The hardest part of mining your first coin usually isn’t the mining — it’s the setup. Download the right miner for your OS, find a pool URL and port, hand-edit a JSON config, paste your address in the correct field, pick an algorithm, and hope you got it all right.
The Animica pool removes that friction: one command installs the miner, picks the right binary for your OS, connects, and starts hashing.
What makes a pool “easy”
- No manual miner download. The CLI fetches the correct binary for Windows, macOS, or Linux.
- No config file to edit. Settings are command-line flags with sane defaults.
- Sensible share difficulty. You see shares land within seconds, not after hours, so you know it’s working.
- Clear stats. Your hashrate, shares, and balance appear under your address.
Start mining in three steps
1. Install the CLI (needs Python 3.10+):
python3 -m venv ~/animica-venv
source ~/animica-venv/bin/activate # Windows: animica-venv\Scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade "animica>=0.3.13"
2. Start mining Monero:
animica miner dual-mine <your-anim1-address> --only xmr \
--pool-host pool.animica.org --threads 8 --worker myrig
3. Watch your shares on the pool stats page.
That’s the whole setup. No config.json, no port hunting.
Bonus: mine two coins at once
Because Monero’s RandomX is CPU-bound, your cores have headroom to also mine Animica (ANM) on SHA3. Drop the --only xmr flag and the same command dual-mines both 50/50. Take payouts in ANM or XMR.
A note on expectations
No pool can promise profits — earnings track your CPU’s hashrate, network difficulty, the coin’s price, and your power cost. An “easy” pool just gets you to the point where you can measure that for yourself quickly and honestly. Start with a few cores, see your real hashrate, and decide from there.