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There are many pools to choose from, a list is available at moneropools. Mining on a larger pool could mean more frequent payouts, but mining on a smaller pool helps to keep the network decentralized. Just like pools, there are a lot of miners to choose from. The one that you should pick depends on the hardware you want to mine on. This guide will only use a CPU miner, and will be using xmr-stak-cpu.
Alternatives include wolf's CPUMiner and sgminer-gm. However, their configuration is slightly different and will not be covered in this guide. If you are using a Windows system, the developer of xmr-stak-cpu provides binaries to download on the GitHub release page. If you're not using Windows, you will have to compile xmr-stak-cpu for yourself, luckily this isn't as hard as it sounds.
Before you can compile the miner, you will need to install some of its prerequisites. Following this, you just need to use cmake to generate the build files, run make and copy the config file:.
Don't celebrate just yet, as the miner needs to be configured. Running the miner now should give you a block of text to copy and paste:.
It should look something like this afterwards:. Replace the contents of the second set of quotes with the address and port of the pool you chose earlier. You can find this information on the pool's website. Put your wallet address between the quotes on the wallet address. You may leave the password blank unless the pool specifies otherwise. Some pools allow you to monitor your hashrate by pasting your address into their website.
You can also monitor your hashrate by pressing the h key. Firstly stop the miner if it's running , run the following commands to enable large pages and then start the miner as root:. By default we will try to allocate large pages.
This means you need to "Run As Administrator" on Windows You need to edit your system's group policies to enable locking large pages. Here are the steps from MSDN. Team Hangouts Sponsorships Merchants.
Selecting a pool There are many pools to choose from, a list is available at moneropools. Selecting a CPU miner Just like pools, there are a lot of miners to choose from. For Windows Systems If you are using a Windows system, the developer of xmr-stak-cpu provides binaries to download on the GitHub release page.
For Other Operating Systems If you're not using Windows, you will have to compile xmr-stak-cpu for yourself, luckily this isn't as hard as it sounds.