The idea behind this coin resonates with me. BellaCoin for a daughter named Bella to encourage kindness. Beautiful.
BellaCoin is still perfect for GPU miners because the difficulty is low enough (.42958...) to solo mine. I've mined a lot of coins now and solved a few problems with each coin. These tips will be useful to other newbies miners.
For Windows:
1. Download the wallet into a folder of its own that isn't too deep in a directory structure
(Windows has a glitch that sometimes blocks access to ports for exe files
that are several folders deep)
2. Run BellaCoin-qt.exe
3. When Windows asks whether to allow access to the network simply choose yes.
4. Let BellaCoin-qt find other connections to the network and download the block chain.
5. Encrypt your wallet (choose Settings->Encrypt Wallet). Let BellaCoin-qt close/shut down.
6. BellaCoin-qt creates a folder in the same place where Windows is installed:
...\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\BellaCoin\
It might not be visible because the AppData directory is usually hidden by default.
If you can't find it, open windows explorer (the yellow folder icon), press the ALT key
to see the menu, select Tools->Folder Options, choose the View tab, then find and click
the "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" radio button.
7. Create the bellacoin.conf with windows notepad or some other text editor and save it
in the \BellaCoin folder (it's the same folder with the wallet.dat file). Note that the
originally suggested rpcport=10554 was supposed to be 10555. If 10555 doesn't
work for you try another. rpcport=8108 works for me. Make sure your text
editor doesn't add a .txt or some other extension to the end of the file. The wallet
needs to see bellacoin.conf , not bellacoin.conf.txt.
I'm solo mining with the following bellacoin.conf:
server=1
rpcport=8108
rpcuser=yourusername
rpcpassword=yoursecretpassword
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
listen=1
6. Close and reopen BellaCoin-qt wallet just to make sure it picks up the config file settings,
especially server=1 which allows it to solo mine.
7. Open your scrypt miner, probably in a DOS prompt style window and start mining.
My batch file for my GTX 660ti contains:
cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt -d 0 -i 0 -C 1 -m 1 -l K7x32 -R 3 -o 127.0.0.1:8108 -u yourusername -p yoursecretpassword
Make sure the rpcport (8108 in this case), the yourusername and yoursecretpassword match the bellacoin.conf file.
Your specific miner flags, such as "-l K7x32" will vary, but it is documented in the miner software.
Cudaminer can be found here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 , and AMD mining software is well documented all over the interwebs.
Each pool will have instructions for mining with a pool.
PS I solo mined 3 blocks with the above settings while typing this.
EDIT: Make sure the BellaCoin-qt wallet is open while mining.
