– – – Quick Links Resources • • • • • Desktop Wallets (Official) Web Wallets • Mobile Wallets • • • • • Hardware Wallets • • Why Monero? Monero is secure. Monero can't be hacked to steal your funds, due to the power of distributed consensus. This means that you are responsible for your own money, and don't have to trust any entity to keep it safe for you. Monero is private. The power of the blockchain usually increases security at the cost of privacy, but with Monero's sophisticated privacy-centric technology, you get all of the security benefits of the blockchain without any of the privacy trade-offs. Monero is untraceable.

TradingView Monero (market symbol: XMR). A Beginner’s Guide to Monero (Buying. How to Mine Monero. Why buy Monero when you can mine it. XMR Mining Made Easy Dont want to tinker? In less than an hour you can mine XMR (aka Cryptonight, Monero) as well as CryptoLight (AEON) with optimized settings. Complete Step by Step guide for beginners to learn about Monero Mining on Windows (CPU & GPU) using different methods on windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10.

By taking advantage of ring signatures, Monero makes it ambiguous which funds have been spent, and thus extremely unlikely that a transaction could be linked to any particular user. Monero is fungible. Because of its on-by-default privacy technologies, Monero is fungible, which means that one Monero will always be equal to another.

This ensures that there will be no discrimination over the origin or history of your coins, lessening the worry of potential blacklisting by exchanges or vendors. Guidelines • Breaking the guidelines may result in a deleted post and possible ban. • Follow redditquette and the rules of reddit. • Only Monero-related topics/links. • No memes/image macros. • Downvotes are for bad information or rudeness, not casual disagreement. • When mentioning other currencies, keep the discussion civil.

• No posts on how many coins you own/lost. • Please direct support questions to. • For price/valuation talk, please use. Monero Communities Other Communities • • • • • • •. I am just going to copy and paste the instructions from the ReadMe for the 'How to' portion. This works for Windows specifically. EDIT: All wallet addresses are Monero wallets.

If you do not have a monero wallet, you can get one WITHOUT setting up a node over at mymonero.com is the zip with a CPU miner, AMD miner and NVIDIA miner. The best of the best. Using YAM, CCMiner and minerd from wolf Here is a link to the updated AMD GPU Miner: Hello, You probably already need to redownload this zip because your anti-virus has probably gotten rid of some of the files needed because they help control your CPU and GPU which is considered malicious. Make sure you disable Windows Defender or add these files to the whitelist. Google is your best friend there:).......... HOW TO RUN CPU MINER.......... Open CPU directory.

Open 'startcpuminer.bat' with your favorite text editor, like notepad. You should see: minerd.exe -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://monero.twincitiesfreecable.com:5555 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x --threads=2 The 'monero.twincitiesfreecable.com:5555' is the pool address. Mine has a 1% fee.

Feel free to change it to whichever you please. Change 'YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS' to whatever wallet you prefer your payout to go to. Unless your pool uses a specific username/password login system, this is typically how most pools will work. Leave '-p x' alone unless you have a pool that requires a username/password Now, where it says --threads=2 change that to whatever your CPU's LMB Cache is divided by 2 rounded down. I use a Quad Core i7-4770k so I put Core to 4 and runs just fine. Feel free to mess around with this.

Laptops I would say use 1 or 2. Save the file and then double click on it to run, check your logs/black screen for errors. Never run minerd.exe directly.......... HOW TO RUN GPU MINER - NVIDIA.......... Open GPU NVIDIA directory. Open 'startgpuminer.bat' with your favorite text editor, like notepad. You should see: ccminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://monero.twincitiesfreecable.com:5555 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x The 'monero.twincitiesfreecable.com:5555' is the pool address.

Mine has a 1% fee. Feel free to change it to whichever you please. Change 'YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS' to whatever wallet you prefer your payout to go to. Unless your pool uses a specific username/password login system, this is typically how most pools will work. Leave '-p x' alone unless you have a pool that requires a username/password save the file and then double click on it to run, check your logs/black screen for errors. Never run ccminer.exe directly.......... HOW TO RUN GPU MINER - AMD..........

Open GPU AMD directory, then win64-barcelona. Open 'startgpuminer.bat' with your favorite text editor, like notepad. You should see: yam -c x -M stratum+tcp://YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS::3333/xmr The 'monero.twincitiesfreecable.com:3333' is the pool address. Mine has a 1% fee. Feel free to change it to whichever you please. The username and password is a bit different for this miner.

Not much though. YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS:x same as username:password Like I said in other miners, if the pool you use does not have a login system, username should be kept your wallet address and password should remain x save the file and then double click on it to run, check your logs/black screen for errors. Never run yam.exe directly. Anyways, hope that helps. Feel free to comment/ask questions.

If you need a fresh pool to join: monero.twincitiesfreecable.com • • • • •.

– – – Quick Links Resources • • • • • Desktop Wallets (Official) Web Wallets • Mobile Wallets • • • • • Hardware Wallets • • Why Monero? Monero is secure. Monero can't be hacked to steal your funds, due to the power of distributed consensus. This means that you are responsible for your own money, and don't have to trust any entity to keep it safe for you. Monero is private.

The power of the blockchain usually increases security at the cost of privacy, but with Monero's sophisticated privacy-centric technology, you get all of the security benefits of the blockchain without any of the privacy trade-offs. Monero is untraceable. By taking advantage of ring signatures, Monero makes it ambiguous which funds have been spent, and thus extremely unlikely that a transaction could be linked to any particular user. Monero is fungible. Because of its on-by-default privacy technologies, Monero is fungible, which means that one Monero will always be equal to another. This ensures that there will be no discrimination over the origin or history of your coins, lessening the worry of potential blacklisting by exchanges or vendors.

Guidelines • Breaking the guidelines may result in a deleted post and possible ban. • Follow redditquette and the rules of reddit. • Only Monero-related topics/links. • No memes/image macros. • Downvotes are for bad information or rudeness, not casual disagreement. • When mentioning other currencies, keep the discussion civil. • No posts on how many coins you own/lost.

• Please direct support questions to. • For price/valuation talk, please use. Monero Communities Other Communities • • • • • • •.

If you want consistent mining rewards, you should join a pool and use a pool miner. The 'getting started' page on most pools will point you to the right software. If you mostly want to help the network and are happy to 'play the lottery' on whether you get any rewards or not, then you should solo mine using the wallet. Start the daemon, create a wallet, and type 'start_mining [number-of-threads]' in the wallet. If you have a suitable GPU and want to use that, you will have to pool mine (there is no solo mining support for GPUs).

Pool mining with a GPU and solo mining with a CPU is a nice middle ground between pooling and soloing. Going to hijack slightly. Run Ethereum ETH Mining Software. This question can be for anyone.

I have solo mined Monero before in the past. I am interested in joining a pool and using a pool miner as you mentioned. I am new to pool mining.

Is there a specific mining pool and 'pool miner' you could direct me to that would be the best? Is there already a guide somewhere? Also, what exactly is a 'suitable' GPU? I hear AMD is superior, but I have an Nvidia 980ti. Anyone know if this will be good for mining? Last thing is, I am using Linux, just thought I'd mention in case that matters for any reason. There is a list of recommended pools in the first post of the ANN thread on bitcointalk.

Any of those is fine, although smaller ones are better for the network and probably better for you (you will get less frequent payouts but they will be larger, so less issues with dust/fees). As far as suitable GPUs, any modern AMD and NVIDIA cards work, but only NVIDIA cards have an open source miner (which may or may not matter to you). I don't know which are better at this point.

In the past AMD cards were faster but NV cards were slightly more efficient.