How To Mine For Beginners??
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I’m completely new to mining and all of the guides just assume you know what you’re doing and I don’t. I can figure out the wallet and setting up the mining pool account on give-me-coins but I can’t figure out the miner. I’ve tried watching youtube videos(out of date) and looking at the guides on here and other forums but they all just assume you know what folders to add and edit. I have no clue at all. Where do I find out how to set up a miner for windows/Nvidia step by step for new people like me?
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@lcr11 Hi and welcome to the Feathercoin community! Mind telling me what mining software you ended up going for? Also a pool address would be amazing! I’ll be able to write you up a simple mining batch file and explain the terms to you if you wish
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I downloaded both SGminer and NSGminer from github (linked form feathercoin.com) and have gotten nowhere with either, I think that a batch file needs to be created because it is what the command prompt uses as it’s guidebook on where to send and receive blocks and what not and how to allocate work. I’m not opposed to using either miner or a different one if recommended, I’m running Windows 10
I believe this is the server and port address you are asking about. the pool is ‘give me coins’ I haven’t mined anything yet so I’m not opposed to using a different pool if someone recommends it.
ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336
I’ve also downloaded the wallet from from the site and it’s only like 4 years behind LOL
I’m only running 4 1070s on nicehash right now because of PSU limitations The rig is setup to run 7 after I get a PSU capable of it, probably a server PSU from parallel miner or something.
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
Try to follow the instructions, it’s easy to have AMD software when you have Nvidia etc , till you can see the trees from the wood … There are a lot of settings to get right, once that’s done though it should just run …
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@wrapper said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Try to follow the instructions, it’s easy to have AMD software when you have Nvidia etc , till you can see the trees from the wood … There are a lot of settings to get right, once that’s done though it should just run …
No offense, but I have no idea what you’re trying to say, it sounds like you’re trying to relate an idiom to software. If your trying to say ‘see the trees for the wood’ then I’m not sure how it relates. That idiom is used when someone is focusing on the details too much and can’t see that the individual trees make the forest. In my case I don’t know a forest from an ocean when looking at these guides and coding files.
Take this guide for example: https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8220/guide-how-to-mine-feathercoin-neoscrypt-based-coins-on-amd-gpus-with-sgminer
I’m running windows vs linux, I get that, I’m running nividia so I download nvidia drivers. get to step 6 and it says download SG miner, so I do that. Then it tells me “code
cd ~/sgminer
git submodule init
git submodule update
autoreconf -i -f”…but what am I coding, is there a file I need to edit, do I create a word doc from scratch, what’s it being label or file type?
Then “check that the build worked” but how?
Step 7 “create start script” This looks like where the .bat file needs to be made but where do I put it, in the main folder, within a subfolder?
I looked at another guide but it used CC miner and talked about .exe files and I couldn’t find a download for CC miner anyway so I wasn’t sure which info to extrapolate from the CC guide and use in the (n)sg miner.
I’ve watched a lot of youtube videos on it but they are either outdated from 2013, using programs that don’t exist anymore, or they skip over all of the stuff I don’t know about.
I’m not trying to be lazy or disingenuous, I simply have no clue what I’m looking at. I’ve been doing this for 3 days now and knew nothing more than bitcoins exist. I’d like to think I’m doing Ok learning what crypto and altcoins are, building a computer in general, building a rig, and navigating miners and coins in the last 72 hours. I looked into Eth first but there’s too much hype and I don’t like where it seems to be going. I started nicehash because it’s easy but I don’t like what they do, in that you simply sell your hashing power for BTC/$$$ I want to invest in the future of alt coins and use them, not just sell them for $$$ to cover expenses like a business.
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@lcr11 I read and hear you loud and clear man.
I will dedicate some time in writing a “Noob Friendly” / Beginners intro to mining Feathercoin. With the aim to make it as simple and easy as possible, plus a learning experience.
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I’m exactly saying you have to get a number of badly explained details right. Each one of pool and miner set-ups are different, so we can’t just tell you what they are. Maybe try Supranova, or p2pool to get going. You need to download Nvidia compatible miners.
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@wrapper said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
I’m exactly saying you have to get a number of badly explained details right. Each one of pool and miner set-ups are different, so we can’t just tell you what they are. Maybe try Supranova, or p2pool to get going. You need to download Nvidia compatible miners.
Ohhh, you’re saying that nsg and sg miner aren’t Nvidia compatible? only AMD? Well, if so that might explain some things. I can’t download anything on the computer I’m using now but i’m guessing p2pool and Supra are miners, I can see p2pool has a downloadable file on github and the posted readme shows it’s used in conjunction with a program called python I’d have to download also, I’ll look into that when I get home.
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@lcr11 p2pool and Supra are mining pools. The best NVidia miner is ccminer for your 1070s. https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases is the GitHub address and I’d recommend ccminer-x64-2.2.2-cuda9 for you!
For a basic mining rig you just need a wallet with a receiving address; a compatible miner (ccminer); a pool you plan to mine in; and a batch file that will run everything
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
Ohhh, you’re saying that nsg and sg miner aren’t Nvidia compatible?
That used to be true, but this is bleeding edge, some version may have added nVidia. Thats why I said check the latest pool instructions :
Keep us updated.Just to clarify as everything you thought was wrong.
p2pool is a distributed pool, you mine to an FTC address. There are on line servers but you can run your own
Here is a server : : http://46.4.0.101:19327/static/
here is a list of other servers : http://p2pool.neoscrypt.de/
here is p2pool instructions for your miner : http://46.4.0.101:19327/static/ -
@narbss I’ve got the wallet from this website downloading and it’s only 3 years behind when I left this morning. I’ll go ahead and download the CCminer when I get back to the house and see if their readme has a walk through, I can’t unzip files on these computers here to check. If CCminer has a batch walk through then I think I should be fine. If not I’ll be back for some more help.
@wrapper I’ll look up the CCminer narbss linked and go from there. I’ll look at the pools posted on the site and decide which one works best between fees and what not. I don’t think at my level, of a 7GPU rig it will matter much. If I can get this rig up and running full tilt I’ll be building a 7-13gpu rig by the new year.
I really do appreciate everyone’s help, as I said I’m mere days into the whole crypto thing. I’m not expecting to get rich it’s simply a hobby. I spend thousands of dollars on other hobbies that literally have zero ROI other than fun. Mining is interesting, completely foreign to me, and is making me learn a completely new skill set which is perfect for a long term commitment to the effort. All of that makes it exciting, fun and frustrating; but It’s the only hobby I’ll have that makes money so I’ll be certain to give back to the community in some way.
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Yes, cool. Don’t forget you can make a receive address before the sync, so you don’t have to wait for that. If your mining you can check the contents of the address on a blockchain explorer : http://explorer.feathercoin.com/chain/Feathercoin
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Does this mean I’m mining?
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@lcr11 yes. You are mining! You are probably well aware of that at this point! It sure feels good when you finally get it going…
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@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming
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@chekaz said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.
It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming
I’m starting to find out some of this; I’ve got different cards on the rig, the EVGA ACX 3.0 can’t handle overclocking as well as the Zotac minis and the Founders card runs about 10 degrees hotter than the others. Lesson learned, although you can just get a bad card here and there I’ll be building rigs with like cards to reduce variables. I’m thinking about going all in and building a 13 GPU split miner AMD/Nvidia
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@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.
Well done.
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I must be too old for this stuff!
I am trying to mine with nsgminer
my bat file:
nsgminer -k neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 15 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O tfeller.GPU:1960try to mine from GPU 1080X MSI card.
Any help would be greatly appreciative
Thanks for your time in this matter
tfeller
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@tfeller said in How To Mine For Beginners??:
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Sorry can’t check that without registering, with GMC, what are the instructions? (cut and paste the demo line) and what happens when you run the bat file?
