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
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 8GB
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP! Edition
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition
Mining Motherboard + CPU, RAM, SSD Combo
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 🙂
