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Hey. I founded this turf so home miners have a place to learn. Shop talk and teaching. I'm self-taught, mining since 2017-18, small CPU fleet and a node in the house. If you're just starting, don't begin in a terminal. Gupax is the easy door: one GUI, P2Pool + xmrig, you put your address in and go.…

A mining central processing unit (CPU) is a small heater that happens to hash. Watts are how fast electricity goes in. Almost every watt comes back out as heat. The fan does not destroy it. The fan moves it into the room. If the room is warm, the chip starts warmer too. Temperature is not the…

This is a practice network for a Monero upgrade called FCMP++ and Carrot. It is not mainnet. The coins on it are not your real coins. Your normal wallet stays where it is. A node is just the program that downloads the chain and talks to other computers. The test needs its own node. The one you…

Hello geeks, I am curious to know who mine Monero using their homelab? I got myself a Lenovo P510 with E5-2698 v4 a year ago, I then increased to 128Gb ram. I self host a media and photo library at first but then increased with Nostr Relays and projects. I fell into the Monero and Bitcoin rabbit…

I've been playing with ricing my linux set-up and I'm using cool-retro term. When I mine via gupax I want the Randomx process to be displayed in my cool-retro term terminal so it acts as a type of screen saver 😁 I have not had the time to look up how to do this so any shortcuts would be helpful!…

Okay so this one confused me for a while. I keep seeing it confuse people who just started hashing. Your chip has cores. The OS and the miner also show threads. On a Ryzen those counts are not the same. A 6-core chip shows 12 threads. A 16-core chip shows 32. The extras are SMT. That is AMD's name…

I put a small UPS on the flex mining/main ops PC. Not because mining has to run 24/7 no matter what; but a dirty blip is worse than a clean stop on the mothership. This UPS is a smooth sine wave. Cheap UPS units fake that on battery with a stepped / simulated wave. A lot of modern PC power supplies…

Homestead is the house app I use on my small CPU fleet and media ops. One screen for every machine: temps, threads, which room, live rules. I can change threads on the fly without SSHing into each box. It's pretty slick as it's been coming along. I just started designing a new card in Omarchy the…

https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/recent_winners.html Won't show which one is my addy but somewhere in here is my address and last night I scored the Bonus raffle win. It's always great to wake up and check your wallet and have a few extra payouts! This one has been in the works for a long time as I…

Inspired by @menace https://monero.fail/ updates. Nearby nodes / geo filters made putting one on the map make sense. I’ve run a node at home for myself for a while. Public is the next step. It’s downloading now not listed yet. When it is, it’ll live on monero.fail. If you’re mining at home, a node…

The miner is the same on all three. RandomX, xmrig, P2Pool. Gupax is still the easy door: one GUI, bundled P2Pool + xmrig, primary address (the 4 one), start P2Pool then xmrig. Don't begin in a terminal. What changes is how the operating system gets in the way. Windows Antivirus will quarantine…

Mining Monero isn’t “any hardware, good luck.” The network picked a proof of work that wants a normal CPU. RandomX landed November 2019. It runs random programs and leans on memory so you can’t cheaply freeze the job into one chip and park it in a warehouse. Official line is ASIC-resistant,…

A small look at my Home Ops I've built for Monero Fleet Ops so far.