Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine:
Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash)
Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org)
Bitcoin Gold [BTG] (bitcoingold.org)
Dashcoin [DSH] (dashcoin.info)
Etherium Classic [ETC] (ethereumclassic.github.io)
Etherium [ETH] (ethereum.org)
Fantom Coin [FCN] (fantomcoin.org)
Infinium-8 [INF8] (bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=698727.280)
MonetaVerde [MCN] (monetaverde.org)
Quazar [QCN] (reddit.com/r/QuazarCoin/)
Digital Note [XDN] (digitalnote.org)
Monero [XMR] (getmonero.org)
Zcash [ZEC] (z.cash)
Installing minergate cli in centos
Download the minergate fedora CLI rpm in the terminal – type:
wget https://minergate.com/download/rpm-cli -O minergate.rpm
if you just install with rpm -i minergate.rpm then you’ll be missing dependencies, you are best to install with yum:
yum install minergate.rpm
press Y to get the dependencies. You now have the minergate cli altcoin mining client installed, and its ready to use.
Mining altcoins in centos with minergate
If you don’t already have an account, then go create one at minergate.com – once you have the account then you start the client with:
minergate-cli -u YOUR-EMAIL --xmr 2
possible values for the altcoin type are: eth bcn xmr qcn xdn fcn mcn aeon dsh inf8. YOUR-EMAIL is your login on MinerGate, 2 – number of cores. If you don’t write the number of cores after coin, Miner will be mining on all cores. Miner will adjust pool ports automatically, you don’t have to write them.
mining altcoins in centos with minergate: cli options
if you just type minergate-cli at the terminal, then you’ll see a load of options for tweaking:
Usage:
minergate-cli [options]
Options:
-u, --user account email from minergate.com
-v, --version show version
-l, --list-gpu show list of available GPU devices
--proxy proxy server URL. Supports only socks protocols
(for example: socks://192.168.0.1:1080
--verbose show detailed logs
Currency settings:
--currency
currency possible values: eth bcn xmr qcn xdn fcn mcn aeon dsh inf8.
For merged mining: +qcn +dsh +inf8,
where is fcn or mcn
threads count for specified currency
Gpu settings:
--gpu# [intensity ] [cuda-gridsize ]
[cuda-worksize ] [cl-localsize ]
[cl-globalsize ]
gpu# you can get this value from the list displayed
by command --list-gpu
currency possible values: eth bcn xmr qcn xdn fcn mcn aeon dsh inf8.
For merged mining: +qcn +dsh +inf8,
where is fcn or mcn
intensity this parameter is used for mining CryptoNote-based
currencies on CUDA devices.
Values range: 1..4. Recommended and default value: 2.
When no value is set, the client uses default value
cl-localsize OpenCL device parameter 'local work size'.
Can be power of 2 only
cl-globalsize multiplier for OpenCL device parameter 'global work size'
cuda-gridsize CUDA device parameter 'grid size'
cuda-worksize CUDA device parameter 'work size'
Examples:
minergate-cli -u minergate@minergate.com --proxy socks://192.168.0.1:1080 --bcn 4
minergate-cli --user minergate@minergate.com --eth 6 --fcn+dsh 2 --gpu1 eth cl-localsize 64 cl-globalsize 4096 --gpu2 bcn intensity 2
Source: minergate
You might also want to check out how to mine altcoins using xmrig