. CPU mining through a pool is going to net you very, very, very little LTC.

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