Well, not anymore.
Not for bitcoin, but at least for alternate coin that can be equally useful.
Hi all! This is actually my part-2 series of a detailed step by step walk through for signing up and installing the application from MINERGATE so that you can mine alt coins on your spare idle laptop or PC.
Please also be warned that you can ONLY do this when your PC / laptop has nothing else better to do except mundane tasks (like checking emails) and you have UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS (for maximum output)
If you have not read my part-1 guide, please be sure to head over there first before you continue reading this post. Otherwise you will be totally thrown off into the limbo of confusion.
To read part 1, please click on the link below
Making Use of Your Idle Laptop To Make Money for You: Minergate Walkthrough #1
So now, let's resume.
If you have not downloaded the MINERGATE application, please remember to head back to post 1 and follow the step by step guide so that you can get your desired app for yourself.
Please also note that these screenshots are done under Windows environment and that Macs might have a slightly different display.
Anti-virus' paranoia.
Please also be aware that when you download your application, your Anti-Virus like Avira / AVG might scream red flags to your system. Please remember to take them out of quarantine, temporary switch them off when you install the app if necessary.
So far, I have never had any malware attacks after installing this app. And I have been using miner gate for more than 6 months now.
I have also marked this software as safe for my antivirus.
When you have finally installed and running it at the first time, you will see this log in.
This is a actually the simplified mode and you will not be getting a lot of control out of it, especially when your laptop is under the lower range ones.
Choose EXTENDED MODE login.
You will see the differences when you are on extended mode, where password is needed. This will allow you for more control on what and how you want to mine it, including withdrawals.
Simple vs Extended mode
If your laptop is widely used by friends and family members, it is best to keep it as Simple mode during mining. You may have "expired tokens notification" from time to time, thanks to 
I would encourage you to go to extended mode, do all the relevant set ups, and then revert back to simplified mode mining if you are feeling insecure for the safety of your laptop.
Once you are logged in, you will see this basic welcome screen guide, where it asks you to do a no brainer start up mining. You can choose to click it and be done with it, as Monero is now MINERGATE's recommended choice of mining.
You even have a nifty cute icon earned if you have done that!
Next, head over to the miner's tab so that you can have different options to control how much core processor should be used for mining.
Please note that my i5 is only dual core, so you will see that there are only 2 options here; but for those who are quad cored, you will see more options there. My lightweight i3 gen 2 laptop has quad cores so I can switch it to 1 core mining if I am doing my work and even up to 3 cores when I am having a break / lunch.
Once again as I would like to remind you, this post is a collaboration post for EoBot that will be written by
, so here I would like to tell you that EoBot does not support FCN coins so unless you have a wallet that supports it, I would suggest you to switch it to NONE.
AAAAAAAANDDD you get another icon for doing so! LOL
(note: I have not achieved all the icon badges just yet so I can't tell you what's the grand price)
For stronger PCs and laptops, you will actually have GPU mining options to select your core, and you can also decide to mine ETH / ETC too. Both of these coins are supported by EoBot, but if your pc is not too strong and you are not in 64-bit OS you will not have this perk to mine it.
You can also show more coins / hide unmined coins by managing through view tab. I always like to keep it clean and tidy so I know which coins I am actually mining.
AAAAAAAAAANDDDDDD by organising your coins viewing you also get another cool icon badge!
The rest I will leave it to you to explore and see how many more you can unlock. Sometimes it unlocks without you doing anything because those are achievement badges.
So that's all for part 2, and part 3 will take a little more time to do more detail guide where you plot and create a hive of mining .... MUAH HA HA HA HA HA.....
Ahem.
So if you have any uncertain question, please feel free to comment here and I will do my very best to help answer you as I know it. If you have discovered something interesting from Minergate, please do feel free to provide your feedback here too!
ps: EoBot suppports mining STEEM, and this app can help fuel EoBot to mine MORE steem.
Thank You for Your Time
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