Like everyone involved in cryptocurrency I know that Bitcoin and other coins are produced through mining: Bitcoin mining is the process by which transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, known as the block chain, and also the means through which new bitcoin are released. Anyone with access to the internet and suitable hardware can participate in mining. The mining process involves compiling recent transactions into blocks and trying to solve a computationally difficult puzzle.

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The participant who first solves the puzzle gets to place the next block on the block chain and claim the rewards. The rewards, which incentivize mining, are both the transaction fees associated with the transactions compiled in the block as well as newly released bitcoin.

I also know that in most cases Bitcoin mining is done by big organisations, mostly in China and Eastern Europe, running large farms of mining computers. It’s tough to compete against that.

Cryptocurrency Mining Farm (Image: M. Krohn/Wikimedia) However, in learning about my current, I found out that it can be mined on a home PC with a half-decent graphics card. I decided to give it a go.

The basic process is straightforward: • You run a dedicated mining app, typically, which mines Bitcore by maxing out your graphics card. • You connect the app to an online mining pool server so your mining power contributes to a pool of other miners’ hardware and you share the coins created. • You connect your mining pool account to your Bitcore wallet so that payouts come to you. The details are covered well in a YouTube video by Mod Rage, ‘ How to Mine Bitcore (BTX) for Beginners (From Scratch)‘, included below. There’s another one that gives some additional useful information.

My Setup When I initially tried running CCMiner I got the error “qubit_luffa512_cpu_init” each time. I worked out this indicated my graphics card was too old to run the latest version of CCMiner – no great surprise there – so I went back through older versions to find one that worked for me. That turned out to be the x64 version of build. When you start up the miner, initially not a lot happens – you just get a command window with a basic startup screen: CC Miner Screen – startup (Image: BIUK) After a minute or two, however, you will likely become aware of a rising background noise as your graphics card starts to ‘take off’. You may also find your PC’s response becomes a bit ‘sluggish’.

Here mine has started – the card temperature has increased from 68C to 88C, and the fan speed from 46% to 67%: CC Miner Screen – startup 2 (Image: BIUK) The key thing is the “yes!” message which tells us it has started to mine successfully (failure is indicated by “boo!”).

In this video, I will demonstrate how to mine Bitcore (BTX), as simple as possible. Bitcore Website Suprnova Pool Website Example batch file configuration. Nvidia Miner: ccminer.exe -a timetravel -o stratum+tcp://btx.suprnova.cc:3629 -u Rapidement.user4 -p 1 -i 19 note: newer CC miners may have changed the algorithm name.

So you may have to change -a timetravel, to -a bitcore. AMD/ATI Miner: sgminer.exe --kernel timetravel10 -o stratum+tcp://btx.suprnova. Nexus NXS Miner Gpu. cc:3629 -u Rapidement.user6 -p 1 -I 20 If you found this video helpful, consider a BTX donation to this address: BTX 1Jc96o61MDernYhaEVL195FJGSVUqCEVr1.