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?

      • 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.