GPU mining kinda took a turn for the worse earlier this year and the powerful GPUs make it unprofitable . If your laptop has a GTX 1080, then you’re looking at $5 a month, approximately. To me, the noise and heat isn’t worth the hassle for 5 whole dollars.
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Yes, via overheating of your GPU and CPU and overloading of your power supply . Do NOT try mining on a laptop – almost guarenteed to kill it very quickly as laptops are NOT designed for high-load continuous usage (using a laptop to control a USB-interface miner is OK as that doesn’t put significant load on the laptop).
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