Even though Electroneum, the highly anticipated cryptocurency, has officially launched its blockchain only few days ago, thousands of miners have already got involved in the mining process. And I am going to show you how to get involved as well.
1.) Download the Wolf XMR Miner
Since Electroneum uses the same algorithm as Monero, we can use this Monero miner:
https://github.com/OhGodAPet/wolf-xmr-miner/releases/download/0.4/wolf-xmr-miner-v0.4.zip
2.) Extract the content to your hard drive
It doesn't really matter where you extract the miner since it is very small. Just remember the location of the folder.
3.) Open the xmr.conf file
Here comes the trickier part. In the folder where you extracted the miner you'll find the file "xmr.conf". If you can not open it straight away, right click the file and select "Open with..." and then choose Notepad.
Now we will input our information. after the "url": input your pools url (make sure you put the url inside the
quotation marks). For my pool the url is: stratum+tcp://eupool.electroneum.com:3333
Then we will input the "user":, usually it is your electroneum public wallet address. Make sure you input your address in one line. Do not forget to delete the spaces if you copied your address from the offline paper wallet.
In order to mine on both GPU and CPU (not just GPU) type "-1" after the "index":. In "threads": choose the number of threads you want to mine on. For me it's best to leave one thread under no load so it can operate the GPU.
Now the last and easiest part. "pass": Unless your pool states otherwise, the password can be anything you want. We'll put in the letter "x" since it can not be left empty.
In the end your xmr.conf should look something like this:
{ "Algorithms": [ { "name": "CryptoNight", "devices": [ { "index": 0, "corefreq": 500, "memfreq": 1500, "fanspeed": 65, "powertune": 20, "threads": 1, "rawintensity": 660, "worksize": 16 }, { "index": -1, "threads": 5, "rawintensity": 16, "worksize": 16 } ], "pools": [ { "url": "stratum+tcp://eupool.electroneum.com:3333", "user": "etnk5W1X2aXfTSh5HJLMiMNDNXmSmt5wEE7utFfD4TLnZWhNcdR11Afjgcc4avnUR38NiExzbKKHNgEFkHFiW2z17uZ6mhpYQZ", "pass": "x" } ] } ]}4.) Run the miner
There are two ways to run the miner with the configuration file. The easiest way is to drag the "xmr.conf" file onto the "miner.exe" file and in the popup choosing "Run".
Otherwise you can shift + right click anywhere in the folder and then choose "Open command line here". Type in "miner.exe xmr.conf". And that should do the trick.
5.) Tweaking the settings
There is no way I could cover a general tutorial on this, but I can recommend you to read the "README.md" file. There's a lot of explanation on what certain settings do and what value should you set them to (eg. fan speed, overclocking, maximum temperature etc.)
I hope I helped you with your first mining of Electroneum, if you liked the article please don't forget to upvote, if you didn't enjoy this tutorial or it didn't help, please write your problem in the comments, I'll try my best to help you :)