PARTICLE is a CPU minable alt coin based on Quark. The coin was NOT PREMINED and uses a combination of algorithms that makes it resistant to GPU and ASIC mining. It was announced on 31 December 2013. Read more about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.01. Sign Up for an
SSD cloud server or log in if you already have an account.
2. Fund your account with some credit (10$)
3. Click 'Create Droplet' to get your instance running
4. Select the specifications you wish to mine on as well as the newest Ubuntu x64 as your image. You get more than 600kh/s on 8 threads using the 8 Core plan. You can also consider creating several smaller ones.
5. Your username and password will be emailed to you within 55 seconds
6. Log in to your droplet via SSH
7. Change the root password to something you can actually remember
8. Create a new user. Follow the prompts after issuing the command. Only username and password are necessary, you may leave the other fields blank if you wish.
echo 'USERNAME ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
9. Change to the new user
10. Relocate into the home directory of the user you have changed into.
11. Create a swap file
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
12. Download minerd, configure and compile
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev zip
sudo wget http://146.185.130.131/cpuminer-quark.zip
sudo unzip cpuminer-quark.zip
cd cpuminer-quark
sudo CFLAGS="-O3 -msse2" ./configure
sudo make
sudo strip minerd
should the link to cpuminer-quark.zip give you a 403 error, try this link instead:
sudo wget
https://prt.suprnova.cc/cpuminer-quark.zip13. sign up at a pool, for instance
http://www2.coinmine.pl/prt/ and connect your new miner to your preferred pool, let's use prt.mine-pool.net for the guide (launch from the same dir as you compiled)
./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://prt.coinmine.pl:6080 -u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password
OR alternatively use the pool at prt.suprnova.cc
./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://prt.suprnova.cc:9999 -u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password
OR if you prefer, use a p2p pool like:
./minerd -a quark -o http://prt.mine-pool.net:9472 -u <YourPayoutPRTAddress>
14. it should look something like this
8 miner threads started, using 'quark' algorithm.
Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://prt.mine-pool.net:9472
Stratum detected new block
Stratum detected new block
Stratum detected new block
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 1: 786757 hashes, 81.45 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 7: 762003 hashes, 78.90 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 5: 787919 hashes, 81.58 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 0: 784492 hashes, 81.23 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 3: 771526 hashes, 79.89 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 4: 776537 hashes, 80.40 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 2: 757621 hashes, 78.44 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:46] thread 6: 748474 hashes, 77.52 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:53] thread 6: 552059 hashes, 80.05 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:06:53] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 641.94 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-12-31 09:07:04] thread 7: 1461822 hashes, 81.13 khash/s
[2013-12-31 09:07:05] accepted: 2/2 (100.00%), 644.17 khash/s (yay!!!)
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If you wish to run this in your background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH conncetion, go ahead and install "screen"
sudo apt-get install screen
launch screen
press space, launch the miner
./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://prt.coinmine.pl:6080 -u Weblogin.Worker -p Worker password
to restore the session when logging back in, use
All done.
Good luck, have fun and a HAPPY NEW & BLISSFUL YEAR 2014!
