Okay been Mining for 10 Days now, only when there is enough sun. Already earnd 0.0063 Moneros, which i think isnt too bad.

Could it be that P2Pool needs to be restarted on an regular basis? Mined the whole morning not getting a singel share, and the P2Pool Container was running for 24h now. Just restarted it and i saw a share popping in. Coincidence or just luck?

Or at least parts of it. I was able to get the first 0.001 Moneros today only using solar power on P2Pool Mini Sidechain. I am exited.

First of all i am completely new to Monero mining. Why do i want to do it? I have some solar Panels and way too much energy especially over noon which i cannot use, so normally i "donate" that to the electricity company.

Okay so i have monerod and p2pool running on a VPS i rented for my blog etc, so i dont need to run that on my low power 24/7 Intel NUC at home.

I min now with my Laptop which does about 2,4kH/s and with my Gamin PC which does approx. 4,6kH/s.

I see that the miners get new Jobs from p2pool but okay i dont got any share till now (whats a share anyway).

So what i like to know: do i already contribute to the Monero Network right now or is the computing power wasted? What would be a shame.

Second question: I am mining on the mini side chain, do i have an chance to get a revenue with that setup, so with quite low Hashrate under 10kH/s and that also only for approx. 8 hours a day? Or is it simply useless what i am trying to do?

My goal is simply to get a bit of monero out of my computing power to may cover the 2-4€ hosting costs of one of my VServer.

Can anyone give me an idea what the minimum hardware requirements are for letting monerod und P2Pool run on the same machine. The machine should only do the managing part not mining.

What are the importand specs? CPU Speed? Ram site? Storage?

Does it even work on something like an old Cubietruck etc?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Btw really happy finding out that the Monero Community also exists on Lemmy.