How to use the Toolkit for PoA Mining
Before you can use the PoA Miner please make sure your Wallet is fully synced and configured correctly for mining !
here are the steps to setup a working miner:
- Create a folder and name it as PoA Miner (e.g. PoAMiner)
- Download poaminer-<your platform>.zip and poa_miner_configuration.json for your operating system from here
- Extract the download into the PoA Miner folder. This folder will then contain 2 files called prcycoin-poa-minerd and poa_miner_configuration.json
- the sample poa_miner_configuration.json file looks like this:
{
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:59683",
"userpass": "username:password",
"threads": "1",
"no-longpoll": true,
"no-stratum": true,
quiet": true
}
- edit the sample poa_miner_configuration.json file in a text editor and replace the following with your own required settings:
- change the "userpass": "username:password" to match your rpcuser and rpcpassword from the prcycoin.conf of your (QT)wallet/daemon that you want to use for PoA mining
e.g. "userpass": "rpc4PoA:password4PoA" if your prcycoin.conf on your wallet looks like this
rpcuser=rpc4PoA
rpcpassword=password4PoA
- on the Wallet side make sure your prcycoin.conf contains server=1 (if you have many any changes on the prcycoin.conf file please re-start the daemon for this changes to take effect)
- the configuration of the PoA Miner is finshed - now switch to the Toolkit
On the Toolkit you have to have your (QT)Wallet/daemon configured correctly and can now start the daemon using the Toolkit.
Once the daemon is running and fully synced you can go to Tools → PoA Miner which bring bring up the PoA Miner Configuration window that looks like this:
In this window you will have to fill in your configuration data:
Miner Location → path to your prcycoin-poa-minerd file
URL Daemon → http address and port of your Wallet ( e.g. http://127.0.0.1:59683 if your PoA Miner is running on the same system as your Wallet, otherwise give the IP address and port of the remote system where your prcycoin_poa_minderd is running). Port 59683 is the default port for communicating with the Prcycoin-poa-minerd.
UN and PW → rpcuser and rpcpassword as configured in your prcycoin.conf of your wallet (the same that you have set in the poa_miner_configuration.json file)
CPU threads → you can choose the amount of threads that your computer should use for mining - by default the amount is set to half of your total core count ! You could also check the checkbox ‘ Use all CPU Threads’ right next to the Threads field which would enable the miner to use ALL THREADS of your CPU !
!! WARNING !!
Using too many Threads may damage your CPU or make your system extremely slow even unusable. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Auto PoA → If the checkbox is checked for ‘Auto POA’ the PoA Miner will start before the configured amount of Blocks BEFORE the PoA Block and will end mining after the configured amount of Blocks AFTER the PoA Block. It's totally up to you to select how many Blocks before and after you want to mine .
This is a very useful feature because it saves a lot of resources as the miner only starts to mine (using the CPU heavily depending on the amount of chosen threads) during these given ranges instead of running constantly all the time !
Start POA → you can start PoA Mining anytime manually by pressing this button
Stop POA → you can stop PoA Mining anytime manually by pressing this button
If you have configured everything correctly and e.g. use ‘Auto PoA’ and the configured amount of Blocks before a PoA Block is reached the miner will automatically start mining - your window might look like this:
If you are lucky and have mined a PoA Block you will see the earned amount of currently 16.25 PRCY coin rewards e.g. in your QT Wallet which might look like this then:
OR you can of course just use the Toolkit and double-click on your configured wallet and use for example the ' getbalances’ command to see your current balance.
CONGRATULATIONS - you have successfully configured a PoA Miner and use the Toolkit to manage it and automatically start and stop mining to save CPU cycles and energy !
If - for whatever reason - you might run into any issues or trouble please try to check the ‘Toolkit troubleshooting section for PoA' on this wiki to find an answer or try to get help on the PRivaCY Coin POA Miners Telegram Group ot the PRivaCY Coin PRCY-Toolkit Telegram Group.
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