Most notable rumor is 8 channel ddr5 at 8500 MHz. They are efficient mobile processors tho... Mac forums had he most informative discussion I could find.

I've had an xmrig process running on Linux terminate after printing "Aborted." twice in the last week, never seen this before. Anybody know what might be the cause? System was recently upgraded to Debian 12 and had an NVMe stick put in.

The bug fixed in cURL 8.4.0 (CVE-2023-38545) is a nasty one, but it seems rather harmless in our context.

First of all, if you don’t use socks5, this issue should be irrelevant. (But do your own research. Source code is there for you to freely study, modify, compile.)

According to the blog, the bug could be exploited only if a socks5 proxy user is tricked to resolve a crazy long hostname (~1024 characters+), which sounds unlikely; except if your direct peer is evil, they might be able to send you a crazy long hostname instead of a numeric IP… maybe? However, if you’re on socks5 proxy, the attacker can’t see your real IP to begin with, so they can’t attack you (I think).

The only attack vector my stupid head can think of is: if for some reason you use both clear connections and socks5 connections, then a lucky attacker who notices your behavior can hit your real IP when you’re on Tor, using your wallet address as an identifier. (Tor exit nodes are public, so they know someone is on Tor.) Even then, maybe the worst thing that could happen is that your p2pool crashes due to buffer overrun.

Sophon SG2042R SOC Risc-V 64cores (2ghz), 64mb-cash, 8gb DDR4 3200

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It is the officially recommended way to mine Monero! Here are seven easy steps:

• 1) Download the bundled version of Gupax examples:

windows file: gupax-v1.3.1-windows-x64-bundle.zip

macOs file: gupax-v1.3.1-macos-x64-bundle.tar.gz

• 2) Extract
• 3) Launch Gupax
• 4) Input your Monero address in the P2Pool tab (or create a new one for mining)
• 5) Select a Remote Monero Node (or run your own local Monero Node)
• 6) Start P2Pool
• 7) Start XMRig

Motivation: The hashrate of centralized pools increases; so: miners update the mining software and/or start new workers, but do not change their used pool to p2pool. p2pool should be used in general because it is the best technology and:

• 0% fee
• 0 XMR payout fee
• ~0.00027 XMR minimal payout

Maybe an monero.town OP can pin this. It's important.

Anyone feel they can explain what this is better than p2pool already does? I have been mining for a month on a new address and have one "sweep transaction" I was able to look up. Mine is 0.01+ and a bunch change and its at the block height very close to where I sent 0.01 xmr to this very site to prove I was human. Can anyone provide any insight? Thanks

Coming "This Fall"

How will it hash RandomX?

Previous post: https://monero.town/post/279294

Finished building and setting up my 4 3900 builds, read my previous post for more details. Figuring out the best way to build them into the shelf was a lot of trial and error, especially with cable management. Took a few hours, but I'm glad it worked out in the end. I was satisfied with my undervolt on the first rig, but unfortunately I was not able to transfer it to the second. I ended up just using dcop and keeping all the cpus stock for uniformity instead of individually overclocking all the machines. Right now they're doing 12.2-12.4kh/s at 80-84c which is making the room quite toasty, should be nice in the winter (not so much in the summer). Would ROI in about 3 years at the current rate. The top machine is a 5600x which I use as a home server, running monerod and p2pool. I used to run nixos but I eventually switched back to alpine like the other 5 machines. Currently using docker-compose and nixery.

Sorry the text is so dense, feel free to ask questions.

A big thanks to SChernykh for the continued effort in maintaining this important piece of the Monero ecosystem!

Make sure to visit https://p2pool.io/ and drop a nice donation! 👛

https://github.com/kilopool/kiloproxy by Kilopool.com

P2Pool v3.6.2 was released. There were no code changes since v3.6.1, but the MacOS aarch64 build and Windows build were re-compiled with the previous compiler same as in v3.5, to fix reported stability issues.

It is said: “If the previous version works fine for you, you don't need to update.” but even if you think v3.6.1 is working, you may want to carefully monitor the situation (e.g. Hashrate / CPU temperature) to see which compiler works better for you. It is possible that keeping using v3.6.1 is better for some users.

Apparently it is not yet proven that the new compiler is the culprit for this, though a compiler optimization-related issue is suspected.

Changes:

• macOS aarch64 build is back to using old compiler (same as in v3.5) to fix reported stability issues
• Windows build is back to using MSVC compiler (same as in v3.5) to fix reported stability issues

Release P2Pool v3.6.2 · SChernykh/p2pool · GitHub

EDIT (Clarification for Windows users)

• The previous (old) version (v3.6.1) was created with a NEW compiler, and is supposed to run faster (7-8% faster block verification), while there might be crashing bugs or other unexpected issues.
• The current (new) version (v3.6.2) was created with the OLD compiler (same as v3.5), and is supposed to run only as fast as v3.5 (so 7-8% slower block verification, than v3.6.1), although it might be stabler.

If you are a p2pool miner make sure to join the raffle to win free hashrate!

https://xmrvsbeast.com

Ampere ARM - Hetzner Matrix

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx

80 cores, 128/256 GB DDR4 does XMrig scale?

P2Pool v3.6.1 was released.

Changes:

• Fixed Windows 7 compatibility
• Fixed a crash when running as a systemd service

Github - SChernykh p2pool

P2Pool v3.6 was released.

Changes:

• Avoid unnecessary block broadcasts and block requests to save traffic (works best when connected to v3.6+ nodes)
• 2 times faster initial sync when connected to v3.6+ nodes
• Release binaries for Windows are now built with clang compiler (7-8% faster block verification)
• Tweaked how release binaries for other OS are built, binary sizes are reduced significantly
• Fixed a rare data race bug that could happen during block verification
• Added a full source code archive with all dependencies

Github - SChernykh p2pool

For the people who missed it:

Monero os is a live linux system that starts mining monero on boot. It is inspired by nicehashOS but is completely free and open source.

After some time of developing MoneroOS. I finally implemented the most requested feature. P2Pool! I am currently looking for beta testers to find issues and report back. You can join our public matrix room if you are interested #moneroOS:matrix.org.

You can grab the latest release from https://github.com/4rkal/MoneroOS . Read about how P2Pool works on MoneroOS here https://github.com/4rkal/MoneroOS/wiki/P2Pool

Submit your builds below!

What’s the best setup to mine Monero while keeping it as a space heater for the winter?

I wonder if you could chain multiple xmrig proxies to a single xmrig proxy.

My scenerio for this would be if i ran a computer support business and the contract was that each client would dedicate idle cpu time to mine. So say each client had 20 machines, those machines would mine to an xmrig proxy which would be set to mine to a proxy that i have easy access to. That way instead of 200 computers (10 clients with 20 machines) all hitting a single proxy the main proxy would only have 10 connections to it. That would make switching pools easier too since only a single proxy would need to be changed instead of visiting 10 different sites to change each one.

I was using monerod.org, but decided to go to herominers because its hashrate is higher and so payouts should be more steady. I am watchful of contributing to centralization though so made sure it was still small. Herominers is ~3% of the hashrate so i don't feel bad about pointing my xmrig-proxy their.

through Termux

Been a Monero miner for a few years now and wanted to scale up a bit for fun. Purchased some used 3900's from ebay, new gold psus, b450 mobos, 2x8 3200 cl16 memory kits, and usbs to boot from. I think I spent about $400 usd per system for 4 systems, total $1600. I could've bought used for the rest of the parts (especially for bdie's instead of cdie) and saved quite a bit, but frankly I was too lazy. I've been working on building the rest of the systems, but the one I have running right now is running 3.5ghz @ 0.95v on the cpu, and 3333 cl 15 @ 1.4v on the memory for 12.5kh/s. I spent a while overclocking subtimings but in the end concluded the time investment wasnt worth the minor gains and decreased uniformity. At current rates, I would ROI in about 5 years. Not too shabby considering I own the systems and can sell them for most of the money back if I ever need.

Currently running Alpine Linux on each of the miners, and I have a separate 5600x server running NixOS that I use to run my nodes (among other applications). I was going to use Nix on the miners as well, but Alpine is easier considering its a single user machine, and probably faster. Of course I'm running my own monerod and p2pool, might throw xmrig proxy in there for stats as well but that can be a future endeavor.