You can mine ETN with CPU so you could be mining it on the computer your writing this on.
Its easy to get a paper wallet address from here:
https://my.electroneum.com/offline_p...alletV1.6.html
or download the Electroneum app and set up an account. I've got the app (just to check out their progress) but I haven't imported my paper wallet yet.
(always be careful and double or triple check with other sources when getting a link to a wallet).
Claymore's CPU miner is easy to set up on Windows. Its what Im using to mine ETN on multiple laptops and my mining rigs CPU's.
You can use Claymores no fee option, you wont loose any hash rate with this CPU miner.
Here's the link to Claymores post on Bitcointalk.org were you can download the miner.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647251.0
Here's how I make my batch file (.bat) using NotePad++
1.@echo off
2.echo The program will wait 30 seconds before continuing
3.timeout /t 30
4.NsCpuCNMiner64.exe -o stratum+ssl://etn-us-east1.nanopool.org:13433 -u
etnkGyznzS7JWmyUGN99sKTRMmjMPLXu3RJizUX8LEtRaRSHbC NGB6ETzqP2gkDnTFcoW2ecXjDU8c9waEPissMGAeWxrNqwom.
WORKER NAME/YOUR_EMAIL -p x -allpools 1 -nofee 1 -mport 0 -r 0
That is set up to mine on Nanopools U.S. east cost server. If you live closer to one of their other servers use that instead. Instructions and server addresses can be found here:
https://etn.nanopool.org/help You have to change the red text: ETN wallet address to your own. Then Change the WORKER NAME so you can check stats on Nanopool.org but I wouldnt change the YOUR_EMAIL to your email address because there will be long periods of time between a CPU finding shares and nanopool will keep emailing you letting you know your miner is offline. Its not worth it...
You can skip the first three lines of script if you dont want a 30 second delay but I make a short cut of the bat file and put it in the Windows startup folder so the miner starts every time the computer is turned on or reboots.
In case you dont know how a batch (.bat) file works you place it in the folder with the miner .exe file and double click the .bat to launch.
With a quad core processor you can expect a little over 100 ETN a month.
This is just my opinion, but I wouldnt buy this sh1t coin with fiat.... Its way too early to tell if it will survive.
All ETN is is a exact copy of Monero with a 21 billion coin cap and a app that is suppose to let you mine it with your cell phone but they haven't got that far yet. They do have the app tho. and a nice set up for making a paper wallet offline.
I think they are going to have to have some Linux devs make some of the LINUX packages in arm7 before they'll be able to get the mining part of the app to work.
I tried to run my own version of the LINUX version of XMR-STAK-CPU miner on a Android device using Linux Deploy and UNIX tools but some of the packages needed aren't available for the arm7 version of LINUX.
They obviously ran into the same problem when trying to make the mining part of the app.
