Ethereum mining tutorial ubuntu
Moreover, it's way more bad ass. In this example I'm showing the simple steps on how to get started with GPU-Mining , by manually building Ethminer and setting it up to mine using Ethereumpool although it'll work for other pools too. Mining will shorten the lifetime of your hardware and causes your PC to use more power, thus driving up your electricity bill. Also, you might lose all the money you invest. Thus, use your brain!
Bitcoin uses the Hashcash algorithm to verify transactions, which is a relatively simple calculation, which has been put on ASIC's that are capable of outperform many GPU's. Ethereum however, uses the Ethash algorithm , which is set up in such a way that it requires a big amount of Memory. As a result, the difficulty of mining Ethereum increases much slower than that of other currencies using the Hashcash algorithm.
Since I don't like the idea of others keeping your private keys, I suggest you keep away from cloud wallets. The mesa-common-dev fixes most build failures. If you've omitted step 5 from above, you can run Ethminer from the ethminer-directory inside the build-directory you're probably still in:. If the benchmark returns an empty result which it probably will the first few times , retry until you've got a viable reading or set the --benchmark-warmup.
The result should look something like this:. Now the mining should start to run. The first time the miner might show JSON or Database errors, but these will resolve itself after a while.
This is solved when manually setting a longer warmup-time:. My Ubuntu mining is running smooth! A few things were ever so slight differences in GPU is mining at a similar hash rate as my Windows 10 miner. This one only has one GPU set up now since I literally got it up and running this morning. Have three more on deck to add, all AMD Rx series.
Again, thanks for this write up, you're the only other guy I've found who's mining on Ubuntu. I am glad you found it useful! I was going to throw win 10 on the testing rig and see about mining some other coins in preparation for the etherum fork that will end mining lol. If you come across anything Easy, Stable and profitable give me a comment or a message! Indeed it is a good idea.
Even mining bitcoin gold has been profitable lately. This year will see an explosion of alt coins, including Ethereum classic, so mining will still very much be a profitable thing in , even after Ethereum goes to proof of stake.
But mine it while you can and hang onto it!! Personally, though, I think the real one to pay attention to is EOS, which may someday overtake Ethereum like the old tech startups in the 90s and s but I don't think it will just fade away into nothing. YOU are the man Martico! I have all my cpu's mining xmr. They are just sitting there anyway. I also am hopeful for steam farming using my HDD's.
Ive been looking around for something to mine to make use of those. They also are just sitting. I use ubuntu because I am familiar with it from the early days of bitcoin mining The new coins however seem to only have windows miners. Which is a smart move from the developers. The main stream is more comfortable with windows. If you get time try to post some of your alt coin mining scripts!
Unfortunately, I ran this miner and it creates a lot more heat than my Windows miner. The only ways I found were rather cumbersome. So if you figure out a way to tweak the GPU settings in Ubuntu, let me know. Granted, I was running this miner on an inferior test circuit and I did not have a fan directed at it It kept my tech room warm this morning that's for sure!