Good Morning, Krypton!
I'd like to talk to you today about solo mining Krypton, since I've just learned how to myself.
I am miner.
(noob miner, so bear with me)
First of all, let me briefly explain my gear and what I had to do to get up and running.
The gpu I'm running is an NVIDIA GTX970M on an MSI GT72 laptop, with added cooling protection. I wouldn't recommend running a gpu on a laptop without cooling.
image h/t @ecco in slack
I'm not only new to mining, I'm also new to this laptop (3rd day) so, at first, I did not have the 'extra primo badass cooling system' turned on. After 1 hour of mining, I began to smell 'circuits' and immediately ceased. The system fan alone was not keeping up. So, I had some coffee (it was *early) and re-evaluated my situation. After the 2nd cup, I remembered to turn on the cooling system. (Note to self: don't ever do anything dangerous with your laptop before coffee.)
After restarting the mining with the cooling system, everything appears to be running fine.
Now, let me tell you how I got here...
1. I went to Krypton's website,
http://Krypton.Rocks/mining/ and downloaded the ETH-miner.
2. I extracted the ETH-miner into my GKR directory.
This was no easy task on this new laptop with Norton antivirus pre-installed. Ugg! It kept telling me that there was a Trojan2 virus and kept preventing me from extracting the files, at first.
I spoke with RagingBull about this and he told me that, in addition to Norton, Chrome also does not play well with ETH-miner. :\
Only after disabling Norton, was I able to successfully extract and run ETH-miner, without it getting deleted each time I attempted to run it!
When I ran ETH-miner the first time, it returned the error, "missing MSVCP120.dll" and quit.
Lucky for me @pltrdy from slack was wide awake in a later time zone than me and was able to point me to the fix. "Download Microsoft Visual c++ 2013 library, aka vcredist," he said. I found it from Microsoft here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=407843. Next, I went to slack's #mining_discussions room where @cakes has left some excellent .bat files for running the 2 programs needed to mine KR, GKR and ETH-miner. Here they are the .bat files:
@echo off
color 0A
"gkr.exe" --rpc --maxpeers 100 console 2>kr.log
Save this as Start_GKR_RPC.bat and place it in your GKR folder.
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0 ---->>> this line removed, see later post
@echo off
color 0A
"ethminer.exe" -G -F http://127.0.0.1:8888
Save this as Start_mining.bat and place it in your GKR folder. (Be sure to click 'all files' as the file type before saving, instead of .txt)
After testing Start_mining.bat with these new setx settings, I will update these .bat files the Krypton.Rocks mining page.
4. If you have not synced your KR QT wallet, do so now. *** Any KR mined before the wallet is fully synced are invalid and not spendable. ***
5. Now, from the GKR folder, click on the first .bat file, Start_GKR_RPC.bat . This will start GKR for mining. (You can also start this file from the command prompt.)
6. Next, from the GKR folder, click on the second .bat file, Start_mining.bat . This will start your ETH-miner. (You can also start this file from the command prompt.)
ETH-miner will begin creating a DAG file. When this finishes, it will automatically begin mining.
wweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm mining! (Just like Bill Murray in 'What About Bob?"... saying, "I'm sailing!" lol)
So there you have it, my noob mining tale and how I got it all running.
It is entirely possible that I've misspoken the lingo since I've never mined before. If so, please forgive me and correct me. I don't mind.
This tale of success is meant to help other noobs get up and running solo-mining KR.
Good luck, noobs!
If you get stuck, come to Krypton's slack and ask @cakes or @pltrdy for mining help.
Click here for a Krypton slack invite >>
slackinc955.azurewebsites.net/ Happy Mining!
covertress, noob miner
P.S. You can follow my progress on Krypon's Richlist. I'm #5.
http://gaiaplatform.com/kr/richlist.phpPoor Laptop.
Amazing read and very funny on top of that.
You should build a real desktop Rig to mine some Krypton, maybe even mining eth and quickflip for some Krypton if its more profitable.
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