Newbie Quick Start Mining Guide
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Welcome to all new members! This is aimed primarily as a quick start mining guide for new comers and those who simply want to get started mining without playing with settings.
- First, head over to the FeatherCoin GitHub and download the latest release of the FeatherCoin Wallet for your Operating System.
Head over to Wallet>Receiving Addresses in the FeatherCoin Wallet and take note of the address listed. This address will be what you mine to.
- Next, you need to download your mining program. For AMD based miners, nsgminer is recommended; and for NVidia systems, ccminer is recommended.
Make sure you download the correct version of either one for your Operating System, as well as the correct CUDA revision if using ccminer.
- Now you need to decide on a pool to mine to. P2Pool mining pools are recommended, however other centralised pools are popular too. For a list of public P2Pools, see here. Other popular centralised pools are GiveMeCoins and The Blocks Factory.
Remember it’s always best to be mining into a pool whose server is situated closest to you.
- With your receiving address, mining software and pool decided on you’re now ready to create your batch file. The batch file needs to be located within the directory of your mining software in order to execute correctly. Create a new text document and copy the following lines in for your respective mining software.
For ccminer:
ccminer.exe -a neoscrypt -o <your_mining_pool> -u <wallet_address> -p x
(Note, ccminer.exe may be different depending on the release you downloaded and may need altering. Check to see what .exe your mining software is.)For NSGminer:
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -g 1 -w 128 -I 16 -o <your_mining_pool -u <wallet_address> -p xSave the text documented as all file formats, and name it mine.bat
With all this you’re ready to start mining FeatherCoin!
Note, some mining pools may require you to set up an account with them and possibly may have different batch file requirements. Make sure to follow the example batch files given by these pools.Now that you’re up and mining, you can sit back and relax while reaping the rewards! Enjoy!
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If anyone has any suggestions or changes feel free to let me know so I can implement them!
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Good start, we’ll get it copied over to the guides section.
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@narbss said in Newbie Quick Start Mining Guide:
If anyone has any suggestions or changes feel free to let me know so I can implement them!
For linux, we also have installation packages available.
See:
https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8327/guide-feathercoin-wallet-ppa-and-binaries-on-ubuntu-and-debian-linux/ -
@narbss - great guide!
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@wrapper wasn’t too sure where would be best for it but thought this is where new members would look first. Feel free to move it though :)
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@wellenreiter I’ll be sure to include it when I make some changes tonight! Thanks!
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@acidd thanks buddy!
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It’s a good idea. I’ve pinned a few other specifically FAQ / newbie help before.
I’ll pin it in Newbies for the moment.
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@narbss said in Newbie Quick Start Mining Guide:
If anyone has any suggestions or changes feel free to let me know so I can implement them!
A section reminding people to exempt their mining program from their antivirus software scans might be a good thing. Plus it’s something where it’ll work for a while and then suddenly stops working for no apparent reason, which can be very confusing for people.
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So I am a newbie of sorts. I have a rig that I friend built for me a couple years ago. I was mining LTC with cgminer on give-me-coins. The rigs hard drive crashed and he cloned me a hard drive but it never really worked again. I understand GPU is no longer viable. So I am here following the newbie guide and have downloaded the software and created the bat file.
here
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 15 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -u Digging4Gold223.user -p x (or the miner password I created)If I remember correctly I just open the batch file and the nsgminer should run. I must be doing something wrong because I either get a blank windows cmd screen or I get a must specify pool URL
Any help would be appreciated
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@digging4gold223 said in Newbie Quick Start Mining Guide:
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt
Looking at the help, do you have to specify neoscrypt? https://github.com/ghostlander/nsgminer
nsgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I d,9,9,9
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Hi, can anyone help please. I purchased a few thousand feather coins a few year ago. I put them onto a USB stick, for safe keeping.My computer went kaput, and now I am trying to upload from my USB stick to an Android 16gb tablet. Problem is the file manager won’t allow this saying file is too large. Would really appreciate help here…thanks, Alan
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@harmoye22 - Hi and welcome to FTC
was it a computer, wallet.dat of feathercoin-qt are not compatible with the mobile wallet.
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@wrapper Hi , yes it was a laptop. Now have a tablet…Alan
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Was that enough help? that you need a computer and the wallet.dat off the USB (should be small) contains your FTC keys?
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@wrapper Hi wrapper, I do have an old computer that works. I have plugged in the USB stick, and it comes up as Chinese type writing. What do I do now ?..Alan
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@harmoye22 Hi all, have downloaded feathercoin encrypted script, from USB stick to my computer. It is now on my desk top. Anyone know how I can now change the encrypted script back to normal ?..Alan
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Just copy your backup into %appdata% Feathercoin and replace there the wallet.dat - start up the feathercoin-qt application and log in …
I don’t use windows tho’
FTC Tip : 72RyZKLdJZatJNZg4vPsjj9xB3yb2o822X
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@wrapper Thanks wrapper, will try later. A tip on the way, when completed…many thanks, Alan
