Hello Joe, thank you for the feedback. The hardware requirement is minimal as the PIVX PoS does not require any significant CPU resources. It is just a wallet lite client using a bit of your network bandwidth. You could PoS is on a raspberry Pi if you wanted to. The see-saw algorithm determines the balance between stakes an MN and will drop your reward based on this balance and a few other variables. I have done CPU Monero mining myself, just for fun. You could download the Minergate pool client and get started in 5 minutes and 3 clicks ;)