Monero Mining

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It is the officially recommended way to mine Monero! Here are seven easy steps:

• 1) Download the bundled version of Gupax examples:

windows file: gupax-v1.3.1-windows-x64-bundle.zip

macOs file: gupax-v1.3.1-macos-x64-bundle.tar.gz

• 2) Extract
• 3) Launch Gupax
• 4) Input your Monero address in the P2Pool tab (or create a new one for mining)
• 5) Select a Remote Monero Node (or run your own local Monero Node)
• 6) Start P2Pool
• 7) Start XMRig

Motivation: The hashrate of centralized pools increases; so: miners update the mining software and/or start new workers, but do not change their used pool to p2pool. p2pool should be used in general because it is the best technology and:

• 0% fee
• 0 XMR payout fee
• ~0.00027 XMR minimal payout

Maybe an monero.town OP can pin this. It's important.

Anyone feel they can explain what this is better than p2pool already does? I have been mining for a month on a new address and have one "sweep transaction" I was able to look up. Mine is 0.01+ and a bunch change and its at the block height very close to where I sent 0.01 xmr to this very site to prove I was human. Can anyone provide any insight? Thanks

Coming "This Fall"

How will it hash RandomX?

Previous post: https://monero.town/post/279294

Finished building and setting up my 4 3900 builds, read my previous post for more details. Figuring out the best way to build them into the shelf was a lot of trial and error, especially with cable management. Took a few hours, but I'm glad it worked out in the end. I was satisfied with my undervolt on the first rig, but unfortunately I was not able to transfer it to the second. I ended up just using dcop and keeping all the cpus stock for uniformity instead of individually overclocking all the machines. Right now they're doing 12.2-12.4kh/s at 80-84c which is making the room quite toasty, should be nice in the winter (not so much in the summer). Would ROI in about 3 years at the current rate. The top machine is a 5600x which I use as a home server, running monerod and p2pool. I used to run nixos but I eventually switched back to alpine like the other 5 machines. Currently using docker-compose and nixery.

Sorry the text is so dense, feel free to ask questions.

A big thanks to SChernykh for the continued effort in maintaining this important piece of the Monero ecosystem!

Make sure to visit https://p2pool.io/ and drop a nice donation! 👛

https://github.com/kilopool/kiloproxy by Kilopool.com

P2Pool v3.6.2 was released. There were no code changes since v3.6.1, but the MacOS aarch64 build and Windows build were re-compiled with the previous compiler same as in v3.5, to fix reported stability issues.

It is said: “If the previous version works fine for you, you don't need to update.” but even if you think v3.6.1 is working, you may want to carefully monitor the situation (e.g. Hashrate / CPU temperature) to see which compiler works better for you. It is possible that keeping using v3.6.1 is better for some users.

Apparently it is not yet proven that the new compiler is the culprit for this, though a compiler optimization-related issue is suspected.

Changes:

• macOS aarch64 build is back to using old compiler (same as in v3.5) to fix reported stability issues
• Windows build is back to using MSVC compiler (same as in v3.5) to fix reported stability issues

Release P2Pool v3.6.2 · SChernykh/p2pool · GitHub

EDIT (Clarification for Windows users)

• The previous (old) version (v3.6.1) was created with a NEW compiler, and is supposed to run faster (7-8% faster block verification), while there might be crashing bugs or other unexpected issues.
• The current (new) version (v3.6.2) was created with the OLD compiler (same as v3.5), and is supposed to run only as fast as v3.5 (so 7-8% slower block verification, than v3.6.1), although it might be stabler.

If you are a p2pool miner make sure to join the raffle to win free hashrate!

https://xmrvsbeast.com

Ampere ARM - Hetzner Matrix

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx

80 cores, 128/256 GB DDR4 does XMrig scale?

P2Pool v3.6.1 was released.

Changes:

• Fixed Windows 7 compatibility
• Fixed a crash when running as a systemd service

Github - SChernykh p2pool

P2Pool v3.6 was released.

Changes:

• Avoid unnecessary block broadcasts and block requests to save traffic (works best when connected to v3.6+ nodes)
• 2 times faster initial sync when connected to v3.6+ nodes
• Release binaries for Windows are now built with clang compiler (7-8% faster block verification)
• Tweaked how release binaries for other OS are built, binary sizes are reduced significantly
• Fixed a rare data race bug that could happen during block verification
• Added a full source code archive with all dependencies

Github - SChernykh p2pool

For the people who missed it:

Monero os is a live linux system that starts mining monero on boot. It is inspired by nicehashOS but is completely free and open source.

After some time of developing MoneroOS. I finally implemented the most requested feature. P2Pool! I am currently looking for beta testers to find issues and report back. You can join our public matrix room if you are interested #moneroOS:matrix.org.

You can grab the latest release from https://github.com/4rkal/MoneroOS . Read about how P2Pool works on MoneroOS here https://github.com/4rkal/MoneroOS/wiki/P2Pool

Submit your builds below!

What’s the best setup to mine Monero while keeping it as a space heater for the winter?

I wonder if you could chain multiple xmrig proxies to a single xmrig proxy.

My scenerio for this would be if i ran a computer support business and the contract was that each client would dedicate idle cpu time to mine. So say each client had 20 machines, those machines would mine to an xmrig proxy which would be set to mine to a proxy that i have easy access to. That way instead of 200 computers (10 clients with 20 machines) all hitting a single proxy the main proxy would only have 10 connections to it. That would make switching pools easier too since only a single proxy would need to be changed instead of visiting 10 different sites to change each one.

I was using monerod.org, but decided to go to herominers because its hashrate is higher and so payouts should be more steady. I am watchful of contributing to centralization though so made sure it was still small. Herominers is ~3% of the hashrate so i don't feel bad about pointing my xmrig-proxy their.

through Termux

Been a Monero miner for a few years now and wanted to scale up a bit for fun. Purchased some used 3900's from ebay, new gold psus, b450 mobos, 2x8 3200 cl16 memory kits, and usbs to boot from. I think I spent about $400 usd per system for 4 systems, total $1600. I could've bought used for the rest of the parts (especially for bdie's instead of cdie) and saved quite a bit, but frankly I was too lazy. I've been working on building the rest of the systems, but the one I have running right now is running 3.5ghz @ 0.95v on the cpu, and 3333 cl 15 @ 1.4v on the memory for 12.5kh/s. I spent a while overclocking subtimings but in the end concluded the time investment wasnt worth the minor gains and decreased uniformity. At current rates, I would ROI in about 5 years. Not too shabby considering I own the systems and can sell them for most of the money back if I ever need.

Currently running Alpine Linux on each of the miners, and I have a separate 5600x server running NixOS that I use to run my nodes (among other applications). I was going to use Nix on the miners as well, but Alpine is easier considering its a single user machine, and probably faster. Of course I'm running my own monerod and p2pool, might throw xmrig proxy in there for stats as well but that can be a future endeavor.

Hello my fellow deviants. It is I, Dark_Armadill0. I made the switch to Gupax, and although I love it (and am finally seeing payouts), I’m a little underwhelmed with a few things. Ahem:

Formerly I ran XMRig standalone and experienced the following:

• With plain XMRig I was netting 18,000 H/s.
• With plain XMRig, I had 1GB Pages Enabled.
• With plain XMRig, I had Huge Pages 100% enabled.

Now under Gupax, I have the following:

• Hashrate has dropped to 13000 H/s (can run [h] command on XMRig tab to get this value)
• 1GB Pages are NOW ENABLED.
• Huge Pages are at 100% enabled.
• STATUS Page of Gupax is not correctly showing/pullling information.

Thank you in advance, and stay devious _ Dark_Armadill0-

Hello fellow deviant, it is I, Dark_Armadill0.

I'm not so new to XMRig, but I am new to Gupax.io and I'm lost on how I can get 1GB Pages from Disabled to Enabled in the XMRig portion of Gupax. Yes, my CPU supports it. Yes, I made my Linux OS use HugePages. Yes, my RAM and OS CLI checks reflect their usage. Yes, I've also used this script . It all works, except in Gupax.

So, how do I get Gupax to use it? In standalone XMRig, I would just have to run the program as a superuser, and it was done.

Thanks in advance!

I used to use docker-compose on alpine for my nodes, trying out nix now on my new server. There's a module for monerod but not p2pool or xmrig-proxy yet, not having the greatest time with nix service modules. Might try rootless podman/docker but I wasnt completely satisfied with the container support on docker either.

Curious what you guys are doing :)