I am very new to mining but really like the concept of this project. Can someone help me get started to solo mine. I am running a Windows 10, NVidia GTX 980TI and GTX1080 FTW. Not looking to make anything at this point, only collect some coins and participate. Any help with what miner and configuration would really be great.
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I would suggest using a pool. When solo mining you either get lucky and get blocks or you dont. With a pool you get a nice constant income and dont need to worry about luck or not and with i gfx the chance is pretty low you will get lucky.
That sounds good too, however I am really kind of lost when it comes to mining and the configuration. I downloaded that multiminer and while browsing the UI I started to get popups that where malware. scanning my PC now. Any chance you could give me some suggestions or a link to a miner/tutorial for beginners.
I have the Sexcoin wallet, there is a tab for mining there, does this allow you to mine? I have been pool mining siacoin using marlin and that was fairly simple to setup.
The 'mining' tab will enable CPU mining. Not much point on mainnet, but still handy on testnet.
Can anyone say if CUDA still the de-facto for nVidia mining? I think I saw ccminer as an nVidia client also. Google 'nVidia Litecoin mining'.
I use AMD, but I think CUDAminer is no longer maintained and has evolved into ccminer.
For nVidia, use
http://ccminer.org/ (for Windows, select tpruvot or sp-hash releases)
If you successfully got marlin mining, you should not have difficulties with ccminer. The syntax looks identical. Links to documentation and forums can be found at the above link also.
Do not be alarmed by anti-virus pop-ups. These are false positives and you may have to add the software (ccminer-x64.exe, for example) to an exception list so the antivirus stops interfering.
Best of luck!