Monero Mining

P2Pool is a decentralized service to mine Monero. It works by making users attach the p2pool software to their existing Monero nodes, and mining through the port provided by the p2pool daemon.

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For this tutorial i chose P2Pool, because it has the most benefits to it. To run P2Pool, you need to already have your own Monero node. P2Pool requires the exposure of a ZMQ interface. Add the following to /etc/monerod.conf:

# P2Pool config
zmq-pub=tcp://127.0.0.1:18083                <-- If this port is already being used, change it to a different port
disable-dns-checkpoints=1
enable-dns.blocklist=1

With /etc/monerod.conf edited correctly, simply restart the Monero daemon:

rc-service restart monerod

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Open necessary ports:

ufw allow 3333           <-- Stratum-Port für Miner
ufw allow 37889          <-- Hauptport für P2Pool

With the Monero User created in the monero:node guide, we are going to install the latest p2pool binaries (you can copy/paste this into your terminal):

baseurl="https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases"
ver=$(basename "$(curl -w "%{url_effective}\n" -I -L -s -S $baseurl/latest -o /dev/null)")

arch=$(uname -m)
case $arch in
    x86_64)
        arch="x64"
        ;;
    aarch64)
        arch="aarch64"
        ;;
    *)
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

curl -fLO "https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases/download/$ver/p2pool-$ver-linux-$arch.tar.gz"
tar xvf p2pool*

Create a directory for p2pool in /opt/ and place the binary in there:

mkdir -p /opt/p2pool
mv p2pool*/p2pool /opt/p2pool
cd /opt/p2pool

Give the Monero User the rights and begin synchronizing the p2pool side-chain (needs a little less than half an hour):

chown -R monero:monero /opt/p2pool
/opt/p2pool/p2pool --host 127.0.0.1 --wallet your_monero_wallet_address

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Create a new Service file /etc/init.d/p2pool:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/p2pool

Put this in, or structure it yourself:

#!/sbin/openrc-run

# P2POOL SERVICE
command="/opt/p2pool/p2pool"
command_args="--loglevel 0 --host 127.0.0.1 --wallet your_monero_wallet_address &"
pidfile="/run/p2pool.pid"

# XMRIG SERVICE
start_post() {
    nohup xmrig \
        -o 127.0.0.1:3333 \
        --donate-level=0 \
        --keepalive \
        --tls \
        --rig-id=your_xmrig_name
}

Add to runlevel:

rc-service add p2pool default