Basic Mining Guide For Blake256

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A basic guide to get started mining on the Blakestream Merged Mine Pools
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Pool Setup
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GPU
Nvidia | AMD
It is recommended to use AT1/NY2 for gpu mining since the difficulty is set to accommodate them.

Asic
Baikal Giant B (BK-B)
It is recommended to use LA1 or EU3 for asic mining since the difficulty is set to accommodate them.

I also recommend checking out the Merged Mining page on BlakeCoin.org

• This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by  Sidgrip.

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Mining Pool Setup
Register On Pools, Set payment addresses & Setup workers

There are Three Merged Mined Pools run by Bluedragon747
AT1/NY2 | LA1 | EU3

I suggest setting up accounts on all three, so your miner has pools to fail over to in case one goes down.

For This example I will be using AT1/NY2.

First You need to Register an account

Next You will need to setup you payout addresses, Click “Edit Account”
You need to download and setup all six wallets to receive payouts for all coins.
You Can follow the Wallet Setup for BlakeStream Coins guide if you need help.

Fill in payment addresses & set Payout Thresholds

Then You will need to setup Workers. Click “My Workers”

Worker names are your –> username.workername
I use a simple method and just use numbers for worker names

When using multiple mining rigs it’s always a good idea to have separate workers, make it easier to monitor.

That’s it for the Pool setup Click Here to go back to top

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by  Sidgrip.

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Nvidia GPU Setup

For this example I am using a GTX 1080TI

On the Mining Pool Click the link to “Getting Started”

This takes you to the Getting Started Guide. For Nvidia Cards we will be using ccminer

This link takes you to the Github where the latest release of mining software is available

Download and unzip the file

Now go back to the “Getting Started Page” and copy the example Config File for ccminer to your ccminer folder replacing the config that is already there.

Open the ccminer.conf file using notepad

The only thing you will need to change is your url, user & pass

Save the file and double click on ccminer-x64,

Oh No…. we got a failed connection

This is cause by your firewall blocking ccminer from accessing the internet, you will need to allow this through the firewall and run it again.

Oh No… now we have a failed authentication error

This is caused by wrong info entered in your ccminer.conf file, double check your url, user & pass then run it again.

If you have no issues you will see your miner connect and start submitting shares

Hash rate will fluctuate as the miner runs and may take up to 10 minutes to reflect on the pool

The pool determines hash rate based on shares submitted & will always fluctuate

That’s it for the Nvidia Gpu setup Click Here to go back to top

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AMD GPU Setup

I do not have any AMD cards in my local test machine and can only take this guide so far as of now.

On the Mining Pool Click the link to “Getting Started”

This takes you to the Getting Started Guide. For AMD Cards we will be using cgminer

This will download cgminer, your antivirus may give a warning or prevent this from downloading or running, you will need to add it to you exceptions in your antivirus software

Unzip cgminer-alt-pool-la1 and open the config file with notepad

The only thing you will need to change is your url, user & pass

You may not want to have all three pools listed, to change this you can delete the pool/s you do not wish to include in your config file. Please note the comma placement as it is often over looked

example of two pools

example of one pool

Save the file and run cgminer

If you receive a Stratum Connection failed error, This is cause by your firewall blocking cgminer from accessing the internet, you will need to allow this through the firewall and run it again.

If you receive a failed authentication error, This is caused by wrong info entered in your ccminer.conf file, double check your url, user & pass and run it again.

If you have no issues you will see your miner connect and start submitting shares

Hash rate will fluctuate as the miner runs and may take up to 10 minutes to reflect on the pool

The pool determines hash rate based on shares submitted & will always fluctuate

That’s it for the AMD Gpu setup Click Here to go back to top

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Baikal Giant B (BK-B)

Go to your Miner tab

Here is my example, set your pools in the order you would like – using your own User & pass. Make sure “Extranonce” is not checked

Then Click Save Pools

To avoid your miner switching pools when there is a momentary connection issue, the recommended setting for scan-time is 7

As long as the info you entered was correct you miner will connect to the pools, sometime it does take a few minutes for the Baikal asic to connect

That’s it for the Giant B setup Click Here to go back to top

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Mining Pool Setup
Register On Pools, Set payment addresses & Setup workers

There are Three Merged Mined Pools run by Bluedragon747
AT1/NY2 | LA1 | EU3

I suggest setting up accounts on all three, so your miner has pools to fail over to in case one goes down.

For This example I will be using AT1/NY2.

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