Mining DogeCoin: Using Coinomi, unMineable and xmrig(macOs/Linux/Windows)
By: Abhishek Dey
Tags: Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency, Doge, Dogecoin, Mining

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‘DOGE’ coin which started as a meme during its early stage has gained a much-deserved hype. More so since the time that Elon Musk Tweeted about it. Elon has stated that it will become the people’s currency.

Dogecoin is currently trading at around 49 cents with a market cap of $63 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.

Cryptocurrencies can be gained either by purchasing, trading, or mining.

So today I’ve decided to help you guys figure out how you can mine Dogecoin cryptocurrency using your laptop or PC (Mac/Windows/Linux).

Let’s get started

First of all, you will require a cryptocurrency wallet for this I would recommend Coinomi You can download it from this link: https://www.coinomi.com/en/downloads/

Coinomi supports (Android, ioS, Windows, Mac, Linux).

2. Download and install Coinomi.

3. Coinomi will give you a wallet recovery phrase, make sure you copy and paste the phrases in the grey area in a text file, and keep it saved someplace safe. In case you lose the recovery phrases you won’t be able to recover your wallet.

Coinomi recovery phrase screen

4. Check the I have safely stored the recovery phrase checkbox (after you’re done saving the recovery phrase) and click Next.

5. It will ask you to confirm the recovery phrase in the next step.

6. Set a password for your Coinomi wallet.

7. Select the coins that you would like to send and receive through this wallet (in our case let's select Dogecoin). You can select other cryptocurrencies(BitCoin, Ethereum, etc) as well if you wish to use them.

8. You should be able to see your Coinomi wallet dashboard now.

9. Click on Dogecoin then click on Recieve

10. Note the unique hash being shown on your screen

11. Now we will be setting up our mining environment using xmrig (https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases). We are using v6.12.1 for this tutorial.

12. Download the zip/tar file suited for your os (Windows: xmrig-6.12.1-gcc-win64.zip, MacOs: mrig-6.12.1-macos-x64.tar.gz, Linux: xmrig-6.12.1-linux-x64.tar.gz, Ubuntu [Focal]: xmrig-6.12.1-focal-x64.tar.gz, [Bionic]: xmrig-6.12.1-bionic-x64.tar.gz).

13. Unzip/Untar your archive file by double-clicking on it.

14. Navigate to the xmrig-6.21 directory and open config.json using any text editor.

15. Find the pools array object in the json block.

Note: Please refer to JSON block below point 18 for Steps 16–18.

16. Edit the algo key and the value rx/0 as the value.

17. Set the url key to rx.unmineable.com:3333 (We are going to use unMineable for the pooling)

18. Set the user block to “user”: “DOGE:Your_unique_hash_here_from_step_10.worker_name”.

It should look something like this “DOGE:DKMcDFGQPxN5joRebQ988JjV4PSKAnuqQN.MAC”

"pools": [ { "algo": "rx/0", "coin": null, "url": "rx.unmineable.com:3333", "user": "DOGE:DKMcDFGQPxN5joRebQ988JjV4PSKAnuqQN.MAC, "pass": "x", "rig-id": null, "nicehash": false, "keepalive": false, "enabled": true, "tls": false, "tls-fingerprint": null, "daemon": false, "socks5": null, "self-select": null, "submit-to-origin": false } ],

19. Save the config.json file.

20. Now in the case of Linux/mac head to your terminal, navigate to xmrig directory, and execute:

sudo ./xmrig

For windows execute xmrig.exe(Run with admin privileges).

21. You should get a screen like this. Make sure you don’t exit the terminal, disconnect your internet, or shut down your machine. Doing these things will exit your mining process.

22. Now we are going to monitor the progress of our mining script. Head to the following URL: https://unmineable.com/coins/DOGE

23. Now enter the unique hash(step 10) into the highlighted area and click on search.

Wait for a couple of minutes (approx 20–30 minutes). The Dogecoins should start appearing on your dashboard.

24. When the Doge coins reach a threshold of 30 coins they should be automatically credited to your Coinomi Wallet.

This same technique can be used to mine for other cryptocurrencies as well but it is completely dependent on the difficulty level of the crypto.

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