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.
check out https://mini.p2pool.observer/calculate-share-time and subsequently check out low hashrate miners on the site and see how often theyre being paid out for shares.
take an old computer of about 2kh/s, divide by 24 for 1h a day of mining, and you get ~10 days per share and thus payouts. if you get unlucky and say it takes weeks instead, at least youre not waiting 20 years on centralized pools lol. figured id mention youre just as likely to get extra payouts in the same time frame.
for the last question, refer to my original(?) comment where I mentioned share weight, otherwise I dont understand whats confusing.
Cool, now calculate that and tell me what is the chance of you mining inside the pplns window. Also, what is the share weight when you're outside the window?
what do you mean? when you find a share youre placed at the start of the window.
on p2pool, the "weight" is only relevant while the share is inside the window and on centralized pools is only relevant until the pool finds a block, or only the instant its mined depending on the payout scheme.
not trying to make this thread too long, are you trying to support a larger claim? can dm me if you have more questions.