How to Mine Ethereum Classic (ETC) on Windows/Linux with AMD/nVidia GPU
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Ever wondered if Ethereum Classic (ETC) is worth mining ? Someone asked about ETC so here it is a quick tutorial on how to mine Ethereum Classic (ETC) on Windows or Linux using AMD or nVidia GPUs.
According to whattomine , Ethereum Classic (ETC) is on second position as mining recommendation (for a rig with 6x RX 470 4gb GPUs), followed by Monero etc.. What are the profits with this hashing speed/configuration ?
Pretty good right ? The difference is not that big but i think that it worth mining a few ETCs, when the POS hits maybe the price will have a nice number 🙂
As for this tutorial i will be using:
- 5x Asus Strix OC AMD Radeon R7 370 4GB GPUs, rig components
- AMD Drivers 16.9.2
- MSI Afterburner or Wattman
- Kraken.com wallet key
- Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v7.4 (Windows/Linux) developer fee is 1%
- Pool etc.ethermine.org 1% fee
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Let’s get started to mine some Ethereum Classic (ETC)
1 Create an account with Kraken.com if you don’t have one- go to “Funding“
- on menu from left side click on “Ether Classic (ETC)“
- click “Generate New Address” and wait few seconds, if nothing happens just refresh the page.
- copy the wallet key
- download Claymore’s miner v7.4 https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w
- once downloaded extract its contents
- inside the folder create a new text document and paste the following code:
- setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal WALLET_KEY.WORKER_NAME -epsw x - change pool location that suits you the most Europe: eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 or eu1-etc.ethermine.org:14444
US: us1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 or us1-etc.ethermine.org:14444 - save the file and name it as you desire but change the .txt extenstion to .bat (i named it etc.bat) and don’t forget to add wallet key and worker name
- start the .bat file and wait for the miner to start
- download the miner ethminer-0.9.41-genoil-1.0.8.zip https://github.com/Genoil/cpp-ethereum/tree/master/releases
- extract the files from archive
- inside the folder create a new text document and paste the following code
- setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ethminer.exe –farm-recheck 200 -G -S eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -O <Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName> - add your wallet key address and change rig name
- change pool location that suits you the most Europe: eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 or eu1-etc.ethermine.org:14444
US: us1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 or us1-etc.ethermine.org:14444 - save the text file as .bat file (start.bat), double click to start the miner
- wait for the DAG file to complete and once done it will begin to mine
- go to https://etc.ethermine.org/ and on top right enter you wallet address, click check status
- on the dashboard you can find your hashing speed , unpaid balance , workers and some graphs
- click on Settings tab and add your details: email, how often would you like to be paid (recommend 1ETC to avoid higher transfer fees) and the IP if your rig.
- Open Radeon Settings software and go to “Gaming”, then click on “Wattman“
- If you don’t have any button with”Wattman“, click “Global Settings“
- You will see there all GPUs, to overclock the cards go to each card where says “Global OverDrive“
- Or you can do the same thing with MSI Afterburner.
My hashing speed increased with 7H/s which is something for this R7 370s 🙂 There is not much difference between Claymore & Genoil miner but i personally prefer Claymore, because it has the dual mining features. You can earn even more using the DUAL Miner, but i will talk more in the next article about this, also tutorial.
The dual mining option can bring you $25-$50 more profit per month (depending what GPUs you have, also will drain a little more power) without affecting ethereum’s hashrate at all.
Stay close for the next article where i will talk more about this.
Hello, I’m from a Suth American country, not much technology available. Can I use this MOBO “Asus Maximus Ix Hero Z270” with 5 of this GPU “Asus Radeon Rx 470 4gb O4 Strix Aura Neo” Can both get bios upgraded an over clokinf eficient? Thanks. Also I found this GPU with only one fan “Sapphire Rx 470 4gb Ddr5 4k Radeon Nitro Oc C ” is it better? thanks
Hi, yes.. the mobo is good. As for the cards try to get sapphire nitro+ 470 4gb/8gb or 480 8gb
I noticed my ETC address is the same as my ETH address on Kraken… will this cause issues / crash my wallet and make me lose coins?
Thanks for the informative ETC mining tutorial.
If I’ve mined ETH on my rig (mining with Claymore), can I switch to ETC or will it be problematic?
And one more Q, Do you know of a Linux(UBUNTU) wallet?
Thank you!
hi.. no problem.. will have the same hashrate.. no idea about the linux wallet :/ maybe mist
Thanks for all the valuable information in this post! Is the configuration below needed for Nvidia ? Because in the Claymore post on Bitcointalk they said that it is for AMD cards ? Thanks !
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
Not really.. try without them and see if there is any difference