Headless
Mine on a homelab or server
Most homelab CPUs idle most of the time. pasivd turns that into Monero without a desktop, a browser, or a wallet on the box.
sudo pasivd claim
sudo systemctl enable --now pasivd
claim prints a six-character code; you approve it in the Pasiv phone app and the node joins your fleet. Nothing mines until you do that, and nothing mines until a payout address exists on your account.
Built to be a good neighbour
- It yields. The unit runs at
Nice=19with low CPU and IO weight, so anything else on the box wins. Mining is what happens with the leftovers. - It's sandboxed.
DynamicUser,ProtectSystem=strict,ProtectHome,NoNewPrivileges— it cannot touch your system. - It checks itself. The installer verifies a SHA-256 before installing, and the miner binary is re-verified against a pinned hash on every start.
- It's non-custodial. The pool pays your address. No keys on the server.
Is it worth it?
Honestly: one box earns cents a day. A rack of idle machines is a different conversation, and that is the case this was built for. Put your real hashrate into the calculator and check it against your power price before you commit — we would rather you did that sum now than feel misled later.
Remote control is deliberately limited to start and stop. Nothing remote can change which coin a node mines, its pool, or its payout address.