Any guide available for setting & doing pool mining?
If no, any expert kind enough to share the experience here for me?
what mining software used for differ algo? how to do setting point to pool?
I try with some reference before but failed. (create & execute mine.bat then click minerd.exe but only flash and gone, nothing happend)
Update (18 Jan 2018):
I use scrypt cpuminer from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0
and finally with the code: minerd --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=wallet:password
run bat file successful
I need neoscrypt, cryptonight win 32-bit version cpuminer file. thanks.
Update (19 Jan 2018): to mine cryptonight coin
Finally I found xmrig.exe from https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig download --> https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases
and with the code: xmrig.exe --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=wallet:password
run bat file successful
but it got 5% donation =.=
Additional info -> I add code behind to limit cpu to 50%: --threads=1
If no, any expert kind enough to share the experience here for me?
what mining software used for differ algo? how to do setting point to pool?
I try with some reference before but failed. (create & execute mine.bat then click minerd.exe but only flash and gone, nothing happend)
Update (18 Jan 2018):
I use scrypt cpuminer from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0
and finally with the code: minerd --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=wallet:password
run bat file successful
I need neoscrypt, cryptonight win 32-bit version cpuminer file. thanks.
Update (19 Jan 2018): to mine cryptonight coin
Finally I found xmrig.exe from https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig download --> https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases
and with the code: xmrig.exe --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=wallet:password
run bat file successful
but it got 5% donation =.=
Additional info -> I add code behind to limit cpu to 50%: --threads=1
I think the most detailed mining thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345911.0
You can take a look and this will help you choose your mining app.
I am also using Xmrig for mining using CryptoNight algorithm, maybe I can help.
First you need to download the correct file, choose the 32bit version (ends with win32) from here: https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases
You should have 3 files:
- config.json
- start.bat
- xmrig.exe
The important part is the config.json file (read the comments in it too):
Code:
{
"algo": "cryptonight", // cryptonight (default) or cryptonight-lite
"av": 0, // algorithm variation, 0 auto select
"background": false, // true to run the miner in the background
"colors": true, // false to disable colored output
"cpu-affinity": null, // set process affinity to CPU core(s), mask "0x3" for cores 0 and 1
"cpu-priority": 2, // set process priority (0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
"donate-level": 1, // donate level, mininum 1%
"log-file": null, // log all output to a file, example: "c:/some/path/xmrig.log"
"max-cpu-usage": 85, // maximum CPU usage for automatic mode, usually limiting factor is CPU cache not this option.
"print-time": 60, // print hashrate report every N seconds
"retries": 5, // number of times to retry before switch to backup server
"retry-pause": 5, // time to pause between retries
"safe": false, // true to safe adjust threads and av settings for current CPU
"threads": 3, // number of miner threads corresponds to the number of cores you CPU has, recommended 3 for quad core processors
"pools": [
{
"url": "", // URL of mining server or: etn.fairhash.org:3333
"user": "", // username for mining server
"pass": "x", // password for mining server, usually "x" or ""
"keepalive": true, // send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
"nicehash": true // enable nicehash/xmrig-proxy support
}
],
"api": {
"port": 0, // port for the miner API https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/wiki/API
"access-token": null, // access token for API
"worker-id": null // custom worker-id for API
}
}
"algo": "cryptonight", // cryptonight (default) or cryptonight-lite
"av": 0, // algorithm variation, 0 auto select
"background": false, // true to run the miner in the background
"colors": true, // false to disable colored output
"cpu-affinity": null, // set process affinity to CPU core(s), mask "0x3" for cores 0 and 1
"cpu-priority": 2, // set process priority (0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
"donate-level": 1, // donate level, mininum 1%
"log-file": null, // log all output to a file, example: "c:/some/path/xmrig.log"
"max-cpu-usage": 85, // maximum CPU usage for automatic mode, usually limiting factor is CPU cache not this option.
"print-time": 60, // print hashrate report every N seconds
"retries": 5, // number of times to retry before switch to backup server
"retry-pause": 5, // time to pause between retries
"safe": false, // true to safe adjust threads and av settings for current CPU
"threads": 3, // number of miner threads corresponds to the number of cores you CPU has, recommended 3 for quad core processors
"pools": [
{
"url": "", // URL of mining server or: etn.fairhash.org:3333
"user": "", // username for mining server
"pass": "x", // password for mining server, usually "x" or ""
"keepalive": true, // send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
"nicehash": true // enable nicehash/xmrig-proxy support
}
],
"api": {
"port": 0, // port for the miner API https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/wiki/API
"access-token": null, // access token for API
"worker-id": null // custom worker-id for API
}
}
After you configure this file to use the wallet & pool you want( by replacing "" & "" with yours) you open start.bat.
That's it
Let me know if you have any questions on it