Mining crypto on windows is quite intuitive but not quite in Linux
So today we will be looking at how to set up mining on Linux
Installation
We would be using xmrig to mine XMR, it is a great miner, it also doesn't charge a huge fee, you set the percentage of the fees yourself too
Building packages
Since xmrig doesn't give us the binary themselves so we have to build them ourselves, this doesn't take much bandwidth not much processing power, and time though
Installing build-essential packages
sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libssl-dev libhwloc-dev
Cloning GitHub repo to build xmrig
cloning the open-source code to build Linux executables.
The total download size is 9.69 MB.
git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git
Creating the build directory and opening it in terminal
mkdir xmrig/build && cd xmrig/build
Build the Linux executables
cmake will make the executables themselves easily
cmake ..
..
is the directory path
Rechecking the cmake build
make -j$(nproc)
And Voila the installation is as easy as that
Start xmrig miner
Make a config.json to configure xmrig
touch config.json
Open in editor
Open it in vs code or other editors
for vs code
code .
Open the config.json file in
Setting up the pool to start Mining
Finally, we are going to set up the pool and start mining
excited as much me?
Hashvault
Go to hashvault's website
and create an account and log in
Click on the monero mining pool
Go to your getting started and enter your monero wallet address.
I personally use MyMonero for my wallet https://mymonero.com/ (please mymonero sponsor meee)
Enter your wallet address
Scroll down and click on the copy button below the JSON config showed and paste the copied config onto the config.json
file we created before
Starting the miner!!!
We are ready to mine now!
Scroll down more on the hashvault page and click on the bottom-most copy button
Paste in start.txt file (create in anywhere you like and you can remember the location)
It will look something like this
xmrig --url pool.hashvault.pro:80 --user 4Ahf9dJuMxXBRKkmgQz1kRKtHpa2yRapBciuV4pWKFktBeJ9WsLDcDDZEsZbkjyXkRgkFnRdTSjDVSiYJpWvsbVnVDNAkUd --pass x --donate-level 1 --tls --tls-fingerprint 420c7850e09b7c0bdcf748a7da9eb3647daf8515718f36d9ccfdd6b9ff834b14
Add a ./
at the beginning of the text file like this
./xmrig --url pool.hashvault.pro:80 --user 4Ahf9dJuMxXBRKkmgQz1kRKtHpa2yRapBciuV4pWKFktBeJ9WsLDcDDZEsZbkjyXkRgkFnRdTSjDVSiYJpWvsbVnVDNAkUd --pass x --donate-level 1 --tls --tls-fingerprint 420c7850e09b7c0bdcf748a7da9eb3647daf8515718f36d9ccfdd6b9ff834b14
and paste it in the terminal and omg your miner started mining
You will see something like this
Hashvault
Open the dashboard and click on the Stream tab
you will see connected like this
If you don't see anything don't worry just press ctrl + c
in the terminal and run the command to start the miner again
you will see that its connected to your city/country
Earnings
Let it run for a while (1-3 hours), after running it for that time open the hashvault dashboard again and click on the rewards option
You will see your rewards/earnings
Get it into your wallet
The rewards doesn't deposit itself into your wallet address that you gave you have to click on the settings in the dashboard and set the payment threshold (i set mine to the lowest)
if the sum of all the rewards is greater than the payment threshold the payment will be done to your monero wallet address
Congo!!!!!!
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Top comments (4)
Great article. Thanks for sharing! And what about additional equipment for mining? What can you recommend? I read about ASIC miners and there are many positive reviews from people about these devices. I made a research in internet and found AsicClub company, they have 20 years experience in this niche. Their miners looks great, I think I will get consultations and choose something from them. What do you think about my idea?
hello how fix this eror
[2024-10-05 16:19:10.678] unable to open "/home/codespace/.xmrig.json".
[2024-10-05 16:19:10.678] unable to open "/home/codespace/.config/xmrig.json".
[2024-10-05 16:19:10.678] no valid configuration found, try xmrig.com/wizard
Good day
I want to know recommend hardware to setup this tutorial
for example...
cpu specs
gpu
ram
thx and greetings from Argentina
I found a way to do this on a raspberry pi.
cryptoandpi.cf/blog/posts/mining-o...