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?
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.
So overnight mining isn’t possible?
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.