Mining

Hashrate Benchmarks

See #hashrate-reports channel for many more: discord

New Mining Software

There are many varieties of aquachain mining software.

As of this edit, latest is aquaminer-gpu

Compiling is easy.

git clone --branch linux --recurse-submodules https://github.com/aquachain/aquaminer-gpu
cd aquaminer-gpu
make
ls bin/

Running all the miners are generally the same. The -F flag and then the pool URL, or your node URL if solo mining.

Aquachain Miner Resources

• Network Pool Status

Pool mining

Choose a pool from those listed on pool status or aquachain.github.io

Run the miner with the correct flags, considering making a short script

./aquaminer.exe -F http://<pooladdress>:8888/<address>/<worker>

Here replace <address> with your wallet address and <worker> with any custom name for the CPU you are using with your address. Remember multiple workers can be used with a single wallet address and in this case all paid money will go to the same wallet. And swap <pooladdress> for the actual pool host.

For CPU, use -t flag for number of cpu (default all)

./aquaminer.exe -F http://pool.aquachain-foundation.org:8888/<address>/<worker>

For GPU, use -d flag to choose the OpenCL device number pooladdr='http://pool.whatever:8888/<address>/<worker>' ./aquacppminer-gpu -d 0 -F ${pooladdr} & ./aquacppminer-gpu -d 1 -F ${pooladdr} & Since these are now running in background, use something like "killall aquacppminer-gpu" to kill all the miners.

Pools

These are the currently known pools, edit to add more: pools.json

aquachain explorer: pools

multipool status

Solo mining:

• Don't solo mine unless you can actually mine blocks once in a while, start at a pool

• Dont keep your keys on your RPC server

• Use the -aquabase flag to set coinbase with no private key on server

Be sure to wait and sync before mining. It doesn't take long.

To reduce orphan blocks, also be sure to have peers and check a block explorer to see the current block number and hash.

Do not key any keys inside the "nokeys" directory. You can safely delete aquaminingdata and nokeys (make sure you dont keep keys in there!)

Run your RPC server like so: aquachain -rpc -rpcaddr 192.168.1.5 -datadir aquaminingdata -keystore nokeys -aquabase 0x3317e8405e75551ec7eeeb3508650e7b349665ff

Later, to spend and use the AQUA console, just double click aquachain. This way, you keep your keys safe (in the default keystore dir) and don't mix datadir, this can prevent RPC attacks.

Please see the many cases where people have lost their ETH because leaving RPC open for even one minute.

Solo farm

This assumes your AQUA node will be running from LAN 192.168.1.3, with other workers on the same lan.

WORKERS: aquacppminer --solo -F http://192.168.1.3:8543/

Also consider running a pool! open-aquachain-pool

and see mining proxy: aquachain-proxy

Coinbase

This is the address that receives the block reward. The mining node does not need the key.

Use the -aquabase flag, or from console:

miner.setAquabase('0x.your address..')