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
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
MSI GTX 1080 TI GAMING X
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition GAMING
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB
ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1080
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 GAMING
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1060
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition
Mining Motherboard + CPU, RAM, SSD Combo
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
Biostar TB250-BTC PRO 12 GPU SUPPORT LGA 1151 Mining Motherboard
CPU + RAM + SSD
PSU – Power Supply Unit
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
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
- 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!
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
Stay tunned 🙂
I haven’t got to the point where I can afford components but I did some wood work and built a open air case based off of pictures I’ve seen online. Spent about $10 in wood and had some screws lying around. Can’t wait to fill this thing out!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/de44b234ae21ec49ca55ef6aa78f19fbe58b58c52581976dddbedd9018d8b531.jpg
Looks great 🙂
this look great. I’m on the same boat as you … haven’t found all the right parts for it. I’m trying to figure out what I should buy. I’m trying to build a rig that handles 2 things. From 7am to 8pm run it doing bitcoin, and from 8-10 pm cracking password hashes when I’m studying. Once I’m done and ready for bed start bitcoin again.
Thanks! I have specs made already from reading this site. Just waiting on the cash to pull the trigger.
What kind of profitability for BTG? I can’t find any calculators out there. Do you maybe know?
No calculators yet..
not yet?
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Pool URL : http://btg.ivtcoin.com
Features
The only pool where there are 0 Fees and when you mine you get 5% extra bonus when you mine Bitcoing GOLD.
– Other coins will be added on the future.
– Other options as well.
Super powerful servers are running.
Please come and enjoy mining at this pool.
Did you find some components since?
If you need i can sell you for cheap price some graphic cards , i have 20+ to sell atm 🙂
Let me know what you have and terms on twitter. Thanks!
I don’t have the right to sell on twitter , but you can email me :
[email protected]
Hey i’m ready i have 60 AMD RX 480s ready to fire!
Will i be able to mine in ETHOS?
Not really sure yet, but it should work..
can i mine with nvidia gtx 1050 2 gb
?
yep
This cannot be done,
This is what I got:
Hi there,
BTG has currently suspended deposit withdrawal transaction.Please kindly read the announcement about BTG.
https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002327831-Binance-Bitcoin-Gold-BTG-Distribution-Plan
The wallet will be enabled soon, currently they are doing tests on testnet.
Great Post. I have my Rig up and ready to go. I have already traded BTG however it’s stuck there since Exodus does not handle BTG yet. So what I did was convert it back to Bitcoin and sent it back to my wallet. I can’t waiting until all the skepticism is gone with BTG.
great!! happy mining 🙂
How is it going ? I am selling some of my graphic cards atm at ‘cheap price’ if you’re interested.
Great information. This will be my first mining rig as well. I am a noob but we all have to start somewhere.
I will be getting the MSI GTX 1080 TI GAMING X, or is the AMP extreme better? (only can get one for now, but will add more as I can)
Then the ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Mining Motherboard was thinking the 6xGpu one.
Next the 2x EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3
Then the PCIe Riser Adapter VER 008 PCI-E 16x to 1x 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable. Just one for now.
And the 1stMR stackable mining rig.
I hope this is correct, do I need to get anything else?
Let me know if I should change anything.
Not sure the wifey is going to like this haha.
Both gpu are goos 🙂 dont forget the cpu, ram and ssd 🙂 you have everything yoi need to get started. good luck and have fun!
I can guarantee that your wife will love it once you cash out hahah..
How is it going ? 🙂
please help me i have 3gpu rx580 rig 2 gpu is saphir pulse rx580 and 1gpu is msi rx580 , my gpu combination work fine on zec mining ,eth mining and cryptonight mining but when i start btg mining my one gpu stop after one minute mining another two gpu work fine problem only btg mining pls help me . sorry for bad eng
thanks in advanced
Maybe OC too much ?
PING ME I WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLE….whats app mb no +91 9733731899
Whats the bitcoin gold wallet that you use? I cant find one that Already can give me a bitcoin gold adres for mining. They all Will stay ready for “soon”. Please need help. Want to mine bitcoin gold. Greetz Danny
Once Bitcoin Gold finishes its test the wallet will be available here: https://www.binance.com/register.html?ref=10890278
I started mining on BTGMine with a Coinomi wallet address. If I get a binance account will this affect all the work my miner has done? Not confident about all this.
Have you tried coinomi ?
Here is another version on how to mine bitcoin gold from BTG team:
https://howtotoken.com/mine-bitcoin-gold-ultimate-guide/
Salut, ce setari recomanzi pentru placile GTX 1080 Ti Asus pentru a putea obtine o performanta maxima ?
Pai e simplu.. cat mai multa memorie si cand ma jos posibil power limit :), ce consum ai la ele ?
As putea sa te contactez pe Facebook pentru niste intrebari simple ?
Desigur.. 🙂
Cum te gasesc?
https://www.facebook.com/1stminingrig/
I keep getting the download of miner block cause of virus? any way aroudn this?
go to downloads and press on keep file
in you are using chrome or firefox its ctrl+j
Please, do you know how to modify my configuration file on ethos?
It has to be done via windows!
Is there any way to use ethos to mine btg?
Don’t think you can do that yet.. they will have to integrate the miners..
Hey bro, I am unable to get the BTG wallet address in the Binance Exchange under Deposits & Withdrawals as it is showing suspend. Please can you assist in locating or finding the address.
Thanks,
i am updating right now about this matter..
Hello,
Any update on the same?
Thanks
hello mate,
any luck?
Thanks
Use coinomi app to generate a wallet.. till binance open btg..
Hi bro…I have generated my wallet in coinomi, however after updating all the required details in Bat file. It is not opening as it is just blinking to open but not actually opening. Please could you assist me.
Many Thanks
can you paste here the code from config.txt ?
-zpool eu.pool.gold:3044-zwal GaD1DSbVdq5NPNk5fiYtvEynQYq6zbv7ht.Samurai-zpsw z-ftime 1-tstop 85-tt 65-fanmin 65-fanmax 100-r 1-cclock 1200-mclock 2100-cvddc 900-mvddc 900
try this: -zpool eu.pool.gold:3044 -zwal
GaD1DSbVdq5NPNk5fiYtvEynQYq6zbv7ht.Samurai -zpsw z -ftime 1 -tstop 85 -tt
65 -fanmin 65 -fanmax 100 -r 1 -cclock 1200 -mclock 2100 -cvddc 900 -mvddc 900
both seems to be the same bro..
what is the difference? still the same issue – bat file appears to blink and gets closed automatically.
Hello bro, any luck with my issue?
first try this again: ZecMiner64.exe -zpool eu.pool.gold:3044 -zwal GaD1DSbVdq5NPNk5fiYtvEynQYq6zbv7ht.Samurai -zpsw z -ftime 1 -tstop 85 -tt 65 -fanmin 65 -fanmax 100 -r 1 -cclock 1200 -mclock 2100 -cvddc 900 -mvddc 900
if still doesnt work then add same settings to config.txt instead..
start. bat should have only: ZecMiner64.exe
and config.txt should have this:
-zpool eu.pool.gold:3044
-zwal GaD1DSbVdq5NPNk5fiYtvEynQYq6zbv7ht.Samurai -zpsw z
-ftime 1
-tstop 85
-tt 65
-fanmin 65
-fanmax 100
-r 1
-cclock 1200
-mclock 2100
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
Hello mate..
I am not able to locate the config.txt file
hello, is it possible to take the remote access and assist with the necessary settings.
Appreciate your help in advance.
email me teamviewer details 🙂
How to email you as I’d like help if you’re able?
what do you mean ?
Help with EthOS and RX 580 global settings, if that is something you’re able to help with? I have a laptop with teamviewer to remotely access ethos. If you’re able to help, I guess I’d need your email to send teamviewer info to right?
Yes of course, have you modded the bios for gpus ?
ethos 1.2.5 version contains claymore V12.5, have you try if that works?
nope..
is a scam since the first appearance of this fork
Bitcoin Gold big scam
hi can any one help me im using BTGMINE POOL yesterday it show me my informatoin but to day nothing
Is it possible to mine with just a GTX 660 card?
Umm.. not sure.. give it a try and let me know..
Hello i have some cards rx480 8gb, rx 570 4gb and 5804gb all nitro +, but they crash with this algo so wich are the best drives for this? thanks
I used blockchain compute drivers..
Hello, thak you for this infos !
Are you gonna do “how creat a BTG wallet and configure Claymore for AMD or NVIDIA” ? A wallet like myetherwallet
Thanks :3
Can I change the Nvidia/Cuda start.bat file to run us.east pool or do I halfto stay in the eu pool??? And why does it say Zcash miner at the top if the mining program???
Yes you can 🙂
Hi there, I’m very green, but would love to get involved in mining and not just buying cryptos lol. But I can’t even download the software from the link on this page, it get’s blocked by chrome as potentially malicious software. Any suggestions / help would be appreciated. Cheers Knut
Found your comment down below and tried that, but My Norton keeps deleting it?
When i get that i have to disable windows defender 🙂
Not sure i do this correct. If nVidia 1070 gives 2,880 Sol/s i should get 7 x 2,880 Sol/s = 20160 Sol/s or (GH/s) in Hash Rate, is that correct? (having 7 nvidai 1070 in this example)
Using 20160 GH/s in http://www.coinwarz.com shows
Daily 0.03113439
Weekly 0.21794071
Monthly 0.9340
Annually 11.3641
With current price sitting at $168 its very very bad really. Anyone can give some confirmation about what they are getting daily? i know its new and all but something is better than nothing. We need more data.
Hi @vampyren:disqus , 2,800 Sol/s per rig. not per gpu.
Sorry i dont understand what you mean?
What does 1 nvidia 1070 GPU give in GH/s or Sol/s?
You say rig but what does that mean? are you refering to my rig which has 7×1070 GPU ?
I think i used the wrong calculator earlier, is there a way to calculate how much roughly i can get a day using my hardware ( 7×1070 gpu)?
It gives 480 / 1070.
You should use Gtx 1080ti , much better .
I ve got some to sell at good price if you’re interested 🙂
how to use ETHOS for mining BTG ?
Wow. I have to say this is a great write up. I am now up and running. New to mining in general and obviously very late to the game. I do have a very beginner level question for everyone. I have wallets on several sites where I am able to add and remove funds from very easily however I have no idea what to do with my BTG wallet. I signed up on the preferred site through the bitcoin gold site. I have and address, public key and private key however what do I do with this? I have BTG accumulating from mining but I have no idea how to access this wallet to do anything. I’m sure this is a very beginner level question and I apologize in advance.
To clarify this was mybtgwallet.online
Hopefully someone will have some insight. I’m sure a lot of people opened wallets the exact same way. Anyone moving BTG around?
Also I have a beginner level, but I opened BTG wallet with Bitpie software and I can change to different coins like LTC or BTC in order to move money
Hi thanks for your sharing.
My card is AMD RX570.
My computer will not responding when I run the Claymore with this config.
Does anyone get the problem as me ?
Have you downloaded the one i linked ?
Yea, I have download this: https://github.com/poolgold/ClaymoreBTGMiner/releases
Make sure you have the everything added correctly.
Hou much BTG can be mined in a month for exapmle?
with RX / 1800 H/s around 1.067541 BTG and woth GTX / 2900 H/s 1.736600 BTG
If you need i can sell you for cheap price some graphic cards , i have 20+ to sell atm.
Thanks but no. It looks like need to invest a lot of money and wait for a long time before recieve profit
welcome to mining, man, this is a loooooong game, but a really good game, and an exponential game, one card nets you 1$ a day, 10 cards 10$, 100 cards 100$ and so on
how long is it supposed to take before i start to see some coins in my wallet? its been going for a while now and still nothing in there
Did everything according the guide. When launch “start” I have window with the technical details, then I hear how the fan starting increase its rotating speed and after that my monitor is off and keyboard doesn’t respond. What should I do?
Try lowering OC!
Didn’t even try OC. Or you mean OC set in config? If yes, then what should I change In config text?
can you paste here your config line ?
-zpool eu.pool.gold:3044
-zwal Xx43SQjTexxxxbJ53Xfp3zvtBJAnJxxx.anyname
-zpsw z
-ftime 1
-tstop 85
-tt 65
-fanmin 65
-fanmax 100
-r 1
-cclock 1200
-mclock 2100
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
-zpool eu.pool.gold:3044
-zwal Xx43SQjTexxxxbJ53Xfp3zvtBJAnJxxx.anyname
-zpsw z
-ftime 1
-tstop 85
-tt 65
-fanmin 65
-fanmax 100
-r 1
-cclock 1200
-mclock 2100
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
Thank you so much! Awesome read, and well organized! I was up and running in just minutes!
Thank you 🙂 Happy mining ! 😛
Dear friend…. I am trying to EWBF but is not working… do you have a line example?…. thank you! Alex Rancel from Miami.
Hi @alex_rancel:disqus , can you paste your config here?
I have 2 GTX 1070 and GTX 950, how to turn off gtx 950?
If you are using claymore use the comand -di, if the gtx 950 si first gpu use -di 1 to enable only the 1070, if is second -di 1!
Hi, will you pleeaaaase create a tutorial on how to mine neoscrypt with AMD cards? I’ve found almost nothing detailed about it.
DO NOT MINE TO EXCHANGE WALLETS! JESUS CHRIST!
This comment was removed but is very important!
DO NOT MINE TO EXCHANGE ACCOUNTS, the small outputs ARE NOT supported by address type and WILL clog up mempool!
Hello, I am really new mining and really appreciate your post, following your recommendations I purchase ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Mining Motherboard and 6 GPU’s model Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8G, also I installed Windows 10 but I can only recognize 4 GPUs, move slots, change risers, look up for Bios and still have the problem, can you please provide me a tip in order to solve my problem? Thanks in advance
Hi, what is the Motherboard you used?
Hi, ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Mining Motherboard
Oh, sorry.. can you tell me what windows version? have you tried 1703 ?
Not sure if this has been resolved, but you need to contact Asrock create a ticket & they’ll email you an updated version of your Bios… I had the same issue & it was resolved!!
New to mining. Trying to figure out why this is not working for me.
Have a GTX 1080 card. Downloaded and extracted the Cuda Miner contents into a folder. Edited the start.bat file by adding my deposit address from Binance, followed by a dot and a made up worker name. Saved, closed, then ran the start.bat file, and it doesn’t do anything. I have tried opening it through Windows and through cmd.exe both. Tried changing servers just to see if that maybe had something to do w/ it, but it isn’t.
CMD gives me a message that says ‘miner’ is not recognized as internal or external command. The only other files that were extracted are cudart32_80.dll and miner.cfg file. Am I missing something?
Thanks.
Are you using the Nvidia Miner ?
I am using EWBF Cuda Miner 0.3.4b BTG. I extracted the files and made the edits as instructed, but the start.bat file fails to execute.
Is there something in addition to the Cuda Miner that I need to download and install?
TYVM for your help.
Umm.. the on board video card is enabled?
Hello!
I figured it out. Windows has a built in unzip option that wasn’t extracting all of the files. I used 7-Zip and all the files unzipped properly. It’s working now. I think … lol.
I appreciate your time!
Excellent article. I’m super new to this thing and have problems with opening a BTG wallet. There are several wallets suggested on https://bitcoingold.org/ but none of them works for me cause I don’t have android smartphone (I am truly offended, I’m a PC user, I’m on freaking windows for crying out loud why the fuck do I need a fugly android smartphone for accessing a not even real wallet?!). Eventhough I created address, public key and private key using BTGWallet.online, I can never know how much fucking BTG is stored in it and how to transfer it. Does anyone have any suggestions? THNX
Here: https://bitcoingold.org/downloads/
Hi, can you help me with the pool.gold? When I’m using nanopool I can set the minimum payment for each coin. Can I do that on pool.gold? Because I can’t find the settings.