I have been wanting to add my humble hashrate contribution to the network for a while now.
I wanted to first get a dedicated machine, with at least 200GB for the full and blockchain, running 24x7, with all the bells and whistles...
So I kept pushing it off, further and further. "I don't have the hardware", "I don't have 200GB", "I don't have a monero node for maximum privacy"...

Today I realised that I should at least try it a bit. Just a tiny bit and see how it goes.

Thank you @XMRbutterfly for your post

I went to the gupax website just to see what it looks like, there is a short video explaining the process.
Downloaded, added a monero address, clicked start. BOOM! I am already running a monero miner on p2pool mini!

It was actually surprisingly fast and easy. None of the roadblocks I imagined were actually real.
I don't have to run it on a separate dedicated machine (I can always do that later), I don't have to allocate 200GB for it (I am using a remote node for now, so 0GB for that), I don't have to run my own node first (this setup is already a good start).

Why didn't I try this earlier? I don't know, don't ask me =D

In any case, just so you know, you can try it right now in just a few minutes, and even if you stop mining after a while, that's perfectly fine too.

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[–] hetzlemmingsworld 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think that you are wrong. My source is https://xmrig.com/benchmark/ Go somewhere to the middle of the page (to get rough middle performance CPU). For example I can see: 984 Intel® Core™ i5-10500T CPU @ 2.30GHz (6 threads CPU). I click it and mean hashrate is 1839. Divide that by 3, you have 613 hashes.

[–] HardenedSteel@monero.town 1 points 3 days ago

(6 threads CPU)

Its 12 threads CPU but you can only use 6 threads to mine Monero