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This article determines the mining conversion efficiency in terms of USD (earned) per Watt input power. Based on this the return on investment for different Monero mining hardware configurations over a livetime of 5 years is calculated. To include a mobile ARM (Snapdragon 660) based mining system the mining software setup on Android is described and the performance of this system is compared to the more standard setups using PC and MAC hardware.
I want to start by telling you that you won't become wealthy by attempting to mine Monero. I would instead like to help you not to lose money trying to mine Monero. You probably found this article because you already learned that you can mine Monero with your CPU and that the underlying proof-of-work algorithm RandomX is designed to repel GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. You might have found this article because you want to get the best hardware for the best return on investment (ROI) when mining Monero.
This article aims to define a sound basis for the ROI calculation and to include uncommon…
