How to Mine Bitcoin Gold (BTG) & Best Mining Rig Hardware – Tutorial

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I’m pretty sure most of you wonder what is the best GPU to mine Bitcoin Gold and which components should you use to create the mining rig for it. I’ve decided to create this quick guide to answer those questions. 🙂

As you probably know, Bitcoin Gold is running on Equihash algorithm – the same that is behind popular coins such as ZCash, Zclassic, Zencash, Hush, Komodo etc. This means that Nvidia cards are definitely the best choice to mine BGold. It is no rocket science that GTX video cards performs much better than AMD when mining Equihash algorithm.

Here are the latest updates by the devs:

Equihash PoW change
Difficulty adjustment algorithm

ETA: Oct 29: Adopt BTG mining protocol for pool server

The new block header format is designed for existing Zcash pool and miners. BTG client is mostly compatible with them but according to ZIP-1, some minor changes are still needed in the pool servers. More specifically, the first 4 bytes of hashReserved field should store the block height rather than zeros.Dev Team

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In this tutorial, you will find the following:

Best Hardware to mine Bitcoin Gold
How to mine Bitcoin Gold
OS recommendation
Best mining software
How to mine Bitcoin Gold using a pool
Where to create a wallet address

I have already reviewed some great GTX cards and I’ve build few rigs with those. You can check the reviews here:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming Mining Rig 2,880 Sol/s
GTX 1050 / 1050Ti Mining Performance Review 175 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 Mining Performance 317 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1070 Mining Performance 480 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1080 Mining Performance 550 Sol/s (stock)
GeForce GTX 1080Ti Mining Performance 770 Sol/s

Best Mining Rig Hardware For Bitcoin Gold

Best GPU to mine Bitcoin Gold

GTX 1080Ti - 770 Sol/sGTX 1080 550 Sol/sGTX 1070 480 Sol/sGTX 1060 317 Sol/s

MSI GTX 1080 TI GAMING X

MSI GTX 1080 TI GAMING X

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080 TI GAMING OC Edition

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080 TI GAMING OC Edition

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition GAMING

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition GAMING

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 GAMING

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 GAMING

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070

MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Mini

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Mini

MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1060

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1060

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition

Mining Motherboard + CPU, RAM, SSD Combo

6x GPU Rig8x GPU Rig12x GPU Rig13x GPU Rig19x GPU Rig

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Mining Motherboard

CPU + RAM + SSD

Intel Celeron G1840Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 1600MHz DDR3Kingston D120GB SATA 3

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC+ 8 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC+ 8 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151 Mining Motherboard

read the review: https://1stminingrig.com/biostar-tb250-btc-review-8-gpu-mining-motherboard/

CPU + RAM + SSD

Intel Pentium G4400Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 2133MHz DDR4Kingston D120GB SATA 3

Biostar TB250-BTC PRO 12 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151

Biostar TB250-BTC PRO 12 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151 Mining Motherboard

CPU + RAM + SSD

Intel Pentium G4400Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 2133MHz DDR4Kingston D120GB SATA 3

ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ 13 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151

ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ 13 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151

read the review: https://1stminingrig.com/asrock-h110-pro-btc-motherboard-review/

CPU + RAM + SSD

Intel Pentium G4400Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 2133MHz DDR4Kingston D120GB SATA 3

ASUS B250 Expert Mining 13 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151

ASUS B250 Expert Mining Motherboard

read the review: https://1stminingrig.com/asus-b250-expert-mining-motherboard-review-pros-and-cons/

CPU + RAM + SSD

Intel Pentium G4620Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB 2133MHz DDR4Kingston D120GB SATA 3

PSU – Power Supply Unit

6x GPU8x GPU12x GPU13x GPU19x GPU

2x EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3

2x EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD

3x EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD

2x EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2, 80+ GOLD

1x EVGA 1000 GQ, 80+ GOLD 1000W

2x EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 G2 80+ GOLD

USB Risers

VER 008VER 007VER 006

PCIe Riser Adapter VER 008 PCI-E 16x to 1x 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable

review: https://1stminingrig.com/product/white-usb-riser-ver008s/

PCIE Riser VER 007 PCI Riser 6 PIN 1x to x16 Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable

PCI-E 16x to 1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 50cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & MOLEX to SATA Power Cable

Mining Rig Frame

1stMR B Stackable

Motherboard standoffs
Designed to be assembled easily
Supports up to 6/8/12 GPUs & 2 power supplies
Any 2,5″ hard disks or SSD drives, any power supplies
Dimensions: – L545 xW345 x H355mm
Stackable

OS

I recommend the following:

Windows 10
SimpleMining OS (no tutorial yet)
ethOS

Bitcoin Gold Miners

Here is a list with the best mining software that can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold:

AMD GPUs: Claymore’s BTG Miner v12.6
Nvidia GPUs: EWBF Cuda Miner 0.3.4b BTG

Pool Mining

There are some good pools already waiting to kick in, but in this tutorial i will use the official one which is pool.gold

How to mine Bitcoin Gold on Winodws:

In this tutorial i will use Claymore’s BTF Miner

~~NOTE: This is on TESTNET, currently the devs are testing the network.~~

Mainnet launched

First of all create a wallet address here
Download the miner and extract the contents
Open config.txt file and paste the following details
-zpool eu.pool.gold:3044
-zwal WALLET_ADDRESS.worker
-zpsw z
-ftime 1
-tstop 85
-tt 65
-fanmin 65
-fanmax 100
-r 1
-cclock 1200
-mclock 2100
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
Save and close the file
start mining by running start.bat file

~~This guide will be updated once mining will be available ion MAINNET for Bitcoin Gold!~~

Mining: Martin has started the modification of the node-stratum in order to provide a solution for the pool providers and the miners. The main problem is the change of the protocol that is introduced in BTG. The first 4 bytes of the reserved header field from zcash blockformat are actually the block height. Currently the protocol is being tested. We want you to know that we expect the public testnet to be started on November 1st!Dev Team

UPDATE November 13, 2017:

Mainnet launched

You can use the same config settings as on testnet (check above).

RX 470 4GB Bitcoin Gold Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Bitcoin Gold Mining Hashrate

Download EWBF Cuda Miner 0.3.4b BTG
Extract the contents
Edit start.bat file by adding your wallet and worker name
Save, close, run
Overclock your cards

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 1

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 1

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 2

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 2

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 3

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 3

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate overclocked

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate overclocked

Stay tunned 🙂

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