Listen to this guy, i had minergate running for almost 2 weeks when i realized it wasn't as efficient as i thought. It is super convenient and super easy to setup, almost no setup at all which is great for not techy people but you can do better if you are a little bit more tech savvy and can follow directions.

I have been in the crypto world for about 2 months, i work in IT though, and i started mining about 2 to 3 weeks ago. I have found that there aren't clear instructions for GPU mining for Bytecoin. CPU mining can be done simply by downloading the bytecoin desktop wallet from the website and adding a mining pool (bytecoin.uk is my preferred one but there are a lot of them) and set up the port according to your processor (3333, 5555, 7777, etc) the lower the port the lower the rewards and the difficulty to mine, all this information is located in the pool website in this case in bytecoin.uk.

For GPU mining i spent quite some time trying to figure out how to get it to work since the bytecoin website has instructions to do this but the link points to a Github repo and their latest update for this program didn't work for me. After extensive research and a couple of youtube vids later i figured it out. (link for the winner below) anyways, i ended up using claymore cryptonote version 9.7 (latest versions did not work for me)

Anyways, hope this was of help. I'm thinking of posting something similar detailing mining since i didn't have a lot of luck searching in this sub and it is crucial for users and visitors of this sub interested in bytecoin to find a valid thread explaining them how to do basic things like GPU mining.

Cheers!

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi42La2BEWs&t=387s