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You probably can skip spending money on cases and build your rigs in a wire shelf or milk crakes or cardboard boxes or something

3900(x)'s are typically the best value for mining monero, occasionally 3600(x)'s or 3950x. The rest of the system can be built for almost as cheap as you can get except for some exceptions. Good ram (samsung b-die is popular) can be worth searching ebay for, especially with the higher end cpus since it will impact a larger hashrate. Be careful going too cheap with the motherboard, some motherboards perform quite a bit worse or don't have quality components to support the high power cpu's and will break (speaking from several instances of experience). You may want to invest in more efficient power supplies like gold rated to save on electric. You can use a flash drive for storage as it doesn't impact hashrate.

If you want to generate heat, go for higher voltage overclocks (you will need larger coolers to disperse the heat).

Was into mining and saw Monero on the charts, but thought it was just some random coin until I saw videos about it (probably Mental Outlaw as well)

Sorry for the bad formatting, I was on mobile. But yeah, they all list reasons like "Crypto bullshit" or something so 🤷. Just interesting to see that so many instances have gone out of their way to block us.

Might as well use reddit if you cant see a little (if not a lot) of benefit to using something decentralized over its centralized counterpart.

The anonymous aspect and lack of fees/operation should be self explanatory.

I think you forgot that the alternative is to support a different douche-ey billionaire and subscribe yourself to 5x more expensive climate killing big oil?

Out of curiosity, what do you think LMG should do differently? I think the sponsor jokes are not appropriate but I'm curious what else people have issues with.

imo this is an extreme reaction when the story has barely matured and we dont know whats true. I feel like the reactions by people at lmg have been decent so far, but time will tell what becomes of it. hopefully for everyones sake they fix their problems like they seem to be on track to doing.

You'd save a lot of time and monero by switching to p2pool sooner rather than later, highly recommend

adding p2pool block hash and something signed by private spend key to the block requirements should accomplish this? whether or not its a good idea is another thing

(giving more options)

You might want to consider hosting your own vpn, should make port forwarding a lot easier since you can use whatever port you want. I2P might be an option too.

-Happy Mullvad customer but I dont need to port forward

Might post pictures when its all done if anyone is interested, bought a cute little 5 tier shelf for the 5 machines since they're sitting in my room right now.