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?

  • Saki@monero.townEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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”).

            • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
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              1 year ago

              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?

              • Saki@monero.townEnglish
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                1 year ago

                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.

                  • Saki@monero.townEnglish
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                    1 year ago

                    You mean, like, starting at 10 pm and ending at 6 am next day? That’s totally possible. You can start whenever you like; you can stop whenever you like. Perhaps not very efficient, yet it is perfectly possible. You can stop just after a few minutes if needed. (When you know you can resume soon, hit [p] on xmrig, to resume hit [r].)

                    Xmrig wants to use a lot of memory. You may want to reboot before starting mining, so that your memory is cleanly free.

                    As for 5 EUR/mo, that depends on your hashrate. 1–2 EUR should be definitely possible. The only way to tell is actually trying. When not lucky, you might not get anything for a week. When you’re lucky, you might receive XMR 2+ times a day. There is also a “raffle” thing (some kind of bonus). Never tried it myself, but it seems you can register anonymously.