As I see there no point to mine Monero on a typical machine if your point is not to help the network, I do have 10k/h just to help Monero. So, why would anyone mine monero?

  • SakiEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Surely you can (and should) run a full node locally and p2pool can use it (–host 127.0.0.1). If you do that, many connections are local, except:

    1. Obviously your local monerod makes connections to and from other remote nodes.
    2. The same is true about p2pool. For it to work, it needs to make incoming and outgoing connections. Even if you use a not-so-well known option “–socks5 127.0.0.1:9050”, the current version of p2pool makes some clearnet connections by default.
    3. xmrig works locally when you use p2pool (xmrig -o 127.0.0.1:3333), which is very nice! But even so, it also makes remote connections for hashrate donation (unless you disable it e.g. by compiling yourself).

    So it’s not technically correct to assume that p2pool mining is super-private, where no one knows you’re mining. Like you said, this fact is usually not a big problem as running a node or mining is currently legal in most places. It’s just that a miner is more visible than a normal end-user.