I am looking to mine on my laptop at night to try get enough to fund at least part of a mullvad VPN account. I need a miner and wallet that doesn’t care about age and will let me turn mining off when I’m using my laptop.
What would you recommend?
I am looking to mine on my laptop at night to try get enough to fund at least part of a mullvad VPN account. I need a miner and wallet that doesn’t care about age and will let me turn mining off when I’m using my laptop.
What would you recommend?
The easiest way would be to use the gupax.io miner or the p2pool miner built into the Monero GUI wallet (i believe this requires you to run a node though) :)
What does running a node constitute?
Running a full-node itself is easy, but before running it, you need to download a huge file, like 100 GB (?), which may take a lot of time depending on your bandwidth (first time only). Monero GUI already has everything you need. If your gaming machine has a faster CPU, you may want to use it :)
PS: Don’t worry, things like “signing up” “registration” “your ID” “KYC” “permission” etc. are not necessary. No one asks your age, gender, name, phone number, etc. You’re free to have a wallet, send and receive XMR, start/stop running a node, start/stop p2pool’ing—totally privately, secretly, and anonymously. That’s why Monero is called privacy coin. Ni estas liberaj homoj (Esperanto: “We are free people”).
Yeah, 100gb is too big. That’s like half my partition
No problem. You can simply use a remote node.
Any tutorials I can use? I’m new to this stuff
Would this help? https://gupax.io/guide/
I’m sorry if I’m saying the same thing over and over but would I need a seperate wallet? Also can I turn the miner off then I need my hardware?
Your main address starting from 4 is visible to everyone. If that’s okay, you can use your existing XMR wallet. If not okay, create a new one for mining. XMR will be sent to this address.
I think it’s perhaps okay even if you shut down your machine ungracefully. Since you’re not a full node, you don’t have a lot of files that you don’t want to be corrupt. That said, it’s safer to stop mining tools before shutting down your machine.