Welcome to the Noob Tutorial Series, today is HIROCOIN turn.
1.- Wallet set up.
Go to HIROCOIN official website
http://cryptocoderz.com/hirocoin.html (always try to download wallets from official websites, it´s more safe)
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Now go to your download folder rigth click de downloaded file and select "run as administrator", click "yes" on the prompt windows, the install and finish, now the HIROCOIN wallet is installed on your PC, you need to run it to get synced with the network to be able to use it, so double click de HIROCOIN icon on your desktop and "Allow access" on windows firewall.
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Wallet will begin to sync with network, this can take several hours just be patient, in case wallet can´t find any connections just close it and open it again. (sometimes this happen because windows firewall delay to allow access).
Once wallet is synced you will be able to send and receive HIROCOINS.
2.- How to mine
NOTE: I only have an AMD graphic card HD6870 ( i know i need to buy something new
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), so this tutorial is based on AMD, for NVIDIA users it should be the same just with other software, but i´m not 100% sure.
First you need to download the miner
AMD------>
http://cryptomining-blog.com/2496-new-sgminer-fork-for-x11-mining-with-higher-performance/NVIDIA--->
http://cryptomining-blog.com/6362-updated-ccminer-1-7-1-dev-fork-by-tpruvot-from-git-for-windows/Unzip the downloaded file and leave it there, because now you need to choose a mining pool, at the moment i´m writing these, there are two
I.- Sawa p2pool
http://crypto.office-on-the.net:9408/static/II.- Aika pool
https://aikapool.com/hiroI´ll explain Sawa pool, just because is more simple to start, Aika pool need you to register and create a worker, anyway you should try both and see which one suit you better.
So let´s come back to the unziped file go to the folder where "sgminer.exe" resides (/sph-sgminer_x11mod) and create a new text file name it "sgminer.conf" (delete the original first), open it with Notepad and paste the following. Don´t forget to put your wallet address.
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://crypto.office-on-the.net:9408",
"user" : "HERE PUT YOUR WALLET ADDRES",
"pass" : "x"
}
]
,
"intensity" : "18",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "x11mod",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
Save it and run "sgminer.exe", now you should be mining, you can check your stats in the pool page, if you get an "missing OpenCL.dll" error when you run "sgminer.exe" you need to download the proper or latest driver for your video card.
There are more configurations and tweaks to get more hashrate from your card but these are more advance and more hardware specific, and these is a noob tutorial, just to get you started.
NVIDIA user sorry but i don´t have any NVIDIA card so i´m not sure the exact way to mine with these, but now you should have a general idea of the process.
comments, questions, i´ll be glad to answer