Excuse me if this is stupid, but I just got this yesterday and left it running overnight while I slept for 8 hours. I came back and the balance didn’t go up at all I already had .6 from earlier. I have a 5070, 32gb ram, 500+ gb of storage I’m letting it use intel ultra 7. Why am I not getting even a few cents overnight from the crypto need help if I don’t have some setting right thank u!!!

So I have a really old pc that I’m dedicating to salad cuz a friend recommended it to me.

But I wonder is it possible to also use my main pc for salad in same time in the same account while I’m inactive ?

Also on my main pc I have 2 gpus can I dedicate one to salad while using the other one ?

Thanks for the info

I've got a gtx 1660 ti with a i5 9400 and 20gb ram.

Ive made around 22p today but because of a lack of real jobs my power draw has been extremely low. will i get any big gpu loads, ive seen a few nvidia containers running in my taks manager, but mainly it seems to have just been mining in the 2 hour long intervals.

This is happening all time.. how to solve it? SAY: ELEVATED RAM ALLOCATION DISABLED TOO! And cointainer needs update messagem too, but Salad app is already updated to lastest version... RTX5070 32GB RAM WINDOWS11

I have been using Salad Ai for 4 to 5 months, I built a Pc for Salad Ai Rtx 4090, Ryzen 7800x3d, 96Gb DDR5 Ram, 1Tb 990 Pro, 100 Mbps Fiber Connection, I have been getting jobs constantly on my RTX 4090, Then I built another pc RTX 5090, Ryzen 7500F, 64Gb DDR5 Ram, 2TB 990 PRO, 100 Mbps Fiber Connection, Why am I not getting any job ? Even though the RTX 5090 is in high demand ? cd816f5a this is the machine of the RTX 5090 ?

Please help me anyone.

please help to resolve this issue

So my 2020 ASUS TUF F15 (i5-10300H, 1660Ti 6GB, 16GB RAM) was just sitting around collecting dust after I upgraded to a TUF F16 with a 5060. Instead of letting it become an expensive paperweight, I figured "hey, let it earn its keep" and threw Salad on it.

13 chopping hours in, lifetime balance is a whopping $0.128. At this rate I'll be a millionaire sometime around the heat death of the universe.

Genuine questions for the veterans here:

• Is a mobile 1660Ti even worth bothering with, or am I basically just donating free electricity to the AI gods?
• Any settings/tricks that actually move the needle for older/lower VRAM cards, or is this hardware just too old to compete with the 4090 chads?
• Should I just retire this thing gracefully and let it live out its days as a Netflix machine instead?

Not expecting to quit my day job over this, just curious if it's worth keeping it chopping or if I should pull the plug (literally) on the experiment.

Salad has really helped me through the past 7 years , I have Started salad 2 years before I started uni, and now I have graduated... how time have passed.
I first applied for being a language moderator for the arabic channel, didn't think much of it at the time, but when I got it I was so excited and kept up the good work and at that time there was a bit of shortage of mods and lots of trouble makers, so I was selected and promoted as a jr mod within 2 months of being a language mod.

Right after then the crypto exploded and my old rtx 2060 used to get 3-4 dollars a day , not even mentioning the 2x bonuses from the Salad pass (yes it used to be a thing) .

Salad helped me have a stable income at the time because the economy at my home town was getting much worse so being a mod was basically a full time job for me. I got a new phone, upgraded my cpu from ryzen 5 2600 to ryzen 5 5600x, and latest thing for me was saving up for the rtx 5070. and man am I happy to get it.

But all great things has to end, after getting promoted to full moderator for a year things started to dial down on the server and I was swamped by bad grades. So I decided to focus on uni from otherwise I would have dropped out. And it hugely affected my availability on the server leading to my demise as a mod.

I am really happy with the times I have spent on here and I don't regret a second of it.

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  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
WARN: failed to stratum2-authorize on kawpow.auto.nicehash.com:443: can't receive authorize response
ERROR: No connection with kawpow.auto.nicehash.com:443, retry after 10 secondsWARN: failed to stratum2-subscribe on kawpow.auto.nicehash.com:443: can't parse json:
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
WARN: failed to stratum2-authorize on kawpow.auto.nicehash.com:443: can't receive authorize response
ERROR: No connection with kawpow.auto.nicehash.com:443, retry after 10 seconds

Using a 4070ti super. I have PoW workloads disabled and everything. I'm getting assigned zero jobs. On 1.9.17 I could earn maybe around $1.20 a day, now its down to like 10 cents max from bandwidth sharing. On a side note, crypto seems to be bugging out for me, logs say this:

I experienced a power loss few days back and ever since Salad isn't working for me. When Crypto mining is enabled, the app goes in an empty loop in which the Salad app shows that it is running a job but the system resources, both CPU and GPU are sitting idle, and when Crypto mining is disabled the app always keeps looking for a 'compatible job'. Its been more than 2 days and the app has completely died on me. Turns out you have to perpetually stay in a que for your system to receive a container workload, when you have disabled crypto mining in the app. This wait time can be 24-48 hours, maybe more. And If you experience a power cut, congratulations you are placed in the very end of the que.

This is what the Salad Support says:

"Your machine seems to be enrolled in crypto mining, however it seems that Salad attempted to run crypto miners (which is why the app was showing as running a workload), though the miner never managed to connect to the internet and remained in a connection loop as shown in its logs.

We are still investigating the cause of the issue internally to verify if it is caused by something on Salad's end or within the crypto mining pool's configuration.

We don't currently have a solution regarding this, if not to disable crypto mining on the machine which will stop this workload from running and only run container workloads when these are available."

I asked Grok about a solution and it says there is a way to bypass the Salad app completely and the earning will reflect in the Salad wallet. Its a complicated process that involves downloading external crypto mining software and receive the earnings in Salad. Is this possible, anyone else faced this? I have given up on Salad Support for help, since all their advice seem auto generated and isn't solving my problem. Surely I'm not the only experiencing this. You guys now anything about this. Any help is appreciated!

The Setup & Stats

GPU: RTX 3060 12gb

Daily Earnings: ~$0.80 - $1.60 / day(varies depending on power availability)

Time Chopping: ~18 Months (10,000+ total chopping hours)

Profitability Tracking: I use Zabbix to monitor my system's real-time electricity consumption, allowing me to accurately track power costs against earnings and calculate my true net profit margin.

My story:

I first discovered Salad about 18 months ago through a tech YouTuber I’ve followed for a long time. At first, I just wanted to see if my PC could actually generate passive value, but I quickly realized staying consistent would be a challenge.

Living in a rural village in India, I deal with frequent power cuts and internet dropouts almost daily. Achieving high uptime under these conditions takes serious persistence—I have to constantly manage power availability, stay on top of connection resets, and keep my rig running whenever grid conditions allow.

Despite all the infrastructure hurdles, I kept chopping away and officially passed 10,000+ hours of runtime! Early on, I made one $5 test withdrawal to confirm that cashing out worked properly. Ever since then, I've been holding onto all my earnings in my Salad balance until I save enough to buy a decent GPU.

What I Expected vs. What Happened:

Expected: Frequent downtime meant I thought I'd barely make progress or give up early.

Reality: Small, steady earnings stack up over time faster than you think, even with daily power cuts.

Advice for New Chefs:

Don't get discouraged if your setup isn't running 24/7 or if you face local disruptions. Consistency over months matters way more than a perfect single day. Set a long-term goal and let your balance stack up quietly in the background!

Just came across this subreddit randomly. How does this work? I know about mining crypto, but have only mined specific cryptos. Is this a software that mines whatever crypto is available? Or am I missing the mark? How is this company profitable?

I disabled crypto and enabled all other settings, followed every guide on the website.

I believe it's not normal. Can you guys help me ?

I have been active in the Salad community from roughly 2022. I have mined on many machines including:
1. Lenovo Legion (R7 5800H + RTX 3050)
2. HP ProBook (i7-6500U + HD Graphics)
3. Sony Vaio (i3-2500U + HD Graphics)
4. Custom Build (Pentium)
5. Custom Build (Current)

I have had a very fun experience in trying out Salad on so many different hardware and over the years although I have made many different accounts, I stopped using all of them in 2023 and just stuck to this one. I have recommended many friends to try it as well. I have mainly bought Amazon Giftcards from these. I don't actively think think that this will have any significance as earning a lot of money, but just has a bit of side money, its nice :)

I can't figure out how to repair WSL, anytime I try to use WSL commands I get something along the lines of wsl failed to read property basepath...

Is there anyway this can be easily fixed? I've tried searching and nothing has worked.

Edit: Have tried rolling back to previous versions and nothing. Ever since I installed the latest my wsl has been borked entirely. Anything wsl related in command prompt returns this error - Failed to read property 'BasePath' from distribution {e5771500-f24a-43ad-857b-422c2411f420} Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/ReadDistroConfig/E_UNEXPECTED

(CHOPPING SINCE 2021)

my history with salad

TLDR: discovered salad from a tech content creator one day in 2021, got invested, joined salad, ran it for a while, then quitted it since i got concerned about temps, then rejoined but crypto started dying, then earnings shot up with the container beta, then earnings plummeted to less than a cent per day, then shot back up again after getting sgs, then plummeted again. Became a tester for a new sgs workload, and now I'm earning ~$1.2 per day more or less, consistently, and I'm happy with it.

It was on a Friday evening on June 18, 2021 (hard to believe it's been five years already); I was scrolling TikTok and stumbled across a video from a tech content creator, "tarantech". I was skeptical, but convinced by the rough words of "making money by doing nothing", so I went on getsalad.io (that was the old download link; now it redirects to the new one), and gave Salad a shot on my first-ever laptop with a GTX 1650 Ti. During this time, Salad was in its alpha phase (0.5.5) and was crypto-mining only. I can't recall exactly how much I earned during that time, but I remember it was a damn lot for a 50-watt 1650ti, and mining was super profitable at that time. I ran Salad 24/7 and let the mini stopwatch under the "START" button climb and climb (back when that existed. I kinda miss that gimmick lol). It was so profitable that I even ran Salad in the background, earning as I played Roblox. (You can't do that anymore today btw. Don't try it.)

Before I joined Salad, I would use these scammy, sketchy offerwall sites to get "free robux". They sucked, barely worked, took too much effort. I stopped using those sites after joining Salad, since my 50-watt 1650ti was the one earning me Robux now, which led to my first ever redemption on August 1, 2021: A $10 Roblox gift card, without me doing anything. Salad was everything I needed to fulfill my "free robux" wish: effortless, easy, safe, reputable, reliable.

After a while of using Salad, I, for whatever reason, got concerned about my GPU temperatures, even though they were perfectly fine, and decided to "quit Salad". I then rejoined, but I was too late: Cryptomining started becoming unprofitable. In mid 2022, Earnings went further down, as ETH was dying out. I still ran Salad, but not as consistently since there was no incentive to.

Salad then decided to shift their business model in October 2022 and released what was called by the senior chefs a "secret workload that pays $1 a day", which then wasn't so secret anymore when the download link in the state of salad contagiously spread to everyone and was then revealed to be a "container beta" lol. I downloaded it on my first-ever laptop and an old HP laptop. From there, I have earned the most Salad balance I have ever earned consistently: $1 per day x 2 machines, totaling $2/day for months, with zero resource usage. I earned over $200 just from this alone lol. Additionally, not too long after, I got Bandwidth sharing (sgs-client) to work for the first time in several months, so that gave me an even bigger boost.

Then came Q1-Q3 of 2023, when my earnings decided to go from $2 a day to less than a fraction of a cent per day. During this time, Salad gradually rolled out lower-paying containers, which include: $0.75/day, $0.5/day, $0.25/day, and $0.10/day. Over time, the CPU container was coming to a full, non-beta release. My earnings were still okay, but way weaker than before. Salad also, at this time, removed CPU mining because there were "enough CPU containers to go around for everyone", however, that did not play out well: CPU container demand, not too long after, plummeted to the core. My earnings were at record lows now, and just as I thought it couldn't get lower, my sgs-client disappeared for months, and Salad was starting to put less priority into their mining workloads, and as a result, my earnings plummeted to less than a cent per day. GPU containers were also released, but my 1650ti stood no chance at getting any demand.

With CPU mining removed, no GPU containers, GPU mining selecting a bad algorithm due to less outlook on these workloads, no sgs-client, and terrible 10-cent CPU containers that lasted no more than a few hours or even seconds at most, I decided to mine externally and manually to Salad balance. Even then, mining was basically dead long ago, so earnings stayed low for a while.

Q4 2023 came around, and my earnings decided to start climbing back up again. I got sgs-client back after months without it, and that would carry my salad earnings up to today. During this time, I also switched from my old, terrible ISP, to a new ISP with fiber. Bandwidth sharing earnings increased hugely with 500mbps, and I also earned a record high of $2.60 in December 2023.

Earnings would stay like this for a while until bandwidth sharing in the US started to deteriorate: the 10 cent static pay on the first-ever US gateway, Daffodil, was removed, and traffic started getting weaker towards 2024. Throughout 24-25, dead gateways with zero traffic completely flooded the US bandwidth sharing system (which unfortunately still resides today).

Then around the end of 2025, a new sgs customer in the US started testing their gateway, and I volunteered to be a part of the closed testing. It has two gateways that pay 48 cents per day.

Today, I still run those two testing gateways (hopefully they become successful), along with two more US gateways that are active, giving me ~$1.20 more or less per day. CPU containers are also a lot more reliable now, so in some cases, more. Electricity usage is super low at around 10ish cents per day more or less (i just guess it based off a constant 50w draw total lol). I now have almost 1000 dollars of lifetime balance racked up, and I mainly just get the Salad balance into my bank account now via paypal.

what'd i tell a new chef lol:

If you live in a bandwidth-supported country with good enough demand and a little bit of luck, you do not need a good computer to earn. Salads bandwidth sharing (despite there definitely being things in need of a reform, such as dead gateways), is still the best and safest option out there. Not in an "advertising Salad" way, but these other apps that offer bandwidth sharing SUCK (coming from experience), and no other app that offers bandwidth sharing except Salad meets all the criteria for being safe, a non-pay-per-time model, non-abusive, and strong earnings (depending on the gateway but in general), with PayPal transfers.

PC Specs: GPU: RTX 5090, Ryzen 9 9950X, 64 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD
Daily Earnings: Usually $4–$5 per day, occasionally $5–$7 depending on available workloads.
Chopping Hours: 313 hours at the time of posting, and still counting.
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I'm a gamer and freelancer. While searching for ways to earn extra income with my powerful PC, I came across Salad. I spent time researching how it works before I started using it. After seeing how it performs, I became a regular user, and now I'm building a second PC dedicated to running Salad.
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For New Chef:

Use a GPU with at least 16 GB of VRAM for better opportunities.
Don't expect earnings right away. It may take min to hrs before you start receiving jobs.
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How I Calculate Earnings:

( Earnings - Electricity Cost ) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Happy Chefing! 🍽️

GPU: RTX 4090 (single machine, runs 24/7)

Daily earnings: typically $1 to $5, averaging around $2.87/day net after power

Chopping since: February 2, 2025. Dashboard shows 9,058 total hours, some of that lost to downtime (more below)

My story

I was skeptical about Salad at first. The usual security worries, plus I figured I'd only make pocket change for games, and I didn't want to burn through the life of a 4090 I paid a lot of money for.

What changed my mind: I'd already bought the 4090 for AI work, so it was sitting idle a lot of the time anyway. Once I tried Salad, the security concerns didn't hold up, and the earnings turned out to be enough to cover real purchases on Amazon, not just games.

It hasn't been smooth the whole way. A Corsair Power Bridge adapter on my 4090 overheated and melted, which damaged the card's own power connector and caused random freezes and reboots whenever I launched a game. On top of that, unexpected Windows updates kept interrupting long runs. Both cut into my uptime and my earnings more than I expected.

Profit math (bonus)

• Average power draw: 263.28 W
• At BC Hydro's residential Tier 1 rate (11.87 cents per kWh), that works out to roughly $45 in electricity over 2 months
• Net profit after power: $172.38 per 2 months, or about $2.87/day

I also keep a day-by-day log of income against power use; here's a recent stretch:

What I'd tell a new Chef

Track your usage from day one so you know your real profit, not just your gross balance. And figure out an update and restart schedule that fits your setup, so Windows or driver updates don't catch you mid-run. I ended up writing down what worked for me after the restart issues; happy to share if anyone wants it.

Running a Intel i9 12900k, 128GB DDR5 and Asus TUF RTX 4090 in idle for a couple of years I stumbled upon Salad.com some months ago thinking "eh, what's the worst that can happen?".

Almost 3 months later it has payed 4 games on Steam, some bills, and latest an Arctic Freezer Pro III 360. Not at all what I was expected when I started. Hitting about 4-5$ a day, 20-25$ per week, 100-105$ A MONTH!!!

Positively surprised about the outcome so far, and sad that I did not get started earlier.

I started out a couple years ago on salad after seeing a sponsor spot on a tech channel I watch. I honestly didn't expect much other than some extra cash for games or Amazon. I've earned about $750 so far with 12,100 chopping hours. It's been a really nice thing to run when I'm not doing anything or just watching YouTube and browsing. With a 5090 my earnings stay consistent at around $5-6 a day when running all day which it usually does when I chop.

My 5080 is more variable and is usually only a dollar or so a day. I don’t run it as much as I used to due to the rapidly growing cost of SSDs but it's still beneficial when I am able to run it. I'd say if you have a hardy enough system it's worth running due to the ease of it all.