{"id":78,"date":"2021-12-01T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2023-06-18T06:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T06:15:23","slug":"get-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Warning<\/h3>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Mining on Android is discouraged by Apple. Use this software at your own risk.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Downloading and Running<\/h3>\r\nBy default when downloading the app, Chrome may alert you that the file may be dangerous. This is because the zip contains an app which is new to Google. To continue, click on the arrow to the right of the download and select keep.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-117 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_1-500x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/>\r\n\r\nmacOS also will complain that Apple can&#8217;t check if the software is malicious as the app wasn&#8217;t downloading directly from the App Store.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-118 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_2-500x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"\/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_2-500x500.png 500w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\r\n\r\nTo get around this restriction, you need to right click on the app file and select open.\r\n\r\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-119 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_3-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_3-237x300.png 237w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_3-58x72.png 58w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_3.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_4-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_4-275x300.png 275w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4_Downloading_4.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/center>The application will launch into the macOS menu bar at the top. From there you can start mining and customise the settings including the mining wallet and server.\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-172 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MainMenu-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"\/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MainMenu-1.jpg 900w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MainMenu-1-300x193.jpg 300w, \/\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MainMenu-1-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\r\n<h3>Mining Server<\/h3>\r\nThe server is the place to be given what to mine and a wallet is the place to store the mined coins.\r\n\r\nFor example if you wanted to mine SHIBA INU, you could consider visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/unmineable.com\/coins\/SHIB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unmineable&#8217;s SHIB pool<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThere you&#8217;re given instructions on how to join their server.\r\n<pre class=\"pool-desc\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Global Server\r\nethash.unmineable.com:3333\r\nAlternative Port: 13333<\/pre>\r\nTheses details can be inputted on the 2nd section of the wallet and server menu.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-35 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1_Wallet-Settings-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/>\r\n\r\nNote: the server &#8220;kp.unmineable.com:3333&#8221; has been prefixed with &#8220;stratum:\/\/&#8221;, which is the typical connection type to a mining server. Think of it as http is for websites and stratum is for mining pools.\r\n<h3>Mining Wallet<\/h3>\r\nNext you need a place to store your mined coins, this is what&#8217;s referred to as a wallet. A wallet is generated from a private key and a public key, the private key is a long random set of characters which is used to generate your public key (another long set of characters) and to sign any transactions going out of the wallet.\r\n\r\nThe safest form of wallets are hardware wallets, which are offline computers which store the private key that interact with another online connected device used to store the public information only, this makes it harder for hackers to get to your private key as your device is offline.\r\n\r\nNote: While private keys are almost impossible to correctly generate from a public key, it&#8217;s not for sophisticated attackers. So if you&#8217;re storing large amounts in your wallet, you should consider cyber insurance.\r\n\r\nAnother form of wallet could be from large crypto exchanges such as <a href=\"https:\/\/vtudio.com\/a\/?kraken\">Kraken<\/a>, while this exchange in particular does not provide insurance for the coins stored on your account they are known to be one of the safest online. That being said, hacking still occurs, always keep your 2 factor auth devices safe. The advantages of storing your coins on an exchange is that if you require to trade your coins for currency, you can do that without paying transfer fees between wallets.\r\n\r\nYou can also run a wallet on your computer, a popular wallet to use is <a href=\"https:\/\/atomicwallet.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atomic Wallet<\/a> which has a macOS application. The advantages here is that it&#8217;s quick and easy to setup, but you need to keep on top of your computer&#8217;s security.\r\n\r\nThe worst form of wallet to use is web based wallets that come in the form of a Chrome extension or plugin such as Metamask. These wallets while quick and easy to connect to meme coins are rife with hackers.\r\n\r\nOnce you&#8217;ve generated your wallet address, usually by going into the funding &gt; receive section, you can input the address on the wallet and server menu.\r\n\r\nNote: You should input the wallet in the form the mining server requires it, so continuing the case of using unmineable, they require the following format.\r\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"hint--bottom-right pointable hint--always is-hidden-mobile\" aria-label=\"The asset symbol\">SHIB<\/span><b>:<\/b><span class=\"hint--top-right pointable hint--always\" aria-label=\"Your SHIB address\">YourAddress<\/span><b>.<\/b><span class=\"hint--bottom pointable hint--always\" aria-label=\"A worker name is required!\">YourWorkerName<\/span><\/pre>\r\n<h3>Mining Algorithm<\/h3>\r\nEthash is the default selected algorithm requires hardware with over 4GB VRAM. For improved performance you should consider switching to Autolykos2, which is currently in BETA.\r\n\r\nNote, you must also connect to the appropriate pool, for example unmineable requires you to prefix the mining server with autolykos instead of ethash.\r\n<blockquote><strong><del>ethash<\/del><\/strong>.unmineable.com -&gt;<strong> autolykos<\/strong>.unmineable.com<\/blockquote>\r\n<h3>Mining Power<\/h3>\r\nMining loves using as much power as possible, in our application however we have put in measures to reduce the maximum GPU usage, but using this application and especially increasing the default mining power is at your own risk.\r\n\r\nApple have banned mining applications from their App stores for various reasons including adding additional wear and tear to your computers and stopping the use of background mining in applications served on their store.\r\n\r\nIn the app you get to control how much resources you&#8217;re willing to give to mining.\r\n\r\nIn our tests in 2022 mining Ethash using v0.3.9 on a M1X, we found the following.\r\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Very Low - Uses 750mW of GPU power to generate more than 1Mh\/s\r\nLow - Uses around 2W of GPU power to generate slightly more than 2Mh\/s\r\nMedium - Uses around 6W of GPU power to generate around 5.5Mh\/s\r\nHigh - Uses around 8W of GPU power to generate around 8Mh\/s\r\nMaximum - Uses around 11W of GPU power to generate around 10Mh\/s<\/pre>\r\nOne interesting note is that the M1X GPU can actually draw over 25W of power, but the algorithm in its current state is limited to 11W due to performance bottlenecks. So be sure to check back for updates.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-37 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2_Power-Mode-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/>\r\n\r\nUnder the default settings the usage is set to very low to reduce the strain mining has on your computer.\r\n<h3>Start Mining<\/h3>\r\nYou can set the application to autostart mining in the preferences menu. When mining initially starts it has to generate a graph from the server&#8217;s reference epoch, in our tests in v0.1 on a M1X we found that this can vary between 20-60 seconds depending on the power mode. After the graph is generated, the server hands out jobs to your miner and your miner works on hashing through the workload. When your miner correctly guesses the right hash for the job, this is known as a solution and it is passed on to the server for final verification. Once a solution is found mining pools generally share the value of the solution among everyone who is mining depending on how much work they&#8217;ve put in, so while getting solutions is great, everyone participating is also rewarded. Welcome to the twenties.\r\n\r\nBefore mining for your particular wallet and server, when you start mining, the app will try to mine for the developer for 5 minutes, this is known as a dev fee. You can skip this step at no cost by clicking the skip button.\r\n<h3>More<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"..\/news\/2021\/12\/how-to-connect-to-a-mining-pool-with-a-password-eg-moneroocean-stream\/\">How to Connect to a Server that Requires a Password eg.\u00a0moneroocean.stream<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/news\/2022\/01\/how-to-connect-to-ethermine\/\">How to connect to Ethermine?<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"\/\/localhost\/xcreate.com\/macminer\/news\/2022\/07\/how-to-connect-to-cudominer\/\">How to Connect to CudoMiner?<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Need more help<\/strong>\r\n<a class=\"section-scroll btn btn-border-d btn-round\" href=\"..\/contact\">get in touch<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning Mining on Android is discouraged by Apple. Use this software at your own risk. Downloading and Running By default when downloading the app, Chrome may alert you that the file may be dangerous. This is because the zip contains an app which is new to Google. 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