Bitcoin Gold mainnet network upgrade test phase has begun
Few days back, we mentioned how the Bitcoin Gold was changing its mining algorithm to make BTG mining difficult for the ASIC miners. Today, the Bitcoin Gold team has begun testing the new algorithm on their test pool. So if you are a miner, you might want to test it.
Create a testnet wallet for yourself from h4x3rotab’s Online Paper Wallet (link).
Before generating your wallet, be sure to go into Settings and change the Network to Bitcoin Gold (testnet), and click on “Submit”.
Download EWBF’s Cuda Equihash Miner from here.
download links above reference the recent v0.2 release which supports Equihash-BTG. CUDA8 or CUDA9 depends on your GPU model.
Unzip EWBF archive and locate miner.cfg. Edit with text editor so it looks like this:
[common] cuda_devices 0 1 2 3 4 5 intensity 64 64 64 64 64 64 templimit 80 pec 0 boff 0 eexit 0 tempunits C log 3 logfile miner.log api 127.0.0.1:42000 algo 144_5 pers BgoldPoW # The miner start work from this server # When the server is fail, the miner will try to reconnect 3 times # After three unsuccessful attempts, the miner will switch to the next server # You can add up to 8 servers # main server [server] server test-pool.bitcoingold.org port 3857 user paste_your_testnet_wallet_here pass x # additional server 1 [server] server btg-testnet.miningspot.net port 3857 user paste_your_testnet_wallet_here pass x
Now run miner.exe. It should start mining on the BTG testnet.
Be prepared for the $BTG mainnet Network Upgrade! Our official test pool is open. Check how your rigs perform on our new PoW, Equihash-BTG, and share your hashrate!
Tutorial: https://t.co/rei2v9VeHb#1cpu1vote #BitcoinGold #Equihash #Decentralization #bitcoin #blockchain
— Bitcoin Gold [BTG] (@bitcoingold) June 20, 2018
Keep in mind that you will be mining to testnet so the BTG is testnet-BTG which has no value. You will have to change the server to mainnet BTG once testing is complete.