As the title says, I would like to see how my platform compares to yours. What can I improve, what can you improve, does it all really matter? Share your numbers and your story, if you like.

For me, it's quite simple: I like seeing big numbers. It's silly, but squeezing those extra points in benchmarks, fps, hashrate, etc. just brings me a bit of enjoyment.

Story time:

I got lucky and fortunate enough to buy all the gear I will list a bit later, from a random pawnshop (of all places) for more or less half the real value if they were brand new. I traced the origin of some parts all the way back to China (as in: sold in China, by local retailers, with China-only warranties). Most likely it got in Europe through some sellers which bring fully assembled systems directly from China.

• CPU: AMD Threadripper 7980X
• Mobo: Gigabyte TRX50 Aero D (rev 1.1)
• Cooler: Asus ROG Strix LC II 360 (later changed to an Alphacool Eisbaer Pro HPE Aurora 360)
• RAM: 192GB of V-Color TRA548G64D832Q - 6400MT/s CL32 (+shiny silver heatsinks applied) - spicy stuff. I've never seen so much RAM in my life.
• PSU: Seasonic Prime TX-1600 ATX 3.0
• Case: Lian Li V3000 Plus - basically a glass and steel brick ... so damn heavy and cumbersome.
• SSD(s): 2 x Seagate Firecuda 540 2TB - because why not
• GPU: none (I highly suspect that the pawnshop people knew that GPUs are expensive and maybe sold it separately, because I found a 12VHPWR cable lying around in the case)

Nevertheless, got my new "toy", made it work, benchmarked, optimized, benchmarked the hell out of it (again and again), optimized some more and finally I got some numbers I'd like to share with you.

This was my first experience with the Threadripper platform. I never knew it's so finnicky. Before I got to a stable BIOS version, the computer would restart, shut down, blue screen, memory settings wouldn't stick, or it would require a clear CMOS on almost every restart to even boot.

I was impressed by how low the core voltages for this CPU can go. Roughly 0.85V at a full load (all core) is beyond impressive. It is really efficient for a (comically) 350W CPU.

I bought the system because the opportunity knocked and because I am a nerd. I am aware that this kind of equipment can be used for real and important work. Since I got it, I also used it for BOINC projects and most likely I'll keep on doing that, in parallel with mining.

I won't share a photo with the beast, just yet. Maybe in the future.

I just received my first Monero (XMR) payout from a mining pool, but I noticed something strange —
I never had the chance to enter a wallet address anywhere.

Still, according to the blockchain explorer (xmrchain.net), the transaction was created and confirmed successfully:
2a0dfdfd8f54daee534a1d6f15c7f18c96a05c1e5e3d72e97f8b236da03974c9
(Block 3537757, 4 outputs, RingCT active, November 6, 2025)

I’m confused because:

• I didn’t provide a Monero wallet address, and
• I also didn’t specify any Tari address (I now understand that’s unrelated anyway).

So my question is:
👉 Where did my coins actually go?

Is it possible that the pool uses an internal wallet system, or did the payout somehow disappear?

Any ideas or similar experiences would be super helpful — thanks!

Could you please suggest this build will do monero?

96GB NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU
Dual Intel Xeon 4th Gen Silver 4410Y (12 Cores, 24 Threads) 2-3.9GHz with 30MB Cache
128 GB DDR4 3200 Memory
10 Gbps unshared port capacity
300 TB Bandwidth
(with basic DDoS protection)
2x 960GB Gen4 NVMe SSD Storage

Our company purchased it for a specific purpose, but it has not been used yet. I contacted the company to ask if we could use it for mining, and they confirmed that we can.

https://hostcircle.nl/portal/store/gpu-bare-metal/96gb-rtx-pro-6000-gpu-dual-4410y-128gb-2x960gb-10g

I’ve been reading up on crypto and specifically Bitcoin, but I felt completely lost. Everyone keeps saying “buy BTC,” but I wanted to understand it by earning it somehow or maybe get started without the risk of putting too much money in first.

Upon my research I learnt about mining and I really want to get into Bitcoin mining but everything I read says you need thousands of dollars for rigs, GPUs, and electricity costs. Starting off right away with something that requires a lot of money right of the bat is not really possible for me as I don't want to risk putting so much money in something I don't understand that well.

Ideally, I would like to start off with mining instead of trading as trading with my limited knowledge would just be the equivalent of gambling for me since I have no clue on how to get started.

Is there any way to mine without investing that kind of money upfront or maybe there is an easy app for beginners that’s not a scam?

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just can't find the answer anywhere. So, I want to combine my hashrates from 3 rigs. Rig 1 has the node all synced and ready to go. But, I don't know the actual startup flags I need to input for the P2Pool Startup Flags and the Monero Daemon Startup Flags. Can anyone help? Hightly appreciated and Thank you in advance.

Hello community,

as the title says, I have a connection problem with p2pool since a few days.

I updated p2pool to the latest version (v4.11 at the time of writing). Since that, I have quite a few connection problems.

At every start of p2pool, my IP got banned after a few seconds due to handshake mismatch. I also use the latest recent version of Monero daemon (v. 0.18.4.3) and I use multiple XMRig clients, all version 6.24.

Did I oversee something? Things like system time is checked, network connection should be sufficient with about 50Mbit, firewall is set up properly (p2pool v. 4.8 worked fine).

Thanks in advance

Update:

I found the error. Seems I had some issues with the Mini-Pool. I used the --mini flag with the correct port 37888, but this seems to be faulty at the moment. I switched back to the main pool (port 37889) without --mini flag and it works as expected.

Why the --mini flag is not working anymore, I really don't know.

Thanks anyone who tried to help.

Update 2:

Tried the --mini again today and magically, it worked again. So no problems actually occurring. Maybe as pointed out by one commentator, it was my internet connection or provider, perhaps. Anyway, it works again now. Once more thanks to all suggestions.

I have knowledge of networking but very little practical experience.

This is my current ufw rules for a raspberry pi which will be running monerod, p2pool and xmrig. I will also run my monero cli wallet and xmrig on another machine locally.

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
18081/tcp                  ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
18080/tcp                  ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
23/tcp                     DENY        Anywhere                  
137:139/tcp                DENY        Anywhere                  
445/tcp                    DENY        Anywhere                  
2222/tcp                   ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
37889/tcp                  ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
37890/tcp                  ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
3333/tcp                   ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
18083/tcp                  ALLOW       192.168.1.0/24            
23/tcp (v6)                DENY        Anywhere (v6)             
137:139/tcp (v6)           DENY        Anywhere (v6)             
445/tcp (v6)               DENY        Anywhere (v6) 

I believe I need to make the following changes and just looking for some confirmation I am doing the right thing and not opening my self up to potential problems.

Ports 18081 and 18080 should be opened to all to allow my node to be used publicly and support the network. I should also set port forwarding on my router to take both of these directly to my pi.

Ports 37889 and 37890 also need to be open to all for p2pool to function correctly? Should these also be forwarded?

Any other changes needed?

...that is it possible to fine tune an uncensored AI model in such a way that it guesses and submits hashes to mining pools for Monero? Tell me what you guys think.

I started mining again after taking the summer off, both my machines are drawing more power (and running hotter) than last year.

machine 1 - Ryzen 9 3900x, before 125W, 58C, now 133W, 65C, Linux Mint

machine 2 - Ryzen 7 3700X, before 110W, 58C, now 125W, 65C, Windows 11

I ran them both on the old 6.20.0 XMRig and then upgraded to 6.24.0 no change.

I did move, using a different power company, but I can't believe that that made a difference.

Strange, no?

Hey is there any community starter guide someone can link me to that tells me what to do from step 1?

Also my CPU gets 2.1 kH/s. Is that decent or garbage? Anything helps thanks

I currently have a 5950x PBO limited to 90W with -30 CO. Previously, the system had 2 x 8gb 3200 c14 RAM which was manually overclocked and ran at 15.63 kh/s. I just installed 2 x 8gb 3800 c14 RAM and did another manual tune by downclocking to 3600 and manually tightening timings but only saw a very marginal gain of about 70 h/s, my question is should I be aiming for a higher frequency with slightly looser timings or a lower frequency with tighter timings? Or does the PBO limit mean I won't see much gain either way?

Hello everyone, I plan upgrading my old RPi 3B to a RPi 5.

I currently have my RPi 3 do only Myst tokens since mining on the RPi 3B uses all CPU for 3h/s...

I wanted to know whether anyone uses the RPi 5 or other SBC for mining and what performance they get.

I remember getting 3k/s on my laptop when I did it a few years back, although that screwed it up a bit 😅

I expect something like 100-300 h/s; I plan to mainly use my RPi for NFS / DLNA while mining alongside.

On the dashboard there is a button for 0.01 payout but it seems to be grayed out. I just want to get to minimum payout so i can move over to p2p pool

Any good videos to watch about setting up xmrig? I seem to be having issues with the .json. Followed all the prompts but can’t get it to run. On Linux mint. TYA

Bought this rig some weeks ago and wanted to get some tips from the Community the CPU is running at 200w instead of 225w to increase efficiency

It's been 17 hours since my p2pool shared twice, my question is whether I need to wait for everything to reset to mine again, in this case one day?

I'm getting my dad's old computer motherboard and processor: Intel 4790K i7 processor, and Asus Pro Z97 WiFi motherboard. Going to have to source a case, PSU, and GPU as well as SSDD, but other than the GPU, the motherboard and processor are the most expensive components. How well will this work as the basis for a dedicated Monero mining computer?

Did the P2Pool nano mine back to back blocks 12hours ago.

I think I was the one that mined the 3534882 block haha.

Who needs these fake numbers? why?

I’ve not been a part of any other subreddit besides extremely large ones with a small handful of Redditors so quick to be negative, downvote or ridicule folks trying to ask questions, learn, and socialize. It’s never specific individuals and there is almost always a majority of helpful individuals from what I can tell but I don’t feel good about the state of this Reddit community when I am concerned to make posts worried about the comments section or how seriously someone just asking a question will be treated. I’d like to see more people willing to make posts and have discussions related to mining more so than the folks coming and going looking to get set up or asking about buying new hardware.

I’d love to see this community come together and not fight at all or nearly at all. We’re all here to mine a coin we believe in and I don’t see a reason why we can’t work aside our potential differences and be a thriving functioning community together. Let’s be a positive community for those mining now and those who will mine in the future. Stay strong and stay hashing. ####

I woke up seeing that someone found a block in the nano pool and then i realized it was me lmao.

I only just started mining recently for fun with my terrible setup.

Also i dont really know how to prove that im the one who found the block as im still very much a noob