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Title: Coingen and New Altcoin Mining
Post by: squavez on January 04, 2014, 05:34:09 PM
I'm new to mining and I recently came across Matt Corallo's Coigen.io website where you can create your own altcoin (as discussed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396991.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396991.0)).

It seems pretty interesting and I thought it would be fun to create an altcoin or mine some other altcoins created with Coingen.

Does anyone know how to actually mine these new coins? I cannot seem to find a guide anywhere on this site or on Coingen's site. I am used to connecting to a pool with cgminer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Title: Re: Coingen and New Altcoin Mining
Post by: Sharky444 on January 04, 2014, 06:24:59 PM
add gen=1 to the .conf file of the coin, and restart.


Title: Re: Coingen and New Altcoin Mining
Post by: squavez on January 04, 2014, 06:58:24 PM
Thanks Sharky - not sure where the config file is located though. As an example, I downloaded the Jesuscoin and the duckiecoin packages, both only include .exe files. I have no problem installing the wallets, I just have no idea where to point my miner to...



Title: Re: Coingen and New Altcoin Mining
Post by: torusJKL on January 04, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
You could also go to
Code:
Help -> Debug window -> Console
and type
Code:
setgenerate true 1
where 1 is the number of cores to use for mining.


Title: Re: Coingen and New Altcoin Mining
Post by: Labro on January 04, 2014, 07:57:31 PM
You could also go to
Code:
Help -> Debug window -> Console
and type
Code:
setgenerate true 1
where 1 is the number of cores to use for mining.

+1 Thank you