[HOW-TO] Solo Mining Infinitecoins for Fun and Profit

[btc-mike]

The two things you need to solo mine Infinitecoin (or any scrypt-based coin) are the client (aka wallet) and the miner.

These instructions are for a fresh install of both.

CLIENT INSTALL

1. Download the client from this thread. 1.8.5 is the most recent version.
2. Extract infinitecoin-qt.exe to a folder or the desktop.
3. Start-up infinitecoin-qt.exe, wait for it to load, then exit it.
4. Click on the Windows Start Button and in the search box enter %appdata% (include the % signs at beginning and end). Press enter and new window will pop open.
5. Scroll down and find the Infinitecoin folder. Double-click to open the folder.
6. Right-click in blank area of that folder. In the menu that appears, hover the mouse over new and a second menu will appear. Select Text Document.
7. A new file named document.txt will be created.
8. Double-click on the file. You should have Notepad open with a blank document.
9. Paste this into Notepad:
 

Code:

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9322
addnode=82.240.225.5:60261
addnode=82.240.225.5:60261
addnode=217.210.247.144:9321
addnode=218.104.84.202:64483
addnode=62.240.189.178:2848
addnode=70.189.107.53:56864
addnode=75.155.136.206:58357
addnode=64.121.156.214:39124
addnode=79.97.125.191:65382
addnode=99.40.161.40:61192
addnode=219.138.69.18:1111
addnode=114.32.14.24:57959

10. Change the **Yourusername** and **Yourpassword** to something else.
11. In Notepad click on File and then Save As.
12. Enter "infinitecoin.conf" as the File name (include the quotes). Change Save as type to All Files. Click Save.
13. Start-up infinitecoin-qt.exe and let it sync. This will take a while.


MINER INSTALL - In this example, we will be using cgminer on a GPU.

1. Get your favorite version of cgminer. Remember 3.7.2 is the last version to support GPU mining.
2. Extract all the files to a folder.
3. Right-click in blank area of that folder. In the menu that appears, hover the mouse over new and a second menu will appear. Select Text Document.
4. A new file named document.txt will be created.
5. Double-click on the file. You should have Notepad open with a blank document.
6. Paste this into notepad:

Code:

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o localhost:9322 -u **Yourusername** -p **Yourpassword**
pause

7. Change the **Yourusername** and **Yourpassword** to went you entered above in Step 10.
8. In Notepad click on File and then Save As.
9. Enter "cgminer.bat" as the File name (include the quotes). Change Save as type to All Files. Click Save.
10. Double-click on the cgminer.bat file to start mining.
11. Tweak cgminer to get the best for your GPU.

If there is anything wrong, let me know.

[RB25]

Thank you very much. I will try this tomorrow.

[btc-mike]

I check and it works fine.

[RB25]

Seems to be working after I read back through the instructions. I had to put quotations around the txt file to make it a conf file and then re-open the wallet.

So, since my pool is, in essence, my own PC, the roaming files work with the wallet files to make sure the coins get dumped into my wallet, should I find some?

ETA: I also went back and looked at the difficulty for IFC, which I found as 1.7. Using the Coinwarz calc, it estimated finding a block every 3hrs or so. It looks like it has worked, and I thank you. This also serves as a good thread for other miners starting out.

[btc-mike]

Changed to make it a little easier to understand.

[Takuya]

Thanks for your tut

would this work with a cpuminer at the cpu-only coins, too?

[btc-mike]

Thanks for your tut

would this work with a cpuminer at the cpu-only coins, too?

The principle is the same. You will need the client/wallet and then a miner. The client/wallet will be almost identical but the miner will differ since most use a specialized miner.