zilminer

Zilliqa miner with OpenCL and CUDA support. It supports both Ubuntu and Windows OS.

zilminer is an Ethash GPU mining worker that support Zilliqa's Proof-of-Work process.

This project is a fork of ethminer. Please do see ethminer README for more details.

Features

• Zilliqa Getwork protocol
• Dual-Mining support
• All ethminer features

Install

Standalone executables for Linux, macOS and Windows are provided in the Releases section. Download an archive for your operating system and unpack the content to a place accessible from command line. After which, the zilminer will be ready to go.

Usage

The zilminer is a command line program. This means you will have to launch it either from a Windows command prompt or Linux Bash console. You can also create shortcuts to predefined commands using a Linux Bash script or Windows batch/cmd file. For the full list of available commands, please enter the following:

zilminer --help

Settings on Zilliqa Node

1. Setup Zilliqa Node by following the Zilliqa Mining Guide
2. Change the constants.xml for the following parameter:
   • Set GETWORK_SERVER_MINE to true.
   • Set GETWORK_SERVER_PORT to the port you will be using to GetWork. (default is 4202)
   • Set the other mining parameters to false:

     <CUDA_GPU_MINE>false</CUDA_GPU_MINE>
     <FULL_DATASET_MINE>false</FULL_DATASET_MINE>
     <OPENCL_GPU_MINE>false</OPENCL_GPU_MINE>
     <REMOTE_MINE>false</REMOTE_MINE>
     

3. Launch your node and find out your IP address with the following command:

   curl https://ipinfo.io/ip
   

Settings on zilminer client

Key in the following command in your command prompt:

zilminer -P zil://wallet_address.worker_name@zil_node_ip:get_work_port

Please change the wallet_address, worker_name, zil_node_ip, and get_work_port accodingly.

• For wallet_address: You can use the Zilliqa Wallet to create a new keypair and a Zilliqa address.
• For worker_name You can key in any abitrary worker name you desire.
• For zil_node_ip: Please key in the IP address of the Zilliqa node.
• For get_work_port: Please key in the port used in GETWORK_SERVER_PORT. Default is 4202.

Dual Mining

1. Write 2 scripts yourself to start/stop other coin's miner.
2. Add arg --pow-start to stop other miner before ZIL PoW starting.
3. Add arg --pow-end to start other miner after ZIL PoW stopped.

example:

zilminer --pow-start stopAE.bat --pow-end startAE.bat -P zil://wallet_address.worker_name@zil_node_ip:get_work_port

4. [Optional] If your GPU memory is not enough, add arg --clear-dag to clear ZIL DAG after ZIL PoW stopped.

Dual Mining Scripts:

Zilminer + GMiner - Beam + ZIL

Write 2 batch files: start_beam.bat batch file to start beam miner:

taskkill /f /im miner.exe >null
START cmd /c "miner.exe --algo 150_5 --server beam-us.leafpool.com --port 4444 --ssl 1 --user walletxxx.namexxx"

stop_beam.bat batch file to stop beam miner:

taskkill /f /im miner.exe >null

Zilminer:

zilminer.exe --pow-start stop_beam.bat --pow-end start_beam.bat --pow-end-at-startup -P zil://wallet_address.worker_name@proxy.getzil.com:5000/api

If your GPU memory is not enghou for 2 miners, add zilminer arg --clear-dag

Build

Building from source

See docs/BUILD.md for build/compilation details.