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Questions tagged [miners]

Those who perform work (defined the the CryptoNight PoW algorithm) to secure the Monero network and confirm transaction in exchange for a coinbase reward and transaction fees

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CPU Miner for Mac OSX?

I'm new to the Monero community, but I've successfully mined many other cryptocurrencies. After a couple hours of digging, I could not find a pre-built CPU miner for OSX. Could someone point me in the right direction? I found a few that require…
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Hashrate correlation by time of day

Looking at historical Monero hash rate data it appears as if the hashrate is often the highest near 0:00 GMT and lowest near 12:00 GMT What credible explanations are there for this pattern? What reason would (a small percentage of) miners have to…
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Writing my own Monero miner

So I was trying to make my own Monero miner and I found out that it uses the Cryptonight hash algorithm and I found documentation for it and I can implement it. But then how do I connect my miner to a pool, there doesn't seem to be any API on any of…
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Monero Hash, how does it work, C++ basisc

I am trying to understand xmr-stak miner program. I have understood most of it but having hard time visualizing some pointer manipulation in below code. Its been over 10 years for me to go through any CPP program, any help is apprenticed. So the…
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Can monero network exist without miners?

Can the Monero network exist without miners? Can we just run monerod on home computers? Must some of us use the start_mining command (or a similar command in other mining software) to support the network?
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Does a tool exist to monitor multiple Monero miners?

I would like to monitor multiple Monero GPU miners. Has a tool already been developed for this, if not I'll happily do so?
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0 - 100 % GPU spikes when mining [NVIDIA GTX 750 TI]

when I start mining using XMR-Stark my GPU (GTX 750 TI) is showing weird 0-100% spikes like this: Task Manager, GPU-Z. My CPU (i7-4790K) is consistent: Task Manager. My hashrate (cpu+gpu) is consistently around 400 and my GPU temperatures are…
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How to have visitors mine on my websites and is it legal?

I was wondering how to have visitors on my website mine monero for me and if it is legal or not. I know that if I don't tell them its illegal, but I plan on telling them in the footer of my website. Thanks in advance.
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Why aren't there any miners written in assembly for x86 / x64 etc?

I've seen ethereum miner written in go, monero miners written in C, javascript. I wonder why wouldn't anyone write assembly code for a miner? At least for the hashing part.
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Monero mining software

I have just started mining and I found that every miner that I download is not running, blocked by chrome, or blocked by antivirus. Right now I'm using minergate and I don't like it. I want some mining software. Please don't tell the ones on Linux…
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Xmr Stak CPU Miner Socket Error

Testing out the new XMR Stak Miner, currently using Wolf's CPU miners. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, and the build works as in the README, setup the config for my address, and fixed the memory alloc issue here (Failure when using XMR Stak CPU Miner on…
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Will I need to update wallet and miner after the next upcoming (March 2019) fork?

I have read about the next upcoming fork planned for the block 1788000 (around the 9th of March). After that block, will I need to update the Monero daemon, the wallet, or both? And what about the miner programs? Thanks in advance for answers.
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Can you only allow certain miners on a cryptonote blockchain?

I am creating my own Cryptonote coin for a specific, business need. Can I only allow certain IPs to mine on it?
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Was the reasoning behind the large tx extra in minergate's transactions ever revealed?

It's absolutely enormous. Was it revealed why it's used? This is a Minergate block: http://explore.moneroworld.com/tx/bba343e5e172f07f623fb34c0cbd26519567cc374c5d61d468d370714f3d5b66 This is a regular pool block:…
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xmrMiner does not detect RX 580 gpus

I'm new to xmr mining on Windows and yet to find some decent miners. I'm trying xmrMiner but it only detects GTX gpu on my pc. I'm wondering how can I fix it?
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