Getting started with Crypto Mining...
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Hi and welcome
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If someone is looking for ways to mining on a Mac OS X, then I recommend this tutorial (turn on subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtK_Eb9dv8I hope this will be helpful
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Hello,
I’m new to this forum. I want to get started mining feathercoin. I have 2 (cheap) laptops on which I plan to install linux (ubuntu/fedora/similar).
Can someone suggest recommendations on how to mine feathercoin using my 2 spare laptops ? I came across https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712650.0 is this the right link for getting started mining feathercoin? I’m a newb to mining in general. Is this the right link to start with, and do i get packages for linux anywhere, like I see for windows ?
Thanks,
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@nkshirsa said in Getting started with Crypto Mining...:
Hello,
I’m new to this forum. I want to get started mining feathercoin. I have 2 (cheap) laptops on which I plan to install linux (ubuntu/fedora/similar).
Can someone suggest recommendations on how to mine feathercoin using my 2 spare laptops ? I came across https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712650.0 is this the right link for getting started mining feathercoin? I’m a newb to mining in general. Is this the right link to start with, and do i get packages for linux anywhere, like I see for windows ?
Thanks,
nkshirsa.As a miner I wouldn’t recommend laptops for mining as they don’t usually have the correct cooling needed.
Having said that, you can run CPU miner on a low intensity and mine with the laptops.
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@AcidD thanks a ton for the quick response. what would you recommend, as a desktop configuration ? I could sell both the laptops and trade for a decent desktop i guess… Is it easier getting started on windows, guessing from the fact that there’s packages available for installing cpu miner?
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If you’re just getting into mining and want a small rig…
1 - Get a desktop with a motherboard that can support 2x graphics cards on PCI express slots.
This desktop doesn’t need to have expensive parts, just good graphics cards and a good power supply. CPU, RAM and HDD can be cheap.2 - I personally switched to Linux for mining…but it’s much much harder to set up than windows.
if you’re just starting…I’d say use windows and NSGminer, and I personally use AMD cards.Hope this helps…
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@AcidD said in Getting started with Crypto Mining...:
2x graphics cards on PCI express slots.
thanks a ton!
so basically i need 2 graphics cards, u said? So 2 nvidia geforce, will do?
im a little confused, why graphics cards, why not just a fast multi core cpu ? does mining basically use the graphics cards cpu, and not the main cpu ?
also i guess i need average ram, like say 16 GB for the desktop will do ?
last question, can i mine multiple coins at the same time, other than feathercoin? any recommendations ?
thanks a ton for all the help! im basically just eager to get started mining !
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@nkshirsa said in Getting started with Crypto Mining...:
so basically i need 2 graphics cards, u said? So 2 nvidia geforce, will do?
Yes, you can use NVIDA cards, they use a bit less power per hash.
It turns out, that ccminer is the best mining software for NVidia at the moment.im a little confused, why graphics cards, why not just a fast multi core cpu ? does mining basically use the graphics cards cpu, and not the main cpu ?
Yes, mining is done most efficient on the GPU = Graphic Processing Unit which basically is the graphics card.
also i guess i need average ram, like say 16 GB for the desktop will do ?
If you use the desktop for mining only even 8 GByte would do well on a Linux based system
last question, can i mine multiple coins at the same time, other than feathercoin? any recommendations ?
Yes, you can ;)
Either you can setup two miner processes, each mining a different coin, or you could us a multicoin pool that switches between coins based on several parameters to optimize you mining income. In return they charge a fee for that.I do not recommend multicoin switching pools for starters. It’s better to start mining one coin, get some experience and then decide to use a switching pool or not.
thanks a ton for all the help! im basically just eager to get started mining !
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@Wellenreiter thanks for the help,
is this video a good reference to get started mining ftc? https://tsakf.org/2017/06/how-to-mine-feathercoin or shall i just download ccminer and thats all i need ? dont i have to create account on wemineftc or similar for a mining pool ? or do i do solo mining ? -
One of the reasons we recommend p2pool is that you don’t have to create any account on a server, you just mine to an address …
http://p2pool.neoscrypt.de/
http://mexicat.co.uk:19327/static/
p2pool.neoscrypt.tk:19327 (web interface)
