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Screenshot from Awesome Miner
In general, a reasonably powerful gaming desktop or laptop with hardware released in the last five years, has a good chance of paying for itself and the electricity used, over the course of a year.
Keep in mind, a PC kept running around the clock for a year may need refurbishing of its cooling systems to continue functioning well.
Visually, there is nothing interesting on screen when mining is in progress. There may be a command prompt window, or a simple graphical status of active machines.
When running your machine as part of a pool, a number of statistics would be visible on the website of the pool, which users can use to improve their results. Any mined Bitcoin is shared among all users on a predetermined formula, so gains in a pool are denominated in fractions (for example 0.0027 Bitcoin).
For individual miners, the fun kicks in a few months later, when they are able to sell the coin they generated.
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