How to mine Litecoin! (explaind the easy way)

[Vampire2.0]

Before you start:

- I'm not responsible for anything you break by doing this. 

- Get a fire extinguisher close to you your gpu will burn. (80°C + is normal)

- Don't even think about doing this on a Nvidia gpu or your cpu. (team red ftw)

 

So lets start this will take around 5 to 10 minutes to set up.

 

1. Setup your pool(s).

      ( I will use coinotron.com in this topic.)

1.2. Make an account on coinotron.

        (https://coinotron.com/coinotron/AccountServlet?action=register)

1.3. Login.

1.4. Go to My Account.

1.5. Make a worker. (just under the add worker thing)

1.6. Type ltc in the first square, a password in the second square.

1.7. select ltc and select round based pay per share.

1.8. click add

 

2. Search for script-mining software.

        ( I will use guiminer in this topic)

2.1. Download the latest version.

        (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0)

2.2. Create a folder somewhere and extract it in there.

2.3. Start the guiminer application.

2.4. Click File -> New miner -> New CG miner.

2.5. Type "coinotron.com" in the host square.

2.6. Type "3334" in the port square.

2.7. Type "the username.ltc" in the username square.

2.8. Type "the password" in the password square.

2.9. Select your gpu in the device square.

2.10. Select your gpu in the GPU Defaults square.

2.11. Click start

 

3. Trading for $, €, BTC, ...

       ( I will use BTC-e.com in this topic)

3.1. Make an account.

       (https://btc-e.com/reg)

3.2. Login.

3.3. Go to finance.

3.4. Click the deposit button close to LTC

3.5. Scroll down and copy the code that looks likes this: LVn1SV9WYYfzUmpX8U69oTfcPGZMzi3vNr

3.6. Go back to coinotron.com and paste the code in the square behind LTC

3.7. Click the save button.

 

Now your done.

 

If you want to mine for me this is my worker name: vampirekid.ltc and this pw x.

 

Did i forget anything or you have a question just post it in here.

I didn't check my grammar so check it for me.

[megadarkwood]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/51985-how-to-start-litecoin-mining/ 

[Lays]

About the not doing it on nvidia's side, on this topic: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/80901-want-to-start-mining-but-dont-know-where-to-start/

 

@Oskarw90 says hes getting 470-570 k/hash on 1 780 oc'd.  I have 2, and with the calculator located at: https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=900&difficulty=1522.6087795&power=400&energycost=0.10&currency=USD

 

I can make around ~400-500$ a month depending on the prices.  So it's well worth it on nvidia's site.

 

[Extingquish]

 

- I'm not responsible for anything you brake by doing this.

 

 Grammar notes: Brake should be break, think that's it though

[Vampire2.0]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/51985-how-to-start-litecoin-mining/ 

thats the hard and long way

[SMURG]

People may need to forward that port on their routers? That's the only omission I can think of?

[megadarkwood]

thats the hard and long way

not really.

[Vampire2.0]

About the not doing it on nvidia's side, on this topic: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/80901-want-to-start-mining-but-dont-know-where-to-start/

 

@Oskarw90 says hes getting 470-570 k/hash on 1 780 oc'd.  I have 2, and with the calculator located at: https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=900&difficulty=1522.6087795&power=400&energycost=0.10&currency=USD

 

I can make around ~400-500$ a month depending on the prices.  So it's well worth it on nvidia's site.

 

i didn't know nvidia improved so much on the mining part of gpu's in there 700 series. those numbers are quite nice.

[Vampire2.0]

People may need to forward that port on their routers? That's the only omission I can think of?

i can't port-forward: my isp doesn't allows me but it still works so.

[BalloonZaptor]

Edit: Ignore this post

[BalloonZaptor]

i can't port-forward: my isp doesn't allows me but it still works so.

At the bottom of my GUIMiner it says this http://gyazo.com/eab...12cbc109268621b

It says that if i select my CPU.

If i deselect it it get's stuck on 'Connecting'

NVM Got it working. Working at an Average of 420 khash/s

[SMURG]

i can't port-forward: my isp doesn't allows me but it still works so.

Really? I can't mine without port-forwarding lol

[Oskarw90]

i didn't know nvidia improved so much on the mining part of gpu's in there 700 series. those numbers are quite nice.

It's pretty nice, i started off at 320 Kh/s but then used the -h 1 parameter in Cuda miner and jumped up to around 470

[RankUpGamers]

How do you get Nvidia cards going? The defaults are all AMD cards.

[RuecanOnRails]

How do you get Nvidia cards going? The defaults are all AMD cards.

 

You need to use Cudaminer for Nvidia cards. It should be installed by default with guiminer, you can select it when you add a new worker.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0

[ChillKyle]

Can you give me a snapshot of where I paste the code at?

I figured it out. But it says connecting on the lower right hand corner. Is it suppose to do that?

Here's what it looks like.

 

[Vampire2.0]

Can you give me a snapshot of where I paste the code at?

I figured it out. But it says connecting on the lower right hand corner. Is it suppose to do that?

Here's what it looks like.

try these settings

[RankUpGamers]

And, I assume I'd need Cuda drivers downloaded to get it to work? Was stuck on starting and didn't have a chance to download them yet

Aaand Cuda 5.5 requires visual studio?!? Whats going on here?

[rhyseyness]

try these settings

-snip-

I'm having the same issues, and changing to these settings hasn't fixed it

Any other suggestions?

 

EDIT: Mine's working now wrong password (stupid me)

[Razarza]

Anyone know what settings a 7870 xt should be? Would it just be the same as the 7950?

[NeutronGTX]

 Grammar notes: Brake should be break, think that's it though

Grammar notes: The error is called malapropism, Grammar refers to the structure of sentences.

[Blackterror25]

For some reason youtube video's play at something like 1fps when mining using my GPU, I play video's on my second monitor using my integrated graphics card.

And my entire PC becomes close to useless (5 seconds to just open a different tab).

[TheMissxu]

I've made $15 so far

I still have to work out selling and transferring to my irl bank account though

[miyabwah]

VampireKid, I've gotten multiple BSODs while litecoin mining. My computer is killing itself when mining. Windows skips every few seconds or so when lite mining. I even got a BSoD when I wasn't doing anything... Thoughts? (Only mining on GPU like guide says) Also, whenever I lower the "intensity" I get no shares. Or maybe I just wasn't waiting long enough.

 

EDIT - Lowering intensity works, I was just being impatient.

[Qpm5]

I tried to start mining and both my cards are saying this

No servers could be used! Exiting.

Is give me coins down or am i doing something wrong i forwarded my ports, used the right host and have my workers setup.

Any idea what i am doing wrong?