How does Tari Universe work under the hood?

[stringhandler]

What is it doing and how is it different from running Tari Launchpad or running the Tari suite manually?

[stringhandler]

Tari Universe aims to remove all the set up and configuration involved in mining Tari.

The basic flow is this:

• TU (Tari Universe) starts up
• TU checks for updates
• TU checks for latest versions of:
  • xmrig - The most common and efficient Randomx miner
  • xtrgpuminer - Currently the most efficient GPU based sha3x miner
  • minotari_node - Tari base layer node
  • minotari_mmproxy - Tari base layer application that connects xmrig to minotari_node
  • minotari_console_wallet - Tari's base layer wallet
  • shap2pool - A p2pool implementation for Tari
• TU starts up the node, mmproxy and wallet and connects them to each other.
• TU waits for the node to synchronize with the network
• TU optionally starts p2pool depending on settings (Still in development at the time of writing)
• TU starts up xmrig and connects it to the local instance. At this point TU is mining both Monero and Tari
• TU starts up xtrgpuminer and mines Tari on the GPU

[Mecanik]

Thanks for the explanation. However, how do you mine solo? Even if I turn off P2P Pool it still mines in a pool. Also, why does it do merge mining? why can't you just mine tari?

And finally, the most important question - what's the difference between wallets create with universe and suite? For example, I downloaded suite and created a wallet. This wallet is not accepted anywhere, not even in universe when I try to send XTM.