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How much CPU power to mine 1 coin a day?
This answer will attempt to answer the question at multiple levels, as follows:
Section I explains the basics of how to calculate this yourself.
Section II provides updated calculations based on ...
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Optimal number of threads when mining
As a general rule of thumb: Cryptonight, the PoW hash Monero uses, needs a 2 MB scratchpad in fast memory, so you will want to have all your mining threads able to keep their scratchpad in cache. So ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
In terms of power efficiency, the reigning champ was the Nvidia 750Ti. That GPU will get you 250H/s and use about 30-40W power. For efficiency, that puts it around 6H/s/W.
With the optimized ARM64 ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
There are no ASICS yet, and GPUs are about 2-4x faster than CPUs. Monero's PoW algorithm has a large memory requirement that would make it difficult to use an ASIC and less advantageous to use a GPU ...
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CPU Miner for Mac OSX?
Because I couldn't find anything and didn't receive any help here, I wanted to share what I ended up doing to help others in the future. This is what I did to mine on NiceHash on OSX Sierra:
Install ...
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Is it better to mine with a CPU or GPU
The most profitable consumer-grade hardware that I know of is the GTX 750 Ti (an nVidia GPU). This is on a Hashrate per Energy Used basis, since the marginal cost of mining is the energy spent. It ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
People visiting this question in the future will find the answers provided are out of date. This website lists user-submitted hardware benchmarks that include Monero mining hashrate, power consumption,...
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At what stage is the Monero mining race at right now?
Right now Wolf's OpenCL XMR Miner for AMD GPUs (open source) and Claymore CryptoNote GPU Miner (proprietary) are probably the most efficient.
It is believed that Monero is still quite far away from ...
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How long do I need to mine until I see some coins in my wallet?
The reason you haven't seen a payout is because most pools have a threshold level below which they won't bother sending xmr to you.
Your share per tick is: 160 H/s / 50.53e^6 H/s, with a network ...
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Optimal number of threads when mining
I played around a bit with using different numbers of threads on different machines, and my best results came from just using half the number of cores on that machine. Here's part of my script to ...
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How to solo-mine Aeon?
If you don't want to have the target Aeon wallet open all the time (for security reasons, or you prefer to start mining at system startup non-interactively), you can also start solo CPU mining using ...
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Node and mining in ARM device
I've been running a full node on a Geekbox for the past 6 months. This uses an RK3368 SOC with 8 Cortex-A53 cores and 2GB RAM. It's running Debian Jessie for ARM64. This little box is powerful enough ...
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Node and mining in ARM device
For the node part, is the monero code compatible with ARM devices?
Yes, there are even binaries for ARMv7, which can be found here. Alternatively, you could compile from master. From the pull ...
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"I go faster as root"
There are two operations at the operating system level that can be perform to improve performance in some cases but require the software to be run as superuser (root).
This is mostly useful for a user ...
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Failure when using XMR Stak CPU Miner on Linux
It seems (after some troubleshooting and a few direct messages to the author of XMR-Stak-CPU, /u/fireice_uk on reddit) that I've found the solution:
As it turns out, the sudo sysctl -w vm....
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Is it better to mine with a CPU or GPU
That statement does not mean that CPU mining is generally more profitable than GPU mining. The emphasis should be on significantly reduces. The large memory footprint of CryptoNight is a large reason ...
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How much CPU power to mine 1 coin a day?
According to https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/xmr you need 2910 H/s at the moment to mine 1 XMR per day.
Here's a Google doc with a comparison of various hardware (CPU and GPU) for ...
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At what stage is the Monero mining race at right now?
Currently network hashrates are near historically high levels. How much further hash rate moves up in the future depends heavily on mining profitability based on current XMR prices and coinbase reward....
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A thread problem and a query for solo mining
First and foremost, note that CryptoNight uses 2 MB per cache. Thus, the optimal number of threads is total amount (in MB) of cache divided by 2. If you want to start solo mining and specify the ...
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Will Monero CPU mining always be feasible?
The algrithim Monero uses, CryptoNote, has a POW mechanism that makes it hard for asic miners to be developed, so that CPU mining and GPU mining will remain the standard. But the difficulty of mining ...
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Why do monerod and monero-wallet-cli have mine commands?
When you type the start_mining command in monero-wallet-cli (or simplewallet in older versions), the wallet software forwards that instruction to the daemon together with the address that is ...
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What is actually happening when you pool mine? What is a share?
When you mine, you try to solve a puzzle. In a simple description, you choose a number, any number, hash it together with some info for the block you want to include in the blockchain, and then check ...
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What does Shares/Diff number represent on pools found blocks
This is a proxy for "did we get lucky or not".
The shares numerator is the total number of weighted shares sent by miners trying to find the block. When you mine, you're asked to solve an easier ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
Currently the rx400 series is the most efficient, powerful, and cost-effective mining equipment. I have gotten an rx470 to 700 h/s using about 80-90 watts. It required many hours of bios modification, ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
Monero could be mined by ASIC. The Bitmain Antminer X3 is U$1255, ships Aug. 21-31 2018, and weighs 7 kg, it does 220000 H/s using 465 W +7% (2.27 J/kH +7%) - but they clearly mention:
There are ...
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After major coin issuance, what must the minimum XMR price be to incentivize network security?
This is kind of a subjective question. Currently the block reward is ~ 10.4 XMR per block or 5.2 XMR per minute. When the tail emission kicks in, the block reward will be 0.6 XMR per block (assuming 2 ...
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How can i specify in mining to only use 75% of my CPU power?
Typically if you have an AES-NI capable processor you will find the "sweet spot" at 1/2 the number of cores you have, so you won't ever be mining to 100% anyway. Right now we don't have a mechanism to ...
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Problem starting mining using Monero GUI wallet? ("Couldn't start mining")
You seem to be set-up ok but if you're going to solo-mine you need to be fully synced with the network. This is because mining a block requires info from the latest block.
This line tells you that ...
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