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I am looking to mine on my laptop at night to try get enough to fund at least part of a mullvad VPN account. I need a miner and wallet that doesn't care about age and will let me turn mining off when I'm using my laptop.

What would you recommend?

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[โ€“] mylikes@stranger.social 1 points 1 year ago (15 children)

@sleepybisexual @shortwavesurfer P2pool is the easiest, they have 4 step instructions to follow, easy peasy, just a command line copy paste. Would recommend that because they don't tax you in their mining pool, but I would recommend to donate atleast tiny percent, kinda feels bad though. ๐Ÿ˜…

Also note that its impossible to benefit from it, not just p2pool but the other rest, but be minded that mining it helps their network, so it's more like of a "good will".

[โ€“] mylikes@stranger.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

@sleepybisexual @shortwavesurfer "impossible to benefit"
why mine monero?

  1. To buy art comissions,
  2. To buy online services like VPN(Mullvad), Cloud Servers (Vultr), In some lucky part of the places they sell foods.
  3. Monerujo, easiest IRL(In real life)transaction, and can convert monero(XMR) to any coins like btc, eth, ltc, dash, doge coins, because of sideshift.ai service and it is opensource no pyramid scheme and no potential malicious closed source codes. It also has QR scan codes.
[โ€“] mylikes@stranger.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@sleepybisexual @shortwavesurfer
4. Because it's only for cpu, the community has atleast of a power to become decentralized, rather than some fat guy in a tuxedo smoking their million dollar cigars rolling on asics to centralized their mining operations, they can't mine with asics.
5. To buy Based T-shirts from Mental Outlaw.
6. literally 1984
7. For me, I mine because my country ran by lazy f*cks who won't give me valid IDs and that's why I can't get a bank account and a job.
8. You muzt mine.

[โ€“] melano@kolektiva.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mylikes@stranger.social 1 points 1 year ago

@melano @sleepybisexual @shortwavesurfer If I tell, they might waterboard me into loving Big Brother. Regardless, Glory to my country! โœŠ๐Ÿ’•

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