Hi there, It's my first time mining and beside connecting computer hardwares i don't know much... I just finished my build with 6 diamond r9 290x and I have no idea if i should use windows or linux ... I also saw many videos on youtube and some of the builders there use SSD for the operating system. Is that a must ? Also what would be the best cgminer setup for my cards ? any of you already have the right config files to share ? And also which pool is the best to joint ? Please do not command about the price of the setup versus the rewards of mining . I just don't care about ROI since i did not paid for the graphic cards and electricity here is just around 0.056$ CAD / Kwh I'm just doing it for fun and for the community. Thank you for all your support and all the works done.
The CGminer fork required for mining Blake-256 for DCR can be found here: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.5_cgminer You will also need the current binaries: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.6 You will need dcraddrgen in order to create a wallet seed (33 word seed) and import it into dcrwallet. dcrd (daemon) is required for mining. The best guide I have found is sambiohazard's: https://forum.decred.org/threads/pr...import-mining-guide-use-at-your-own-risk.472/ Just ignore the parts about the airdrop. Edit: Thanks for the updates Sambio.
BTW latest binaries are: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.6 and latest cgminer is: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.5_cgminer I havent updated the guide links, should do that now.
Hello! That sounds like a pretty sweet setup. If you are familiar with Linux, go ahead and use it. If not, I wouldn't suggest trying. Windows will work just fine. I don't believe there are any direct benefits for mining between the two platforms. Whichever OS you use... keep in mind.. cooling cooling cooling! You don't need an SSD, but I prefer to use them just for the user interface speed improvement they typically provide. I have found that setting the card intensity to 13 or 14 (max) will lessen the number of rejects you get. There are only a few parameters needed to change in a config file and they are specific to each system.. It is not likely that anyone could share their exact config file for you to use on your build. As far as pools are concerned - there are several existing pools. The site that @Dyrk created for the community lists them along with related information. You should try them all out and see which one works best for you. Also, this quick guide out from @thepotterone may be useful to you. It's from the PoW Mining thead which I would suggest reading through in its entirety... There is lots of useful information in between various video card performance specifications.
Here is a VERY basic step-by-step guide to get solo mining (modified from Sambiohazard's Guide) on Windows using basic Web Wallet: 1) Download current cgminer package https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.5_cgminer 2) Download current Binaries here: https://github.com/decred/decred-release/releases/tag/v0.0.6 Extract everything into a common Decred folder. 3) Open web wallet https://wallet.decred.org and follow instructions to create a new wallet. 4) Web wallet will create a wallet seed (33 words) THAT YOU MUST MAKE A SAFE COPY OF. If you lose your 33-word seed you lose your wallet, plain and simple. This 33-word seed can be used to rebuild wallet from another computer, or using the dcrwallet program instead. 5) Once your new wallet seed is created, go to the tab "Receive" at the bottom and copy the newly generated Decred wallet address that you will mine to. 6) Run dcrd (Daemon) by typing the following into a command prompt in your Decred folder (Hold shift and right click bare space inside Decred folder and choose "open command window here"): Code: dcrd --rpcuser [create a username for dcrd here] --rpcpass [choose a strong password for dcrd here] --miningaddr [the DCR address generated by your web wallet here] This will start the daemon & it will start syncing the mainnet blockchain. 7) In the same Decred folder, edit the .bat file named "start_local". Change the word "user" for your dcrd username used as above, and change "password" to be the same as the password used above as well. It should read: Code: cgminer --blake256 -o https://127.0.0.1:9109 -u [your dcrd username from above] -p [your dcrd password from above] --cert "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dcrd\rpc.cert" Save the start_local.bat file 8) Once dcrd is synced to the block chain with the --miningaddr flag to your wallet mining address, run start_local.bat. It should pick up your GPU's at this point. It has been suggested that running individual instances of CGminer for each GPU may be beneficial, but you would have to disable all but one for each instance so you don't have more than one instance of CGminer trying to work a GPU. I also suggest you take your time to read some of the more advanced threads on wallet: https://forum.decred.org/threads/br...-included-with-basic-commands-os-neutral.478/ and again Sambiohazard's https://forum.decred.org/threads/pr...import-mining-guide-use-at-your-own-risk.472/ to use the dcrwallet program instead. There is a section on mining to a pool in his guide as well.
Wow that's a lot more answers i was expected. Thanks to everyone. I will try next weekend to setup the mining process and ill post some result later next week.
What's the command line to add in cgminer to use only 1 instances ? Do i need to write 6 .bat file to execute different cgminers ?