Requirements

before diving into mining, it’s essential to make sure your system meets a few basic requirements — but don’t worry signum makes it easier than most blockchains one of the great things about signum is that it doesn’t require expensive hardware or high power consumption – just some storage space and a stable system 🔧 minimum requirements operating system windows, linux, or macos hard drive space at least 500 gb recommended (more space = higher rewards) cpu any modern processor (signum mining is not cpu intensive) ram minimum 2 gb internet stable connection (doesn’t require high bandwidth, but must stay online) 💡 recommended setup 1 tb+ of available disk space dedicated external hdd or ssd always on machine (e g home server, raspberry pi, or low power pc) ups (uninterruptible power supply) to avoid downtime during power outages ethernet connection instead of wi fi for stable uptime (especially for solo miners) 💾 storage notes hdds are more cost effective per terabyte and work well for plotting ssds can speed up the initial plotting process, but once the plots are created, they can safely be moved to and mined from standard hdds without affecting performance avoid using system drives (e g , c \ on windows) to store plots — a separate drive is better for long term stability ⚡ energy efficiency signum is highly energy efficient since the mining process (called forging ) only briefly scans plot files and doesn’t require constant computation, you can mine 24/7 using just a few watts of power, especially when using low power setups like raspberry pi or mini pcs that means you can mine 24/7 without the noise, heat, or electricity costs associated with traditional crypto mining