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MrCollinsGAif I have multiple headless local to me baremetal ubuntu machines, is it best to use an online wallet?
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MrCollinsGAhow do I run monerod in the background so I can begin mining?
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MrCollinsGAI just have a pile of messages like this just scrolling: 2022-02-23 13:10:22.749 I Synced 1xxxxx/2xxxxxx (6%, 2xxxxxx left)
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MrCollinsGAdo I need multiple wallets or just one if I have multiple machines? can I mine with xmrig AND have monerod running on the same machine?
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tiduxlol that's the initial sync, you have to wait for it to finish
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tiduxif you're running on HDD expect it to take at least a full day even if you're not network bottlenecked
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moneromooo--detach to run in the background. That won't allow you to mine though.
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moneromooo(with monerod anyway: with a pool, you rely on the info sent by the pool)
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moneromoooYou can run xmrig and monerod on the same machine if you have the RAM.
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moneromoooYou can use the same wallet on multiple machines, but if you don't have a shared amount, info stored by one machine will not be available to others (such as secret tx keys).
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moneromooos/shared amount/shared mount/