![]() – Once the wallet address is generated the client will start to sync the blockchain, this could take some time, especially the first run when there is no data downloaded – Don’t worry, you will be able to get your address listed later on should you not write it down now – You can write down that address, just add 0x in front to indicate that it is a hex address foe Ethereum – The wallet address you will get will be shown under Transaction signer and Mining Benefactor (marked in red in the screenshot above) – You will be asked to enter a master password, this you need to remember as it will be used to encrypt your wallet and you will be asked the password each time you run the client – Run the provided eth-start.bat file and follow the on screen instructions If you want to have two independently working installations of geth and eth, then you might want to use the -datadir parameter for geth or the -db-path for eth to specify different folder for the blockchain data for one or for both applications. The key files that are needed for you Ethereum wallet however will be stored in different places and each client will use ts own wallet, but we’ll get back to that in a minute. But before that a word of warning, if you have a working geth installation you should know that both Ethereum clients will use the same folder for the blockchain data by default, though the contents of the folder will not be compatible. We have tried to make the guide easy and simple to follow, so that you can begin using Ethereum and mining Ether in just a couple of minutes.įirst we need to create a local wallet and this is the first thing you will do when you run the eth client software. Our guide is for using eth and ethminer on Windows with binaries provided only for that OS (version 0.9.40 64-bit), though the usage should be the same or very similar on other operating systems, but you will need to compile or get binaries for the respective OS. So now it is time to get started with using the cpp-ethereum (eth) client for creatng a local wallet and for mining both solo on a local system or on an Ethereum mining pool using eth and ethminer. The Go Ethereum implementation (geth) only comes with built in support for CPU mining, while the C++ implementation (eth) contains support for OpenCL GPU mining both as a part of the client as well as a separate miner (ethminer) and there is also a fork of ethminer with CUDA support available ( source). Our previous guides regarding mining and using Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins were based on the Go Ethereum implementation ( source) as we find it easier to be used than the C++ implementation of the Ethereum client ( source) even though we are actually using ethminer for the actual mining which is a part of cpp-ethereum and not go-ethereum package. – To check out the new Ethereum mining pool called Weipool that was just launched… ![]() The above line is for mining using the OpenCL version of ethminer, for using the CUDA fork you need to replace the parameter -G with -U and you should be ready to go. The above command line is an example you can use to get started mining with ethminer at Weipool, you just need to replace the wallet address with your own Ethereum wallet and the default hashrate value of 20 (suitable for a single high-end GPU such as Radeon 280X) to the respective hashrate of your mining rig and you are ready to go. The Weipool does have user controllable hashrate (difficulty) setting, so it should be suitable for miners with lower hashrate. Since it is a new pool it may take a while for miners to gather and for the first blocks to get solved, so be careful and do have in mind what happened with Pooleum – a new Ethereum pool that seems to have completely disappeared now. The new pool does not yet have a lot of miners and it is supposed to do payouts every 12 hours if your balance is more than 1 Ether, with 0.01 Ether tx fee and currently 0% pool fee for the first week (1.5% fee after that). The new pool is called Weipool and offers a simple web-based user interface for mining Ether coins with the help of ethminer, you can use our Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows, if you are still new to Ethereum. It seems that there is another new mining pool foe Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) coins that has just launched.
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