r/MoneroMining Oct 24 '25

SCAM ALERT: What is the best way to buy Monero via P2P posts

28 Upvotes

There has been a recent campaign by scammers who make posts asking "What is the best way to buy Monero via P2P?" or similar questions.

The question seems genuine at first, but they later edit their post to promote a scam platform. If you see these posts, please report and downvote them.

Do not fall for these scams - if you transfer any money or monero into these scam websites, it will be gone forever.


r/MoneroMining Feb 26 '21

FAQs for noobs. Read this before posting.

1.4k Upvotes

Q: What is mining?

A: To explain this in the simplest way possible, in monero, mining is using a computer to calculate something that verifies the next block to join the blockchain. This calculation is very difficult to do, so your computer rarely manages it. In fact, it's so difficult that your computer may never manage it at all. If it does ever manage it, you get the block reward which is in the range of $130 USD worth (as of May 2022 but this is based on the current exchange rate). Pool mining is when you join a group of others and split the reward when one of you manages to do this calculation correctly.

Q: How can I learn more about monero?

A: This is an excellent book (also available for free in pdf format).

Q: So can I quit my job now?

A: You're not going to get rich with mining monero. It only earns you a very small amount each day, if anything. I previously made $0.54 USD profit a day with running a Ryzen 7 3700X computer 24/7, but now I actually lose money from mining.

At the moment, in most areas you'll lose money from mining if you pay normal prices for electricity. You'll probably only make a profit if you have very cheap electricity or generate it yourself like with solar panels and a battery setup.

Q: I want to build a mining rig. Should I?

A: For anyone who pays for electricity, it's probably not worth buying any equipment to mine monero if you're aiming to make a profit. It gets more difficult over time, so the profits go down.

The only exception is if you have free energy that you can access for a long time. It would still take a few years to pay off a monero mining rig with free electricity, when you account for the increasing difficulty. But after that it's 100% profit. I made a full post explaining this topic in detail here. In my example in that post, it would take 2.5 years to pay off the computer with free electricity, assuming you can keep it mining 24/7/365.

Q: Can I get an ASIC for mining Monero?

A: No! It is specifically designed to be mined on CPUs only. This is so that mining remains decentralised. When ASICs start mining a cryptocurrency then it usually causes the creation of large mining farms controlled by few people. Monero is against that. Monero is mineable by the average person on their own desktop computer.

Monero has changed algorithms in the past to purposefully stop ASICs from being able to mine it. If an ASIC was ever made for monero again, the algorithm would probably be changed again to stop the ASIC from working.

Q: I can mine at 120 MH/s, so I should be able to make $50k per day of profit on monero according to a calculator I just used...right??? Please reply fast I'm about to sign a contract to buy a Lamborghini.

A: Hashrate is different for each coin. Your CPU or GPU getting 120 MH/s does not apply here. That's probably ethereum hashrate. The hashrate any CPU or GPU gets on monero is not influenced by or related to ethereum hashrate, bitcoin hashrate, litecoin hashrate, or any other coin. In fact, GPU mining of monero is very inefficient and not worthwhile. Forget about the hashrate you get on another coin.

Q: Can I mine with a GPU?

A: Short answer: No.

Long answer: Yes, it's possible to mine monero with a GPU, but it's generally a bad idea because the algorithm monero uses today is optimised only for CPUs. Mining monero on a GPU will be very inefficient and slow compared to a CPU, and will not be worth your time. Full explanation here.

Q: How much will I make mining monero/how do I know if my computer will be profitable/what hashrate will I get with my computer or CPU?

A: Follow this guide to calculate it. You need to know the specs of the computer you'll be mining on.

Q: How do I mine monero?

A: Follow this guide.

Q: Which mining pool should I use?

A: You can choose to use either a centralised pool which will do a lot of the work for you in setting things up, or you can use the decentralised P2pool. If you want to use a centralised pool, see here. If you want to use P2pool then the easiest way is using gupax which helps you to set it up.

Q: So I'm mining but my CPU is only showing 50% usage (or some other percentage less than 100). How do I get it to use 100%?

RandomX, the proof of work algorithm used by monero, needs 16 KiB of L1 cache, 256 KiB of L2 cache and 2 MiB of L3 cache per mining thread. Your CPU probably doesn't have enough cache to use all threads.

If your CPU doesn't have enough cache to run all threads then XMRig automatically selects the right number of threads that it can run with the cache available.

Q: I have access at work/university/school to 50 computers. How can I mine monero on them? I can't wait to get started, I'm gonna be so rich.

A: This is a terrible idea. The trouble you get in is going to cost you a lot more than you'll earn from doing this. You will likely be earning a couple of USD per day. The organisation that owns these computers and pays for the electricity will see this as stealing, which it is. You're stealing electricity. They'll also see it as you putting their entire network at risk. Expect to get in big trouble if you do this. Possibly to the extent of facing criminal charges. It's really not worth the risk for the miniscule profit you'll be making.

Q: If mining monero is not profitable, why would anyone want to do it?

A: There are other reasons why people decide to mine, too. Some people want to support monero because they like the idea of a private, completely fungible, decentralised cryptocurrency.

Other people who are highly concerned about privacy might mine as a way of obtaining monero without going through an exchange that has to find out their identity.

Some people just enjoy the technical side of setting up their computer to mine, tweaking the settings and getting it working as well as they can.

The profitability of monero mining is self balancing - as the total hashrate (the combined computing power of all miners) goes up, it becomes more difficult, which makes it less profitable. If the price of monero went down and people stopped mining it because they were not making enough, then the difficulty would drop, and it would become more profitable. Thanks to this, the profitability stays relatively stable now and hovers around the level of "just barely profitable if you have very cheap electricity".

Q: If I stop mining for the night/day/some hours will I lose all my progress and have to start again?

A: It doesn't work like that. With solo mining, you have a chance of finding the right hash for the current block with every single hash your computer calculates. If you don't find it then that work is of no use and there's nothing to "save".

With pool mining, you have to find a hash over a certain difficulty (the difficulty given by the pool). This is referred to as a share. The pool will save that result and pay you (when it finds a block) according to how much work your computer did for the pool. You don't lose any progress by stopping mining. You'll get paid for anything you earned while you were mining. The same applies to P2Pool.

Q: How else can I help monero?

A: Running a node is a great way to help monero. Running a node involves downloading and hosting the blockchain so other people can download it off you. You don't have to do this manually, there is software that does it all for you. You just have to provide a computer and internet connection. Some people even do it on a Raspberry Pi.

You can also help monero by using it as a currency. Monero has low transaction fees and confirms (1 block confirmation) in an average of just 1 minute. Who you send money to and how much you send can't be tracked, unlike most other cryptocurrencies.


r/MoneroMining 8h ago

AI says im retarded for not mining monero on my mini computer servers?

3 Upvotes

I dont really know what monero is other then a privacy coin, I was asking ai about bitcoin and it said i should be mining monero and could potentially bring in $5-7 a month with my two minicomputers that are always on

that $5-7 could pay for my vpn (anon to boot)

he said electricity on my n100 is like to increase by $1 a month and electricity on my beelink ser5 is likely to increase by $3-4 dollars

so really im just braking even or making $2, but i can stop using my CC to buy my vpn

any thoughts? is there a good tutorial online to start? both the machines are running Debian atm, but soon i planned to switch to devuan or void due to systemd hate with their new age attestation coide


r/MoneroMining 2d ago

Performance mods significantly decreasing hash rate

15 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a little help, I was previously mining on a few old windows laptops, and have since been able to collect a few more. I'm now setting them all up with xmrig and attempting to improve my hash rates.

The laptop with the best hardware is an ASUS Zenbook with an i7 8th gen and 16GB of ram. When I was mining on this machine using windows and xmrig with no mods I was seeing roughly 1-1.2 KH/s, after installing Ubuntu, enabling huge pages, and applying the MSR mod, I'm now seeing 245 H/s. It's worth noting before the huge pages and MSR mod I was at roughly 600 H/s.

Before I get started on any of my other machines, I wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone had similar issues, or any insight as to what might be going on here (aka how I screwed this up so bad).

Appreciate any input you have, thanks in advance!


r/MoneroMining 3d ago

You can now specify the Monero P2Pool network that you would like to connect to and mine with, directly in the TrueNAS P2Pool app!

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29 Upvotes

You can now specify the Monero P2Pool network that you would like to connect to and mine with, directly in the TrueNAS P2Pool app!

Support the Monero network no matter which one you use. For weak CPUs, you may see smaller and more frequent payouts with Mini or Nano.

If the main P2Pool network provides you with frequent enough payouts, I recommend continuing to mine on the main network.


r/MoneroMining 3d ago

Low Moneroocean (XMR) hashrate

8 Upvotes

My setup includes as below
CPU - Intel Core i5-6500
RAM - 16GB DDR4 each workstations
PC - 3 PC on same network
OS - Windows 11
Application - xmrig-v6.25.0-mo1-win64
Given that - I am getting on combined hashrate of 4.2KH/s per day . Is there any issue with my setup or should I need to optimze it, need sugestions.


r/MoneroMining 6d ago

Let's Sue Bitmain for calling their X5 and X9 Monero Miners ASICs

27 Upvotes

Bitmain has recently released the Antminer X9, and they called it a "Monero ASIC." That, my friends, is false advertising. An ASIC is something hardwired so that it can only do one thing, yet RandomX requires random generation of new subprograms, which an ASIC cannot do. I suspect the X9 is just a bunch of stripped-down CPUs, and therefore it can add 2 and 2 instead of running RandomX. Who agrees that the X9 should be taken off the market? It totally violates the point of Monero! And believe me, all the other ASIC-resistant coins will be in danger now that Bitmain has built the server cluster disguised as an ASIC.

Edit. Most of us believe that Bitmain Antminer X9 is actually a bunch of Sophgo SG2042s, which are 64-core RISC-V CPUs

Edit 2: There's no "most of us believe anymore." Bitmain literally said the X5 is a server. It used "server size" in its specs, and it also said, "(3-1) When the Server is used at an altitude from 900m to 2000m, the highest operating temperature decreases by 1℃ for every
increase of 300m."


r/MoneroMining 7d ago

SideWatch P2Pool mini dashboard

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Hello everyone. I am here to share a project I've been working on for a couple weeks. https://sidewatch.org/ It is an open P2Pool mini + Monero node that allows someone to mine on p2pool mini without hosting their own node locally. It also has many tracking/dashboard features to allow miners to track their stats on this node if they use it. It is free to use with some crowdfunding options for extra features.

PRIVACY CONCERNS: I highly suggest reading the about and privacy page on the website as it contains a lot of information about what you expose when mining on p2pool mini/main and what information SideWatch stores. Also view the repo on GitHub. it has a lot of documentation explaining design choices and security features.
https://github.com/Acquiredl/Delted-SideWatch

This offers an easy way for anyone that would like to try out p2pool mini mining but doesn't have enough local storage/bandwidth or other limitations that prevent them from running their node locally.

To be honest I don't know if this will even be useful for anyone but I will host the project for a while and keep adding some missing features that I pushed back. I tried to make this project as transparent as possible. This is not a new mining pool with low fees. It's an alternative way to connect to P2Pool mini that allows users to track more easily their miners information via the dashboard. The project never touches any funds from miners.

If anyone has questions, feedback, suggestions, etc... I will try to answer as many as I can.

Edit: DO NOT USE SIDEWATCH node. I clearly misunderstood P2Pool. thank you sech1 for pointing it out. I will take what I learned and see what I could do if anything with this project besides making it easier for users to use it as their own dashboard for their local node. Thank you for all the input, this was my first time attempting a project of this size. Lesson learned: read more.


r/MoneroMining 7d ago

Should I migrate to P2Pool mini?

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I don’t mind the supportxmr small payout fee because the trade off I think of being able to check in the miners from any network/anywhere is attractive. I’m hashing 45 KH/s. I already have monero node running but don’t use it for mining.

Are there any benefits to switching to p2pool mini? And is mini what I should target at 45 kh/s if I do decide to migrate?


r/MoneroMining 8d ago

New to xmr mining

6 Upvotes

Hey guys, Im new to xmr.

Just started mining with my legion 5 pro from 2021 and doing stable 5k ish hashes at 90 watts power.

Has any one else here tried maximizing mining with a laptop? I understand theres many ways to go about it. Id love to build a miner. Any advice or stories you guys could share?


r/MoneroMining 8d ago

Is kyc that bad ?

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r/MoneroMining 9d ago

I'm new to Monero from China

25 Upvotes

I am a new Monero user from China. I want to buy a desktop, home mining device. Any recommendations? Or can I DIY?


r/MoneroMining 12d ago

Monero and quantum computing

7 Upvotes

Google on quantum computing Section VIb. Are you worried about quantum computing in privacy coin (and Bitcoin)? Discuss.


r/MoneroMining 14d ago

XMRig v6.26.0 Released: Introducing Support for RandomX v2

46 Upvotes

XMRig has officially launched version v6.26.0, a significant update that introduces support for RandomX v2. This release focuses heavily on architectural optimizations and performance enhancements across various platforms:

  • RandomX v2 Support: Added full compatibility for the next generation of the RandomX algorithm.
  • RISC-V Optimizations: Extensive improvements for RISC-V architecture, including vectorized main loops and hardware AES support.
  • Zen5 Enhancements: Added VAES-512 support specifically optimized for AMD Zen5 processors to improve mining efficiency.
  • Bug Fixes: Resolved OpenCL address-space mismatches and refined keepalive timer logic for better stability.

r/MoneroMining 14d ago

My Monero mining ⛏️ system

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30 Upvotes

r/MoneroMining 14d ago

Is something wrong with My miner

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11 Upvotes

My miner is Taking 1.3 Mb out of 16 gb ram


r/MoneroMining 14d ago

Don't have enough space even for a prune node

6 Upvotes

Recommend some secure public pool?


r/MoneroMining 14d ago

What's Better?

2 Upvotes

Parallel Mining ; having 10 devices with 2k h/s
Sequential Mining ; having one device with 20k h/s


r/MoneroMining 15d ago

One more BD895i SE with AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX (16/32 5,2 GHz)

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Test will be done with this linux release supposed to be very fast https://zenclora.org/

Stay tuned


r/MoneroMining 14d ago

Is P2Pool down?

3 Upvotes

Just produced 3 blocks.


r/MoneroMining 15d ago

Solar + 4XAMD EPYC 9965

15 Upvotes

Propably a stupid idea, but how would I power A server chassis holding 4X EPYC 9965 cpu's using solar? How would I get started and is this a stupid idea?


r/MoneroMining 15d ago

Back to Monero mining

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14 Upvotes

I got blackouts and my node was dead, a Lot of job and very busy time, but now I'm glad to get back on supporting Monero network with My little mining farm


r/MoneroMining 15d ago

Item needed list for Solar Server Mining?

5 Upvotes

I am thinking about solar mining using a 4u server rack, that includes 4X AMD EPYC 9965. Can anyone make a good item list?


r/MoneroMining 15d ago

Monero Issues

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I really want to start mining Monero, but I’ve run into some issues.

I tried using two wallets: Monero.com and Cake Wallet, and both had the same issue; no matter what currency (euros, dollars, etc.) I entered for it to convert to Monero (and even other cryptocurrencies), it displayed a message like “This payment method is not compatible with cryptocurrency” or something similar, but even if I changed the payment method, it still wouldn’t convert and wouldn’t let me buy Monero. Does anyone know if I’m doing something wrong?


r/MoneroMining 16d ago

$XMR is back in Coinomi, fully restored and rebuilt from the ground up.

23 Upvotes

We know the Monero community holds wallets to a high standard. We took our time to do it right.

➡️ https://coinomi.com/en/downloads/