Monero can be mined on both CPUs and GPUs, but the latter is much less efficient than the former. You can get an idea of how your hardware performs compared to others, using <a href="https://monerobenchmarks.info/">monerobaxmrig.com/benchmark">xmrig benchmarks page</a> (some results might be out of date).
Monero can be mined on both CPUs and GPUs, but the latter is much less efficient than the former. You can get an idea of how your hardware performs compared to others, using <a href="https://xmrig.com/benchmark">xmrig benchmarks page</a> (some results might be out of date).
There are several options when it comes to mining software. As already said, to solo mine, the CLI or GUI wallets can be used (CPU only). If you want to mine to a pool or mine with a GPU, you'll need dedicated software. Miners supporting Monero:
If you have questions or just want to confront with fellow miners, come chat on Monero Pools. On <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-pools:monero.social">Matrix</a> and <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-pools">Libera</a>.
P2Pool is a clever new way of mining Monero, which allows miners to receive the frequent payouts offered by pools without needing to trust a centralized pool. P2Pool is a Peer-To-Peer mining pool that gives miners full control over their Monero node and what it mines. More details in <a href="/2021/10/05/p2pool-released.html">the announcement post</a>.
P2Pool is a sidechain to Monero, and P2Pool blocks are potentially Monero blocks. Each miner submits block templates that include payouts to all of the miners that are mining at the same time (those that currently have shares in the PPLNS window). High quality block templates are added to the P2Pool blockchain as blocks; these count as "shares" for the miner who found them.
