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* Complete Guide [https://steemit.com/verium/@birty/cpu-mining-is-back-a-complete-how-to-guide-and-profit-analysis-for-verium-mining-on-a-farm-of-single-board-computers-part-1 How To Mine Verium] by birty | * Complete Guide [https://steemit.com/verium/@birty/cpu-mining-is-back-a-complete-how-to-guide-and-profit-analysis-for-verium-mining-on-a-farm-of-single-board-computers-part-1 How To Mine Verium] by birty |
Revision as of 13:29, 28 January 2018
The days of needing specialized computing hardware and sophisticated know-how to mine digital currency are over. Anyone can easily mine Verium. Just download the Verium Vault software to any computer, click mine and starting earning Verium, the digital gold that backs the digital currency VeriCoin. Verium is one of the few digital currencies that can not be mined by specialized GPUs and ASICs.By making it easy for anyone and everyone to mine Verium the project has created a more decentralized system.
Power Based Rewards
As mining power increases the reward slowly decreases, this mechanism makes the reserve commodity supply curve drop based on increased demand and can drive a value increase over time and increased usage.
Contents
General
The overall network can be viewed in the Live Global Mining Statistics.
The network difficulty evolution is displayed here.
- Complete Guide How To Mine Verium by birty
Miner command options
The mining command options differ a bit depending on the actual software and setup you use, but this sample should give an overview:
cpuminer -o stratum+tcp://pool-eu.bloxstor.com:3003 -u VEXMki29ycW5vSt3MmdM5iwHqsHux91EMr.Guide -p GuidePwd -1 4 \ Pool URL or Solo Wallet IP / \ Pool User Name / \ PoolPwd / \ #threads /
Details for pool miners or solo miners.
Further options
- CPU specific
--cpu-priority 4 --cpu-affinity 0x0000F0
- API
-b 4049 --api-bind 0.0.0.0:4049
Mining Software Guides
Source Code
The first mining software especially designed for Verium was provided by Douglas Pike aka effectstocause, one of the creators of this project.
Based on effectstocauses original miner fireworm has created an update which includes several optimizations especially for Linux (memory) and ARMv8 CPUs.
cpuminer, cpuminer-opt can be used as well.
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Solo vs. Pool Mining
Solo
Solo mining is not for everyone but with a little patience and determination even low hash rates can render results. If you have over 15Kh/m and don't mind waiting for your rewards, there are several advantages.
- Zero downtime - You are directly connected to the blockchain
- Zero pool fees - Typically about 1%
- Zero withdrawal fees
- Zero trust in a third party
- zero dependency on pool availability
- All transaction fees per block!
Step 1: Setup your Wallet
Once you have your verium wallet installed, you must edit your verium.conf file. The following example assumes your local network is 192.168.1.0/24 and your wallet has an IP address of 192.168.1.10. You will need to keep your 'rpcuser' and 'rpcassword' when you point your miner to your wallet.
server=1 daemon=1 rpcuser=solouser rpcpassword=s0l0pass rpcallowip=192.168.1.* rpcallowip=localhost
The verium.conf can be found in the following locations:
Windows:
%APPDATA%\Roaming\Verium or c:\users\[username]\appdata\roaming\verium
Linux\*nix:
~/.verium or /user/home/.verium (The folder is hidden so you must put the "." in the path)
Step 2: Point your miner to your wallet
Once you have you wallet setup. You can start pointing your miners to mine direct.
For windows:
cpuminer.exe -o 192.168.1.10:33987 -O solouser:s0l0pass
For *NIX:
./cpuminer -o 192.168.1.10:33987 -O solouser:s0l0pass
REF:
Pools
This mining pools are available. Follow up their "Getting started" pages:
cpuminer -o stratum+tcp://pool-eu.bloxstor.com:3003 -u VEXMki29ycW5vSt3MmdM5iwHqsHux91EMr.Guide -p GuidePwd -t x -1 y \ Pool URL incl. port for difficulty ^ / \ Pool User Name + Worker ^/ \ PoolPwd / \ #threads /
cpuminer -o stratum+tcp://vrm.n3rd3d.com:3333 -u Weblogin.WorkerName -p WorkerPassword \ Pool URL incl. diif.-port ^ / \ Pool User+ Worker / \ PoolPwd /
How to set up a Verium Mining Pool.
Reminder: when solomining there is zero downtime, zero pool fees, zero withdrawal fees, zero trust, zero dependency, plus all transaction fees per block!
Fee efficient payout is 20 VRM (which will cost 0.2 fee).
Pool FAQs
Hardware
Hashrates
See a comparison of hashrates across a variety of processors!
Help us out by adding your hashrate to the growing database!
A hashrate profitability calculator:
- Please make your own copy of this spreadsheet by selecting "File > Make Copy"
- Make changes locally by entering your data into the green fields (the spreadsheet has been locked except for green cells to ensure continued functionality)
Hardware Buying Guide
If you are planning on purchasing hardware for VRM mining there are 4 main routes you can take. The fasted ROI can be had from used server hardware; the best long term profitability comes from used laptops and SBC’s.
- Used Server Hardware
- Used Laptops
- Single Board Computers (SBC)
- Desktops
The below table outlines the basic pros and cons of each build type:
Power Usage | Upfront Cost | Maintenance Burden | Hashrate | |
Used Server | High-Low | Low-High | Low | High |
Used Laptop | Low | Low | Medium | Low/Medium |
SBC | Low | High | High | Low |
Desktop | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Complete Hardware Buying Guide
Maintenance & Monitoring
A web-based miner monitor was initially contributed
- here by birty and there is an
- extended version here done by DerrickE as well as
- another one here by wienerdog.
- Updated frontend version forked from DerrickE's by ChiefThunderCunt here
- Miner.farm is interesting. Needs some set-up and shuffling of binaries but it also allows control of miner (at least start/stop) from any web browser. I have played around with it some. Very spiff. Not $cheap. Low system resource use.
- Minera can be set up for custom local-miner and also can monitor miners on your LAN by RPC. ad-supported $free. I have played with it, some. Spiff. Easy install and set-up. Requires node.js and all the system overhead that comes with it.
You can also check your miners if you run your wallet on linux by executing:
Netstat | grep :33987
in a terminal. If they are connecting means they are working.
Optimization
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
- Linux Optimization
- Special Odroid Section