How To Mine Viacoin VIA

Create account. • Register, or login if you already have account • Create a that will be used by the miner to login 2. Download a miner. • Intel/ATI/AMD CGMiner (3.7.2) Windows: • Intel/ATI/AMD CGMiner (3.7.2) Linux: • NVIDIA Cudaminer: • Intel/ATI/AMD BFGMiner Linux/Windows: • Fabulous Panda Miner Mac OS X: • Minerd CPU Miner Mac/Linux/Windows.

AMA with VIA's head of. Gulden NLG Mining Cost Calculator. Etc.) in conjunction with Viacoin, without losing much hash (if any) for either coin. So realistically mining Viacoin on it's own. Using WhatToMine you can check, how profitable it is to mine selected altcoins in comparison to ethereum or bitcoin.

Configure your miner. If your using Linux, Then type the following into the console:• CGMiner./cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin. WorkerName -p WorkerPassword• BFGMiner./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin. WorkerName -p WorkerPassword If you want to mine on a Windows Operating System, then you'll need to create a batch file to start your miner. Simply open notepad and then copy and paste the following:• CGMiner cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin. WorkerName -p WorkerPassword• BFGMiner bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin. WorkerName -p WorkerPassword• MinerD minerd -a --scrypt -t 6 -s 4 -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin.

WorkerName -p WorkerPassword• Cudaminer For NVIDIA Cards cudaminer -o stratum+tcp://via.cryptopools.com:3341 -u Weblogin. WorkerName -p WorkerPassword You then need to change '-u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password' to reflect your own account.

Eg, '-u Steve.StevesWorker -p StevesWorkerPassword' then go to 'File >Save as' and save the file as 'RunMe.bat' in the same folder containing your miners application files. You are now ready to mine, double click on 'RunMe.bat' to start mining. If you want, you can create additional workers with usernames and passwords of your choice 4. Create a Viacoin address to receive payments.

• Downloading the client & block chain: Download the Viacoin client from. Generate a new address and input it on your account page to receive payments. Advanced CGMiner settings / FAQ • • Don't set intensity too high, I=11 is standard and safest. Higher intensity takes more GPU RAM. Check for hardware errors in CGMiner (HW). HW=0 is good, otherwise lower intensity.

• Set shaders according to the readme (or look at your graphic cards specifications). CGMiner uses this value at first run to calculate thread-concurrency. Easiest way to get this optimized is to use same settings as others have used here:. • There's also an interesting project which gives you a GUI for CGMiner. Windows only it seems.

• Here's a great how to get up and running with Xubuntu.