Setting up the mining software

Mining
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After downloading mining software you’ll need the following:

Environment
Set your page/swap file size to at least 16384MB
Windows: set some variables

Miner setting

MY_ADDRESS - a ‘A’ or ‘G’ address
POOL_SERVER - look for the closest server (eu, us, asia, rus) at the pool’s site
PORT - take this form the pool’s site
RIG1 - this is you miner’s name - it can be anything alpha-numeric - rig1, worker5, amd_home

Claymore’s ZCash AMD GPU Miner

edit ‘config.txt’

-zpool POOL_SERVER:PORT
-zwal MY_ADDRESS.RIG1
-zpsw z
-allpools 1

double-click ‘start’

EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner

create ‘BTG.bat’ or use one of the existing .bat files. Needed file content:

miner --server POOL_SERVER --user MY_ADDRESS.RIG1 --pass x --port PORT

double-click on the edited file’s name