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Questions tagged [hashrate]

the measuring unit of the processing power used to secure the Monero network.

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How much CPU power to mine 1 coin a day?

I have been trying to calculate hashrates but it is a little confusing. I just want to get a general idea. What CPU / GPU would be required to solo mine 1 coin a day?
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Monero private key collision

Assuming a properly working RNG what are the chances of creating a Monero private key that is identical to one created by someone else (it corresponds and controls funds sent to the same XMR address)? How does the above answer compare to the same…
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How decentralized is Monero mining?

How many Monero mining pools currently exist? Are there any P2P pools? What percentage of the hashrate does the largest pool control? Is there a pie chart available that shows the the share of all major pools? Is there a website that tracks real…
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At what stage is the Monero mining race at right now?

It does beg the question, what hardware would has the best cost/benefit ratio right now? Are low end GPUs best to mine with, or are racks of cheap power efficient CPU motherboards the flavour right now. Where does mining stand right now WRT…
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How much money would be required to cloud mine 51% of the network hash rate?

Cloud mining is generally a very expensive way to mine over the long run. However if the goal was to mine only for one day and in attempt to 51% attack a network it might be cheaper than purchasing equipment. Approximately how much money would be…
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Hashrate correlation by time of day

Looking at historical Monero hash rate data it appears as if the hashrate is often the highest near 0:00 GMT and lowest near 12:00 GMT What credible explanations are there for this pattern? What reason would (a small percentage of) miners have to…
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Resource to see mining distribution

I always check the health of a cryptocurrency by looking at its hash rate distribution. Where can I see that information for Monero?
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Can any CryptoNote coins be merge mined?

Do any CryptoNote coins support merged mining? If so which coins can be merged mined about how would merge mining affect my hashrate?
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Hash rate required to effectively mine an average of 1 block a day?

What is the hash rate required to solo mine an average of 1 Monero Block per day using the current network stats?
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ccminer-cryptonight reports insanely high hashrate on nvidia gpu

I decided today to give Monero mining a try. First I tried mining with my CPU using wolf9466/cpuminer-multi and I get about 120H/s which I think is fair for three threads on my AMD CPU. Then I tried the tsiv/ccminer-cryptonight fork on a spare…
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How is the block hash encoded?

How to compute block difficulty from a hash of that block? In Bitcoin, I can see that block hash starts with a lot of zeros, but in Monero I don't understand how uniqueness of new block in represented in the hash value. I've read the specification…
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Why does my pool say my hashrate is lower than what my computer reports locally?

My pool always seems to think I have a much lower hashrate than what I see locally. The only thing I can think of is that my pool moves onto the next block before my computer submits hashes, but my ping time is just 83 ms and my connection log shows…
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What is a mining round?

I was reading Claymore's GPU miner thread and saw this, "current developer fee is 2.5%, miner mines 39 rounds for you and 1 round for developer." What is a mining round?
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After major coin issuance, what must the minimum XMR price be to incentivize network security?

I'm curious about the tail emission and transaction fees after major coin issuance. What is the minimum value that 1 XMR must sustain as an incentive for miners to continue maintaining network security?
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How to achieve uniform hash rate

I am trying to learn about mining and am using xmr-stak-cpu on Ubuntu 17.10 to mine with an AMD a10 6800k processor. I haven't seen a single time my miner reporting 100H/s but the stats of my miner on the pool say I have been at that rate for some…
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