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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
You’ve followed our guides for using geth then you will probably already be familiar with the use of ethminer for solo mining as well as for pool mining. The pool mining part is the same here, but we are going to cover it anyway for the people that are new to using ethminer. The Windows binary package available for download below that you can use to get started contains eth as well as and ethminer for OpenCL and CUDA, do note that you can also use OpenCL on Nvidia GPUs and not only run them in CUDA mode. And while the geth client contains build in mining option that can only use the CPU, the eth client comes with a build in functionality for mining both with the CPU and OpenCL (the same mining functionality that is made available thorugh ethminer).Getting started solo mining with eth and ethminer:– First you need to make sure you are running the eth clint with eth-start.bat– Then you need to run a second instance of eth in mining mode with eth-mine-local.bat– The above example will work if both instances of eth are running on the same system, if you want to connect multiple miners on different machines to a single eth instance for solo mining you need to enter the ip address of the system running the eth client in the eth miner instances– You can run ethminer instead of eth for solo mining by just replacing eth with ethminer, the mining command line remains the same for both and when the eth client is running in mining mode it behaves just like ethminerGetting started pool mining with eth and ethminer:– You can use the eth client in mining mode for pools as well, just run eth-mine-pool.bat– To run ethminer mining in OpenCL mode in a pool you can use the provided examples for the currently working pools ethminer-ethpool.bat, ethminer-nanopool.bat, ethminer-ethereumpool.batThe example BAT files contain the pool information, you will need to enter your wallet address as well as to modify the pool difficulty if the pool supports it (only nanopool does not). Have in mind that currently ethpool is not accepting new miners, so you will need to use some of the other two pools available if you are just starting with mining. You can also check our guides for pool mining with geth and ethminer as well as the other one for solo mining with geth and ethminer if you are interested and decide which one works for you better.– Download eth and ethminer compiled for Windows and ready to be used…
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