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Dogecoin has only been in existence since December 2013, but it’s already effectively the 3rd most popular so-called cryptocurrency after Bitcoin and Litecoin (in terms of volume of transactions). While Internet memes typically have a limited lifespan, there are also some technical reasons to believe that in the long term. Not least of these is the fact that Dogecoin will keep adding new coins each year at a steady rate, unlike Bitcoin where there is a limited supply. Also, there are many more Dogecoins in circulation right now.

So without wasting time lets dive to step by step tutorial to mine dogecoin with. Some powerful GPU if you want to earn a decent amount of Dogecoins. How to Mine Dogecoin – a Beginner’s. Here we’ll show you the basics of what you need to start mining DOGE yourself, hopefully without. Mining Dogecoin. Apr 23, 2017 Earn Free Dogecoins + Bot + Mining. There are two ways to claim your earned Doge's., captcha service, credits, cryptocurrency, doge, dogecoin, earn. So I have been having some trouble getting Dogecoins because I have a laptop and don't want to destroy the parts by mining. Doge News; Dogecoin. Ways to earn. How can I get some Dogecoins (DOGE)? What are ways to earn Dogecoin? Claim daily from faucet to mine without investment or deposit to earn quickly.

While this means that each coin has a very small value, it also makes it psychologically much easier to use, since it’s more satisfying and understandable to buy something for a few hundred Dogecoins, instead of perhaps a fraction of a single Bitcoin (even considering smaller Bitcoin denominations such as mBTC). (See also Tuxedage’s post – ) What you’ll need to start mining Ideally – cheap electricity and a bunch of graphics cards. However, you can start mining Dogecoins even using a single PC. You can also mine without using a graphics card, although the progress will be slower.

Mining for coins shouldn’t affect the performance of your computer on the default settings, since it will only use computing or graphics power when the system is idle. Mining for coins on a laptop is usually not worth it, since it’s not powered on 24/7, the CPU/GPU power is lower, and there is a greater chance of stressing out the chips on the laptop since they’re usually packed into a tighter space, and consequently at more risk of overheating.

But if you just want to mine a little bit to get a few coins to play around with, it can do the job. Compare your setup If you’re just mining Doge for fun, you might want to skip this bit, but you might be curious about how well your hardware setup is going to work. The is what you want. Since Dogecoin is based on Litecoin, the values here are a good indication of the relative power of your hardware. Find your graphics card or CPU model in the first column, then check the next column for the kH/s value.

This is a measure of the speed at which you can complete hashes. You’ll probably want something that can do at least 150 – 200 kH/s to mine a decent number of coins, although, the faster cards will consume more electricity, so they may not always be a better option than a slower, more power efficient setup. We give some efficient card recommendations further down. Update – State of the Doge – Spring 2015 Dogecoin is now a little over a year old, and a lot has happened in that time, far too much to list here! But in terms of mining Dogecoin, there have been some major changes.

Some of the most important have been: • The rise of Scrypt ASICs – Dogecoin was initially made using the “Scrypt” algorithm which meant that it couldn’t be mined using the specialised hardware ASIC chips that had been designed to more efficiently mine Bitcoin. However this situation didn’t last very long, and about halfway through 2014, ASICs that could mine Scrypt-based coins started to become widespread. This meant that CPU and GPU miners had to compete against the much more energy efficient ASIC miners. • Merged-mining support was added – There were concerns that one or two big groups were dominating the Dogecoin mining scene, which led to the hypothetical possibility of a 51% attack, where a single group could corrupt the transaction network or blockchain, by virtue of controlling more than half of the processing power (hashrate).

To solve this problem, the Dogecoin developers added AuxPoW support – referring to the fact that now the “PoW” or proof-of-work done by miners of other coins would be accepted in certain circumstances. The net effect of this was that these other miners now got some Dogecoin at times, and the overall mining difficulty (and hashrate) of the Dogecoin network went up dramatically, thereby spreading out the hashrate over a more diverse mining group, and making mining Dogecoin directly more difficult. • The amount of coins being added to supply decreased – Unlike other coins, there will always be new Dogecoins available for miners to discover, however the number of coins per reward “block” continued decreasing throughout 2014. This was a result of the natural halvening reward schedule for Dogecoin, and was entirely expected, but still put pressure on miners. However, this addresses some of the initial criticism of Dogecoin where some people commented on the high inflation rate due to the large additional supply of coins per miner block reward.

In fact, Dogecoin now has a lower inflation rate compared to Bitcoin, dropping to around 5% by the end of 2015. What does it mean for mining Doge? Due to the combined effect of these changes, directly mining Dogecoin with a CPU or GPU is now extremely difficult in terms of getting any sort of reasonable payout. However, all is not lost! – you can still efficiently mine on certain pools with a CPU/GPU setup and get paid in Dogecoin – we’ve updated the mining pool section with details of how to do this. How to get started Ok, you’re all set to mine Doge, how do you begin? First of all, go to the official Dogecoin site, and download and install your wallet (or you can select the “Browser” option to see some online wallet options).

We’re going to use the Windows Dogecoin Core wallet in this example, however most of the wallets share the same basic features. Click on ‘Much Receive’ to see your wallet address. You can use this long string of letters as the address to use when you want to receive money in to your wallet. Don’t worry about making it public – people post their personal wallet addresses anywhere and everywhere in order to receive money into them. The Zipso.net Doge fund, which happens to be DHu4RNjYTdRu1kcgjWrabiWd5Z4yBgsfqd At this point, you should probably also go up to the Settings menu and Encrypt Wallet. This gives some protection if your computer is hacked or infected by wallet-seeking malware.

You might notice that when you first install your Doge wallet, it has to synchronize with the network. What’s happening is that the wallet is catching up on all of the historical Dogecoin transactions, so that it can accurately see if any of the transactions applied to you. This is typically quite a slow process and can take a number of hours.

However, read on – you can start mining even before your wallet is fully synced. Mining pools vs going solo Mining for Doge and other coins typically involves your computer finishing a ‘block’ of a mathematical puzzle, and then getting rewarded in coins for solving it. The problem is that the difficulty in solving a single block is usually far too high for a single, solo miner to complete. In other words, you could be mining for days, and not solve a block, while someone else solves it in the meantime and you end up with nothing. For this reason, most people join mining pools, which combines their individual power in block-solving, and also shares out the rewards according to how much you contributed to solving it, even if you weren’t the one who actually found the ‘right’ answer for that particular block.

To join a mining pool, you just sign-up on their website. The quality of the pools varies, and reliability is a bit of an issue since some pools can go offline for various reasons. Update – We now recommend that beginners use pools that mine coins based on the X11 (Darkcoin/DASH) algorithm, and can automatically payout in Doge. Two popular mining pools that use this model are: • simplemulti.com • multi.pandapool.info Both of these pools are very easy to use and don’t even require registration. They will allow you to use a miner program that supports the X11 algorithm, then whatever coins are mined (possibly Darkcoin and others) get automatically exchanged for Doge, and paid to your wallet address. Update 2016 – Unfortunately both simplemulti and pandapool have now shut down. You see for some suggestions, or you could try the following multi-coin pools: • • • You can find a larger list (almost certainly contains a lot of defunct pools however) – sort by highest Hashrate to find the most popular pools, or for more up to date information, check for updates.

Setting up the coin mining program. Lots of Dogecoin waiting for Shibe. Image credit: Update – Simplemulti/Pandapool mining Jan ’16 Update: Both Simplemulti and Pandapool have now shut down. • Select the server, and one of the X11 ports (we suggest one with the lower difficulty or “Diff” value initially) • Select DOGE as payout currency, and add a wallet address that you have setup in your wallet (created in “Much Receive” – In the Dogecoin Core wallet, you may also need to go to File and “Much Receiving addresses” to show any addresses you have setup previously – they can be selected and copied from here).

• Worker name and starting difficulty is not necessary – you can keep it as “worker1” or change as you like. • All of the config info you need is displayed in the “Configure your miner” section. • Download a miner program. The easiest way is to go to the and download one of the miners from there.

These are miners that are guaranteed to support the X11 algorithm we’re using on Simplemulti. • After downloading and installing a miner, you just need to run it with the right config details – the exact syntax is different depending on the miner, but you will need to use at least the URL, Port, Username and Password shown on the Simplemulti config page after you have filled in your details. For example, using cpuminer, it might look something like. Minerd -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://ca.simplemulti.com:3453 -u walletaddress -p worker1 -t 2 where “walletaddress” is the long string of characters representing your receiving wallet, and “-t 2” indicates that you want to use 2 worker threads (often 2 CPU cores). • For Pandapool, use the same syntax as above, just replace the “ca.simplemulti.com:3453” address with one of the Pandapool addresses, e.g. “ multi.pandapool.info:4008″. • Now skip ahead to “Start your Engines”!

Note: Because X11 is a different mining algorithm compared to Scrypt, the hashrate range is different, and usually much higher. This doesn’t really affect profitability either way, it’s just something to be aware of when comparing rates between different mining setups. For standard mining pools For other mining pools, you will often need to create a “worker” on their website.

You can think of the worker as just a place in the pool which receives all the mining work that you’re going to send it. You’ll need to choose another name and password for the worker – this is separate from whatever you used to signup to the website. Now you can download a miner program – Note: These miners typically use the Dogecoin Scrypt algorithm, so you may not be able to use them for mining on X11 pools.

For GPU mining: • AMD/ATI card owners should download • Nvidia card owner should download • You can also check out the GUI based, feature-rich which supports a range of mining hardware, although may be a little too extensive when starting out. CUDA Manager • An all-in-one GUI and miner package has been released using cudaMiner. See below for configuration details.

For CPU mining: • You can use (other OS version downloads ) All that’s left to do is figure out how to use the miner program using your mining pool configuration. To do this, we will change the startup parameters for the miner. First, go to your mining pool website and see if they have a Getting Started guide.

You’ll need to find the following: Settings needed to connect to your pool • Stratum address and port number to connect to.”Stratum” is a coin mining protocol, but you can just think of it as a type of internet address you will connect to which provides a channel for sending and receiving the mining work. • Your worker name • Your worker password • Your username for the site Let’s use the settings as an example. Currently, the most basic way to connect to this pool (using the CPU miner) is by using the format. Minerd -o stratum+tcp://stratum3.doge.hashfaster.com:3339 -u Weblogin.

Worker -p Worker-password Note that you need to replace “ Weblogin” with the username for the mining pool site, and “ Worker” is the name of the worker you created on the site. “ Worker-password” is the password for the worker, not to be confused with your standard password for the site. “stratum3.doge.hashfaster.com:3339” is the address for the stratum on hashfaster, so this will change depending on your pool, and some pools have different stratum addresses to choose from depending on your location, hashrate etc. The parameters above are the minimum you need to start working with any miner, and should often work OK without specifying anything else.

In some cases, you may see the “-o” option written as “–url” and vice versa. Also, “-u” is the same as “–user” and “-p” is short for “–pass”. CUDA Manager settings CUDA Manager will use the same worker and stratum settings as above, and just choose any Nickname for the miner. Here’s an example using the (now defunct) rapidhash.net pool. You’ll need to change “myusername” to your pool username, and “rapidhash4” to whatever worker name you’ve setup on the pool, and supply the worker’s password. Select “Interactive” to make your PC more usable while mining. Note that the “CPU Assist” option in the GUI is not a separate miner – you can still run the cpuminer app (below) simultaneously to mine coins with your CPU.

When you’re done entering settings, click on “Add Miner to Manager” to add this miner to your list on the left panel. You can now select it and click “Start Miner” to begin mining.

Now skip ahead to “(boooo) and (yay!!!). Start your engines (command line miners) So you’ve figured out what settings you need to start your miner (or maybe not!). Either way, you can try starting it to see what happens.

The easiest way is probably from the Command prompt in Windows or a Console shell in Linux. In Windows, you can copy the command-line in the previous section into a batch file, e.g.

Cudaminer.bat, and then just click on that in future to start the miner with your pool settings. If the miner successfully connects to the pool and starts mining coins, you should see some output referring to the current hash rate. You can also visit the mining pool site after a short while to see if your stats there update. Cpuminer working (slowly) on hashes Other settings If you’re using a GPU miner, you’ll probably need to spend a bit of time tweaking it to get the best settings. There’s a quick guide for cudaMiner, for CGMiner, try.

For cpuminer on multi-core systems, you can use the -t parameter to specify the number of working threads to start with, otherwise, the default is to use the max. For cudaminer, if you’re using a new version, there’s an autotune built-in which will try to detect the best settings for your card, otherwise you use the -l option to specify settings specific to your card.

(booooo) and (yay!!!) After a short while of mining, you should get some (yay!!!) text displayed on the output of your miner. This indicates that your share of work was accepted OK. If you get some (booooo)’s displayed instead, don’t panic – it may just take a while for miner to adjust to the pool. If you keep getting a high ratio of booo’s to yay’s, it could be worth trying a different pool, or stratum address. Value of Dogecoins in US Dollars To find the current value of Dogecoins in USD, go to You may need to put in a Dogecoin amount such as 50 DOGE, 100 DOGE etc. Once you have enough dogecoins accumulated in your mining pool account, you can transfer them to your wallet using a funds withdrawal option on the pool’s website. Just supply your wallet address and amount to transfer.

Backup your wallet It’s important to backup your wallet in case your computer is lost or your hard disk crashes. In Windows, from the Start menu box, type in%appdata% and navigate to the Dogecoin folder. Now copy and paste the wallet.dat to your backup destination. It’s also recommended to backup your wallet before installing a new version of the wallet software from. You don’t need to do anything else when upgrading apart from installing the new version from the site. Energy Cost If you decide to go all-out mining Dogecoins, it’s worth remembering that there’s a good chance that you might actually be losing money when you consider the price of electricity used vs. The value of Dogecoin.

Unless you have especially cheap power or low hardware costs, it’s challenging to mine coins that will sell at an immediate profit. Of course the value of Dogecoins may increase in the future, but it tends to be a very volatile market in the short-term. Also, you may want to be aware of heat and electric currents if you’re running custom or overclocked setups – melted plastic or overheated rooms aren’t fun, although most chips now have a thermal cut-off at higher temperatures. If you want to work out the profitability of mining at current valuation rates, you can use the, replacing the LTC/BTC value with. Graphics card There’s a huge variation in graphics card setups for mining, however a reasonable beginner’s card for around would be something like the. This gives a hashrate of about 180-200KH/sec. The maximum power consumption for this card, however, is only around 80-90 watts, making it quite efficient.

If you can spend a little more, the is a good option and should give you a hashrate of about 450KH/sec. Power consumption can be between 160-180W. One of the fastest (generally available) cards at the moment is the, however you’ll need to pay for the privilege of getting your 850-900KH/sec.

They will pull down about 320-330W when mining, so you’ll need a hefty PSU also. While Radeon cards have typically been the favourite of miners worldwide, Nvidia has caught up to the game with it’s new. This is the first card based on it’s new Maxwell architecture.

For a little over this is an ultra energy-efficient card, which will give you between 260-300KH/sec while only using 60W of power. These new cards are certain to be popular with the Dogecoin and Litecoin mining communities. 2015 Card Suggestions The GeForce GT720 is a new entry level Maxwell architecture card that runs at an astonishingly thrifty 19W, and is available for. Got any other cards you like the look of?

Let us know in the comments below. To ASIC or not to ASIC An ASIC is a dedicated piece of computer hardware designed to do one specific task – in this case, mine coins. Gridseed USB ASIC miner ASICs come in different shapes and sizes, but small USB based units (such as the Gridseed 5-chip) are popular. However, there are serious risks involved with investing in ASICs. We’re not going to claim this is an exhaustive list, however here are some pros and cons of mining with ASIC hardware.

Note that we’re comparing (a) mining Dogecoin (or another Scrypt coin) directly using a Scrypt ASIC miner with (b) using a graphics card to mine using X11 or other CPU/GPU algorithm (ala Simplemulti). Pros • Typically much more energy efficient in terms of hashrate per Watt of energy consumed. • Can be a smaller form factor compared to graphics cards. • Small or older units may be relatively cheap compared to graphics cards. • May be worthwhile if you have especially low electricity prices • Geek credentials, educational & a talking point Cons • Manufacturers have a huge incentive to mine using their own hardware first, reducing profitability of ASIC hardware once it gets shipped to the customer. • ASIC marketplace attracts a lot of vapourware and companies that never deliver hardware.

If you’re going to buy one, don’t preorder in anticipation of a future shipping date. • Depreciation runs at a high rate – there’s always something better around the corner. While this is true of all computing hardware, with graphics cards there is a huge secondary market where it’s much easier to sell an unwanted card. • You can’t play games on them if you get bored of mining.

Got your mining rig running sweet? Time to relax with a refreshing cup of Doge. Image: Shibe Doge So what’s the point of wasting all that electricity for something useless? It’s true that Dogecoin mining (and all other crypto-currencies, apart from ) expends a large amount of energy in effectively useless calculations. They’re not solving anything interesting – they’re difficult simply for the purpose of being difficult, and this process of scarcity is the fundamental basis of all these digital currencies. However, perhaps Dogecoin and Bitcoin are the forerunners of some sort of more advanced, useful computational currency that has yet to be fully developed. But even without that being the case, it could be argued that there is actually an inherent value in using all of this energy, simply to make the currency workable – after all, a huge amount of energy is also expended in transferring, protecting, processing and storing conventional forms of currency, simply for the purposes of keeping those systems running smoothly.

And even carrying around cash in your wallet has an energy cost too. Crypto-currencies have other management costs, but also have some advantages – you don’t need a huge data center to store your coins after you receive or mine them, and the peer-to-peer setup of the block-chain transaction system piggybacks on computing and network resources that are already in place (including other miners). Still, the useless computations do seem rather wasteful, and it would be better if there was a way to create ‘agreed scarcity’ while also doing useful work at the same time. Whew OK, but is it really worth it? Isn’t Dogecoin just an even sillier version of Bitcoin? The Dogerush – To Infinity and beyond? – Image source: Mining for Dogecoins not for you?

You can always follow the unfolding story of DOGE at What is fascinating about Dogecoin at the moment is that it feels like perhaps the start of Bitcoin felt like, except with more fun and less politics. There’s a lot of sharing, and tipping of dogecoins, especially on Reddit.

This seems to have helped it grow so rapidly over the recent past. If Dogecoin and the developer community can make it easier to use DOGE over larger parts of the net, it could become a popular alternative currency for micro-transactions (including people who don’t have access to bank cards), or even in more real-world locations using smartphones and other devices. To the moon, Shibes!

Thanks, Doge! Brendon, I thought the same thing about Doge Coin, that it wouldn’t hold up due to its coming across like a complete joke.

Then I looked at the other currencies of the world, held together by shoddy governments and inflated dishonestly as opposed to honestly (the creators of Doge Coin actually tell you how much money they will add to the circulation instead of just printing more when they feel like it) I would have no problem trading fully in Doge if more retailers accepted it. Money can’t exceed the value people see in it, but that goes for fiat currencies as well.

• Overview - Table of Contents • • • • • • • • What is Dogecoin Mining? Mining is done by specialized computers and hardware. It serves two main purposes: 1) It secures the network and verifies transactions.

2) New dogecoins are paid out as a reward to miners. Dogecoin Mining Hardware The Dogecoin mining industry is less developed than Bitcoin’s. ASICs—powerful computers designed to solve Bitcoin’s function—are available for Dogecoin but difficult to purchase. Because Dogecoin and Bitcoin use different proof of work functions cannot mine Dogecoins. It’s possible, for example, to for $714. No such miners are available for Dogecoin. The best Dogecoin mining hardware available for purchase are, but they are not profitable.

If you are serious about mining Dogecoins, one option is to simply mine bitcoins with and convert the earned bitcoins to Dogecoin. How Dogecoin Mining Works So, how does Dogecoin mining secure the network? Like Bitcoin mining, Dogecoin uses proof of work which makes mining a costly process in terms of both time and energy. In order to send Dogecoins, transactions must be included in a block. Dogecoin miners then verify these transactions through proof of work.

The miners check incoming transactions against previous transactions on the blockchain. If no double-spends are detected, the miners create a block with new transactions and add it to Dogecoin’s existing blockchain. Each new block is then sent to nodes on the network. The nodes use the miners’ work to continue to verify and transmit transactions across the network. As mentioned earlier, Dogecoin mining requires vast amounts of time and electricity, which isn’t cheap.

The block reward is paid to miners for each block mined, which provides an incentive for miners to contribute their hashing power to the network. What is the Blockchain? The Dogecoin blockchain is a public ledger of all Dogecoin transactions. Unlike traditional payment systems like PayPal, Dogecoin is decentralized and distributed. Its public blockchain can be independently verified by anyone. No old transactions can be erased, and, likewise, no counterfeit or fraud transactions can be created without network consensus. Any attempt to change network rules would create a fork in the blockchain.

What is Dogecoin Mining Difficulty? One of the main advantages with cryptocurrencies is that the currency supply can be programmed and distributed at selected intervals.

This differs from gold, silver and other commodities, which often see mining companies mine at faster rates if price increases. The Dogecoin mining difficulty is perhaps one of Dogecoin’s most important features. It is an algorithm that is updated based on total network hashing power to ensure that Dogecoin blocks are generated on average every minute. Imagine this scenario: gold prices rise from $1,200 per ounce to $2,000 per ounce. The increased price would cause gold miners to increase production, and may even push entrepreneurs to create new gold mining businesses.

The $800 increase could create so much new supply that the price ends up dropping again. Cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin are different. No price rise can cause an increase in the rate at which Dogecoins are mined. A sudden increase in Dogecoin’s price would likely cause more miners to point hash power at the network. Unlike gold, however, Dogecoin’s difficulty ensures that the new hash power would simply be balanced with a rise in the difficulty of the proof of work algorithm.

The difficulty is adjusted after each block. Dogecoin Mining Profitability You can use one of the many to determine the potential profitability of hardware. Dogecoin mining profitability will depend on the price of Dogecoin, hash power of your hardware, electricity costs, and hardware efficiency. Dogecoin Block Reward Cryptocurrencies like and have a finite supply. The block reward eventually becomes so small that no new unites of currency can be created. Dogecoin’s developers, however, per block after block 600,000: • 1–99,999: 0–1,000,000 Dogecoin • 100,000–144,999: 0–500,000 Dogecoin • 145,000–199,999: 250,000 Dogecoin • 200,000–299,999: 125,000 Dogecoin • 300,000–399,999: 62,500 Dogecoin • 400,000–499,999: 31,250 Dogecoin • 500,000–599,999: 15,625 Dogecoin • 600,000+: 10,000 Dogecoin How to Mine Dogecoins To get started mining dogecoins you could get a for about $100 or a for about $285.

Want to learn how to mine dogecoins on Mac? To get started mining dogecoins you could get a for about $100.

Want to learn how to mine dogecoins on Windows? Transcript - What is Dogecoin mining? Hello, and welcome to my Dogecoin mining tutorial. Today I’m going to teach you how to mine Dogecoins quickly and easily with your Windows PC with an AMD video card. So first thing’s first.

You’re going to need a wallet. And the Dogecoin wallet is just a piece of software that keeps your Dogecoins on your computer, unless you send and receive them. So you want to go to Dodgecoin.com. I have a link in my video description. And just click on Windows and it will download the latest version.

I already have it downloaded and on my desktop just for this video. So once you’ve done that you want to extract into a folder. Just drag that into a folder. And inside you’ll see Dogecoinqt.exc.

And open that. And it might take a minute or so. So now that your wallet’s open it will say out of sync next to wallet. And that just means that it has not synchronized with the Dogecoin network yet.

Mine has already been synchronized and I’m just going to blackout some of these parts just for privacy reasons, but on the bottom right here you’ll see a progress bar and just regular progress bar. And after an hour or so the progress bar should complete. And that should mean that it is in sync with the Dogecoin network. Once that is synchronized, your client will be able to receive and send Dogecoins. So you can open this and leave it to sync while you’re mining. So you can just minimize that for now.

So to start mining we’re going to use a software CG Miner. And again I have the link in the download – in the video description. So once you go to that link, you want to go to CG Miner 3.7.2 Windows ZIP. Click on that and it will download.

Again, I already have it downloaded just for this video. One more time you want to extract that into a folder. Then once you open up this folder you will see a bunch of files and these files aren’t useful to you. The only thing you need here is you’re going to need to create a dot bat file which will allow you to start mining. But before we do that, you will need to join a pool. And a pool is basically just a group of miners that mine together in order to find coins faster. So a good website to find some good pools is Dogepool.com.

And I’ll have a link in my video description. And really you can pick any of these pools. It doesn’t matter. There’s really no big difference between them.

So just for this video I’m going to go with TeamDoge, but you know, it’s up to you which one you chose. So then you want to create an account and you’re going to need a user name, password, you’re email and a pin. And a pin is a four digit number and you want to make sure that that you remember this or write it down somewhere because you’re going to need this to get your Dogecoins from the pool into your wallet. So this is a very important number. Once you registered, it’s going to ask you to log in.

So I already created an account. Once you logged in, you’re going to see a bunch of information on your dashboard.

This should be zero. I’m not sure why it’s showing me a number. That’s strange. So once you’re on your dashboard, you’re going to want to do two things. First, you want to go to your workers tab. And here you want to create a worker. As you can see I already made a test worker, but really it can be any name you want.

Here is a test in test. So, we’ll just add test two, test two.

So I just add another worker. Really you just want a worker for every separate computer or video cards that you’re using on a pool. You don’t have to, but it lets you see which computers or video cards are performing the best and if there’s something wrong with one them you’ll know which exactly video card or computer that it is that is malfunctioning. So once you’ve done that.

Now, we’re going to want to go back to our CG Miner folder. So here you’re going to want to right click. Go to new, new text document. And let’s call this start – I guess I already have that. Weekend mining.

It doesn’t matter what you call it. Then let’s open it with your text editor. And you’re going to want to copy this into this file. Also you’re going to need to replace a couple things here. In the username, Doge worker name. You’re going to want to replace it with a username of your pool and the worker name in your pool like we just made. So for me it would be how to mine doge dot test2 and for the password you’re going to need to put in the password that you just made for the worker.

So again here it’s going to be test two. For the second part, you’re going to want to go back to your pool. Click on getting started and copy this part right here. It will be under the command liner instructions. And this a URL that your miner will navigate to to start mining.

And again you want to just replace this part right here. And paste that in. So then you want to save this file and close it. Now, so here right now it is a text file, but we want this to be a dot bat file, B-A-T.

So simply just rename it. Here dot bat. Click yes and now you have your bat file. Now to start mining, simply double click on this bat file.

And there we go. It’s beginning to mine. Currently I’m using a Radeon 7850 video card and it should get around 330 kilo hashes per second. So this is going to slowly make it up there and then okay.

Yeah, there we go. Now it’s at 300 kilo hashes.

If you’re not sure how much your video card should be making, how many hashes it should be generating, simply google litecoin mining hardware. In the Litecoin wiki just simply google mining hardware comparison for Litecoin and here is a list of different GPUs and how many kilo hashes they should be getting.

So if I search this page for 7850, you can see that people get between 340 and 300 or 411. So they get around 350 kilo hashes per second. And I’m getting about 310.

So, that’s good. I mean, you can optimize it further and you can simply use the settings that they have right here. As you can see right now, I’m running on a lower intensity. So this way I can use the computer while I’m mining. And then the final part is once you start mining, just go back to your pool. Click on edit account and you’re going to want to open up your wallet and click in to the much received tab. You ‘r going to want to create a new address.

Call that the name of your pool or whatever. And just right click on it, copy the address, go back into your pool and input that address into your payment address. And then you can set automatic payment threshold. 1,000 Doge is the smallest limit. And then you just want to put in your pin.

And there we go. Now it’s up to the account details. And if we go back into our dashboard, we can see that eventually it will update with the new hash rate. Now, quick note before we leave is that the hash rate that you see in CG Miner is always going to be much more precise than the hash rate that you see in the pool, because a pool calculates it using the shares over time and because this value can fluctuate so does the hash rate. When in reality your hash rate remains the same. So as long as you’re sure that your worker is working correctly.

And then you don’t have to worry about the hash rate that it shows inside your pool. As long as it’s, you know, within 20% accuracy. So it’s going to be a bit slow to update, but eventually it will update to the fairly precise kilo hash per second. And you’ll get paid out in next time you hit your minimum pay out.

Well, I hope you enjoy this video on how to mine Dogecoin. If you liked it feel free to donate Doge coin to my address in the video description. And as always don’t forget to share this video, because the more people use Dogecoin the higher the value will go. All right, thanks and happy mining. Transcript - Dogecoin Mining on Mac All right.

So I’m going to walk you through how to start mining Dogecoin. The first thing you need to do is join a pool and right now I’m using poolerino.

It’s the most popular one. There’s tons you can find online that doesn’t really matter. The first thing you need to do is click a sign up button.

That will take you to this page where you can register account. There’s a number of fields you have to fill out. I’m not going to do it for you because I already have an account. So I’m just going to go in menu, login. So this is what the inside of the mining pool website looks like. The only thing you really need to do to here to get started is create a new worker. You can do that clicking the My Workers thing.

You’ll see I’ve got a couple of workers here. You can add a new worker with this tab on the side. I’m going to make another one.

Just call it something worker 2. And when you add that worker, you’ll see that it successfully gets added and you now have a new worker. So it’s pretty much all we need to worry about here.

And there are few things you need to remember when you get to later steps. The first is your username, which in my case is Ardo. Also, your worker name, which is worker 2 and your worker password, which in this case is also worker 2. We’re going to use these later.

The only other thing you need to know is the host name, which you can find out at this home tab. If you scroll all the way to the bottom in that homepage you’ll see it’s in this comment. But you want this, you should probably go ahead and copy that and we’ll use that later.

So the next thing you need to do is download the actual software to do the mining that available at SourceForge, and it’s called CPU miner. Go ahead and download that. The link’s in the description. It will start your download and while this is going, let’s go over to finder, check out our Downloads folder. You’ll see that it’s a zip file, so you’re going to need to expand that. So go ahead and double-click that, it will expand, you’ll see this minerd executable, which is basically the program that we’re going to run to mine.

Now to run this, we need to use an application called Terminal. You can find that in your applications folder under Utilities. It should be all the way at the bottom here, yep, double click it. You’ll open up a Terminal, it looks like this. If you’re not comfortable with it that’s fine, I’m going tell you exactly what’s you need to type to get this running, then you start with cd downloads, which is going to take you into the Downloads folder, basically, which is where that minerd file is. You then need to change the permissions on minerd. So you type chmod 755 minerd, which is going to allow you to run the file.

And then you’re ready to run it, you need to dot, slash, minerd. The first thing you need is dash O and then you paste that host name that you copied earlier. And then the only other thing you need is user pass, dash, dash, userpass and you need to set that equal to their user name, which in my case was Ardo, dot, your worker name, which was worker 2 for me and then a colon and your worker password, which was also worker 2.

And then you hit enter and your program is running, you’re now mining with your CPU. So I just fast forward about twenty minutes. It’s been running for twenty minutes now. You’ll see it’s still going that the hash rate is a little bit higher. More importantly, you see these accepted messages which means that you are generating valid Dogecoins. If you zoom out and you go back to that pool website and refresh it, you can confirm that it’s working there, as well. This might take a little bit.

But when you go back, you’ll see hash rate on your dashboard as well as a number of valid coins that you’ve produced. There you have it.

Transcript - Dogecoin Mining on Windows Hey everybody. So there’s a new cryptocurrency on the block. How Much Komodo KMD Can My Computer Mine. It’s called Dogecoin. And Dogecoin is basically a script based coin. So it’s a bit like Litecoin, I guess, you could say.

And the maximum amount of coins that can be mined is around 100 billion. So, basically I don’t see any huge advantage to Dogecoin in terms of, you know, its technology compared to other script based coins.

But the branding is pretty cool, because I think it’s the first the coins that’s branded off of a popular internet meme, the Doge meme. So I think that will give it a lot of advantage, you know, in terms of how popular it will get. As you can see here it’s released like on December 8th, which was like a week ago or something from when I made this video. And it already has 162 pages on its thread on bitcointalk.org so that alone shows a lot about its popularity at this point. And yeah basically, if you want to get started mining Dogecoins, first thing you got to do is download the wallet. And the wallet you can get from here. I’ll have the download link in the description for this version and I’ll also have a link to this thread here so you can check out for any updates on the Dogecoin software or other related issues.

So once you’ve downloaded the zip file, you want to either make a new folder, you know, move it in there and then extract to a folder so that you get like a new folder for Dogecoin. And then you copy the folder and you – yeah you copy the folder down to like program files or something wherever you want to store it and then you rename over there to like Dogecoin because may be you don’t want this extra stuff here. And then you go inside the folder. You make a shortcut to your desktop of the Dogecoin-QT.exe.

You make a shortcut to your desktop and then you start the wallet software. Once you started the wallet software you go to a much receive. Here is the place where you can make new addresses and you click on new address. And this is a mining pool pay out address that we’re going to make here.

So you type in your label like Dogecoin mining pool payout, for example. Then you click okay. I’m not going to do that because I already have an address here. And yeah, you copy the address.

You’re going to right click, copy address. Then what you want to do is sign up for a pool. And there’s number of a Dogecoin pools already, but I just chose this one because it was first on the list.

So, this is Doge.scriptpools.com. I’m sure there is other good pools out there and you’re going to have to look for them yourself, but this is just to illustrate an example so. And I think this pool is pretty good as well so. Should be okay. Then you go here to sign up.

Click on sign up. And you enter your details.

Enter your details, username, password, and it does require an email but it does not require verifications. You don’t have to click on anything in your inbox and then you enter your pin code and you should remember your pin code. Actually, you’re going to need that in a bit. And then you go and log in to the mining pool. And you go to edit account.

Logged me out. I’m going to have to log in again. Yeah, so you go in here, into your account and click on edit account. And here you enter the payment address so.

And then you give a certain percentage donation. I would recommend that it’s only a little bit so like a half percent at least. And then you have your automatic payment threshold. So 10,000 is the minimum on this mining pool. And then here at the bottom you enter your four digit pin number and click update accounts. And the payment address should appear here.

And yeah, so then after that you got to make a worker. Go to my workers and you type in like a number here like number one. Can You Still Mine For Ethereum Classic ETC. Like, I have number one and X or XO or whatever.

And then you want to make a note of this. This is like the worker ID. And this is the password.

So you want to make a note of this. They’re not, you know, super-secret or anything. They’re just, you know, so you can log stuff and yeah you can. It’s basically for mining with standalone mining apps. So the next thing you want to do once you made your worker is download the mining software. And there is basically two ways you can mine for Dogecoins.

Number one is or the first one is CPU mining. So you mine with your microprocessor, but that’s usually not that effective alone if done alone so. But you can, you know, try it out as well so. You can get the CUP miner from this thread here. I’ll have it linked in the description. And here is the 32/64 bit miners. And the second way is through graphics card mining or GPU mining with your graphics card.

And for Radeon graphic cards and other AMD graphics cards you’re going to want to use CG Miner. And the newer versions of CG miners don’t support script which is the algorithm that the Dogecoin is based on. But this older ones or slightly older ones support it.

It’s 3.6.6 for example. That’s a decent version. You go to this link that I’ll have linked and you click on View Raw and you’ll get to download the zip file. And if you’re running NVidia GeForce or other NVidia graphics card and you’re going to want use CudaMiner and you can get it from this thread at bitcointalk.org, which will also be linked in the description. And here is the zip file. It has both 32 and 64 bit versions in it.

So you can just download that and extract it and pick the version that suits you the best. Then once you’ve done that you’re going to want to make this batch files. Basically these batch files, they configure the mining software where it’s going to mine and you know the username details and stuff like that. So you, yeah, you need to make those and to make those you just open up your Notepad. Then you copy this stuff in there. And you enter your details like your username and then the worker Id which was number 1 and then the worker password which I had as X. So all this are pretty much the same because they’re all based off of I think the CPU miner.

So they’re like structure or the format is pretty much the same. Except for CG Miner which is not a script miner by default. So you need to enable like script mining by putting this additional thing here. But otherwise it’s exactly the same as other two. And I’ll have this linked as well in the descriptions so you can like copy then directly as well.

And, yeah, basically these have to be in the same folder as the mining software. So it has to be in the same folder as the executable like CudaMiner.exe or minerde.exe which is the CPU Miner or CG miner. And when you want to run your miner, you run it off the batch file. You don’t run it off the executable, because then it doesn’t get configured.

So when you make shortcuts, you want to make shortcuts to the BAT file instead of the executable. And that’s how you run it. That’s all I have for this video. If you have any questions just ask them in the comment section. I’ll try my best to answer them and yeah, that’s all. So happy mining and I’ll see you all later.