Tutorial for the Dual Mining of Ethereum (ETH) and XVG/DCR via Bminer on Windows
(1) Lite Version
Program Preparation
1. Visit Bminer’s official website to download the Lite-version software for Windows. As is shown in the following figure, the version on the second line headed by No.2 is the Lite version.
2. Locate the downloaded Bminer and extract it.
3. Open the extracted file.
Note: Versions no lower than Bminer 7.0.0 are available for ETH’s solo mining, and versions no lower than Bminer 8.0.0 for dual mining of ETH.
There are 2 versions for Windows:
Lite version realizes mining via editing bat documents while Launcher version achieves mining through editing parameters on operation interface.
Tutorial for the Dual Mining ETH and XVG
From Version 7.0.0 on, Bminer is capable of supporting ETH’s solo mining, and from Version 8.0.0 on, the dual mining of ETH and XVG/DCR.
Claymore is a commonly used ETH dual mining program, with 1% devfee for solo mining and 1.5–2% devfee for dual mining.
Bminer boasts of better effects than Claymore in dual mining with only 0.65% devfee in solo mining, and only 1.3% devfee in dual mining.
Bminer is capable of making full use of unoccupied sources in ETH mining to achieve the best efficiency in dual mining without affecting ETH’s mining speed.
As the dual mining operations of DCR are the same as those of XVG, this tutorial takes dual mining of XVG as an example as follows.
Step 1: Right click the document named as mine_eth_xvg.bat, and choose the option of “Edit”.
@echo OFF
REM Change the following address to your ETH addr.
SET ADDRESS= THE DESIRED ETH WALLET ADDRESS THAT BMINER MINES TOWARDS
REM Change the following address to your XVG addr.
SET ADDRESS_2= THE DESIRED XVG WALLET ADDRESS THAT BMINER MINES TOWARDS
SET USERNAME=%ADDRESS%. MINER’S NAME
SET POOL=eth-us-west1.nanopool.org:9999
SET SCHEME=ethash
SET USERNAME_2=%ADDRESS_2%. MINER’S NAME
SET POOL_2=xvg.blake2s.com:8888
SET SCHEME_2=blake2s
START “Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast” bminer.exe -uri %SCHEME%://%USERNAME%@%POOL% -uri2 %SCHEME_2%://%USERNAME_2%@%POOL_2% -api 127.0.0.1:1880
Editing ETH’s Mining Settings (Bold Fields)
Step 2: Change ETH’s wallet address (ADDRESS field) to the desired one that Bminer mines towards.
Step 3: Change ETH’s mining pool address (POOL field) to the desired ETH mining pool that Bminer mines towards such as eth-us-west1.nanopool.org:9999.
Step 4: Edit the protocol’s settings (SCHEME field) to the SCHEME corresponding to the selected ETH mining pool. For instance, if the mining pool of nanopool is selected, then the corresponding SCHEME field should be ethash.
Note: Different ETH pools adopt dissimilar protocols. Therefore, please kindly visit Bminer’s official website to search for the protocols corresponding to commonly used mining pools.
Take the following for an example:The protocol field corresponding to F2pool is ethproxy, and that to nanopool is ethash.
Editing XVG’s Mining Settings (Italic Fields)
Step 5: Change XVG’s wallet address (ADDRESS_2 field) to the desired one that Bminer mines towards. Please kindly refer to the following for how to apply for XVG’s wallet address.
Step 6: Change XVG’s pool address (POOL_2 field) to the desired one that Bminer mines towards such as xvg.blake2s.com:8888.
Step 7: Edit the protocol’s settings (SCHEME_2 field) to the SCHEME corresponding to the selected XVG mining pool, or blake2s
Step 8: Save the file before running it by clicking.
Quickstart to Obtaining XVG Wallet
XVG wallet is available through downloading on the official website of XVG, or creating wallet generation addresses on exchange platforms.
The following serve as the application procedures for binance’s exchange platform.
Step 1: Input in the search bar of the explorer https://www.binance.com/ to register for an account.
Step 2: Click “Balances” in the dropdown menu of “Funds”, enter XVG and then click the button of “Deposit”.
Step 3: The contents in the red frame of the following picture is XVG’s wallet address.
For Your Reference
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