CPU mining for Ethereum

by youtube · Wed Mar 02, 2022 05:47 PM UTC · Post #32247 · Wed Mar 02, 2022 05:47 PM UTC

CPU mining for Ethereum

by youtube · Wed Mar 02, 2022 05:47 PM UTC · Post #32247

Hi there, I am trying to use my Xeon CPU do some test CPU mining and following the quick start guide.

Just wondering what value should I put in the pool section for Ethereum? the example on your web and video is set to "monero".

As well what value should I use for algo?

Should I change it ? I setup to below and it showing me "algo" or "coin" is not right

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"pools": [
{
"algo": "ethash",
"coin": "ethereum",
"url": "prohashing.com:3359",
"user": "xxxx",
"pass": "xxxx",
"rig-id": null,
"nicehash": false,
"keepalive": false,
"enabled": true,
"tls": false,
"tls-fingerprint": null,
"daemon": false,
"socks5": null,
"self-select": null,
"submit-to-origin": false
}

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Thanks

Steve Sokolowski · Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:24 AM UTC

Re: CPU mining for Ethereum

by Steve Sokolowski · Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:24 AM UTC · Post #32249

youtube wrote: Hi there, I am trying to use my Xeon CPU do some test CPU mining and following the quick start guide.

Just wondering what value should I put in the pool section for Ethereum? the example on your web and video is set to "monero".

As well what value should I use for algo?

Should I change it ? I setup to below and it showing me "algo" or "coin" is not right

--------------------
"pools": [
{
"algo": "ethash",
"coin": "ethereum",
"url": "prohashing.com:3359",
"user": "xxxx",
"pass": "xxxx",
"rig-id": null,
"nicehash": false,
"keepalive": false,
"enabled": true,
"tls": false,
"tls-fingerprint": null,
"daemon": false,
"socks5": null,
"self-select": null,
"submit-to-origin": false
}

-------------------
Thanks

Ethash is not supported by most CPU miners, because it is not profitable to mine ethash on a CPU. You'll earn fractions of a penny per day, while spending a dollar on electricity.

Instead, you should use a graphics card to mine ethash. You'll want to use the "GPU Quick Start" guide for that.

by ToeKnee · Sat Mar 12, 2022 04:30 PM UTC · Post #32297 · Sat Mar 12, 2022 04:30 PM UTC

Re: CPU mining for Ethereum

by ToeKnee · Sat Mar 12, 2022 04:30 PM UTC · Post #32297

youtube wrote: Hi there, I am trying to use my Xeon CPU do some test CPU mining and following the quick start guide.

Just wondering what value should I put in the pool section for Ethereum? the example on your web and video is set to "monero".

As well what value should I use for algo?

Should I change it ? I setup to below and it showing me "algo" or "coin" is not right

--------------------
"pools": [
{
"algo": "ethash",
"coin": "ethereum",
"url": "prohashing.com:3359",
"user": "xxxx",
"pass": "xxxx",
"rig-id": null,
"nicehash": false,
"keepalive": false,
"enabled": true,
"tls": false,
"tls-fingerprint": null,
"daemon": false,
"socks5": null,
"self-select": null,
"submit-to-origin": false
}

-------------------
Thanks

I have 54 Xeon processors myself. I'm in the process of upgrading all of them to 2698v4 processors (each 2698v4 processor does 7.8kH on RandomX). You know, just trying to make the most $ from a CPU that basically already exists to run my 54 rigs. I'm running HiveOS on them, so I decided to copy and paste my user config for doing Monero on a CPU.

Code:

xmrig-new-xmrig
Cpu1
Url stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3359
Algo rx/0
Fork xmrig
Pass a=randomx w=145 p=0.056 n=%WORKER_NAME%.%COIN% o=hiveos.%COIN%
Template ToeKneeGee
Hugepages 1280
User Config "donate-level": 1 "randomx": { "init": -1, "init-avx2": -1, "mode": "auto", "1gb-pages": true, "rdmsr": true, "wrmsr": true, "cache_qos": false, "numa": true, "scratchpad_prefetch_mode": 1 }

Also I've been fooling around with mining Pulsar Coin in HiveOS. There are a couple of YouTube videos floating around on how to mine the PLSR coin. It might take off. It might go nowhere. PLSR uses an Algo called "CurveHash" ...