Questions tagged [mining]
The process of using a computer to verify transactions on the Monero network. Mining helps keep the network safe, since it is unlikely that one person or group of people can control a large portion of the total mining power. Monero is mined using the RandomX algorithm, and it is mined with both CPUs and GPUs.
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Unable to understand the difference between some keywords and functions with RandomX
I am unable to understand what the reference CPU is, the SuperScaler hash program and the VM of RandomX.
How the programs are run on the RXVM.
What is the role of SuperScaler.
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Ryzen 7950X3D Hashrate far below benchmark
I started mining Monero a couple of weeks ago. I hit a dead end in my research and wonder if I am doing something fundamentally wrong.
I am running a rig with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 128 GB DDR5 RAM in &...
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What is relation of job target and nonce in pool mining
When I was reading some miner code I saw a piece and found it was related to the nonce's value, but I was not able find out whether it is proportional or not. If not, then what is it's relation to the ...
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Does compiling with `-march=native` bring a measurable performance improvement for mining?
I see in other questions people are sometimes using this flag, which enables all instruction subsets supported by the local machine. Does it bring a performance improvement? Are there some benchmarks ...
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What are the benefits of background mining compared to running it at a low CPU/IO priority?
That is using
bg-mining-enable=true
bg-mining-min-idle-interval=5 # seconds
bg-mining-idle-threshold=200 # average idle %
in /etc/monerod.conf instead of something like
[Service]
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Nice=5
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Can I Create A Single Coin
I want to know if it’s possible to create a single coin that can have 7 zeros behind the decimal? Therefore, I want to create one coin with seven zeros behind the decimal.
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Convert XMRig miner and its configurations into single executable file (.exe) for Windows?
I have setup a XMRig miner on my Windows 11 and it runs perfectly, I want to convert this XMRig miner file and its configuration( config.json) into a single executable and upload on GitHub. And later ...
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Does mining in a pool help the network?
So basically, if you solo mine you create decentralization, but your chance to get reward is almost nonexistent.
When you mine with a pool, you don't validate anything. You just hash blocks produced ...
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How connect to monerod via xmrig
I have a node running monerod. The "problem" i've that node with password and i don't know how to connect xmrig with login.
I tried various combinations such -u -p, -O user:pass, -u user:...
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How can I code monero mining algorithm from scratch?
I want to code a javascript-based monero mining algorithm from scratch. However, I couldn't find any training set, lectures, courses, books, etc. about it.
How can I code a javascript based monero ...
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How do i know if my machine is working for my wallet?
I am new to mining and am not dead that I set it up correctly.
There is no transaction in my wallet yet.
When I write my address in the "Your Stats & Payment History" field, the answer ...
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Multiple questions about sending Job to miner
So I have a mining pool that is able to call RPC methods from my node.
I can connect my miners to my pool only now I am stuck at the part where I need to sent/validate work to/from the miner.
I'm ...
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What is the best Monero-mining program for MacBooks?
I have an old 2012 MacBook Pro and an 2018 Macbook laying around. Is there a program or a Tool which make it possible for me to use them for Mining?
The specs are, my 2012 has 16GB Ram and a 2,7GHz ...
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How to mine Monero individually directly to Wallet?
I came across this description on the monero website. It describes how to solo mine with the Monero GUI. In the last part it displays a screenshot where one can click on start mining and the text says:...
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Why do I need to open port 18083 when setting up p2pool mining?
Is there an explanation as to what the command below is doing? Why does this port need to be opened?
--zmq-pub tcp://127.0.0.1:18083
from:
https://p2pool.io/#help
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How to correctly hash using RandomXSharp
Don't ask why but I'm trying to make an XMR miner in c# (I know this will be slower etc etc).
I'm having some issues with a test case.
I'm looking at reproducing the results from this block https://...
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Is the RandomX only algorithm to go?
I'm bit lost with some of many stuff around the mining. I'm using xmrig to mine monero with rx/0.
This is by default.
As far as I was able to understand, the pool has to support algorithm I want to ...
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Not reliable working time of Windows worker
my tiny monero miner ... 64bit 1.9GHz dual CPU with 3GB RAM has some mining issues on the pool.minexmr.com.
I'm using xmrig on Windows 7 Home Premium.
I'm looking for some answers for this
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How does the block version get set
I noticed that the BLOCK_MAJOR_VERSION is still set to 1 in the cryptonote_config.h. So how is the block version getting updated to 14?
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How to mine empty blocks?
I just want to mine an empty block with a daemon I am running. Do I need to change the code significantly or is there a setting?
Also do I still get a reward?
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How to make monero-powpy compatable with xmrig-proxy running in 'nicehash' mode?
I know I have to somehow implement this spec but other than that I'm not sure.
Any help/resources is appreciated.
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Is Monero an inflationary asset?
My prejudice is that because monero has utility on the dark-web for transactions it's not suitable as a store of value. That's my pre-conceived perception, at least. In trying to understand the ...
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Can't connect to monero daemon on my LAN [duplicate]
I have monerod running on a computer in my LAN, let's pretend the local IP is 10.0.0.9. I want to mine with another computer on the same LAN but not have to download the whole chain. So I run the ...
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Mine to remote address with monerod
I started the mining process with:
start_mining <walletaddress> 16 and,
start_mining 16 <walletaddress>
Both returned: Error: invalid argument: must be either 0/1, true/false, y/n, yes/no
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Cant seem to get mining started
I'm using the Low Graphics Mode GUI
Daemon is synchronized
Network status = Connected
Wallet blocks remaining: 456
Under Solo Mining I click on 'Use recommended number of threads' which sets it to 2 ...
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Is mining with a smartphone possible?
I would like to know if there is a way to mine with my smartphone and if there is (any other currency) would it be useful to buy a cheap used cell phone (format everything) and let it mine for a long ...
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Optimize XMRig Mining on ARM64 Machines
I have an ARM64 machine at 3GHz with 100+ cores and am only seeing 2000 H/s. Is there any optimization techniques I'm missing for XMRig? This is a fraction of the H/s I'm seeing on a 20 core Intel ...
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Is Monero mining really as profitable practically as it is statistically?
I am new to crypto mining in general and I don't understand how Monero mining can be so profitable?
Since mining a block takes 2 minutes I can mine 720 blocks in 24 hours. At it's current price and ...
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Can you mine XMR on RTX 3060?
I been searching in Internet but I haven't founded anything.
Can you mine XMR on RTX 3060?
How much hashrate will I get in a pool?
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Is an integrated graphics chip enough to handle my graphics activities? How much RAM do I need in order to avoid having memory bottleneck on my PC?
I want to buy a mini / midi PC with the purpose of it serving me as a general-purpose
workstation as well as an XMR miner (CPU-only). The software that I'm going to use for most of the time is fairly ...
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Which is best software to mine Monero in Windows?
Is MinerGate a good and trusted software to mine Monero in Windows? How do they pay?
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Monero hashrates in the milions?
I was preparing to buy a few computers to mine monero, and we can clearly see the benchmarks on your websites.
But as I explored some wallets on nanopool, I saw hashrates exceeding 10 million.
Any ...
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can a transaction never enter txpool but be included in blockchain
I understand the mempool is local to each node. I also understand the contents of the pool can thus change by node, and each miner is free to pick their tx's from their mempool for a block.
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Is this possible to get one XMR?
monerod shows this when I type status:
Height: 2377895/2377895 (100.0%) on mainnet, mining at 3.30 kH/s, net hash 2.68 GH/s, ...
Is this possible to get one XMR?
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How can I use XMRig to connect to monerod
I have a node running monerod. And have many nodes to run XMRig. How can I start monerod in order to connect XMRig?
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Can I mine with XMRig and the Monero GUI at the same time?
I am a beginner and doing CPU mining on my laptop. My question is, can I mine with XMRig and the Monero GUI at the same time?
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Miner is waiting a long time for new jobs
I have implemented a custom RandomX Pool miner with C++ which even outperforms XMRig. However after submitting a share the miner does not always get a new job instantly. Sometimes it takes several ...
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RE:Monero GUI - "Start Mining" greyed out
Excuse the noobness.
I have installed Monero GUI Wallet on a persistent TAILS OS USB bootable drive.
I have downloaded the Monero Blockchain and fully synhronized the Wallet and Daemon. All working ...
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Is this an optimal setup for solo mining XMR?
I know it's possible to solo mine XMR using XMRig through some pools, but I'd like to try to solo mining on my own, with no pools involved. As I have the intention to set up a public full node using ...
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In Monero RandomX, What is the condition for a hash result to be considered the winner and be rewarded?
I read RandomX design and specs from https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/tree/master/doc to understand the mining process.
At step 14 of the algorithn description it ends up with a result hash: R = ...
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Why does monerod allow mining from a pruned blockchain?
I started a new node from scratch with monerod --prune-blockchain, so when the blockchain was finished syncing, it only took up about 35GB on disk. My understanding is that one of the main tradeoffs ...
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If I'm solo mining from the GUI, am I still helping the Monero network even if I don't ever "win" any blocks?
I've been mining everyday for about 4 or 5 weeks now from the GUI, where you can just click the "advanced" icon and then click "start mining" icon. It asks me if I want to use the ...
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How many new Monero are mined every day?
If there are 720 blocks mined and the amount of coins that are made for each block is 10.88, but let's just say it's 10.5 coins per block, do we not just multiply 720 by 10.5?
720 x 10.5 = 7560
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How do I check the process of mining, ie the percentage of a block to be finished?
How do I check the process of mining, ie the percentage of a block to be finished ?
I have started the mining process, and the CPU is always 100%, I'm just wondering how far along that CPU work ...
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If you solo mine through the GUI, version 0.17.1.9-3ca5f10f (Qt5.15.2), how or where would you get paid if you were lucky enough to earn anything?
If you solo mine and you got lucky enough to earn something, how would you get the Monero? Also, how would you know if you happen to earn something? I understand solo mining is prob not going to ever ...
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How to remove monero-wallet-gui from mac
I am entirely new to crypto and monero so I figured I would download the monero-wallet-gui from getmonero.org. I downloaded the mac version and then I started the syncing process not knowing what it ...
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0 XMR after mining for 30 hours
I have been mining monero on my computer with 3 cpu cores and my NVidia 1060 gpu for around 30 hours, but when I check my wallet, it still says, that I have XMR 0.000000000000.
I am on arch linux, if ...
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Is monero worth mining in 2021?
I was doing a research on building a monero mining rig and found this site where they benchmarked some hardware and their respective hashrate, and also using a online mining calculator it seems that ...
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How can one merge mine Townforge with Monero?
Townforge, a fork of Monero, can be merge mined with Monero (https://townforge.net/faq/#faq-13).
How can one merge mine both blockchains ?
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What is the bare minimum to mine?
What are pools used for and what Linux x86 program could I use to mine Monero?
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