Using XMrig as the mining software. You can mine either Monero, or Wownero which is the meme fork of Monero. There are some other smaller coins that you can still CPU mine as well, but I don't mess with them. I am an $XMR kinda guy.
Budget. Got this one for $325 on ebay. Was intending to buy the first version 1 of the miner I currently have, but found out that eBay will not let you pay for a 'virtual currency' miner with a gift card. So I said jokes on you, I can mine monero with a regular computer, lol. I went with the Mac mini M2 over a mini pc with a light weight ryzen chip is that it get better CPU power on way less power. Only takes up like 30W max. Perfect for my solar rig. Also, Macs hold their resell values extremely well, so if it doesn't work out for mining, then I have a Mac I can resell for probably more than I bought it for.
EDIT: Or I can use it for a drone flight simulator and a full monero node, lol.
Using XMrig as the mining software. You can mine either Monero, or Wownero which is the meme fork of Monero. There are some other smaller coins that you can still CPU mine as well, but I don't mess with them. I am an $XMR kinda guy.
why did you not go with the new mac mini m4?
Budget. Got this one for $325 on ebay. Was intending to buy the first version 1 of the miner I currently have, but found out that eBay will not let you pay for a 'virtual currency' miner with a gift card. So I said jokes on you, I can mine monero with a regular computer, lol. I went with the Mac mini M2 over a mini pc with a light weight ryzen chip is that it get better CPU power on way less power. Only takes up like 30W max. Perfect for my solar rig. Also, Macs hold their resell values extremely well, so if it doesn't work out for mining, then I have a Mac I can resell for probably more than I bought it for.
EDIT: Or I can use it for a drone flight simulator and a full monero node, lol.
let me know. I have an extra m4 mac mini sitting around.
Throw XMrig on it and let it just mine you some Monero! Would actually be interested to know the hashrate you would get on it.