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First Find yourself a Litecoin Pool.

Elitist Jerks = 3% Fee PPS http://www.ejpool.info
Ozcoin = 2% Fee DGM https://lc.ozcoin.net
Litecoinpool.org = 4% Fee PPS http://litecoinpool.org
Pool-X = 2% Fee PPLNS http://pool-x.eu


P2P Pool HowTo: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0

For more information about Litecoin Pools. Visit
https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools


Minerd using scrypt for litecoin [Windows (https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/downloads)/ or Linux (https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer)]

Note : 64 Bit has been known to increase speeds

Replace pool.ejpool.info:9332 with any pool that you have chosen in the examples below


Windows:
extract https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/downloads into a folder end edit "MINE 2 THREADS.bat"

put in your worker details you command for starting minerd.exe shuld look sumthing like (depending on your machine):
(replace user and password with details from "My Workers" and --threads with amount of cpu cores you wish to use)

Its working when you see the following.
[2011-10-16 20:27:39] thread 1: 84652 hashes, 3.34 khash/sec
[2011-10-16 20:27:44] thread 1: 6717 hashes, 3.43 khash/sec
[2011-10-16 20:27:44] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: true (yay!!!)

Linux (Ubuntu):
(replace user and password with details from "My Workers" and --threads with amount of cpu cores you wish to use)

Linux (CentOS):
(replace user and password with details from "My Workers" and --threads N with amount of cpu cores you wish to use)

If you have issues with Ubuntu or CentOS please come into our IRC channel and we will be more than happy to help you.

MAC(OSX): Binaries can be downloaded here.
https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/downloads


Thanks to Pooler for all the great work he has done with cpuminer!

IF you feel anything needs to be added or changed in this short little how to.. please let me know.

NOTE: If you get missing libcurl for 64 bit linux. Here is how to resolve it. Make sure to rerun ./autogen.sh after you install libcurl

+1

very good write up, hopefully the ltc/usd keeps rising

On the Linux instructions, there is no need for additional CFLAGS, -O3 suffices for this.
On the Centos installation instructions, you are missing a number after -j which specifiec concurrent compilation of files.

Sure.. ill add it but I cant find what the payment system is.. do you know?

No worries.. I added it.. I might get more detailed with pools later :)

Thanks.. fixed a few of those

I would love to setup a private Litecoin Pool for my company, but getting ArtForz pushpool working correctly has been challenging to say the least.

Getting closer every day I suppose :P

Could always be a good thing when people dont reply. Not much more to fix.

However made a couple changes :)

Awesome thread.

This is giving a hand up to all the wannabe Litecoin miners

Going to start mining LTC myself and get my cpu dirty.

Added Libcurl note as this might come up with some people. I found this to be the easiest and cleanest way to get it installed

Remember,

keeeping up to date with the latest cpuminer from pooler may increase your khash :)

What about p2pool? Its at 3.5MHash/s!

Added a link to the HowTo. Seems to be growing very well!

Updated the https:// to git:// for all git pull jobs

This should be a great head start for those hesitant to try CPU mining. Stop leaving money on the table! :)

Thanks :D

I'm sorry but I don't get this at all, I extracted the file and their is not 2 threads.bat file anywhere. What am I missing?

just create the file yourself and add cut & paste the example

Thanks!

AVG does not like it:
http://i47.tinypic.com/2i1ff2t.gif

Can I safely ignore it and go on?

Of course... ;)

I'm confused where do I get username and password from because the pools I've visited in browser don't have web pages or are not accepting new workers?

Go here https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools

See also my faq

I just tried to download 2.2.2-win64 and Avast! won't download it - says it is a Win32:Crypt-OSW [Trj]
I cross-checked by downloading it on a different machine with Panda AV and when I asked it to scan the zip it threw up a Trojan alert and automatically deleted minerd.exe from the zip.

Can anyone post a clean version of the 64bit minerd executable please for a compiler-challenged user?

How can I also use some Nvidia GPUs?

Wow.. this is way old. Updated a few pools.. But it still works for CPU mining

Another Update as people still use it for references.

Thanks for the post!... but there is a new way to do it (integrated ATIs)?

If i will do mining with pure CPU this is still the best way?

GPU is the best way to go at the moment. CPUs are much slower and less efficient.

FPGAs seem like they're around the corner, but I'm not sure when they'll get here for consumers. I think maybe jasinlee and co. are doing an IPO.. something similar to ASICMINER. That is another option as well, or you can wait for consumer mining FPGAs to become available. There is a company or two already accepting pre-orders, but I can't vouch as to the validity of them... they could be scams for all I know. I would be careful about where you park your money for FPGAs, when Bitcoin ASICs/FPGAs came out there were a lot of scam artists that popped up.

@echo on
ECHO "Example Litecoin miner startup file (1 thread, localhost, set your own user and password)"
ECHO.

minerd.exe --algo scrypt --s 6 --threads 4 --url http://pool.ejpool.info:9332 --userpass username.1:password

minerd.exe --url http://pool.ejpool.info:9332 --userpass user:password --threads 2

sudo apt-get install make automake build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev git libdb4.8++-dev
git clone git://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git
cd cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

./minerd --url http://pool.ejpool.info:9332 --userpass user:password --threads 2

sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum -y install git libcurl-devel python-devel screen rsync

git clone git://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git
cd cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

./minerd --url https://pool.ejpool.info:9332 --userpass user:password --threads 2

cd /root
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.24.0.tar.gz
gzip -d curl-7.24.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf curl-7.24.0.tar
cd curl-7.24.0
./configure
make
make install
cp /root/curl-7.24.0/docs/libcurl/libcurl.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4 /lib64/libcurl.so.4