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Darkcoin mining

Darkcoins are a new currency that focus primarily on anonymity, meaning that each miner isn't trackable. Here I'm going to go through how to start mining darkcoins with just your home computer.

Get your Wallet


download the darkcoin wallet here.

One the wallet is downloaded, run it. The wallet will have to "Catch up" because it needs to be up to date with all the transactions and work done so far.


You should have something like this, while we wait for it to catch up, let's get our pool ready to go!

Get Your Pool


Make an account here (if you don't already have one). Keep this page open because we're going to need to use pool and worker information from them later.


Get Mining


For both CPU and GPU: minning software

Now that we're all set up on the back-end, let's get our computer ready to mine. Install one or both downloads for mining (depending if you want to do GPU or CPU or both). Make sure if you're doing CPU you know if you're running a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.

Now once we have these installed, open them up and input your address from your darkcoin wallet (The address can be copied from the receive tab) into your mining software, it should end up looking something like this.


Now that you have you software almost ready, all you need to do now is input your worker and pool information.

CPU: -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://us-east1.darkcoin.miningpoolhub.com:20465 -u worker.name1 -p 123

GPU: -o stratum+tcp://us-east1.darkcoin.miningpoolhub.com:20465 -u worker.name2 -p 123 --balance

 once you have that set in, then you're ready to mine! As you mine, you can keep track on your "dashboard" on the mining pool you set up earlier.


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