Minexcoin Tutorial: How to Mine MNX?
By: Minexcoin
Tags: Mining, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Crypto, Tutorial

Mining Within Terminal

To start several system threads for mining to load your CPU choose your system first.

Linux

1. Download zip archive from https://minexcoin.com (http://minexcoin.com/bin/linux/minexcoin-linux.zip).

2. Extract zip archive named “minexcoin-linux.zip” via linux terminal OR graphical user interface. (HELP: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-extract-zip-files-in-linux-unix-command/)

3. Open linux terminal if it wasn’t done before. (HELP: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+how+to+open+terminal)

4. Move to folder where you unzip the files. (HELP: http://www.rapidtables.com/code/linux/cd.htm)

5. Run command in linux terminal to start minexcoin core daemon: ./minexcoind -rpcthreads=<n> & . Where “<n>” is: AMOUNT OF CPU’s CORES + 1.

6. Run command to get common info about network and yours wallet: ./minexcoin-cli getinfo . (HELP: https://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api/getinfo)

7. Run command listed in item 6 until value of variable “blocks” of output of command “getinfo” will be equal to height of last block on explorer (http://minexexplorer.com/).

8. Run command to start mine: ./minexcoin-cli generate <nblocks> & . Where <nblocks> is amount of blocks need to be mined.

9. Run command listed in item 8 as many times as your AMOUNT OF CPU’s CORES but wait 2 seconds or more before you will start command again.

10. Wait until your CPU cores find blocks for you. It is a hard work and it may takes a very long period. Be patient, please.

11. If block is mined, you receive something like “0000016cc4c6b1a4a425f0687d0d9268b9b0c92bc6c03d2343e4a4c302d159bb”. This is your mined block. You are the winner.

Windows

1. Download zip archive from https://minexcoin.com. There are x32 and x64 versions in separated archives. (http://minexcoin.com/bin/windows-x64/minexcoin-windows.zip or http://minexcoin.com/bin/windows-x32/minexcoin-windows.zip).

2. Extract zip archive named “minexcoin-windows.zip” via graphical user interface.

3. Open windows command line if it wasn’t done before. (HELP: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+how+to+open+cmd)

4. Move to folder where you unzip the files. (HELP: https://ss64.com/nt/cd.html)

5. Run command in windows command line to start minexcoin core service: minexcoind.exe -rpcthreads=<n> . Where “<n>” is: AMOUNT OF CPU’s CORES + 1.

6. Run command in another command line to get common info about network and yours wallet: minexcoin-cli.exe getinfo . (HELP: https://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api/getinfo)

7. Run command listed in item 6 until value of variable “blocks” of output of command “getinfo” will be equal to height of last block on explorer (http://minexexplorer.com/).

8. Run command to start mine: start /B minexcoin-cli.exe generate <nblocks> . Where <nblocks> is amount of blocks need to be mined.

9. Run command listed in item 8 as many times as your AMOUNT OF CPU’s CORES, but wait 2 seconds or more before you will start command again.

10. Wait. Just wait. No, seriously, you have to wait until your CPU cores find blocks for you. It is a hard work and it may takes a VERY LONG PERIOD. Be patient, please.

11. If block is mined, you receive something like “0000016cc4c6b1a4a425f0687d0d9268b9b0c92bc6c03d2343e4a4c302d159bb”. This is your mined block. You are winner.