Litecoin mining tutorial macbook
Change the Type to Pool Mining. Set the Threads value to the number of cores you have double that if you have Hyper-threading. You can leave the Scantime value. For the Server, Port, Username and Password, enter your mining pool information. Using P2Pool mining pools is fairly popular with Litecoin. You can use p2pool. The Litecoin-QT UI will display the output from minerd and a running total of accepted and rejected shares, as well as average hashes-per-second.
While mining from within the app is nice as it gives you running totals, you can just as easily mine from the command-line with the following command:. The command line gives me a bit more info: Any ideas on what might be going wrong? You could try using Homebrew to install libidn if you do not have it.
Had you had MacPorts installed at any point? That post sent me in the right direction — thanks! Turns out I was missing both libidn and openssl. I have one with ltc. This is so frustrating! You can get Homebrew from http: The easiest way to do this is create symlinks aliases that point to the copies that Homebrew created.
These commands in the Terminal create the needed folders and create the symlinks:. Hi Jay, I really appreciate you trying to assist me. As an example, I copied your link for the terminal to get Homebrew and pasted it into the terminal, hit enter….. It has so many files within the files.
I do know that this is the portion that if one single character or space is incorrect, nothing will work. Again, I really appreciate your trying to assist and I wished I were able to understand what you have laid out better. If you live around The Woodlands, TX. What I really need is someone to just talk me through it over the phone. Musings from the Chiefio. What to do then? The Mining tab is no longer in the latest Litecoin-QT wallet app. Sorry for the confusion! Hello — Lovely article!!
Is there a way to enable the mining option in LiteCoin-QT? I have a question. Do I need to setup somehow litecoin wallet to start mining or not? Do I need to setup server IP etc. I didnt fint the answer.
Where do the mined coins go? In my wallet file? Where is it saved, if I dont mine with Litecoin-QT? You will join a litecoin mining pool of your choice. You can use p2pool. The Litecoin-QT UI will display the output from minerd and a running total of accepted and rejected shares, as well as average hashes-per-second.
While mining from within the app is nice as it gives you running totals, you can just as easily mine from the command-line with the following command:. The command line gives me a bit more info: Any ideas on what might be going wrong? You could try using Homebrew to install libidn if you do not have it. Had you had MacPorts installed at any point? That post sent me in the right direction — thanks!
Turns out I was missing both libidn and openssl. I have one with ltc. This is so frustrating! You can get Homebrew from http: The easiest way to do this is create symlinks aliases that point to the copies that Homebrew created. These commands in the Terminal create the needed folders and create the symlinks:. Hi Jay, I really appreciate you trying to assist me.
As an example, I copied your link for the terminal to get Homebrew and pasted it into the terminal, hit enter….. It has so many files within the files. I do know that this is the portion that if one single character or space is incorrect, nothing will work. Again, I really appreciate your trying to assist and I wished I were able to understand what you have laid out better. If you live around The Woodlands, TX.
What I really need is someone to just talk me through it over the phone. Musings from the Chiefio. What to do then? The Mining tab is no longer in the latest Litecoin-QT wallet app. Sorry for the confusion! Hello — Lovely article!! Is there a way to enable the mining option in LiteCoin-QT? I have a question. Do I need to setup somehow litecoin wallet to start mining or not? Do I need to setup server IP etc. I didnt fint the answer.
Where do the mined coins go? In my wallet file? Where is it saved, if I dont mine with Litecoin-QT? You will join a litecoin mining pool of your choice. On the website for your mining pool, normally located in the account area you will enter your wallet address. After that, create a new worker through your pool then use that with your miner. Any coins you collect while mining in your pool will be automatically added to your wallet provided you entered your wallet address in your account settings on the pools website after some time.
Do I need to worry about my MBP overheating? But I have a problem now.