Hello Steemers!
I will try to make a quick tutorial how I started mining Steem Power on my Windows PC. It's quick and easy.
I see a lot of people have problems with this, but this method is easy and fast, shouldn't have any problems.
Step 1
Pretty simple, just download "Steem Windows Wallet and Miner"
When it's done, just unzip it.
Step 2
When the unzipping is done, open the folder and execute steemd.exe
It will open a window, that will look like this:
Step 3
The miner made a new folder, with config.ini in it
Open it
Step 4
Find "# P2P nodes to connect to on startup (may specify multiple times)"
And below that type in:
seed-node = 212.47.249.84:40696
seed-node = 52.4.250.181:39705
seed-node = 81.89.101.133:2001
seed-node = 192.99.4.226:2001
seed-node = 46.252.27.1:1337
seed-node = seed.steemd.com:34191
So it should look like this:
Step 5
Find "# name of witness controlled by this node (e.g. initwitness )"
There fill in your Steemit username, it should look like this:
Step 6
Before next step, you will need to get your WIF Private key.
There are multiple ways to do it, but I use bitaddress.org
When you open the site, just move your cursor around till you finish generating your address
After that move to ""Bulk Wallet" and uncheck "Compressed addresses?" after that you will just press generate, and below you will be able to see WIF keys. They start with 5
Step 7
Find "# name of miner and its private key (e.g. ["account","WIF PRIVATE KEY"] )"
There you will have to fill in your Steemit username and your WIF key
So it should like this:
Step 8
Find "# Number of threads to use for proof of work mining"
and add the number of threads you want to run for mining.
In my case it looks like this:
But you may not have 8 cores for to do it. It all depends on what CPU you have. Check online how many threads your CPU has.
Step 9
Save the config folder and open steemd.exe again.
Step 10
Wait till it will sync with the blockchain, it will look like this till he does it
Step 11
Now you just have to wait, and in an hour or two you will start mining.
When it's ready, the mining process looks like this:
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I have two questions...
i. People mine Steem or Steem Power?
ii. What is the purpose of generating a bitcoin WIF private key? Is it same as Steem private key ? If not, how do I generate a Steem address/private key pair offline?
good questions, why use bitcoin private address for steem key?
Although i did not actively look for any tutorials, this seems pretty indepth and noobproof.
Nice contribution, keep them coming !
Thanks a lot, great post, was really struggling getting my steem mining up and running, followed your instructions and it looks like it's sorted out
I have get error while start mining....can u reply me plz how to solve and upvote plz
Big Information About steemit Mining.
Thanks
How much can you mine per day?
That depends on the computing power you posses.
Do you know how to access an account that is mined using a WIF private key? I have a few, but i cannot log onto any of them XD
Emm, I dont think so that you can actually do it, at least easy.
Any calculation for profitability? Mine with GPU or CPU??
Nice post. I started yesterday and so far my screens look the same so I'll take that as confirmation that I'm doing it right. It would be nice to see a screenshot of the last steps, the witness queue, and what it looks like when steem is actually paid.
This is what the console looks like after the miner finds a proof of work (POW). It shows 6 hps. It stays like this for about an hour and a half while you wait in the witness queue. If you go to https://steemd.com and click on WItnesses you should see your account on the right in the witness queue.
great article on mining. thanks
Warning! mining STEEM is not possible anymore.
Save your time.
i am stuck here. is it ok?
The last line says "Started witness node on a chain with 0 blocks."