user3819: I saw that mining BTC with CPU is not profitable anymore, and that you'd lose money mining bitcoin. Is the same thing true of litecoin?

user2630: Yes it can be worth it, but generally what happens is if it ever is worth it then a huge number of people start doing it until the prices of EC2 are driven up and it is no longer profitable. Here is a good blog post about the subject:
http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html

3819: <p>I saw that mining BTC with CPU is not profitable anymore, and that you'd <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8405.0" rel="nofollow">lose money</a> mining bitcoin. Is the same thing true of litecoin?</p>
 2630: <p>Yes it can be worth it, but generally what happens is if it ever is worth it then a huge number of people start doing it until the prices of EC2 are driven up and it is no longer profitable. Here is a good blog post about the subject:</p>

<p><a href="http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html" rel="nofollow">http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html</a></p>
