How to mine Zcash

netspyder 2016-01-20 23:19:04 UTC #1

i honestly have no idea how to mine any cryptocurrency and i also dont own any miners. BUT i would be very very interrested if there was some kind of noob to geek lessons about mining for people like me.

ebfull 2016-01-20 23:21:46 UTC #2

I wouldn't jump into Zcash right now for mining purposes. Right now we just have a testnet which means everything gets reset later. We're working with play money right now until we've completed 1.0, which should be around Q3.

netspyder 2016-01-20 23:27:49 UTC #3

i dont mind working on play money, all i want to know is how to mine cryptocurrency. i am a total noob to that. i can understand a few things but not the technical parts

ebfull 2016-01-20 23:30:16 UTC #4

If you're familiar with Bitcoin mining, you can just run zcashd with -gen to start mining. If you're not familiar with mining any cryptocurrency, I'm not sure where you should start, but Zcash may be too much of an uphill climb for most cryptocurrency noobs right now.

Thank you for taking an interest in it though!

squawka 2016-01-20 23:33:10 UTC #5

Add gen=1 to the bitcoin.conf file to start mining

netspyder 2016-01-20 23:33:11 UTC #6

thank you for your reply and your time. i will try look further into it to grab a few more info. i love the forum design. very innovative