OpenCL Amoveo miner

This is the best miner for Amoveo currently available. It is a CPU miner.

OpenCL dependency

You will need openCL software that is compatible with your graphics card. I think this might come default with Mac, since I didn't have to install anything on my laptop for this.

Linux: AMD driver / SDK link https://developer.amd.com/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/ Nvidia driver / SDK link https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

Windows: OpenCL SDK can be downloaded by link https://developer.amd.com/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/. Also you can try another OpenCL SDK vendors. Path to intalled SDK should be written to a new environment variable OPENCL_SDK.

other dependencies

for ubuntu

   sudo apt-get install erlang libncurses5-dev libssl-dev unixodbc-dev g++ git

This list probably includes more dependencies than you actually need.

for mac:

install erlang version 18 or higher. You can use Homebrew:

brew install erlang

There might be other dependencies too.

for windows: I don't have a windows machine to find out.

installation

you need git to install this way.

git clone https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/amoveo-opencl-miner.git

or you can use your browser to download it by clicking here

configure

You can connect it to a full node. Change the url at the top of miner.erl to point to your full node. It is named Peer. This gives all your money to whoever runs that full node.

You can also connect to a mining pool. If you connect to a mining pool, you get paid by the person running the pool. This way you don't have to run Amoveo. set Peer to be the url for the mining pool.

By default Peer is set up to connect to a public mining pool.

Put your pubkey into the Pubkey definition at the top of miner.erl so that you can get paid.

mining

On ubuntu and Mac OSX, it can be compiled and turned on like this:

sh compile.sh

Then you start mining like this:

miner:start().

To turn it off, first use Control + C, a, enter to exit the erlang interface. Then to kill the miner processes, do:

sh clean.sh

speed test

first build the software sh compile.sh then exit from erlang halt(). then run the executable ./amoveo_miner It takes about 6 seconds on my computer.

other notes

Here is a link to where the same mining is implemented in erlang. The 'pow' function is the one to look at

Here it is implemented in C language

Here is a link to the main Amoveo repo.. If you want to solo mine without a mining pool, you will need this. Solo miners make more profit.

zack-bitcoin / amoveo-opencl-miner