# But what about standalone CPU miners?

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/but-what-about-standalone-cpu-miners/5288>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [October 29, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/but-what-about-standalone-cpu-miners/5288 "2016-10-29T23:11:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yaapelsinko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yaapelsinko](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/yaapelsinko)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/but-what-about-standalone-cpu-miners/5288/1 "2016-10-29T23:11:21Z")

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Lurked all around the google, but haven’t seen any standalone miner for Linux, for it just mine like Genoil’s or Nicehash on windows? I mean, mine, not sell your CPU power.

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**Author:** ![cloudhax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@cloudhax](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/cloudhax)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/but-what-about-standalone-cpu-miners/5288/2 "2016-10-29T23:28:10Z")

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you can use the wallet (zcashd) to solo mine. good luck winning that lotto though

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**Author:** ![zcashslacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8491ac/32.png) [@zcashslacker](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zcashslacker)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/but-what-about-standalone-cpu-miners/5288/3 "2016-10-30T02:31:52Z")

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so kinda like this ? ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/2X/e/e3ff91e77a3d54bfe8072f60fa8994a871cb2a26.png)