Forums Crypto Currencies Litecoin Litecoin Mining tutorials Search Posts Litecoin Mining tutorials Server Time: Showing posts 1 to 1 of 11 Gender: Unknown Country: Unknown Threads: 34, Posts: 112 #0 1.First things first, DOWNLOAD and install the latest version of the LiteCoin wallet!Grab it from the official site AND ONLY!  We repeat: AVOID online wallets, exchanges, hell, even pools to store your coins!ALWAYS HAVE YOUR COINS in your wallet, and make sure you backup your wallet as well!!Awesome =D Now run it, let it sync(it could take several hours to do the first sync, dont worry) and find your unique LiteCoin address in the Receive tab!It should be something like this:  Copy and paste your address somewhere, preferably with the copy address button!We are going to need in abit later    Lets move to step 2!You will need some descent GPUs to mine LiteCoins.In theory, you could mine with CPUs as well(heck, you could even mine with your mobile phone) but its highly NOT recommended.

The difficulty now is SO HIGH and your hashrate will be SO LOW that you will end up burning electricity for nothing.While both AMD and NVIDIA cards can mine litecoins, we highly suggest AMD, since they mine faster.Our two personal favourites are the GigaByte 7950 card and the HIS 7950 ones, but literally any model/brand will do the job.Lets go to step 3!Many people skip this 3rd step, and they end up having extremely bad results...So, here we go, with bold letters.If for any reason the links go offline, just google them and grab them from there.Install first the AMD Catalyst drivers, reboot, install the AMD SDK 2.8, reboot again.On our way to step 4!4.Drivers installed, well done!Now we must create an account on the pool we want to use.Sit down tight, this may take few minutes!First of all, we visit the pools' page.You should see smth like this Click Register.You will be redirected to a page that looks like thisAfter filling everything correctly,you should see a screen like this Login with the new credentials you just created, by filling your username/password upper left on the dashboard  After logging in, go to account details There, you will need to request for an email code verification, in order to protect your account AND setup your payout address(remember in Step1, we created our unique payment address!)!

Put your PIN and ask for an email confirmation!You should see this on the upper screen After asking for the confirmation, go to your email you used for your registration.You should have an email there from WeMineLTC.Now we have the code!Lets go back to the Account Details page and lets put our payment address nowIf done correctly, you should see this!Now, lets go create our first worker.Go to My Account--> My workers Set the password for your miner(doesnt have to be something difficult, 1234 will do just fine), leave the difficulty settings as is, and hit Update.That will do you in case you have one pc.In case you have more than one, you can create multiple workers, one for each PC, or you could point them all to the same worker, wont make any real difference.usually people set one miner account per PC because it makes monitoring easier!Lets move to the next step!5.To actually mine LiteCoins, we need a mining software.At the moment, there are two that we could use.With simple words we could say GUIminer is cgminer with graphics, and cgminer is abit more"advanced" than GUIminer.

More experienced users prefer cgminer while less experienced ones go for the GUIminer.We will cover both, so you can make your own choice Before we proceed though, go to Getting Started-->New user info and you should see this screen with the pools' current mining servers.Make sure to check all the time this page, among with site news since more and more servers are been added!cnn dinero bitcoin:3335(this is an old server now, and not used anymore!litecoin nvidia:3334 instead, which you will find in the getting started page !)okcoin bitcoinFirst of all, be aware that GUIminer was originally developed to mine BITCOINS, and not LITECOINS.What we will actually work with to mine litecoins is called GUIminer Alpha.Thats the one you need!The original GUIminer CANNOT mine litecoins!Ok, since we got that clear, lets start!At first, we need to download latest version.

/index.php?topic=150331.0 Download and extract somewhere(for example, your desktop).You will end up with something like this: Locate guiminer.exe and run it.GUIminer will run, and will give you some fields to complete.In host, we put the server we chose WITHOUT HTTPS or tcp://  or port.in Port we will put 3334, in username field we put our workers name(in our example, Tutorial.1) and the password we created for it( in our case, 1234).We make sure that the stratum box is ALWAYS on YES and we can select from some pre-defined settings for our GPUs!In our case, our miner has 2x GigaByte 7950 cards, so we selected that one, and it fills all the other fields like thread concurrency,worksize, vectors etc automatically.So we end up to something like this: If you cannot see your card there listed, you can check the mining comparison wiki for litecoin and grab the settings for your cards here -->  https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparisonThats it!Hit Start, wait few seconds and you should see in awhile GUIminer counting shares.

Congratulations, you are mining litecoins!for the most experienced users, and the ones that want some more"flexibility" and stats, cgminer is the key!It may look abit more"complicated, but it really isnt that much when someone explains you what on Earth it is, and how to use it!/apps/cgminer/3.5/ and get 3.5 version  Author has deleted all the windows binaries from his server!/:3334 -u Tutorial.1 -p 1234 --thread-concurrency 24000 --lookup-gap 0 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 20 -w 256 -I 19 -g 1After you write that, click Save As--> from the save as type select All Files and name it My Miner.bat Reason we name it with a .bat extension, is to make it executable and run cgminer with the parameters we wrote.:3335) , following by some parameters, like our username (-u), our miners password (-p), the thread concurrency of our cards, the look-gap command, where we want the gpu engine to run, where its memory clock, if we want to use the powertune option and how much, the workload(w), the Intensity of the card(I) and the number of threads per gpu(g).