Skip to main content

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.


Labels:
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Setting up a self maintaining miner (Windows GPU CPU miner)

Problem I run a 125MH/s ETH GPU mining rig but I was having issues where it would restart intermittently and when it would come back online it would obviously stop mining and i would lose mining time because of it. Solution Automatic restart  Run your miner automatically on startup This is actually a very simple way to keep your miner in check so you don't encounter much or any down time. As an added bonus, it's very simple to set up. Automatic restart Search for "task scheduler" in your windows search bar and open it. Now select "Create Task..." from the right side panel. Give your task a name and check the "run with highest privileges" checkbox Go to the "Triggers" tab and click the "New..." button. Here you should select "Daily" and select a date and time you would like this task to be run. Once you're done with your selection, click "OK" Go to the "Ac...
Post a Comment
Read more

BTC-Flow

Today I'll be giving a bit of a look into BTC-Flow . It's a game based bitcoin faucet that has me pretty into it. No more of the jumping from site to site clicking your way through pop ups and other fun activities. The concept of the game is that you run a  company. At first, your company mines bitcoin and has a earning rate of 0.0000015 BTC/Min and your max capacity is 0.000012 BTC. Your part in running this company is getting the bitcoin from your company either before or after your max capacity is hit. You then need to click once your bitcoin capacity is reached to put that balance into your main bank. From here you basically repeat this as much as you'd like. If you really enjoy this, you can "level" your business with bitcoin to increase capacity and earning/min at any point. If you like faucets, you need to check this out . BTC-Flow.com
5 comments
Read more

StorjShare - Get paid for your unused storage

What is it? StorjShare is decentralized cloud storage. Think of Dropbox, they are a company that provides cloud storage where the data is stored on their hardware (inside of data centers in server rooms). StorjShare differs from their service a fair bit. Instead of having a server room, or data center where all the data is stored locally, StojShare stores data to any storage device that is connected to it's network. This kind of distribution of storage is also very optimal for transfer speed because you could be saving your data on a computer in your neighborhood which is certainly much faster than relying on a server possibly on the other side of the country, or possibly further. Now you might be thinking "Well, i don't want my neighbors to have my photos of family.", worry not, one of the most interesting concepts in this protocol is the encryption of your stored files. When you save a file to the network, the file is actually saved in "shards...
Post a Comment
Read more