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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Monero hard fork - cant mine new transactions
So i am trying to do a monero hard fork. I changed the ports, prefixes, etc.
I am running on a bit of an issue. I can't mine new blocks.
Here's the error:
2019-04-27 22:07:02.425 [miner 0] ...
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Background mining + monero-wallet-cli + pool?
Is it possible to launch the monero-wallet-cli for mining with the experimental background-mining feature on?
And would it be possible to connect to a pool for that?
Basically I just want my CPU ...
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Does the monero-powpy miner check if it has a new job?
You can find it here. I want to know if it checks if it has gotten another mining job while mining.
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How can I create a million blocks in regtest or testnet?
Can anyone please tell me how to create a million blocks in regtest or testnet mode? Is there a way other than to start mining with the smallest difficulty?
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What year will monero be fully mined? [duplicate]
In what year will monero be fully mined? I know about the .6 xmr tail emissions, but when will the last bulk of the xmr be mined?
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Are Monero hashes generated based off of the block header?
Are miners generating POW hashes based off of the block header or is it just guess and check?
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Monero Fork: Blocks are not mining for more than 20 Hrs
I have forked Monero V0.13.0.4 and changed the network ID and genesis tx. The Blockchain was running fine for a week, after that I noticed that there were some serious delays in the block creation ...
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Which CPU/GPU Monero miner for macOS?
I was wondering what would be the best CPU/GPU Monero/cryptonight miner for MacOS. I have an Intel Core i7 CPU and AMD Radeon 460 GPU.
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Acquiring greater than 51% of the Monero network can pose what kind of risks?
As I understand it, if a mining operator was to attain 51% of the network, they can perform a double spend. But would this be detected? And if the same attack was done on Zcash, could it be detected ...
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What are some proposed solutions to preventing ASIC's from mining Monero?
Monero forks every 6 months or so to prevent ASICs, but this doesn't fully deter ASICs from being built. Even with the new proposed RandomX pow algo, eventually ASICs will be built. What are some ...
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Monero fork: block creation time fluctuation
I am running a Monero fork(v7) for the past 4 days. I have set the block creation time as 2 minutes but sometimes the blockchain takes more than 30 minutes to create a block. Is this normal behavior?
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Is it possible to create a Monero miner in Python?
I would like to create a Python based Monero miner. I know that using Python for mining will likely be slow, but this is just for experimental purposes. Thanks.
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What are the main advantages / disadvantages between proposed RandomX to ProgPoW?
Ethereum developers recently decided to fork off Ethash ASICs like Monero did before. However, Monero changes its CryptoNight mining algorithm only slightly every six months until a more robust ...
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Why does the Monero difficulty increase? [duplicate]
Monero's difficulty has soared a lot in the last days and the trend seems to be confirmed.
Why did it happen? What is the technical reason?
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Is it possible to solo mine Monero (XMR) using AMD and Nvidia GPUs in the same rig?
I've been looking into this a lot over the past 2 days.
I have found ways to use AMD and Nvidia GPUs in a mining pool (XMR-stak), but I haven't been able to find any info on solo mining with both of ...
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What is the best way to help the Monero network?
Apart from profitability, for the Monero network it doesn't make a big
difference if you solo-mine or not.
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Can't seem to reconstruct hashing blob for old block
I'm trying to re-construct the "hashing blob" for an old block and calculate the correct hash to validate some code, but I can't seem to get the correct results. I've confirmed (via unit tests against ...
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Can miners see sender's information?
The recipient cannot see the sender's wallet address, but can a miner see the sender's wallet address? Can the miners see the IP address of the sender? Moreover, what information of the sender can ...
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I can't tell if monerod is mining. Log says “idle percentage is 63%, miner percentage is 38%”
I want to turn mining off, but the log is still reporting a message that seems to imply mining is on:
idle percentage is 63%, miner percentage is 38%,
The .exe was executed with a --mining-threads 0 ...
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I want to mine Monero but I do not have money for a better GPU / equipment
I have a notebook.
I want to mine with my GPU, but in the GUI, no GPU appears. My CPU is an i3 4th generation series U. How long can I be mining without damaging my CPU?
My notebook has a GPU: AMD ...
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How does the miner know the public key for the signature in the block?
When a block is being processed by the miner he has to verify the signature by using the public key. How does the miner know about this public key?
Is it included in the block data?
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CryptoNight detail. Why this kind of multiplication?
The Cryptonight description by the CryptoNote team states that
The 8byte_mul function, however, uses only the first 8 bytes of each
argument, which are interpreted as unsigned 64-bit little-...
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Where in the PoW block header is the variant version?
I asked this question: How do miners, connected to a pool via stratum, know when to switch PoW variant during a hard fork?
Which was marked as a duplicate of this question: Can pool miners update ...
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Where does the actual decryption of the recipient stealth address occur?
I want to find out where in the code an output of Alice's transaction becomes Bob's money.
Alice has 10 XMR, and she sends Bob 2 XMR, the tx looks like this -
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#recipient output:
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Can pool miners update early and then the pool software will automatically ask its workers for new POW when necessary?
Many people mine Monero in a pool. Monero has recently changed its proof of work, and it is about to do so again. There may be more changes to its proof of work in the future.
When miners update ...
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When does validation of blocks occur
At what point does a miner validate blocks shared and created by other miners on the blockchain?
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Newbie questions about XMRig
Can one Monero wallet be used to receive results from XMRig installed on 20 (or more) computers?
Should the json file on each computer contain the same data?
May I use XMRig in Whonix?
What the best ...
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What are the changes in CryptoNight v2 PoW algorithm?
According to the last Dev Meeting, PoW changes to the upcoming fork are almost finished. What exactly will be changed and how will it affect speed on CPUs and GPUs but also potential ASICs or FPGAs?
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I'm looking for a Monero miner written in Java
I'm looking for a Monero miner written in Java. Can anyone link me one?
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Is there any way to lower the difficulty in order to mine faster on a testnet?
I'm searching for a way to mine 60 blocks without the waiting time (or at least significantly reduce the time) on a testnet.
Can it be done or will it affect other operations in the blockchain?
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Hardening a mining pool
I have setup a mining pool for a smaller project that uses Cryptonight variant 1.
I have been running into problems with ddos attacks when other people started launching other mining pools.
At first ...
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What is the current supply of wownero as of 2018-08-01
What is the current supply of wownero and mining reward?
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Step by Step tutorial to mine RandomJS on Wownero?
Is there a step by step guide on how to mine RandomJS on wownero since its the only monero clone that has randomjs implemented as of July 2018.
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What would happen if monero were to switch to RandomJS mining algo?
There seems to be talk of switching to randomJS for mining. What would this affect? Is there even a gpu miner for something like this and is it even gpu minable?
What's so great about RandomJS vs ...
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Transactions appearing out of nowhere when running monero in local network
I've followed the instructions here to run monerod and monero-wallet-cli only on localhost. After I started mining, I noticed transactions showing up in my wallet:
Height 350, txid <...
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How GPU gets its mining work and nonce range?
I tried to study source of both xmr-stak and xmrig to understand how it communicates with the kernel running on GPU, but both these softwares are too huge to understand (too many objects calling each ...
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error first running new monero fork build
I built a new Monero Fork. Trying to run it for the first time and getting errors:
2018-07-05
10:09:30.989 7612 ERROR cn src/cryptonote_basic/cryptonote_format_utils.cpp:167 Failed
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Pre-Mined Monero Fork
I would like to create a Fork of Monero with a certain number of coins premined.
I have tried to follow How would someone premine a direct fork of monero ( can it be done ) but it is incomplete.
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Exchange for Monero Fork
Once a custom Fork of Monero has been created, what are the steps for allowing "people" to be able to buy the currency online?
Does an exchange need to be created or is it a case of approaching an ...
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Automate mining on windows
I am running mining on Windows 10 Pro in Microsoft Azure using MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit.
My process to mine currently is:
OPEN a MSYS2 terminal (lets call this MSYS2 A), navigate to appropriate directory ...
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Error starting monerod
When running ./monerod --offline I get the following output. Running on Windows 10 Pro in Microsoft Azure using MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit
The error messages are in bold.
monerod does not run.
2018-07-04 ...
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Mining from multiple servers to local wallet
I am mining using ./monerod on Windows 10. I have created a wallet using monero-wallet-cli.
I want to setup more machines that run ./monerod. How can I set them up so they mine to one wallet and ...
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Pool mining to local wallet
Is it possible to use pool mining to mine to a wallet created with monero-wallet-cli stored on my local machine?
If so, what is this minimum amount that needs to be pool mined before I will find a ...
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Monero hashrate falls dramatically on Azure Windows 10 Pro
I am mining Monero offline using ./monerod --ofline on a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine with 2 VCUs in Microsoft Azure.
Mining is performed in M2SYS using the start_mining command with 2 threads (...
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monero-wallet-cli Error message: refresh failed
When I run *monero-wallet-cli * I get an error message. However, the Wallet does start.
The code is being run in a MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit terminal on Windows 10 Pro.
Another window is open running ./...
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monero-wallet-cli Remote Mining Intermittently works
I am mining Monero using Remote Nodes. To mine, I use the following command:
sudo ./monero-wallet-cli --daemon-address eu.node.moneroworld.com:18089 --trusted-daemon
The nodes are from moneroworld....
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monero-wallet-cli mining hash rate
I am mining from a Remote Node using monero-wallet-cli and using the start_mining command.
How do I find out the hash rate?
How do I maximise the mining to use as much of the CPU as possible?
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How to tell if start_mining is mining
When I type start_mining, there is no visible indication that anything is happening. Can anyone help with with advice on how to see a visual indication that something is happening?
Note, balance says ...
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MoneroWorld Remote Nodes Not Working
I am mining Monero using Remote Nodes. To mine, I use the following command:
sudo ./monero-wallet-cli --daemon-address eu.node.moneroworld.com:18089 --trusted-daemon
The nodes are from moneroworld....
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No hashrate when mining with CPUminer
I've set up a monero-miner for my Raspberry Pi (for educational purposes) and when I run my miner deamon the log looks like:
[2018-06-28 07:58:10] Using JSON-RPC 2.0
[2018-06-28 07:58:10] CPU ...
