That’s it really. So lets have a look at this in detail:<\/p>\n
Download cpuminer<\/strong> To install with a Debian based system like Ubuntu you simply run “sudo apt-get update<\/em>” and “sudo apt-get install cpuminer<\/em>” and the system does the magic.<\/p>\n Join a mining pool<\/strong> I tried my luck with a Litecoin pool and picked minersdream.com: most green boxes and no block fees. So browse to your chosen pool’s website and register your account. When done you have to add a “worker”. You need a worker for each of your device you will have to support your mining activity. As we just give it a try with our cpuminer, you need to add only one for the time being. Remember the name and the password of your worker, we need it in a second.<\/p>\n When you got your worker, we will start our miner soon. Depending on your OS, open up a terminal or command prompt and type in the following command:<\/p>\n minerd –url=stratum+tcp:\/\/stratum-eu.minersdream.com:3333 –userpass=USERNAME.WORKER:PASSWORD<\/em><\/p>\n (Please make sure to redirect to the correct path for your minerd binary. Replace USERNAME, WORKER and PASSWORD with you own values)<\/p>\n When you typed in everyt correctly, you should get an output like this:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perfect, our CPU miner is mining.<\/p>\n Tip to have minerd\u00a0 running in the background<\/strong> In Linux you run the command like this:<\/p>\n nice -n 19 minerd –url=stratum+tcp:\/\/stratum-eu.minersdream.com:3333 –userpass=USERNAME.WORKER:PASSWORD<\/em><\/p>\n This sets the minerd task to the lowest priority and have it running in the background.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To mine with only your CPU you follow these these steps: Download cpuminer for your OS Join a mining pool Run cpuminer with appropriate parameters for your pool Watch the numbers and have it run for a while That’s it really. So lets have a look at this in detail: Download cpuminer Depending on your … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":222,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-administrator","post-49"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDepending on your operating system, you have to download cpuminer (minerd) from this site<\/a> or you use the OS internal packing system (like apt or yum). If you have to download it, make sure to pick the right architecture (eg x86 or x86_64), download the archive and extract it to a directory of your choice.<\/p>\n
\nThere are several mining pools out there, all with different rules like fee’s and payout models.<\/p>\n\n
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\nTo have cpuminer running in the background while you are\u00a0 working, you can decrease the priority of it. In Windows you start up the task manager, tab “Processes” and then right-click on minerd and select priority “lowest”. (Not having windows, hope this all correct…)<\/p>\n