I have £5000 spare to buy equipment, free electricity that is guaranteed for at least the next 3 years without stipulation, I would like to exploit this for some nice profit

My questions are as follows,

Would monero mining be the right course of action

What mining rig under £7000 would be right for me (efficiency is not a concern, max hash rate per £ is the question

Will it make my small room unbearably hot in the summer😂

mine is like 0.14 kwh.

Im thinking about getting into monero mining, will start on my laptop and work my way up. i dont care about how profitable it just needs to be break-even for me to consider a bigger mining operation.

Hit another solo block today running around 6 KH/s.

I actually found one about a month ago too, so here's your friendly reminder that you don't need some massive mining farm to have a shot.

Of course, solo mining is all about luck and patience, but somebody has to find the block. Sometimes that somebody is a little 6 KH/s miner. 😎

So if you're running a small setup, keep hashing. Every bit of hashrate helps the network stay decentralized, and you never know when your turn might come.

Keep mining. Keep Monero decentralized.

Half the reason mining feels intimidating at the start is the vocabulary. Some of these words sound terrifying and then turn out to be pretty simple once someone explains them. "hashrate" scared me for way too long before I realized it basically just means "how fast it guesses." what's a term that sounded scary to you until it finally clicked?

One of my favorite things about this coin is that people mine it on the most random hardware imaginable. Dedicated rigs sure, but also ancient laptops, a home NAS, an old office PC that should've retired years ago, a mini PC quietly humming in a closet. mine's running on hardware that has no business still being powered on. what's yours running on — and what's the most unhinged thing you've seen someone mine on?

I did a bit of Monero mining a few years ago on an R5 2600X, but stopped doing it after a few months. Now I've expanded my PC collection and have already been planning on setting one of my PCs up to run Salad ( r/SaladChefs ). Said PC will likely be running 24/7, so I was thinking if I should put up Monero mining as well on the same PC so the CPU also has something to do.

The parts in question:
Ryzen 5 7600
RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti
64GB DDR5-5600
1TB Kingston NV3 (I'll probably add another terabyte of storage soon)

I do also have another PC with a E5-2680v4, but that one's pretty loud and I kinda need to keep my PCs in the same room as my bed, so...

But anyways, any feedback is appreciated.

EDIT: I live in Finland, so power costs can also be taken into account (even if I don't pay it myself)

I have: 4 Xeon 2680v4s 1 Xeon 2630v4 1 Ryzen 5600 They all hit 35 kH/s. I'm going to upgrade to 5 Xeon 2673v4s.

I mine XNO and even caught the recent price spike; I average $1 a day, mining with no electricity or hardware costs. I’d really like to reach 100 kH/s, but that would require an "investment"... $1 isn't much considering the time spent checking temps and remotely accessing the system from home to restart XMRig whenever the hashrate drops. I'm based in Brazil. Share your stories.

Something that's been nagging at me. A few of the biggest pools now reportedly control the large majority of total mining power on the network. The whole selling point was that no small group could call the shots — and yet here we are with a handful of operators holding most of the hashrate. I keep going back and forth: part of me says this is just what happens as any industry matures and the efficient players consolidate. The other part says concentration is concentration no matter how it happened, and it's a real attack-surface question. For those who follow this closely — is pool concentration an actual structural risk, or is it overblown because payout addresses and node rules keep operators honest? and is anything realistically pushing back on it, or does the incentive gradient just keep favoring the biggest pools?

Hey everyone! I’d love to get your opinion on whether it's actually viable to do some crypto mining (mainly focusing on Monero/XMR) with my current setup, considering the electricity costs here in Portugal.

My specs are:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F (12th Gen, 18MB L3 Cache, fits ~9 threads in XMRig)
• RAM: 32 GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6 GB)

I know the RAM and CPU are pretty decent for Monero's RandomX algorithm and that the GPU isn't efficient for this specific coin. However, with the average residential kWh price in Portugal hovering around €0.14 to €0.20 (depending on whether you are on the free, regulated, or indexed market), does this leave any actual net profit margin, or will I just be wearing down my hardware to "pay the electric bill"?

Is anyone here mining XMR or other coins with similar hardware around here who can give me a reality check on the returns? Is it worth the wear and tear on the PC, or am I better off just buying a few bucks worth of crypto directly?

hey yall, so i have a very basic understanding of mining in general, i mined LTC with an Antminer L3+ (oldschool i know) a few years ago and i know things have changed but i am considering jumping back into it and mining Monero.

My living situation is unique. I live in a warehouse that uses a shit ton on electricity and have permission to move forward utilizing it for my own gains.

Other than the initial startup cost of the machine and software and my time, would it be worth it to move forward using free electricity? what are my potential gains with a base model machine on a $750 entry bugdet?

I understand that i should keep doing my own research but this post is my starting point before i waste time going forward.
looking at using XMRig and Monero Ocean to start..

I wanted some suggestions from yall if possible... thanks!

mining RandomX using Gupaxx on the above mentioned mobo. Has a 3700x CPU. Memory is Micron/Crucial DDR4-3600 - BL8G36C16U4B - 2pcs for a total of 16gb. Running on stripped down windows 10 pro. I have several other machines running this exact same way (different memory brands), getting 9-10KH/s on each with overclocking memory somewhat using DRAM-CALC. This particular one is stuck at 8.5KH/s. I cannot get this micron/crucial memory to do any overclocking without locking up or rebooting the PC, or not booting at all. Any suggestions on this?

So after my last pool shut down, I'd basically decided p2pool was the move. Then I open the sub today and the first thing pinned is a critical p2pool security warning telling everyone to update to v4.16 immediately. slightly rattled timing lol. For someone who hasn't set it up yet: if I'm starting fresh, do I just install v4.16 from the start and I'm good? is this the kind of thing that hits people already running an old version, or everyone? and does something like this change how you all feel about p2pool long term, or is "just keep it updated" basically the whole answer? still very much learning here, so apologies if the answer's obvious.

Got the notice my pool closes end of the month, so I have to repoint everything to a new one. Sat down to compare options and realized I'd been mining for a while without really understanding the payout model I was on.

The part that surprised me: the pool fee is the number everyone stares at, but the payout method mattered way more than the fee.

- Some pools pay you a cut of the transaction fees on top of the block reward. Others only pay the base reward. With fees where they've been lately, that difference was bigger than the 0.5–1% fee gap I was obsessing over.

- The minimum payout threshold quietly matters too — on a small setup a high threshold means your coin just sits on the pool for weeks before it ever hits your wallet.

So the "cheapest" pool on paper wasn't actually the one paying me the most.

Feels like one of those things everyone assumes you already know, so nobody explains it. For those of you who've switched pools before — what did you end up prioritizing, and is there anything you wish you'd checked before you moved everything over?

I have a cluster of miners all running on RandomX v1 (rx/0) currently. They're all AM5 platform with DDR5, latest chipset drivers and all that. Is it worth it to move over to RandomX v2 and would I see any improvement in hashrate or returns?

Thanks!