Nothing useless about securing the network and getting paid for doing so. Running any device via xmrig just adds to the global hashes
Decentralized, localised, cheap, accessible, private, anonymous, peer to peer,
What more do you need?
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How do you actually get it to connect to anything though? Everything I've tried just has the pools reject the connection
I haven't tried it yet!
I'll only be able to do that in a few days time.
There is a xmrig wizard: https://xmrig.com/wizard
what pool are you using? did you set up in accordance with them?
I've tried a few different pools starting with HashVault, tried both the app's built-in presets and the xmrig.com wizard
Couldn't find any further info about how to set up, so not sure about accordance