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I have an old computer and decided to try mining #Monero. I never tried it before, so I downloaded Gupaxx. It wouldn't find a remote node for me to use, so I decided to try making a local node. It's been downloading the blockchain since yesterday. I see now it estimates it will be done in only another 2.9 months.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

I tried about a year ago and wasn't able to even create a wallet 🙃

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Hanshan15d ago

skill problem

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TheDarrenator15d ago

Time for me to go to bed now, but I checked and now it's only 2.7 months. Speeding along!

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Eede3d9…79538215d ago

SSD or RIP

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TheDarrenator14d ago

Maybe the computer is really bad at guestimating at first. Right now it's saying 4.7 *days* left. That sounds a lot better. I wonder if my archaic machine will earn anything once it's working with P2pool. I don't have any expectations, but it's worth the experience of seeing how it works. I have and use Monero. I've just never tried to mine it or download the whole blockchain.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

Nah, I've done quite a lot of installs of various tools and am most comfortable at the comnand line. It was stupid and didn't work. It was on a spare rpi running ubuntu.

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Hanshan15d ago

bro a drooling idiot can install a Monero wallet stop

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

Miner. I'm talking about a miner.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

...what's one-level beneath a 'drooling idiot', then? 😉 I'll update my bio. ✌

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Daedalus15d ago

Dude the CLI wallet walks you through it, it has you name a wallet when it can't find one the first thing after running monero-wallet-cli. You are lying.

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Hanshan15d ago

for contrast, I have a 15 yr old laptop that took 6 days to download and confirm the chain.

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TheDarrenator15d ago

Hmm... I don't know exactly, but it came with Windows 7. It's running MX Linux now.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

No, I'm not lying. I might be dumb...but I'm not a liar. When I tried the install of the miner it asked me to enter my wallet adress but I didn't have one. Tried to figure out how to go get one and I couldn't figure it out. Comparatively speaking, running a full bitcoin node was much, much simpler (at least for me).

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Daedalus15d ago

Huh you ran a miner like XMRig and wondered why you didn't have a wallet? Did you even run a wallet software like the CLI or GUI wallet? I thought you were experienced in command line stuff. Please go to the GitHub https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui and download the binaries. Make sure to verify the GPG signature (you know command line stuff that should be easy for you). You can them run either the GUI by running the monero-gui binary or the CLI by running the monero-wallet-cli binary. Both of these will automatically run the monerod binary which is the node. If you have run a Bitcoin node in the past then you will be familiar with this since bitcoind is the equivalent binary for the Bitcoin node.

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Hanshan15d ago

pretty unclear what happened here... tried to run something, maybe just XMRig and it wanted a wallet address for the payouts. but the response of "running a bitcoin node is easier" is weird maybe try just running a node...?

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg15d ago

I think I also ran into complications due to the RPi 4's architecture. Maybe I was following bad instructions. I don't know. At the end of the day, on this hardware, the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze anyway. I'm sure "where there's a will, there's a way," and that's where things broke down for me... ...I mean this in a sportsman-like, friendly-competition way, not a snarky-jerk way: I ended up fixing it with ```fd --base-directory / monero -x rm -rf``` :wink: ✌

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Hanshan15d ago

if you were trying to mine on an Rpi I'm not surprised. but you can easily run a wallet, and probably a node as well

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