r/MoneroMining • u/pepe01lucho • 6h ago
I'm interested in this topic since I have a rig for mining.
Espero que me digan cual es hoy la mejor opción para poner en marcha mi PC que junta tierra.
r/MoneroMining • u/MoneroMon • Feb 26 '21
Q: What is mining?
A: To explain this in the simplest way possible, in monero, mining is using a computer to calculate something that verifies the next block to join the blockchain. This calculation is very difficult to do, so your computer rarely manages it. In fact, it's so difficult that your computer may never manage it at all. If it does ever manage it, you get the block reward which is in the range of $130 USD worth (as of May 2022 but this is based on the current exchange rate). Pool mining is when you join a group of others and split the reward when one of you manages to do this calculation correctly.
Q: How can I learn more about monero?
A: This is an excellent book (also available for free in pdf format).
Q: So can I quit my job now?
A: You're not going to get rich with mining monero. It only earns you a very small amount each day, if anything. I previously made $0.54 USD profit a day with running a Ryzen 7 3700X computer 24/7, but now I actually lose money from mining.
At the moment, in most areas you'll lose money from mining if you pay normal prices for electricity. You'll probably only make a profit if you have very cheap electricity or generate it yourself like with solar panels and a battery setup.
Q: I want to build a mining rig. Should I?
A: For anyone who pays for electricity, it's probably not worth buying any equipment to mine monero if you're aiming to make a profit. It gets more difficult over time, so the profits go down.
The only exception is if you have free energy that you can access for a long time. It would still take a few years to pay off a monero mining rig with free electricity, when you account for the increasing difficulty. But after that it's 100% profit. I made a full post explaining this topic in detail here. In my example in that post, it would take 2.5 years to pay off the computer with free electricity, assuming you can keep it mining 24/7/365.
Q: Can I get an ASIC for mining Monero?
A: No! It is specifically designed to be mined on CPUs only. This is so that mining remains decentralised. When ASICs start mining a cryptocurrency then it usually causes the creation of large mining farms controlled by few people. Monero is against that. Monero is mineable by the average person on their own desktop computer.
Monero has changed algorithms in the past to purposefully stop ASICs from being able to mine it. If an ASIC was ever made for monero again, the algorithm would probably be changed again to stop the ASIC from working.
Q: I can mine at 120 MH/s, so I should be able to make $50k per day of profit on monero according to a calculator I just used...right??? Please reply fast I'm about to sign a contract to buy a Lamborghini.
A: Hashrate is different for each coin. Your CPU or GPU getting 120 MH/s does not apply here. That's probably ethereum hashrate. The hashrate any CPU or GPU gets on monero is not influenced by or related to ethereum hashrate, bitcoin hashrate, litecoin hashrate, or any other coin. In fact, GPU mining of monero is very inefficient and not worthwhile. Forget about the hashrate you get on another coin.
Q: Can I mine with a GPU?
A: Short answer: No.
Long answer: Yes, it's possible to mine monero with a GPU, but it's generally a bad idea because the algorithm monero uses today is optimised only for CPUs. Mining monero on a GPU will be very inefficient and slow compared to a CPU, and will not be worth your time. Full explanation here.
Q: How much will I make mining monero/how do I know if my computer will be profitable/what hashrate will I get with my computer or CPU?
A: Follow this guide to calculate it. You need to know the specs of the computer you'll be mining on.
Q: How do I mine monero?
A: Follow this guide.
Q: Which mining pool should I use?
A: You can choose to use either a centralised pool which will do a lot of the work for you in setting things up, or you can use the decentralised P2pool. If you want to use a centralised pool, see here. If you want to use P2pool then the easiest way is using gupax which helps you to set it up.
Q: So I'm mining but my CPU is only showing 50% usage (or some other percentage less than 100). How do I get it to use 100%?
RandomX, the proof of work algorithm used by monero, needs 16 KiB of L1 cache, 256 KiB of L2 cache and 2 MiB of L3 cache per mining thread. Your CPU probably doesn't have enough cache to use all threads.
If your CPU doesn't have enough cache to run all threads then XMRig automatically selects the right number of threads that it can run with the cache available.
Q: I have access at work/university/school to 50 computers. How can I mine monero on them? I can't wait to get started, I'm gonna be so rich.
A: This is a terrible idea. The trouble you get in is going to cost you a lot more than you'll earn from doing this. You will likely be earning a couple of USD per day. The organisation that owns these computers and pays for the electricity will see this as stealing, which it is. You're stealing electricity. They'll also see it as you putting their entire network at risk. Expect to get in big trouble if you do this. Possibly to the extent of facing criminal charges. It's really not worth the risk for the miniscule profit you'll be making.
Q: If mining monero is not profitable, why would anyone want to do it?
A: There are other reasons why people decide to mine, too. Some people want to support monero because they like the idea of a private, completely fungible, decentralised cryptocurrency.
Other people who are highly concerned about privacy might mine as a way of obtaining monero without going through an exchange that has to find out their identity.
Some people just enjoy the technical side of setting up their computer to mine, tweaking the settings and getting it working as well as they can.
The profitability of monero mining is self balancing - as the total hashrate (the combined computing power of all miners) goes up, it becomes more difficult, which makes it less profitable. If the price of monero went down and people stopped mining it because they were not making enough, then the difficulty would drop, and it would become more profitable. Thanks to this, the profitability stays relatively stable now and hovers around the level of "just barely profitable if you have very cheap electricity".
Q: If I stop mining for the night/day/some hours will I lose all my progress and have to start again?
A: It doesn't work like that. With solo mining, you have a chance of finding the right hash for the current block with every single hash your computer calculates. If you don't find it then that work is of no use and there's nothing to "save".
With pool mining, you have to find a hash over a certain difficulty (the difficulty given by the pool). This is referred to as a share. The pool will save that result and pay you (when it finds a block) according to how much work your computer did for the pool. You don't lose any progress by stopping mining. You'll get paid for anything you earned while you were mining. The same applies to P2Pool.
Q: How else can I help monero?
A: Running a node is a great way to help monero. Running a node involves downloading and hosting the blockchain so other people can download it off you. You don't have to do this manually, there is software that does it all for you. You just have to provide a computer and internet connection. Some people even do it on a Raspberry Pi.
You can also help monero by using it as a currency. Monero has low transaction fees and confirms (1 block confirmation) in an average of just 1 minute. Who you send money to and how much you send can't be tracked, unlike most other cryptocurrencies.
r/MoneroMining • u/pepe01lucho • 6h ago
Espero que me digan cual es hoy la mejor opción para poner en marcha mi PC que junta tierra.
r/MoneroMining • u/daindainJAP • 2d ago
I'm trying to find out whether the Pinecone R1X RandomX ASIC miner actually exists as working hardware.
Has anyone here:
I'm not looking for product listings, promotional images, or manufacturer specifications. I'm specifically interested in independent evidence that the hardware exists and works.
Any firsthand information would be appreciated. Thanks!
r/MoneroMining • u/littlefoolish • 4d ago
This post suggests that the EPYC 7742 would suffer a 30% drop in hashrate on RandomX V2
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskMonero/comments/1sy55h6/is_randomx_v2_nerfing_highend_cpus_my_recent/
The benchmarks here suggest that the Zen 2 architecture's hashrate would decrease roughly 85%
CPU, power (W), v1 (H/s), v2 (H/s), decrease
Ryzen 9 3900X, 70.62, 12197, 10765, 88.3%
Ryzen 9 3900X, 67.98, 12259, 10233, 83.5%
Ryzen 9 3700X, 88, 8624, 7361, 85.4%
https://gist.github.com/SChernykh/6058ecf01c929883b9d19c7eeadc8809
However, the Zen 5 (9950x) and very oddly Zen 1 (Ryzen 7 1700X) does not seem to have a drop at all.
Does anyone know how exactly would the AMD EPYC 7k62 suffer on RandomX V2?
Why is the Zen 2 architecture (but not the Zen 1) hit especially hard by RandomX V2?
r/MoneroMining • u/General_Ad5206 • 4d ago
Well i work in a place where i see 10-30 usbs everyday amd i stumbled across this very interesting piece of script that i want to understand.
What it does is basically it masks the folder of any input usb and puts it into a shortcut that if you wish to access you need to give it admin privileges upon that it runs a background process of implementing a hidden minner in your system 32 file and it does this with every usb you stick on that pc and on and on
Can anyone refer me to a place to learn more about the source code of it or a repo that explains the workflow of that and which tools are used against this kind of attacks
r/MoneroMining • u/Swimming_Camel7408 • 4d ago
This was a huge problem for me as the situation took long and i need to understand what is actually this kind of app/script
it does as following :
1) you pug a USB drive for the first time, it runs normally.
2) the second time you pug it in you see inside that usb a (Shortcut) with the same name of the usb you plugged in.
3) when you click it to access the files that you have on you usb it asks for AD.
4) then it runs scripts that takes a hidden XMR minner all the ways to the System32 folder of you PC as: C:Windows/system/wsvsc or wscvv
5)the minner is suspended when you open apps like task manager or monitor apps or even using ore that 70% of the cpu or hitting + 90'
what i really want to know is how is that possible and if someone has a repo or a source code that i can learn and see how they could write scripts like this so i can know more how to defend against it and thanks <3
r/MoneroMining • u/InspectionSlight1275 • 6d ago
so i know there are a lot of videos of how to mine xmr but its all so confusing i want to use mini p2p pool to mine but i dont know how to set it up can yall please help me out thanks
r/MoneroMining • u/ParnianCoin_Official • 7d ago
We just released HiveOS and mmpOS packages for parnianminer, the CPU miner for ParnianCoin (PARC), a PascalCoin fork using RandomHash2.
Like RandomX, RandomHash2 is designed to be CPU-friendly and ASIC-resistant, so if you already run CPU rigs it's an easy coin to test.
- Custom miner, no packages to install (portable Linux x64)
- Picks the pool port by hashrate automatically, with a backup pool
- Hashrate and shares show up in the dashboard
Guide + downloads:
https://github.com/ParnianCoin/parniancoin-miner/releases/tag/v2.4.1-rigs
It's a small project growing organically. Disclosure: I'm part of the team. If you have spare CPU on your rigs, we'd love feedback, especially on hashrate numbers for different CPUs.
r/MoneroMining • u/veganic11 • 8d ago
The mini version of p2pool has been down for over 24 hours. https://mini.p2pool.observer/miners
Does anyone know if this is still maintained? Will mining still work?

r/MoneroMining • u/JustCalTA • 8d ago
OK I'm new to Monero Mining, for now just using Monero Wallet and my sync'd local node to mine Monero on Ubuntu 24.04.
Have received a couple shares so have a little in my wallet. Initially on the observer - https://mini.p2pool.observer/ - I saw the shares along with a notice that I needed to update my p2pool from 4.17.1 to 4.18.1, which I did.
Now for the last 36 hours when I check the P2Pool Mini Observer it says no shares for this wallet. The wallet address is correct. I got the shares from Mini P2Pool. I don't understand why it no longer knows about the shares it sent me. Anyone else having this issue?
I wanted to join the Raffle on the Observer but now with no shares showing I of course can't join it.
Anyone know if there's a way to contact the Observer admins via reddit?
Thx All.
r/MoneroMining • u/BigLeagueChew4u • 9d ago
What operating system are you using to mine monero (xmr) ?
at what point does it become worth it to pay for hive os?
Is anyone running a lot of rigs and not using hive os? what os do you use if you want to mine a lot but don't want to pay for hive os?
r/MoneroMining • u/Commercial_Teach2703 • 9d ago
Starting with $25k-$30k to put into equipment. Electricity is too expensive where i live (Northeast USA). DM if interested we can discuss! Open to joining an existing farm as well!
r/MoneroMining • u/tshureih • 11d ago
r/MoneroMining • u/SilverTriple765 • 11d ago
So I've been messing around with Monero, P2Pool and Tari merge-mining, and getting all of it running together was kind of a hassle. I wanted one place to just see what's going on, so I started building it for myself and it turned into an actual app.
It's called Triple X. It runs a Monero node and P2Pool (plus Tari merge-mining if you want it) and gives you a web dashboard with sync status, hashrate, workers, found blocks and logs. Payouts go straight to your own wallet, no fees. It's free and open source, and you can run it on Umbrel/5tratumOS.
Stuff you should know before you try it:
It's v1.2-RC2, so it's not battle-tested yet. That's the whole reason I'm posting. There's a wallet tab but it's totally optional, it's just there if you don't have a wallet yet. If you do, use your own address and ignore it. How long monerod takes to sync depends on your hardware, so I can't give you a number.
If you give it a shot, I'd love to hear how it went. Was the install confusing? Did anything break? Is something missing you'd want to see? Even "I got stuck here" is super helpful.
Repo's here: https://github.com/Silver765/Silvers-crypto-store
Discord: https://discord.gg/v6tNU93pr
Drop a comment and or join the Discord and I'll get back to you.
Thanks guys!
r/MoneroMining • u/Distinct-Marzipan801 • 13d ago
Hi reddit, some time has gone by since my last post here ( https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/s/rlhQmzEXHG ), great progress has been made since, the performance is almost doubled both on ARM64 and AMD64 platforms. The most significant good news are the performance gains in scenarios that dont expose SharedArrayBuffer. The performance claim is not as hot when it comes to AMD64 (10% in full mode). You can test the performance out on a demo site thats linked in the repo and see for yourself :)
r/MoneroMining • u/Kitchen-Relief-5016 • 13d ago
im making a xmr mining software later ill add gpu mining support probably a separate cli for that then ill make a gui for windows that wraps the clis for mining
point of the post is i want recommendations to add to the miners plus when i gather a community i wanna start my own mining pool so like VPS and everything
r/MoneroMining • u/d2minik • 14d ago
Hey, i have already figured out that the monero gui application apparently is not the efficient method of mining monero. however, i'd like to use it for now.
I am mining with around 3.5kH/s on the mini chain. i have not set any flag.
does the gui know that my wallet is the one in the application or do I need to set additional settings?
Do I have any information on how my node/chain is performing? Am I just one day have a fraction of an xmr in my account?
r/MoneroMining • u/Level-Log7098 • 15d ago
r/MoneroMining • u/tshureih • 16d ago
I am sincerely sorry and apologize for my previous post.
Unfortunately, I fell for an LLM hallucination 😞
However, to make up for it, I kept the concept and changed the implementation.
✨✨ Updated Instructions for =<5 KH/s Mining ✨✨
In essence, each miner gets their own P2pool instance and all payouts go to their wallet address, NOT the P2pool wallet address (via a router — see the website)
Current Max Concurrent Instances: 10
Hardware:
• ThreadRipper Pro 3975wx
• 128GB DDR4 2Rx8 ECC RDIMM 2666
• 5TB Storage
• OS: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
No “Donations” in the service. It’s totally Free.
I would highly appreciate it if you’d checkout the Donations page. It would greatly help with the hardware & Internet costs.
r/MoneroMining • u/CommunicationFuture1 • 16d ago
Basically a guy in a monero mining Telegram group said that he has small rig that gets 1 MH/s and he’s renting another 4 MH/s in Nicehash so he finally solo mines with 5 MH/s which lets him get aprox block every 48h. I‘ve been doing numbers with the current prices of Nicehash and I always end up in negative (losing money) as Nicehash compute is always more expensive than the return.
I come to this reddit to ask if someone here is doing the same thing and or ir I understood the method wrong.
sorry bad English is not my first language.
r/MoneroMining • u/tshureih • 16d ago
Hi all,
Last week, I saw a couple of posts from miners with 1.5 KH/s and another less than 5 KH/s.
I thought, well, can they use my existing, already up and running infrastructure since it’s running anyway, wouldn’t cost me anything. Contribute to the community?
So, I did:
### Please visit https://xmrpool.tech4ai.net/smallminers.html ###
No fees.
P2pool.
Nano side chain.
Full, dedicated and pruned Monero Node.
Non custodial — miners will get payouts directly to their wallets. I, personally, am not involved in payouts, Coinbase transactions, Block Templates, etc.
One question:
I am ready to direct one of my miners if it would help the overall hashrate and Share finding. But i don’t want it to hinder either, so which should i add?
• Epyc miners: avg. ~43KH/s.
• Ryzen 9 9950x: avg. ~25KH/s.
• Ryzen 9 3950x: avg. ~15-17KH/s.
Thank you in advance and I truly hope this will help.
r/MoneroMining • u/Level-Log7098 • 16d ago
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to understand an unusual issue we experienced with SupportXMR. I have done several controlled tests and would like to know if anyone has seen similar behavior or has an explanation.
Setup
We had 3 physical machines mining XMR on SupportXMR using XMRig:
Total local hashrate was approximately 3.7 kH/s, stable, with essentially no rejected shares.
Everything had been working normally on SupportXMR.
What happened
On September 27, the pool-assigned difficulty suddenly became extremely high for machines using the same wallet.
Before the issue, one miner was receiving jobs around 88k difficulty and submitting accepted shares regularly.
Then we observed difficulty values such as:
The other miners connected to SupportXMR also started receiving unusually high difficulty values.
XMRig remained connected to the pool and continued receiving jobs. There were no authentication errors and no rejected-share problem.
However, accepted shares became extremely infrequent because of the difficulty, and the SupportXMR dashboard/API eventually showed:
Tests performed
wallet+difficulty syntax.For example:
+85000+35000+40000SupportXMR immediately honored the requested difficulty.
At those difficulties, XMRig started finding and reporting accepted shares normally again.
However, the SupportXMR dashboard/API accounting still did not appear to update.
The pool again assigned unusually high VarDiff values (approximately 1M–7M depending on the miner), despite individual hashrates being only around 0.8–2.0 kH/s.
A/B test with MoneroOcean
To rule out the wallet, XMRig installation, hardware, and basic network connectivity, I took one of the affected miners and connected it to MoneroOcean using:
It connected immediately.
MoneroOcean initially assigned a difficulty around 320k, an accepted share appeared roughly 35 seconds later, and the difficulty subsequently adjusted to approximately 197k.
The MoneroOcean dashboard also immediately recognized the wallet and worker.
We then moved the whole farm to MoneroOcean.
The farm is currently running normally with 4 physical workers at approximately 4.2–4.4 kH/s, continuously submitting shares with zero rejected shares.
What I'm trying to understand
Has anyone experienced a similar situation with SupportXMR where:
I'm particularly interested in knowing whether this could be related to:
I don't want to conclude that this is necessarily a SupportXMR bug, because I don't have visibility into the pool backend. I'm mainly trying to understand the behavior and determine what additional test would be useful.
I can provide sanitized XMRig log excerpts showing the difficulty changes if that would help.
Thanks!
r/MoneroMining • u/Top_Butterscotch6337 • 17d ago
Mining Rig (xmrig on p2ool)
1500w
CPU : 7950x
Card mére : miniforum, MSI , JGINYUE
Only one memory card per Card mère (5600,CL40,DDR5, 8G)
For miniforum 2 cards memory (5600 also)
For each card ; 130w 17KH. > 187 kh for all
So 187kh for 1500w
8 4⁄187 h /w