oh, no, I hear it John Lemmy is just around the corner!

I mine mostly because I like the technology, and have (already paid for) CPU cycles spare.

ok but that doesn’t explain why you want to do it alone. It’s no worse in a pool

Plus, doing it without a pool is a bit like playing the lottery.

is that an advantage?

I should run a node, and in the “pool” section of the xmrig config, point to localhost?

I assume. I never did that, though and I don’t know mymonero. but if it were me, I would run the official monero gui wallet, as it is trusted by the community, works good enough, and has an embedded monero node. or featherwallet, but that cannot run a node for you.

running a node will require a lot of storage space, though. if storage usage becomes toohigh, you can prune it so that you get back 2/3 of the space

why do you want to do that?

if you really want, you just point xmrig to your local monero node and done, no?

many suspect that CEXs do price fixing