This guide was originally made for the Online VirtaCoin Community at Reddit( http://www.reddit.com/r/VirtaCoin). Can be

used for any cryptocurrency.

Step 1. Head over to this forum post to download an optimized version of cpuminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0)

that we will be using to mine with.

Step 2. Extract the zip into a folder where you will set it up, I just placed this on my

desktop and called it "VirtaMiner".

Step 3. Head over to a mining pool and sign up using the registration form. Here is a list

of VirtaCoin Mining Pools ( http://www.reddit.com/r/VirtaCoin/wiki/index#wiki_mining_pools)

Step 4. After you have registered you need to create a worker, go to the "My Workers"

page and create a new one with the username "1" and the password "x".

Step 5. This is where it starts to be different for mac and linux users. On Windows, open

up notepad and type the following in, replacing the bits in caps with the corresponding

information.

minerd –url=stratum+tcp://POOL-ADDRESS:PORT

--userpass=USERNAME.WORKERNAME:WORKERPASS

pause

So, for example, if I was using the virta.pool.mn pool and my username was

MONEYMAN1298, my worker name was 1 and my worker pass was x my batch file

would look as follows:

minerd --url=stratum+tcp://stratum.pool.mn:7856 --userpass=MONEYMAN1298.1:X

pause

(The pause is not needed, I put it in just in case something doesn't work, then you can

see what the error message says before the window closes.)

You can find the port of your pool by checking the "Getting Started" page.

Obviously this process is slightly different on mac and linux, but you want a file that will

execute the minerd program with the parameters above still the same, which shouldn't

be too difficult top figure out for you.

Step 6. Save this as a file that will execute in your commands line, on windows this is a

batch (.bat file). So, on Windows, click file > save as and then type run.bat in the file

name box (you can call it anything but i like run).

Step 7. Mine away! Double click your run.bat file to start mining and watch your

VirtaCoins start rolling in. If you have any problems, questions or concerns please feel

free to message our tech support (/u/xoxorockoutloud123)

(credit to bitcointalk.org user cainy393 and his post: "Beginners Guide to CPU mining

DogeCoins - Now with images!" made to work with VirtaCoin.)