How to Mine Darkcoin - sgminer - Ubuntu Linux

What is Darkcoin?

DarkCoin is the first privacy-centric cryptographic currency with anonymous block transactions powered by DarkSend. DarkCoin uses a new chained hashing algorithm approach, with many new scientific hashing algorithms for the proof-of-work. This is so that the processing distribution is fair and coins will be distributed in much the same way Bitcoins were originally. ASICs will be much more difficult to make for these algorithms and will take years. With the chained hashing, high end CPUs give an average return similar to that of GPUs. Another side effect of the algorithm is GPUs run at about 30% less wattage than scrypt and 30-50% cooler.

Download Darkcoin wallet at: http://www.darkcoin.io/

Install necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install -y boinc-amd-opencl automake autoconf opencl-headers

sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libtool libncurses5-dev autoreconf

wget https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhfbr8xh6zw0gi0/AADFg21HGNNhgf0uuHdaryy5a/x11-sgminer-src.zip

mkdir sgminer

unzip x11-sgminer-src.zip to ~/sgminer

cd sgminer

wget https://chunkypools.com/static/ADL_SDK_6.0.zip

unzip ADL_SDK_6.0.zip

move header files to sgminer directory:

cp include/* ADL_SDK

run autogen script:

cd ~/sgminer

./autogen.sh

configure the makefile:

CFLAGS=”-O2 -Wall -march=native” ./configure

build the binary:

sudo make install

verify:

./sgminer -n

mkdir ~/.sgminer

vi ~/sgminer/sgminer.conf

example config (7950):

“pools” : [


"url" : "stratum+tcp://www.guugll.eu:7903",

"user" : "DARKCOIN_WALLET_ADDRESS",

"pass" : "ANY_PASSWORD"


],

“api-listen” : true,

“intensity” : “19″,

“vectors” : “1″,

“worksize” : “256″,

“kernel” : “darkcoin”,

“auto-fan” : true,

“temp-cutoff” : “85″,

“temp-overheat” : “80″,

“temp-target” : “70″,

“log” : “5″,

“queue” : “1″,

“temp-hysteresis” : “3″,

“shares” : “0″,

“shaders” : “1792″,

“thread-concurrency” : “32765″,

“gpu-thread” : “2″,

“gpu-engine” : “1100″,

“sharethreads” : “32″,

“lookup-gap” : “2″,

“gpu-powertune” : “20″,

“gpu-memclock” : “1500″

How to Mine Darkcoin - sgminer - Ubuntu Linux