For anyone who is interested to mine as well. I used the following cpuminer:
https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/releasesHere is a step by step tutorial how to get it up and running (assuming that you have your wallet set and rpc server is active)
Step 1Download the latest release which is currently v2.5.0
If your OS is 32bits use the pooler-cpuminer-2.5.0-win32.zip file
If its not use pooler-cpuminer-2.5.0-win64.zip
Step 2Extract the archive where its convenient for you
Step 3Create a .bat file where the extracted files are located, we will use ocean.bat in this example.
Paste the following code:
#ocean.bat for minerd
minerd -a sha256d -o 127.0.0.1:4699 --no-getwork --no-longpoll -u rpc_oceans -p 42f2a0be5caae9449f5e2f795 -t nthreads --no-stratum --coinbase-addr myaddress --coinbase-sig mysig --scantime 1800
PAUSE
Step 4Impotant! make sure to make the following changes:
nthreads to the number of threads if your cpu has 8 threads try t 7
myaddress to your address
mysig to any value, basically it will appear as the coinbase signature in the blockchain
Recommandationdepending on how fast your cpu try to play with
scantime value try values between 300 and 1800
In order to check how it is going see the example below, your balance should be updated if your block was accepted.
Rejected block[2018-12-25 16:25:37] thread 2: 89695456 hashes, 13292 khash/s
[2018-12-25 16:25:37] accepted: 22/25 (88.00%), 53574 khash/s (booooo)
Accepted block[2018-12-25 16:28:36] thread 2: 426710624 hashes, 13442 khash/s
[2018-12-25 16:28:36] accepted: 23/26 (88.46%), 53774 khash/s (yay!!!)
Couple of tips:Make sure
t argument has a slightly lower value than the number of cores/ threads that you have
I do not recommend mining on a laptop for long sessions. Make sure that CPU temperature is less than 65° to avoid damaging your hardware. You can check that with speccy.
Wow. Thank you!