CPU Mining Setup

1. Pick the coin you want to mine and check which algo it uses.
    (Example: CPUChain coin uses cpupower algo, goldcash uses yescryptR16 algo) 

2. Make sure the miner can use that algo.
    (The miner usually will have a list attached or Github will have an info page)

3. Download the correct miner version to use.
    (32 or 64 bit, Windows or Linux. 64 bit WinOS can run 32 bit miners, but 32 cannot run 64)

4. Edit the miner configuration file, usually it's a json or bat file.
    (pool address, wallet address, user name, password, coin and algo)

5. Start the miner by running the exe or batch file and check that it is working.
    (Correctly working miner has green share accepted, not working will have red error messages)

6. Check that mined coins are being deposited to wallet or exchange wallet.
    (The pool will say when a deposit has been made, an exchange will show in deposit history)  

Note: When mining, there is a delay in pool stats until the miner has "share accepted" and shortly after the pool will show an active miner and the hashrate. Then the pool will show shares accumulating and after that it show coins mined and how many have been paid. This can take a few hours. Each pool has a different minimum payout amount and time. Some pools allow that to be adjusted. If mining to an exchange wallet - check what the minimum deposit is first and set the coin payout higher - anything less than the minimum is not credited or recoverable. Once coins are paid, they have to be confirmed to be credited to use - this can take a 5 minutes to a half hour usually because the number of confirmations vary with different coins and wallets. When a balance shows - then the coin is deposited and can be used.

The easiest coin to mine is BUTK (Butkoin) and the easiest pool to use is Kriptokyng pool. To check what your miner is doing and has been paid - click wallet at page top, paste your wallet address, pick the algo used and it will show miner stats and payouts which is usually once an hour. To mine and trade you also need a wallet address - the easiest way to do that is create an account on Exbitron and generate a wallet address to use for trading. When some coins have been deposited then Trade them to increase what you have and gain other coins.
Wallet Note: The BUTK wallet does not seem to work very good, we find that the app will accept deposits and not send coins, and using the QT core wallet also does not seem to work well. The best idea is to mine into an exchange wallet address instead to prevent losing coins or having them unusable.

This is how to set up a batch file for 32 bit windows:

:start
cpuminer-sse2-w32.exe -a yespower -o stratum+tcp://kriptokyng.com:6515 -u Your Wallet Address Goes Here.UserNameYouPick
goto start

The first part is the miner executable to run, next is -o then the mining pool address and port, -u is the user which is nearly always the wallet address then dot and your user name you select. Each miner machine run should have it's own username so you can see what each is doing. Some pools also have a password, if that is needed, then it goes after the username, a space -p space and then password. When a miner is downloaded it will generally have a sample file - edit that file, save and rename it to the coin and pool being used for easy reference. To mine a different coin or use a different pool, just modify the batch file, rename accordingly and save as.

Download Link 32 bit version: cpuminer-opt-rplant 4.0.27

This is how to set up a batch file for 64 bit windows:

pushd "%~dp0"
cpuminer-sse2.exe -a gr -o stratum+tcp://na.mecrypto.club:3051 -u WalletAddress.UserName -p c=BUTK -y
pause
 

Note that it's written differently and uses a different executable file, sse2.exe and NOT sse2-w32.exe. It's also a different pool and the password field specifies the coin being mined.

Download Link 64 bit version: cpuminer-opt-rplant - latest and all versions

If mining on RPlant pool - the connect tab has a script generator, when web password is added, the payout and frequency can also be set for each coin. You can also generate the script there and just modify it as needed to mine a different pool.

Running your miner efficiently:

Mining uses the CPU and a processor is made up of physical and logical cores. These cores do their work using what are called threads, basically a flow of data. To find what cpu and how many cores it has look at windows system hardware in control panel under processors. Generally the best mining rates are the number of cores x2 -1.... so if you have two cores, then it's 4 threads less one - so 3 threads. A four core cpu would be 7 threads. The more threads one has the harder the cpu works or it refuses to mine very quickly due to overloading it. Often fewer threads will mine faster. To set the CPU for very low power use - simply lower the threads to one per cpu core or less. Additionally use windows task manager to limit the miner process, right click the miner and select low priority. You can also set cpu affinity there to select which cores are used or not and limit power use that way. To set the number of threads used the batch file running the miner has to say so ... that is done by putting in an instruction in the script : cpuminer-sse2-w32.exe --threads 3 -a gr -o etc. or like this for 64 bit: cpuminer-sse2.exe --threads 5 -a gr -o etc.

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