Mostly out of curiosity, I have been mining the Monero crypto-currency on old laptops just to see if it is actually possible to make any-type of profit. In a previous blog I outlined the process I used to setup an old Lenovo ThinkPad X131e and also an HP ProBook 4440s. I was planning on adding a third laptop, yet I am experiencing some hardware issues. Neither of actively mining laptops are overly powerful, but after almost consistently for the past 7 days I have made….. Are you ready for it?
I made a grand total of 0.000605 XMR.
XMR at the time of writing this blog Monero is currently valued at $285.52 CAD.
And not converting those 0.000605 XMR’s to CAD is a Grand Total of $0.17 CAD.
At this point this definitely is not worth it to make it profitable. After 7 days of 2 laptops running at 100% CPU utilization and I only made $0.17, and at this pace after 1 month this would be roughly $0.75 CAD. These laptops also needed to be monitored and maintained to ensure that they were running XMRig (and it hasn’t crashed), and also if they were actually connected to the mining pool.
As shown above, I mostly have issues with the Kali worker (Lenovo ThinkPad X131e) not registered as connected to the mining pool. I’ve noticed that sometimes one worker appears to be offline and after a short period of time eventually recovers. There are also times where XMRig has completely failed on the worker and needs to be restarted, or the last resort a hard reboot. This was pretty inconvenient, and I experienced a failed worked like this almost on a daily basis (so maybe I could have earned a little more). As my original plan was to let this go for a month, there are a few more weeks to go so we will see if things remain the same – which I highly suspect they will.
Stay tuned to see how this exciting journey turns out
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