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 Does it make any sense to cpu mine monero on my iMac?
Any recommendations on pools and software? Many thanks!

this is btc only section  I asked mods to move this

thank you for that, I thought I was posting under the mining alt coin section!!

You can use xmrig for the mac its available on github.  Google search it.   Or this is what i used: https://github.com/XMRigCC/xmrig


What is bad is the graphics card ive not been able to make mine...i have a physically damaged one with cracked monitor and bent up case...computer still works great...just use it to mine xmr as insurance covered the damage and just said to junk it.  

It depends on the type of CPU you are running, if you are using ryzen cpu or core i9 cpu then it will make sense to mine Monero, don't bother mining on less powerful CPU because it won't worth your time and energy, XMRig is the best Monero miner I know

Macs only have intel cpu or the newest have apple designed arm processors.  ive not tested the m1 and dont plan too....there are no amd processors in any macs.

is a 2,3 GHz dual Intel Core i5

Also downloaded the core wallet on this mac and seems to be synching for ever...

pennies a day.

Lol  ;D ;D don't even bother mining with that CPU, you won't be able to get away with good cents per day, sell the complete mac if you have interest in mining and add some money to buy standard mining rig or keep the pc and get gpu to mine with it

Got 2 imacs in my office and was thinking about doing it main reason not so much to make serious money out of it more to support their network because i like the monero as coin and concept, many thanks!

maybe thats the way to go about this, do you have any recommendations for monero rig?? no need to sell my imacs can buy the rig anyway!!
thank you!

My recommendation is get a pc with an amd 3900 cpu and an amd 5600 or 5700  gpu.

Mine monero with the  and eth with the gpu.


I have 7 pc's with amd gpu and amd cpu.

the rig below earns about 3 or 4 usd a day and burns about 225 watts or 5.6 kwatts a day

0-sylXAMfCrVC-EAv-JxEZLw   DAGGERHASHIMOTO   0.25   43.71 MH/s   3.58 MH/s   0.00010080   0.00001072   1344 min   EU   Yes
0-sylXAMfCrVC-EAv-JxEZLw   RANDOMXMONERO   800.11 k   8.00 kH/s   0.00 kH/s   0.00003086   0.00000413   742 min   EU   Yes


let me show you a photo of it.

  Would love to learn more Phil !!!
Much respect!!!

CPU mining doesn't scale like GPU mining. There are no "CPU rigs", just PCs with a CPU.

Apple MACs aren't the best choice but if that's what you got you can do it. Monero uses RandomX algorithm,
there are a couple of CPU miners that support it on Apple. I don't have any MACs so I can't recommend any.

Lol, there are CPU mining rigs mate, RandomX Algorithm is very CPU friendly than graphics card but the problem is the CPUs are too costly but I have friends that use Desktop servers with 8 cores or more to mine XMR using randomX algorithm and it's damn profitable

@ op sorry for delay I made a video for you

I show 3 rigs in it.

threadripper 3960 and amd 5700xt  400 watts 5.05 usd rig  will cost over 2100 to build

thread ripper 3970 and amd 5500xt 350 watts 4.29 usd rig will cost over 2600 to build

ryzen 3900 and amd 5700xt  350 watts earns  4.82 usd rig will cost over 1400 to build



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ9tg45C0DE&feature=youtu.be

Many thanks for this one Phill, much appreciated!!!

Hi Phill, a AMD Threadripper 3960 costs 1472$ and a RX5700XT right now is 600$+, what about other things like motherboard, powersupply, hdd or pendrive etc? If you get this card RX5700XT at more cheaper price please kindly show me where to get them

those rigs were built in the spring.

I got good prices then.

I could get 5700:cards at 350

forget that now.

I live in New Jersey Howell.

it is 67 miles south of Patterson New Jersey.

microcenter is there.

The mobo and the 3970 were 2300 combo
The mobo and the 3960 were 1700 combo.

patterson is a poor town so NJ has a tax break sales tax is 3.5 vs 7.0 %

and the microcenter has. 5% off cc.

so net -1.5%

thus the one mobo/cpu is  2300- 35 = 2265
the other is 1700-26=1674

those deals are not happening any more.

the 5700 i got as low as 350
the 5600 i got as low as 250
the 5500 i got as low as 200

those deals are not happening now.

the psu i had eight corsair 1500 purchased in dec 2017 really cheap refurbs. 250 each.

the only good psu deal right now is the 850 watt seasonic focus for 139.99 at best buy.

i pay 7% tax and get a 14% discount which nets to -10

so i get focus 850 watts for 130

Very useful stuff and much respect to mine guru Phill!!!

will get on it and start playing building rigs and post updates!!!