Great opportunity to get into mining monero, I’ve been using my gaming PC as a heater for years now, compute generated heat is almost 100% as power efficient as a regular electric heater.
Regular electric heaters kinda suck, though. Heat pumps are 3-5x as efficient (they can go above 100% because they move heat rather than creating it) and natural gas is often cheaper per BTU.
I’m not saying that mining crypto in the winter is bad, just that it isn’t necessarily completely “free” if your regular heater is something other than electric resistance.
I’ll solder on a pipe onto my CPU air cooler and place the other end in my bed. That way, I’ll get crypto warmth :) just need a way to insulate the pipe…
Monero is cpu mined. I think there are ways to mostly bypass lhr now if you wanna gpu mine. For monero I use feather wallet on pc but the official gui wallet is also pretty good. For android cake/monero.com wallet is often recommended, personally I use unstoppable wallet and monerujo.
Great opportunity to get into mining monero, I’ve been using my gaming PC as a heater for years now, compute generated heat is almost 100% as power efficient as a regular electric heater.
Regular electric heaters kinda suck, though. Heat pumps are 3-5x as efficient (they can go above 100% because they move heat rather than creating it) and natural gas is often cheaper per BTU.
I’m not saying that mining crypto in the winter is bad, just that it isn’t necessarily completely “free” if your regular heater is something other than electric resistance.
I’ll solder on a pipe onto my CPU air cooler and place the other end in my bed. That way, I’ll get crypto warmth :) just need a way to insulate the pipe…
But my 3080 is LHR :(
Other than that, what wallet do you recommend? :)
Monero is cpu mined. I think there are ways to mostly bypass lhr now if you wanna gpu mine. For monero I use feather wallet on pc but the official gui wallet is also pretty good. For android cake/monero.com wallet is often recommended, personally I use unstoppable wallet and monerujo.
Check out https://whattomine.com/ to figure out the most profitable coins for your system.
For monero have a look at https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/mining/ If you want the simplest solution you can just download xmrig, change the config to point it at your wallet address and a centralized pool like https://hashvault.pro/monero/getting-started , supportxmr.com or https://www2.aterx.com/ and run it with sudo. There is a slightly more profitable decentralized way called p2pool but you have to run your own node to use it, https://gupax.io/ is a tool that makes it very easy.