I used BFGMiner which works through the Mac's terminal.
The system was using both the central processor and the video card generating
about 16 MHs/s. It's a 2014 MacBook Pro, very decent machine for video editing
and the likes but it proved to be totally surpassed by the task. The pool I
used was AntPool.
I did it just as an experiment, I'm not that stupid. I know even
with an Antminer S9 you'll struggle to earn real amounts. Anyways, I thought
I'd share this if anyone is curious. BTW I know there are calculators out there
but I wanted to do a real life test.
And sooo after 33 hours of mining at full performance of a
MacBook Pro I earned... 0.00000001 BTC.
Yes, that means that after 3 years running straight
uninterrupted like this I would have USD$0.02 in BTC (at present value).
Conclusion, unless 1 BTC becomes equivalent to 1 billion dollars
(which as a hodler, I hope it will), don't try to mine using your laptop. Lol.
It was fun anyway. At least I can now say that I have actually mined BTC. :D
TL;DR Mining, you would have to run a MacBook Pro for 3 straight
years at full performance in order to earn USD$0.02 (at present value).
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