Most CPUs will do a few megahash per second which is completely worthless for anything other than testing, and has been for several years now. It's a waste of time and power attempting to use anything but the most efficient dedicated hardware. Even a large portion of ASIC miners are effectively obsolete due to their power requirements outstripping their output.

Most CPUs will do a few megahash per second, which is completely worthless for anything other than testing and has been for several years now. It may be possible to improve performance in the future as Skylake Intel x86 processors include specific instructions for SHA256, but only by a few percent. Even with improvements it is a waste of time and power attempting to use anything but the most efficient dedicated hardware. A large portion of ASIC miners are effectively obsolete due to their power requirements outstripping their output, and they are orders of magnitude more efficient than mining on a CPU.

Bitcoin Core no longer has any internal miner, and therefor does no hashing even when generate is turned on in the configuration.

Most CPUs will do a few megahash per second which is completely worthless for anything other than testing, and has been for several years now. It's a waste of time and power attempting to use anything but the most efficient dedicated hardware. Even a large portion of ASIC miners are effectively obsolete due to their power requirements outstripping their output.

Most CPUs will do a few megahash per second which is completely worthless for anything other than testing, and has been for several years now. It's a waste of time and power attempting to use anything but the most efficient dedicated hardware. Even a large portion of ASIC miners are effectively obsolete due to their power requirements outstripping their output.