Monero & CryptoNote family mining
As with any other coin, there are tons of miner software's and pools available. Since I use GNU/Linux in a RAM booted from a USB stick on the DIY rigs which doesn't maintain any state / persistence at all, xmr-stak is a very handy miner that supports Nvidia GPUs, CPUs & AMD (I have not tested.)
Quick run down of the setup:
- stripped down GNU/Linux Debian Testing
- Everything updated except for the Meltdown/SPECTRE patches
- custom Kernel
Compiling the source is easy with the instructions
- One thing you may find anywhere documented is, how the configuration file is generated : it gets auto generated during the first run and we can tweak it further.
With MinerGate, the following should work & it will auto-generate the necessary config files.
xmr-stak --currency monero -u [email protected] -o xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560
note that without tweaking, the settings which is clearly documented, a small percentage of the computing power is allotted for the developer.
resulting hashes from the pool:
(screenshot of the test build & the values are just for reference.)
Other coins like Aeon can be mined and lite versions should be giving a better hash rate.
Ports and other details for various coins on minergate : https://minergate.com/faq/what-pool-address
AEON mining (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
AEON has lesser difficulty than monero and xmr-stak can mine AEON as well. With minergate, the command-line is the following:
xmr-stak --currency aeon -u [email protected] -o aeon.pool.minergate.com:45690
I have never mined xmr before, i think ill start soon, any suggestions mate?
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I'm one of the lazy ones. Just downloaded the Minergate GUI and just 1 click to run after installation and it's mining XMR merged mining with XDN. I was a big fan of XDN as a miner and it payed off. The price is 20 times higher from the low it had and my only regret is that I didn't bought a bunch on Bittrex.
Too bad the project doesn't have much development going. XMR is a stupid unusable mess and then I found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/65fz68/dashs_privacy_feature_has_never_been_broken_turns/
https://getmonero.org/2017/04/19/an-unofficial-response-to-an-empirical-analysis-of-linkability.html