Sorry about the noob question, but how do I go about mining Aurora Coin? I'm Icelandic and I've held/used AUR since the airdrop but now I'm considering if there's any use in starting to mine it.
Is there any use trying to mine with a standard home-PC using CPU only?
Is there any use trying to mine with a standard home-PC using CPU only?
Qubit, Skein and Groestl could still be mined with CPU, although don't expect too much from it. In short for the easiest way of mining.
1) Find the folder that contains your wallet.dat file.
2) create a file "auroracoin.conf" in that folder with the line "algo=". Replace by, "qubit", "skein" or "groestl" and save the file.
3) Open the wallet and go to the debug screen, to the command line tab.
4) Enter "setgenerate true [cores-to-use]". [cores-to-use] is optional, if not set all available cores are used, so you can use this to use less cores.
5) Use the command "getmininginfo" to see if it is running fine.
6) Wait.
Do note it can take very long before you find a block this way.
Better is to do mining with a standalone miner program and use that to connect to a mining pool.