You can mine Ripple on your laptop or your PC at home or any smartphone. There are profitable coins that can be right now such as XMR and FCN. After you mine them, you can convert them into Bitcoins
Also, if you are unsure of what coin to mine, then the best way to do it is to sign up at MinerGate with your email. You can then go ahead and download the software (around 10mb) and install it. Minergate is a user friendly GUI based mining software that lets you mine a number of cryptocurrencies. In order to mine the best coin at the moment, thats doing well in the market, you could start “Smart Mining” which lets the software decide on what to mine. Once you sign up and mine, you can select the number of CPU and GPU cores to be used to mine. You can leave your laptop to mine when you’re idle and pause it when you’re not
If you have a decent rig and are able to afford the power cost, then you can profit from mining everyday. You can also check the dashboard at the website to see how much you’ve made. They also have a chat which you can use to know a lot of information regarding mining.