Note: Electroneum has forked on July 5, 2018 to reintroduce ASIC miners. Unfortunately, ASIC miners brought so much hashing power to the network that it is now nearly impossible for GPU and CPU miners to get a decent return. You’ll still be able to mine Electroneum with a GPU and CPU, but your payouts will be greatly reduced. Read more about it here.
Electroneum can be mined on a computer, similarly to how it can be mined with a mobile phone.
In this article, you’ll learn how to mine Electroneum on your computer using its CPU (Central Processing Unit) or GPU (Graphical Processing Unit, more commonly known as a graphics card).
Mine Electroneum Using xmr-stak
To get started, you’ll need the following:
- A computer (running 64-bit Windows, MacOS, or some version of Linux)
- An Electroneum wallet address where your mined earnings will be paid into
- Mining software (we’ll use xmr-stak as you’ll see below)
We’ll be using xmr-stak – open-source mining software that runs on the command line and supports both CPU and GPU mining. If you’re not comfortable working on the command line, don’t worry. It’s pretty easy to set up.
Download the Mining Software
If you’re using Windows, download xmr-stak from their Github repository. You’ll see a link near the top of the page with the latest release, which will typically be a zip file called xmr-stak-win64.zip.
Mac users, use this download link for a ready-to-install Mac version. Linux users will need to compile it from the source code.
Google Chrome might flag the file as “harmful” and interrupt the download process. To get around this, click on Show All in the bottom right corner to view all your downloads (or click on the menu icon, and then Downloads). You’ll see the file at the top of the downloads list. Click on Keep Dangerous File and confirm the popup box.
Extract the zip file on your computer.
When extracting, your anti-virus program might flag the program as dangerous as well. This software is safe, so you can click Run Anyway or some similar message that will allow the program to run.
Configure the Mining Software
Open the folder that was unzipped, typically called xmr-stak-win64. Run the file called xmr-stak.exe and confirm any security warnings that appear. This opens a step-by-step system that will help us configure the miner for the first run.
The first question is “Do you want to use the HTTP interface?” This is for viewing mining statistics on a web interface but requires a bit of a setup, so we’ll ignore it for now. So type 0 (zero) to decline and hit Enter.
You will then be asked which currency (or algorithm) you would like to mine.
Enter cryptonight in lowercase letters and including the underscore. Don’t enter electroneum or cryptonight_v7 as these settings will mine according to the old algorithms and won’t work. Hit Enter.
For the pool address, you’ll need to enter the address of the pool you want to mine to. There are many pools which mine Electroneum, and you can see a list of the largest pools here. The largest pool is usually Nanopool, but I don’t recommend them to beginners due to their high payout threshold of 500 ETN.
I suggest you use Spacepools, since they have a low fee of 0.1% and a payout threshold of 10 ETN (meaning you’ll get paid after every 10 ETN you mine). Fairhash is another good one with a 1% fee and a 50 ETN payout threshold.
The URL that needs to be entered here is typically in the form of [URL]:[port] where:
- [URL] is the URL of the pool.
- [port] is a four digit number that tells your miner on which port to connect to the pool.
If you decide to use Spacepools, enter pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 and hit Enter. There are other ports available which you can view here, but 3333 should definitely work. For Fairhash, enter pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 or see their other ports here.
Next, it asks for your username or wallet address. Enter the wallet address where you’d like your earnings to be paid into. This can be either a paper wallet address or the address of your online wallet (login to view your public wallet address).
Wallet addresses are pretty long to enter manually, so it would be better to copy and paste them. But pasting in the command line requires a trick. Once you’ve copied the wallet address to the clipboard, move to the command window, right click on the title bar at the top, and select Edit -> Paste. Some command line interfaces allow you to simply right-click and select Paste.
Also, when copying the wallet address from your paper wallet, first paste it into a clean text file and remove the spaces so that the address is all on one line. Then copy and paste it into the miner software.
Hit Enter when you’re done.
No password is needed, so hit Enter to leave it empty.
Next, enter any name for the rig identifier such as “miner1”. When you have multiple computers mining to the same wallet address on the same pool, each machine will be identified by this rig identifier in the statistics. You can also just leave it empty and hit Enter.
At the question about TSL/SSL, type the letter n and hit Enter.
At the question about nicehash, type the letter n and hit Enter.
Finally, at the question about multiple pools, type the letter n and hit Enter.
Start Mining
The software is now configured! A new window will open that does the actual mining. You should see a load of messages followed by “Pool logged in”.
The miner is now running and sending hashes to the pool.
Messages will pop up one after the other as the miner communicates with the pool. Make sure the message “Result accepted by the pool” shows up among them. This will be the signal that your computer is mining successfully.
If you get a message saying “Result rejected by the pool” there is something wrong with your miner’s configuration. You have probably chosen the wrong algorithm. To correct it, open the pools.txt document in the same folder as xmr-stak.exe and make sure the line at the bottom reads:
“currency” : “cryptonight”,
View Your Mining Statistics and Earnings
To see how fast you are mining, press h in the miner window. This will display a table with the hash rates of your computer over the last 10 seconds, 60 seconds, and 15-minute interval.
Each CPU core is assigned a unique number in the ID column, and its corresponding performance is displayed next to it. A table for GPU is also listed, if available.
You’ll see a line reading Totals (CPU) showing the total hash rate of all CPU cores. There will also be a line reading Totals (GPU) for GPUs (if available), and a line for the combined total.
Checking your Earnings
You should be able to check your earnings on your specific pool’s website. If you’re using Spacepools as recommended above, you can check your earnings on their homepage here.
Copy your public wallet address into the field saying Your Stats and Payment History and press Lookup. You’ll then see a breakdown of your estimated hash rate, earnings, and payment history.
The Pending Balance is the number of ETN you’ve mined but has not been paid out yet. Once they reach the payout threshold (10 ETN for Spacepools), the ETN will be paid out to your wallet and will transfer to the Total Paid section.
Difficulty and Total Hash Rate
The number of coins you earn at any given time is also inversely related to the following two network parameters (updated after every block):
- Difficulty – a measure of how hard it is to mine a block. As more miners join in, the difficulty is increased automatically to make sure that the network mines an average of 1 block per minute, and no more. As more miners stop mining, the difficulty will decrease again. A lower difficulty means you will mine faster.
- Total hash rate – the combined hash rate of all miners around the world. A lower total hash rate means you will mine faster.
You can view the current and historic difficulty and total hash rate in our statistics section.
Transferring Your Mined Coins
Once your coins have been paid out into your paper wallet, you can then view your paper wallet balance or import it to your online wallet.
xmr-stak fast mining example start.cmd
@echo off
xmrig.exe -donate-level 1 -o electroneum.herominers.com:10211 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME -a cryptonight -variant 0 -k
pause
Electroneum ASIC friendly now. You can use this pool:
https://electroneum.herominers.com
Hi guys,
Mine keep showing as New block detected. “Result accepted by the pool” is not showing up after waiting for very long. Can someone help me?
[2018-10-23 17:08:18] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in...
[2018-10-23 17:08:18] : Difficulty changed. Now: 240009.
[2018-10-23 17:08:18] : Pool logged in.
[2018-10-23 17:08:42] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:09:51] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:11:01] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:11:14] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:11:47] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:13:07] : New block detected.
[2018-10-23 17:16:10] : New block detected.
I need more information to be able to help you. Are you using a ASIC, GPU or a CPU to mine. What miner are you using? Did you make exclusions on your antivirus software to ignore the miner, or disable your AV?
hello, is there any way to reduce the cpu usage of this program?
cause it uses almost 90 percent of cpu and my laptop can’t work more than few minutes.
Hello,
Mining requires CPU to mine, however if you have a MultiCore CPU, you can set it to use only some of the cores to mine and reserve the other cores to work. For example, lets say you have a 6 core CPU, you can put 2 cores on mining and leave 4 for your laptop so you can work. Another thing to note is the CPU mining is not effective anymore since the reintroduction of ASICs to the block chain in July. With that said, its still fun to do. Enjoy!
hey can you help me..
when i am mining like 10 minutes and then checking my connection (pressing c), massages shows this:
CONNECTION REPORT
Pool address : pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333
Connected since : 2018-10-15 15:35:27
Pool ping time : (n/a)
Network error log:
| Date | Error text |
| 2018-10-15 15:34:52 | [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] RECEIVE error: A blocki |
but i think my connection is okay, because i use Wi-Fi.
And then, my CPU is cooling down (not working)…
Can you help me fix this? thank you
Hi Yousef,
Does spacepools show you logged in and hashing? You might want to make sure your power save settings on your laptop do not put your laptop and/or wifi setting to sleep after 10 minutes. You also want to make sure your antivirus is not stopping the miner as well.
Good luck!
Hello,
I’m already ‘mining’ Electroneum on my smartphone and I’d like to try mining it on my PC as well. However, I have lots of doubts about it, and I’d be really grateful if someone could help me clear them up.
1) Is it safe to mine Electroneum on a laptop or an all-in-one PC (I mean, in terms of overheating and stuff like that)?
2) Will my electricity consumption be higher than normal if I do it?
3) What is an average hashrate for a powerful laptop/all-in-one? Is it much higher than that of a mobile miner (I’ve got like 30 H/s on my smartphone)?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! ?
Mining with a desktop/GPU in not profitable anymore. In order to be effective, you will need a ASIC miner. You can try it for fun if you like, but will most likely spend more power than the ETN it will produce. The only real profitable way to mine ETN is via Mobile Miner or ASIC hardware.
Hi, please can you help me with these it always shows connection attempt failed:
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : Elevating due to Windows 7 or 8. You need Windows 10 touse fast memory without UAC elevation.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : Elevating because we need to set up fast memory privileg
es.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY INIT ERROR: Obtaining SeLockMemoryPrivilege faile
d.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
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xmr-stak 2.4.7 c5f0505d
Brought to you by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.
Based on CPU mining code by wolf9466 (heavily optimized by fireice_uk).
Based on NVIDIA mining code by KlausT and psychocrypt.
Based on OpenCL mining code by wolf9466.
Configurable dev donation level is set to 2.0%
You can use following keys to display reports:
‘h’ – hashrate
‘r’ – results
‘c’ – connection
——————————————————————-
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : Mining coin: cryptonight
WARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-10-03 13:43:40] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : Found AMD platform index id = 0, name = Advanced Micro D
evices, Inc.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : WARNING: CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND when calling clGetDeviceIDs
for of devices.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : WARNING: No AMD device found.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 1.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-10-03 13:43:42] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 pool …
[2018-10-03 13:44:03] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333] CONNECT erro
r: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly resp
ond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected h
ost has failed to respond.
[2018-10-03 13:44:32] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 pool …
[2018-10-03 13:44:53] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333] CONNECT erro
r: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly resp
ond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected h
ost has failed to respond.
[2018-10-03 13:45:22] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 pool …
[2018-10-03 13:45:43] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333] CONNECT erro
r: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly resp
ond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected h
ost has failed to respond.
What does your configuration file look like?
I have the problem that the program always says that it couldn’t find the wallet address when I type it in payment history.
Hi, I’m mining on mobile and I started mining on my desktop using Ubuntu (same wallet address used for both). But how much is the payout limit on desktop, because my desktop has been mining for 4 days but nothing coming into my wallet yet.
Thank you
The payout threshold depends on the mining pool you are mining to. Visit their website, where you’ll be able to view statistics of how much you’ve mined already.
I don’t mine to any pool. I mine on Ubuntu and used start_mining, and it started syncing and mining.
It sounds like you are mining solo, which means you are trying to mine a block all by yourself. With the current difficulty, it will take you years to mine a single block and get the reward of about 7,000 ETN. I strongly urge you to join a mining pool. In this way, you are combining your efforts with lots of other miners and will get smaller awards every few days. It works out about the same – you should make the same profit in either case, but the pool option shows profits much faster.
Hi, just want to ask how long does it take to see any results?
Which device are you using to mine? I’m afraid if you are using anything other than an ASIC miner, you’ll need to wait a long time to see results. ASIC miners are extremely powerful and dwarf the hashing power of any CPU or GPU.
I changed to spacepools and now it works.
Glad you could figure it out!
Hi,
[2018-09-06 01:35:31] : Mining coin: cryptonightI have this error. Can you help me please?
WARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-09-06 01:35:31] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver issues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-09-06 01:35:32] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 pool …
[2018-09-06 01:35:53] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333] CONNECT error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
Hi, please solve my problem…
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : Mining coin: cryptonightWARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver issues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : CPU configuration stored in file ‘cpu.txt’
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 1.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 pool …
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-23 23:07:57] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-08-23 23:07:58] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] Login error: invalid address used for login
[2018-08-23 23:07:58] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] RECEIVE error: A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall.
Not sure what the problem is. Try restarting?
Hi Ben. Thanks for the effort!
Is it not necessary to sync the blockchain with the daemon anymore?
Not sure what you’re trying to do. If you are mining or using the CLI wallet, you’ll need to have the daemon running in both cases.
Hi. Can I ask if there is any specific ASIC miner to buy to mine the Electroneum coin?
With Electroneum’s current version, You’ll need an ASIC that can mine the Cryptonight algorithm. I found this list of ASICs you can look into.
13:47:36] : Elevating because we need to set up fast memory privileges.
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY INIT ERROR: Added SeLockMemoryPrivilege to the current account. You need to reboot for it to work
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
——————————————————————-
xmr-stak 2.4.7 c5f0505d
Brought to you by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.
Based on CPU mining code by wolf9466 (heavily optimized by fireice_uk).
Based on NVIDIA mining code by KlausT and psychocrypt.
Based on OpenCL mining code by wolf9466.
Configurable dev donation level is set to 2.0%
You can use following keys to display reports:
‘h’ – hashrate
‘r’ – results
‘c’ – connection
——————————————————————-
[2018-08-05 13:47:36] : Mining coin: cryptonight
WARNING: NVIDIA Unable to query number of CUDA devices!
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
WARNING: AMD cannot load backend library: xmrstak_opencl_backend.dll
WARNING: AMD Backend disabled
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : CPU configuration stored in file ‘cpu.txt’
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might help.
[2018-08-05 13:47:37] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:333 pool …
[2018-08-05 13:47:38] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:333] CONNECT error
It seems that your port is incorrect. It should be 3333 instead of just 333.
Hello sir, I have this problem. Can you help?
memory alloc failed virtualalloc failed
Thanks for the great article… I think I am mining. However, when I press h it gives values for CPU cores but gives a 0.0 for highest H/s. Also when I input my Electroneum wallet address on Spacepools it says address not found?
Any help would be appreciated, happy mining!
My guess is, due to the high hash rate introduced by ASICs, it takes much longer for ordinary CPUs and GPUs to solve a hash. Therefore, it takes a while before your miner sends any proof of work to the pool server to prove that he is working on a hash. When you try to check your balance the pool has not heard from your miner yet, which is why your address is not found.
Hi,
Is 600h/s a good hashrate? I don’t know if I should continue mining or wait for a bigger hashrate. How can I find the right time to mine at a faster rate? I am a newbie so excuse me for asking dumb questions.
I think 600 H/s is a tad too low compared to today’s ASIC miners. You can check your potential earnings at Whattomine. The hash rate is in kH/s, so be sure to insert 0.6 instead of 600. The best time to mine is during times of low difficulty. You can check out a graph of difficulty here.
Thank you so much!
When I am checking my stats at spacepools site it is showing Address not found.
My guess is, due to the high hash rate introduced by ASICs, it takes much longer for ordinary CPUs and GPUs to solve a hash. Therefore, it takes a while before your miner sends any proof of work to the pool server to prove that he is working on a hash. When you try to check your balance the pool has not heard from your miner yet, which is why your address is not found.
WARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver issues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-23 17:28:00] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 pool …
[2018-07-23 17:28:01] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-07-23 17:28:01] : Difficulty changed. Now: 240009.
[2018-07-23 17:28:01] : Pool logged in.
[2018-07-23 17:28:35] : New block detected.
HASHRATE REPORT – CPU
| ID | 10s | 60s | 15m | ID | 10s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 41.7 | 34.7 | (na) | 1 | 45.0 | 42.2 | (na) |
Totals (CPU): 86.7 76.9 0.0 H/s
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Totals (ALL): 86.7 76.9 0.0 H/s
Highest: 91.1 H/s
—————————————————————-
[2018-07-23 17:31:57] : New block detected.
[2018-07-23 17:41:56] : New block detected.
[2018-07-23 17:42:41] : New block detected.
[2018-07-23 17:42:48] : New block detected.
HASHRATE REPORT – CPU
| ID | 10s | 60s | 15m | ID | 10s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 37.3 | 30.8 | 27.8 | 1 | 40.6 | 35.8 | 38.5 |
Totals (CPU): 78.0 66.6 66.4 H/s
—————————————————————-
Totals (ALL): 78.0 66.6 66.4 H/s
Highest: 91.1 H/s
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My problem is when I log to https://etn.spacepools.org/# to check on my earnings, below is my problem. Can you please help me?
Your Stats & Payment History
etnjwvqyGeDJy6W1g6pzrV9b866Nk7yAjCpQJjpztUKzDcGh8d2bDmd7ozaaw8ecC39ruh5QHE9mZ9xwkBhVgEp41LYHSZVseC
Address not found.
My guess is, due to the high hash rate introduced by ASICs, it takes much longer for ordinary CPUs and GPUs to solve a hash. Therefore, it takes a while before your miner sends any proof of work to the pool server to prove that he is working on a hash. When you try to check your balance the pool has not heard from your miner yet, which is why your address is not found.
When I want to check my stats on spacepool, I enter my online wallet from ETN, but I receive this message ‘Address not found.’. What’s the problem?
The address is 100% correct.
My guess is, due to the high hash rate introduced by ASICs, it takes much longer for ordinary CPUs and GPUs to solve a hash. Therefore, it takes a while before your miner sends any proof of work to the pool server to prove that he is working on a hash. When you try to check your balance the pool has not heard from your miner yet, which is why your address is not found.
When I enter my wallet, it’s okay to put my ETN wallet address from the app, right?
Sure!
Hi,
When I try checking my earnings from the pool site my address was not found.
Below is my seeting:
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Elevating due to Windows 7 or 8. You need Windows 10 touse fast memory without UAC elevation.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Elevating because we need to set up fast memory privileg
es.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY INIT ERROR: Obtaining SeLockMemoryPrivilege faile
d.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
——————————————————————-
xmr-stak 2.4.7 c5f0505d
Brought to you by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.
Based on CPU mining code by wolf9466 (heavily optimized by fireice_uk).
Based on NVIDIA mining code by KlausT and psychocrypt.
Based on OpenCL mining code by wolf9466.
Configurable dev donation level is set to 2.0%
You can use following keys to display reports:
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.‘h’ – hashrate
‘r’ – results
‘c’ – connection
——————————————————————-
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Mining coin: cryptonight
WARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver i
ssues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed.
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 pool …
[2018-07-18 14:00:45] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in.
..
[2018-07-18 14:00:46] : Difficulty changed. Now: 240009.
[2018-07-18 14:00:46] : Pool logged in.
HASHRATE REPORT – CPU
| ID | 10s | 60s | 15m | ID | 10s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 19.7 | 21.3 | (na) | 1 | 11.8 | 12.5 | (na) |
Totals (CPU): 31.5 33.8 0.0 H/s
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Totals (ALL): 31.5 33.8 0.0 H/s
Highest: 36.2 H/s
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[2018-07-18 14:08:28] : New block detected.
[2018-07-18 14:13:09] : New block detected.
[2018-07-18 14:15:50] : New block detected.
HASHRATE REPORT – CPU
| ID | 10s | 60s | 15m | ID | 10s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 12.7 | 17.9 | 18.5 | 1 | 8.8 | 11.7 | 11.6 |
Totals (CPU): 21.5 29.5 30.1 H/s
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Totals (ALL): 21.5 29.5 30.1 H/s
Highest: 38.4 H/s
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HASHRATE REPORT – CPU
| ID | 10s | 60s | 15m | ID | 10s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 22.1 | 17.1 | 17.3 | 1 | 12.1 | 10.0 | 11.2 |
Totals (CPU): 34.1 27.1 28.5 H/s
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Totals (ALL): 34.1 27.1 28.5 H/s
Highest: 38.4 H/s
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My guess is, due to the high hash rate introduced by ASICs, it takes much longer for ordinary CPUs and GPUs to solve a hash. Therefore, it takes a while before your miner sends any proof of work to the pool server to prove that he is working on a hash. When you try to check your balance the pool has not heard from your miner yet, which is why the address is not found.
Hello!
Well, I’ve followed all the instructions. The miner is working. If I press h its’s showing my hash rate, but when I want to check my stats on the Spacepools homepage, I insert my wallet address and it says “not found”. I’m sure that this is the correct address because I’ve copied and pasted it from the ETN wallet. I also want to mention that it is the same with the one I’ve inserted in the miner. And also I have a worker named worker1. Does that have to do with this or not?
Best regards, George.
Hi! Are you getting any messages such as “Result rejected by pool” or “Result accepted by pool”? My guess is that your hash rate might not be able to compete with that of the ASIC miners and therefore your computer cannot find a hash in time to send to the pool.
Hi, my hash rate is 0 right across for CPU and GPU. Do I need to sign in at a pool, or is it alright if I’m just using the link above?
Not sure what the problem is. Do you get a message saying “Result accepted by the pool” at all?
Hi, wonder if you can help me. Everything seems to be working, but when I type my ETN address etnkKbec4wR6LYBnxxQA48ER21vxtgmwWKKFFsTcudE31Wu4J7nsmV67HeS5Ya2HXpH3Mpie2csVv4zn4Ux8cFsR3vYoitWTqp into etn.spacepools.org it doesn’t find my address. The other thing I was wondering about is, you said “Enter cryptonight in lowercase letters and including the underscore. Don’t enter electroneum or cryptonight_v7 as these settings will mine according to the old algorithms and won’t work. Hit Enter.” So I entered cryptonight without the underscore and without the version 7. Is this right now? It says cryptonight in the pool.txt file but I keep getting this ”
[2018-07-12 10:34:14] : New block detected.[2018-07-12 10:39:58] : Result rejected by the pool.
[2018-07-12 10:39:58] : Your miner was unable to find a share in time. Either the pool difficulty is too high, or the pool timeout is too low.
[2018-07-12 10:39:58] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] RECEIVE error: A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall.
[2018-07-12 10:39:58] : All pools are dead. Idling…
[2018-07-12 10:40:27] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 pool …
[2018-07-12 10:40:27] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-07-12 10:40:29] : Pool logged in.
How would one change the pool?
Everything seems perfect, but since ETN forked to allow ASIC miners to mine again, the mining power of CPUs and GPUs have been rendered insignificant in comparison to ASICs. So I think your computer can’t find a hash in time due to high difficulty, and therefore the pools times out and rejects your hashes.
How do I calculate reward based on hashrate?
For instance, I’m mining at 300 H/s and I have total hashes submitted as 10m.
What is its equivalent to ETN at difficulty 225b?
You will need to determine what portion your hash rate forms of the overall hash rate. So divide 300 H/s by 225 billion H/s, giving 0.0000000013. Note that the current block reward is about 10,940 ETN every 2 minutes. So if you multiply the reward by 0.0000000013, you get about 0.00001458666 ETN every 2 minutes (the current block time has an average of 2 mintues).
There is a calculator for this on Whattomine.
Hello Ben. Thanks for the message.
Want to ask if the above method can be used with CPU’s that come with dedicated graphics cards or is there any other method or mining on a software/pool specifically for CPU’s that come with dedicated graphics cards?
I’m using an HP Envy x360 15-wll7cl core i5-6200u.
I’m not an expert on these sorts of things, but as long as xmr-stak can detect your graphics card, it should work.
Note that Electroneum has forked to allow ASIC miners again and any efforts by CPU and GPU are now negligibly small compared to the mining power of ASICs.
I just downloaded it. It shows that “new block detected” but the result is neither accepted nor rejected by the pool. Moreover it has logged in the pool and the hashrate is fine.
If you are mining with anything other than an ASIC miner at the moment, I doubt that you will have a lot of success. Electroneum has forked to allow ASIC miners again on 5 July 2018, which renders any mining effort by GPU and CPU essentially useless compared to the immense mining power of ASICs.
Hi, can I use an ASIC miner using this software? I have tried ccminer and a bunch of other miners and they didn’t work. I have high hopes for this one. And is it possible to make a profit with an ASIC miner that is under than $200?
The ASIC hardware typically comes with their own control interface. You will typically plug the ASIC into your router, and then access the control panel in your computer’s browser by typing in the ASIC’s IP address. In that control interface you can set your pool’s URL, password, and your wallet address. Not exactly sure how this works since I’ve never seen an ASIC in real life, let alone run it.
You need a very specific kind of ASIC to mine Electroneum. It should be able to mine the Cryptonight algorithm. Here’s a great review of the top 4. Make sure you have one that can mine the Cryptonight algorithm (not Cryptonight V7, not Cryptonight Lite, not anything else – only Cryptonight). Other kinds of ASICs that mine Bitcoin and Litecoin won’t work, since they are tailor-made to mine a different algorithm, and can’t do anything else.
Please, the program was working well but suddenly this happened:
[2018-07-05 21:35:01] : Mining coin: cryptonight_v7[2018-07-05 21:35:01] : Starting NVIDIA GPU thread 0, no affinity.
WARNING: AMD cannot load backend library: xmrstak_opencl_backend.dll
WARNING: AMD Backend disabled
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 4.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 6.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 pool …
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Pool pool.etn.fairhash.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Difficulty changed. Now: 10000.
[2018-07-05 21:35:02] : Pool logged in.
[2018-07-05 21:35:07] : Result rejected by the pool.
[2018-07-05 21:35:56] : Result rejected by the pool.
[2018-07-05 21:36:04] : Result rejected by the pool.
[2018-07-05 21:36:04] : Result rejected by the pool.
[2018-07-05 21:36:09] : Result rejected by the pool
Electroneum forked back to the original Cryptonight algorithm yesterday. Open your pools.txt file and change the last line to read:
“currency” : “cryptonight”,
That should solve the problem.
Hello Ben. I am a newbie in mining. Want to ask some questions.
How do I know my hash rate?
Can one actually know when the difficulty level drops or rises?
You can view your hash rate on-screen by pressing h in the miner window, like I described in the article. To view the current difficulty and it’s history, check out this page.
So I am getting this error then the window closes:
[CUDA] Error gpu 0: :381
Does it prevent you from mining?
It closes the window, so basically yes.
Hi Benjamin,
What about this update?
“ALL ELECTRONEUM NODE OWNERS MUST UPDATE THEIR SOFTWARE BY BLOCK 324500”
Was sent by email from Electroneum.
Can we still use the xmr-stak version on the link here?
The emails says that “You MUST use the algorithm “Cryptonight” and NOT “Electroneum” or “CryptonightV7”.”
Can you help, please?
Thanks,
Bruno
Yes, you can still use the same xmr-stak version. Simply open the pools.txt text file and replace the last line that reads:
“currency” : “cryptonight_v7”,
…with this line:
“currency” : “cryptonight”,
That should do the trick. Unfortunately, though, ASIC miners are being allowed to mine again with the update. ASIC miners are very powerful and mine hundreds of times faster than CPUs and GPUs. Therefore, although CPU and GPU miners will still be able to mine, the high hash rates of the ASICs will mean that everyone else won’t be able to mine at a profit. The ETN you get per day will be much less than you get now.
I’ll write an article on how to buy and set up an ASIC miner soon.
Hi Benjamin
Based on what you’ve said:
“Unfortunately, though, ASIC miners are being allowed to mine again with the update. ASIC miners are very powerful and mine hundreds of times faster than CPUs and GPUs. Therefore, although CPU and GPU miners will still be able to mine, the high hash rates of the ASICs will mean that everyone else won’t be able to mine at a profit. The ETN you get per day will be much less than you get now.”
There is any chance that this could change in the future?
Thanks!
Bruno
The re-introduction of ASICs had the effect of stabilizing the blockchain and spreading the mining effort over more devices (as opposed to being concentrated in a few big centralized locations from time to time). Block times are now at an average of 2 minutes again. Prior to the fork, rented hashing power had the effect of producing block times ranging from seconds to hours. One cannot run a mass-market coin at scale with block times varying like that. Therefore, I doubt we’ll be switching back any time soon.
Hello, I want to mine Electroneum. If I follow your steps will I mine Electroneum?
And what is this? I follow the steps but I saw something:
Mining coin: cryptonight_v7
Why mining Cryptonight and not Electroneum?
The software asks you for the algorithm you want to mine, but has not yet updated their settings to reflect the new Electroneum algorithm. If you choose “Electroneum”, you’ll mine on the old Electroneum algorithm which doesn’t work anymore. Electroneum has forked to the CryptoNight V7 algorithm on 31 May 2018 (an ASIC resistant algorithm used by Monero, Bytecoin, etc.), thereby leaving the old algorithm behind.
So until the xmr_stak software updates the “electroneum” setting to automatically work according to the new algorithm, the “cryptonight_v7” is the way to go.
Is it safe to use laptop? Will the laptop hardware be safe iff I use it for ETN mining?
Sure, it is perfectly safe (in terms of viruses) to run the mining software.
If you’re referring to the health of your laptop, that’s another story. Mining is a very computational-intensive operation, and could “use up” your laptop’s hardware faster than if you were not mining. Not by much, but there will definitely be a difference. Imagine buying a car and using it to do business deliveries every day for 12 hours a day, instead of just driving it occasionally when you need to get from point A to B. The first option will make the car wear out faster.
But many people think that mining is worth it.
Who can help me please?
I have followed the above instructions to mine coin ETN, but when I try to run the program it says the following error:
“ Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-06-22 11:29:57] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] Login error: invalid address used for login
[2018-06-22 11:29:57] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] RECEIVE error: A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall.”.
this is the content of my “pools.text” file. i use i7 computer with GPU NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 8Gb
/*
* pool_address – Pool address should be in the form “pool.supportxmr.com:3333”. Only stratum pools are supported.
* wallet_address – Your wallet, or pool login.
* rig_id – Rig identifier for pool-side statistics (needs pool support).
* pool_password – Can be empty in most cases or “x”.
* use_nicehash – Limit the nonce to 3 bytes as required by nicehash.
* use_tls – This option will make us connect using Transport Layer Security.
* tls_fingerprint – Server’s SHA256 fingerprint. If this string is non-empty then we will check the server’s cert against it.
* pool_weight – Pool weight is a number telling the miner how important the pool is. Miner will mine mostly at the pool
* with the highest weight, unless the pool fails. Weight must be an integer larger than 0.
*
* We feature pools up to 1MH/s. For a more complete list see M5M400’s pool list at http://www.moneropools.com
*/
“pool_list” :
[
{“pool_address” : “pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333”, “wallet_address” : “0xBB2e728ba85b8E305d5170Fd30d2bBD0dB1beE9b”, “rig_id” : “electroneum miner seanpela”, “pool_password” : “”, “use_nicehash” : false, “use_tls” : false, “tls_fingerprint” : “”, “pool_weight” : 1 },
],
/*
* Currency to mine. Supported values:
*
* aeon7 (use this for Aeon’s new PoW)
* bbscoin (automatic switch with block version 3 to cryptonight_v7)
* croat
* edollar
* electroneum
* graft
* haven (automatic switch with block version 3 to cryptonight_haven)
* intense
* ipbc
* karbo
* masari
* monero7 (use this for Monero’s new PoW)
* sumokoin (automatic switch with block version 3 to cryptonight_heavy)
* turtlecoin
*
* Native algorithms which not depends on any block versions:
*
* # 1MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight_lite
* cryptonight_lite_v7
* cryptonight_lite_v7_xor (algorithm used by ipbc)
* # 2MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight
* cryptonight_v7
* # 4MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight_haven
* cryptonight_heavy
*/
“currency” : “cryptonight_v7”,
It seems like you’re trying to mine to an Ethereum wallet address (starting with “0x”). An Electroneum wallet address is a 98 character string starting with “etn”. You can either mine to your online wallet address or to a paper wallet.
Thanks, it’s working with my ETH paper waller address. But I’m still receiving this error message:
” Difficulty changed. Now: 24500.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : Difficulty changed. Now: 17150.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : Difficulty changed. Now: 5883.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:14] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:45:44] : Difficulty changed. Now: 4118.
[2018-06-22 14:45:44] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:46:06] : All pools are dead. Idling…
[2018-06-22 14:46:06] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] CALL error: Timeout while waiting for a reply
[2018-06-22 14:46:35] : Fast-connecting to pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 pool …
[2018-06-22 14:46:36] : Pool pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in…
[2018-06-22 14:46:37] : Difficulty changed. Now: 50000.
[2018-06-22 14:46:37] : Pool logged in.
[2018-06-22 14:47:10] : Difficulty changed. Now: 35000.
[2018-06-22 14:47:10] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:47:40] : Difficulty changed. Now: 24500.
[2018-06-22 14:47:52] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:48:10] : Difficulty changed. Now: 17150.
[2018-06-22 14:48:10] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:48:41] : Difficulty changed. Now: 12005.
[2018-06-22 14:48:41] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : Difficulty changed. Now: 8404.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : Difficulty changed. Now: 5883.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:06] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:10] : Difficulty changed. Now: 4118.
[2018-06-22 14:50:10] : New block detected.
[2018-06-22 14:50:40] : All pools are dead. Idling…
[2018-06-22 14:50:40] : SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] CALL error: Timeout while waiting for a reply”
No prompt showing “result accepted by the pool” like in the tutorial. Really want to know what’s going on here. Thanks.
You cannot mine Electroneum with an ETH wallet. Electroneum is not an ERC20 token and therefore will not work. You need an ETN address – there’s no way around it. But it seems that, if you’re receiving the messages above, you have it right.
The message “result accepted by the pool” should come after a while. Just keep mining. Make sure you don’t get a message “result rejected by the pool”.
Thanks, everything works fine, I am just not sure what to do when I restart the computer?do I have to go through the process again? Might be a silly question, but I am new to mining. Thank you.
Peter
When restarting your computer, simply launch xmr-miner.exe again and mining will start. Your miner’s configuration is stored in the pool.txt file so the program will read them automatically and launch with the correct settings.
When I complete the miner setup, I get this message. I have updated the driver on my graphics card and restarted the computer. I suspect it’s just too old of a machine (NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE, Windows 7, AMD Athlon II X2 220 dual core processor, 3GB ram) After restarting, I deleted and reinstalled the mining software, and got the same message. Any ideas? Thanks ?
Here is the message:
[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : Your CPU doesn’t support hardware AES. Don’t expect highhashrates.
[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : Elevating due to Windows 7 or 8. You need Windows 10 to
use fast memory without UAC elevation.
[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might h
elp.
[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might h
elp.
[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: VirtualAlloc failed. Reboot might h
elp.
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xmr-stak 2.4.5 b3f79de3
Brought to you by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.
Based on CPU mining code by wolf9466 (heavily optimized by fireice_uk).
Based on NVIDIA mining code by KlausT and psychocrypt.
Based on OpenCL mining code by wolf9466.
Configurable dev donation level is set to 2.0%
You can use following keys to display reports:
‘h’ – hashrate
‘r’ – results
‘c’ – connection
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[2018-06-21 19:23:45] : Mining coin: cryptonight_v7
WARNING: NVIDIA Insufficient driver!
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : WARNING: backend NVIDIA disabled.
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : WARNING: No OpenCL platform found.
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver i
ssues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : CPU configuration stored in file ‘cpu.txt’
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : WARNING: backend CPU disabled.
[2018-06-21 19:23:46] : ERROR: No miner backend enabled.
Press any key to exit.
Hello,
Is it right that my virus killer is reporting attack from etn.fairhash and from bitcoinminer or something like that?
Yeah, since the software is fairly new and runs in the command line, many anti-virus programs might spot them as viruses. But don’t worry, they’re safe to use (at least the ones described here).
Sir, I have completed my first mining through PC by going with your instructions. Can you please tell me how I can know the number of coins I mined and how we can start mining again?
Do we need to repeat all these procedures again?
If you set up the xmr-stak miner before, you can resume mining by just running the xmr-stak.exe file.
Determining the number of coins you’ve mined will depend on the pool you used. Go the pool website and search for an input box that reads “Your Statistics” and enter your public wallet address there.
Hi Benjamin, I set up the miner by following your instructions to the letter and everything went AOK until the last step where I was supposed to get the new window and a load of messages followed by “Pool logged in”. I just got loads of ”Socket Error” messages and ”Invalid address used for login”!!
What do I do now?
Regards Kevin Walker.
Make sure you’ve entered the address correctly. I’ve seen some people had this error because they accidentally entered a . (period) in front of the 3333 port number, instead of a : (colon). If that doesn’t solve it, open the pool.txt file and paste the contents here. I’ll try to see if something else is wrong.
I am mining using 3 different pools and using my Paper wallet of Electroneum to hold coins. I then transferred Electroneum from my paper wallet to my Electroneum wallet. When I look at my Spacepools account it tells me there are 3 payments of 10.3, 10.6 and 10.9 with transaction hashes. I have imported from my offline wallet but nothing has shown for 2 days now. How can I find out where they have gone can I use the tx hash to see what wallet it has gone to?
You can check the transactions by searching for the transaction hashes on the block explorer. Halfway down the page, you’ll find a heading that says Decode Outputs. Enter the public key and private view key of your paper wallet there, and it should show you which of the outputs in the transaction has gone to your paper wallet. Take note that these keys will be sent to the server to do computations, but it is perfectly safe to do.
Is it possible to mine on an NVIDIA card in Mac OS?
I kept getting “Socket error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because host has failed to respond.”
What do I do because I’m really getting frustrated right now?
I just fixed this issue. I put the wrong thing in. I put:
pool.etn.spacepools.org.3333
instead of:
pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333
Important to use the : instead of the .
Hi! Is there a setting for this miner that we can choose only CPU or GPU will mine? I have 2 GPUs but I want only one to mine Electroneum. Thanks.
Hi, I`ve been using it for something like 6 hours and I got nothing from it.
Pending Balance: 0.00 ETN
Total Paid: 0.00 ETN
Which could be the problem.I set “cryptonight_v7” and I got “Result accepted by the pool”. I can see hash rate and everything looks fine but I get nothing. Is that normal for 6 hours of mining?
What is your hash rate?
Electroneum seems to be under an attack from NiceHash right now. Basically what happens is this:
The difficulty drops low enough for mining ETN to be profitable. At that point, some people go onto NiceHash (a marketplace where you can buy/sell hashing power on your computer) and buys a whole lot of hashing power and points them to mine ETN. The amount of hash power they buy is enough to drive the difficulty up considerably and decrease the profitability.
At that point they stop buying hashing power since it’s no longer profitable. The difficulty then slowly drops again, mining ETN becomes profitable again, and the whole thing starts over again. You can view a graph of difficulty here to see what I mean.
So I think you were unfortunate to mine during a time when the difficulty was very high. Thus your pool was not getting any blocks and the rewards was negligible.
My hash rate is something around 250 H/s. You might be right. Now I see that I have 0.5 ETN so probably you are right. I just had bad luck but it’s not a real problem for the moment, I guess. Thank you!
Is it the same process to use my GPU(s)?
Should be. The xmr-stak software works with both CPU and GPU. When you press h while mining, you should see two tables – one for CPU and one for GPU hash rates.
Who can help me?
I have followed the above instructions to mine coin ETN, but when I try to run the program it says the following error: “SOCKET ERROR – [pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333] PARSE error: Invalid target”.
I use the AMD GPU.
What do you want me to teach you?
Haven’t seen this before, but I found this article with a similar problem. There seems to be a “.lothal” in the pools.txt file.
Please open the pools.txt file and post the contents here (it does contain your wallet’s public address, but it’s perfectly safe to share that here).
Thank you.
This is the content of the pools.txt file
/*
* pool_address – Pool address should be in the form “pool.supportxmr.com:3333”. Only stratum pools are supported.
* wallet_address – Your wallet, or pool login.
* rig_id – Rig identifier for pool-side statistics (needs pool support).
* pool_password – Can be empty in most cases or “x”.
* use_nicehash – Limit the nonce to 3 bytes as required by nicehash.
* use_tls – This option will make us connect using Transport Layer Security.
* tls_fingerprint – Server’s SHA256 fingerprint. If this string is non-empty then we will check the server’s cert against it.
* pool_weight – Pool weight is a number telling the miner how important the pool is. Miner will mine mostly at the pool
* with the highest weight, unless the pool fails. Weight must be an integer larger than 0.
*
* We feature pools up to 1MH/s. For a more complete list see M5M400’s pool list at http://www.moneropools.com
*/
“pool_list” :
[
{“pool_address” : “pool.etn.spacepools.org:3333”, “wallet_address” : “etnkK41HsyNUvtnBX7hsrn3z9VZquSfUGb5Y1uTxQav8GQn9KNjpucgYa5C9wSb5TndUXBfZwajbmPLTjdEr1WG6Ag1KbzcNi1.35332fcc83842895a6420f881aeb43619988d7f9f87c3cd9a3de5d139cb1d6c0”, “rig_id” : “Thanh580”, “pool_password” : “x”, “use_nicehash” : false, “use_tls” : false, “tls_fingerprint” : “”, “pool_weight” : 1 },
],
/*
* Currency to mine. Supported values:
*
* aeon7 (use this for Aeon’s new PoW)
* bbscoin (automatic switch with block version 3 to cryptonight_v7)
* croat
* edollar
* electroneum
* graft
* haven
* intense
* ipbc
* karbo
* masari
* monero7 (use this for Monero’s new PoW)
* sumokoin (automatic switch with block version 3 to cryptonight_heavy)
* turtlecoin
*
* Native algorithms which not depends on any block versions:
*
* # 1MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight_lite
* cryptonight_lite_v7
* cryptonight_lite_v7_xor (algorithm used by ipbc)
* # 2MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight
* cryptonight_v7
* # 4MiB scratchpad memory
* cryptonight_heavy
*/
“currency” : “cryptonight_v7”,
Can someone please explain why on earth a mediocre Snapdragon processor can beat an i5 laptop processor by far on mining this thing!
The i5 processor will perform actual mining, like with every other coin. It will compete with other computers and GPUs.
Mobile mining, on the other hand, is simulated. Mining is not actually being performed on the device. Coins are premined and then air-dropped to the phone’s wallet based on the phone’s available processing speed and the miner being on.
The app was meant to put ETN into the hands of everyday people. But the coins on which it operators is still a real blockchain, and the real mining is being done by computers and GPUs.
Difficulty on conventional mining does not influence difficulty on mobile, and vice versa.
Hi! I get this. What does this mean and what should I do?
– Does this pool port support TLS/SSL? Use no if unknown. (y/N)
n
– Do you want to use nicehash on this pool? (y/n)
n
– Do you want to use multiple pools? (y/n)
n
Pool configuration stored in file ‘pools.txt’
[2018-06-06 14:48:02] : Your CPU doesn’t support hardware AES. Don’t expect high
hashrates.
[2018-06-06 14:48:02] : Elevating due to Windows 7 or 8. You need Windows 10 to
use fast memory without UAC elevation.
Hi,
I would also like to find a solution to this as I am struggling to get past this message:
Elevating due to Windows 7 or 8. You need Windows 10 to
use fast memory without UAC elevation.
Hi, I have Windows 8 and it said you can’t mine. You need Windows 10.
What should I do?
Who said that? I don’t believe it’s true. I’m mining on Windows 7.
I’ve setup xmr-stak and ran for 24 hours and got nothing. I’ve tried 2 different pools, Spacepools and Easyhash and earned nothing. Followed the setup above and no good. Can you please tell me if something is wrong? Is there something wrong with the fork? Or has the balanced transferred somewhere else? You would think you would get something in 24 hours.
Pending Balance: 0.00 ETN
Total Paid: 0.00 ETN
Last Share Submitted: 7 minutes ago
Hash Rate: 18.20 H/sec (Note: This value is not accurate. It’s an estimate of your shares / 600 [10 minutes average])
(The shown hashrate won’t affect your payout. Your effective hashrate will always be displayed in your miner software)
Total Hashes Submitted: 773.77 KH
The difficulty is extremely high right now due to the effects of ASICS leaving the network after the fork, as you can see here. So even the guys with large GPU rigs and lots of hashing power are not getting much. However, the difficulty should start getting back to normal again after block 307575. You can keep an eye on the current block height here.
Also, at the moment Nanopool has nearly three-quarters of the total hashing power due to the team pointing a lot of hashing power at them to get through this high difficulty stage. So they are finding all the blocks, and other pools are getting nothing. But after the difficulty starts reducing things will get back to normal.
So give it a rest until the difficulty drops, and then try again.
Hi Benjamin, I have tried everything to mine from my CPU but doesn’t quite get it. Miner output doesn’t show anything on the electroneum pool miner. It just says binding CPU thread and then no hash rates or results. Any reason why this is happening?
Does Electroneum pool miner V1.2 work after yesterdays fork? Or is an update required? Not getting any shares submitted.
No, it stopped working. The software has also been taken down. Switch to xmr-stak instead. I’ll update the article with a new tutorial today.
minerd.exe stop working
Can anyone explain me how to make it to work??
The Electroneum pool miner is no longer working after the fork. Use xmr-stak instead.
Hi,
I followed the steps, but my miner output shows nothing. I don’t have an anti-virus but I’ve added the Electroneum exception in the Windows firewall. I’m also using the updated version V1.2.
What might be the issue? I can mine it easily on my desktop. but I’m trying to mine it on my laptop with an i3 processor, but it doesn’t show any miner output nor any hash rate.
The Electroneum pool miner is no longer working after the fork. Use xmr-stak instead.
Sorry, I inserted everything correctly but it does not give me a hash rate. How is it possible?
(scusate io ho inserito tutto correttamente ma non mi da in nerssun modo hash rate. Come è possibile?)
Did you add the miner as an exception to your antivirus and firewall?
Does the Electroneum pool miner v1.2 work after the fork?
No, as far as I can tell it is now obsolete. Use xmr-stak instead. I’ll update the article today.
Guy, my system sent 2.5 milion shares and now my balance is 0.05 ETN??
What do you mean mining shares? The balance was probably paid to your wallet address. Take not that shares do not equal the amount of ETN you will receive.
Hi, please help. When I try to check how much ETN I have using the link, why does it says unknown wallet?
You need to enter your wallet public address in the box for them to know which wallet is yours.
I did. But it shows unknown wallet.
You’re doing something wrong. It works for the rest of us. Make sure you enter your public key (the one starting with the letters “etn”), and make sure to remove all spaces.
It doesn’t show hash rate. On https://easyhash.io/electroneum/mystats it doesn’t show anything (hash rate: loading…). Also, my task manager shows that the CPU usage is very low (7%). I’m using 5 threads, i5 8400, and as mining pool stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630
Doesn’t seem like you’re mining successfully. Have you tried adding an exception to the miner in your antivirus software?
Hello Ben, very nice explanation and answers to queries. Lot new read and understood.
I registered on Electroneum and started mining with my mobile. Saw results in a week and my wallet was updating properly. Now I have a laptop and a computer. I downloaded Electroneum and started the mining using the “electroneumd” pointing to the same wallet address. Will all 3 my miners (mobile, laptop, and desktop) add mined ETN coins on the same wallet, or do you suggest all to be on different wallets?
One wallet is fine for all of them. All three miners will simply perform a transfer from their wallet to yours, so it will work fine.
How many coins can you mine per day on the PC?
That’s a loaded question. It depends on the current difficulty (a measure of how many miners are mining worldwide) and the specs of your PC.
Hi, is the pool mining software compatible with 32-bit Windows?
Not sure, but I think so.
Hi. I am making 7 ETN’s with my old cheap mobile daily. Do you think I can make same amount or more with my laptop?
Depends on the size of your computer’s CPU or GPU. Right now there are almost certainly some ASICs mining, driving up the difficulty and making it hard for ordinary users to mine. But after the fork on 30 May those ASICs should be useless and you’ll be able to mine more ETN per day (at least on the computer).
Hi Benjamin. When I click start it seems to have started but no hash rate or total shares
Does it show something along the lines of “binding process # to #…”?
Hi Benjamin, on my computer it shows “binding process # to #…”. What can I do to start mine?
Seems like it’s starting well enough. Does it move beyond that message?
Can I use my wallet address on the Electroneum mobile app in the Windows miner on my computer?
Absolutely!
Hi,
Is this application suitable for WINXP? When I try to run it, I get an error message “not a valid win32 application”.
Should be. Are you downloading the Beginner’s Pool Mining Software from the Electroneum downloads page?
Hi. Would I get more results if I used multiple mobile devices with the same account?
Or I need to use different account for each device?
As per Electroneum’s terms of service, only one account is allowed per device. You could create accounts for your spouse/kids/family members and use them to mine on other devices.
Thanks for your reply.
I have collected over than 10 ETN since yesterday, but I still cannot see them yet on my Electroneum Wallet Manager in my account!
Be patient. The team is paying people in batches. It will come.
Hi,
I’m mining with my Android-phone for a few days. Collected some coins (nearly 10), and until now it works quite good.
Best regards and good luck!
Hi all,
Is there any update, when Electroneum mobile miner will be available for iOS? Or is it possible to install it now with Appvalley or something like that?
Thanks and BR, Sy
No news that I know of yet. Let’s hope Apple approves it soon.
Unfortunately, Apple seems to have banned all mobile based mining software: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-just-banned-apps-fro-cryptocurrency-mining-on-ios-devices/
This is true. Read this post on Reddit for Richard’s response on this issue.
Hello Ben! I’ve mined almost 170 ETN with the mobile app, but it’s still not confirmed in my wallet balance. Why?
The team is still working on getting payments through. There were some problems that arose from high traffic on the ETN blockchain. Some people said that logging out of the app and then logging back in solves the problem for them.
I’ve been mining Electroneum using 3 cores on my i5 CPU, reported hash rate is 160 H/S. I have only mined 0.37 ETN in 10 hours. Tried both suggested Easyhash pools. This low ETN productivity fits with Benjamin’s comments about high difficulty due to the Monero Fork. Is the high difficulty situation temporary, or is it expected to continue …
The difficulty is probably caused by ASIC miners and should be dropping considerably after 30 May when Electroneum forks to become anti-ASIC. This is an important step, as it sort-of levels the playing field and prevents all the mining power from getting into the hands of a select few who own ASICs.
Keep in mind that a hash rate given on a CPU, GPU, or ASIC produces a much lower amount of ETN than the same hash rate on mobile. The two does not compare at all, and the difficulty on one does not influence the difficulty on the other. Like you said, 160 H/s on a CPU gets you only 0.37 ETN in 10 hours, while a 30 H/s on mobile can easily get you 10 ETN per day. So keep that in mind when comparing your profits.
I’ve been mining Electroneum for 12 hours with my CPU but in my pool website, there is nothing (0.00 ETN) in pending balance and total paid. Can anyone tell me why?
Electroneum difficulty is quite high at the moment due to Monero forking to ASIC resistance. CPUs have very little mining power compared to GPUs and ASICs.
I’ve updated my miner to 1.2 version but I can’t see my hash rate. Actually I can start and stop but I can’t mine!
I have the same problem. I even tried to give the .exe and the hostfile access to my firewall but still no joy…..
A little help would be great!
Why can’t I check my stats on the easyhash pool?
Please explain your problem in more detail.
I set up the miner put in the required fields and click start mining. No hash rate or miner status. I am new and I need help.
Have you tried to put an exception in your firewall and anti-virus software for electroneumd.exe?
The mobile miner seems to have stopped working for me. It made six payouts without issue, but is now stuck with a pending balance of 30 ETN. I was asked to fill out a form a few different times, which I did. I’m mining with a MOTO X Pure Edition.
Payments were paused for a while, but have been resumed.
Can you mine with GPU?
Yes. There are countless videos on YouTube that show you how to setup and run a GPU mining rig.
I’m also having the starting process problem. I have deleted and uninstalled my antivirus and switched off my firewall after making the exception did not work. Has anyone worked this problem out yet?
I’m having the same issue! Could you solve something?
I have mined some Electromeum which is sitting in my offline wallet. I have gone to the Electroneum Wallet and press Import from Offline Wallet and put in my 3 keys. But nothing got transferred. Is there a limit before you can transfer since I only have 40ETN?
There’s no minimum for importing, other than the minimum sending fee of 0.01 ETN. Just keep on trying to see if it works.
Getting “minderd.exe has stopped workihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” exception. Any help on this? Using Windows 7 with 64 bit.
Is there any additional information displayed on the error message?
Hello, I have the same error.
Like many people who have commented before me, I’ve made the exceptions in my antivirus and firewall, but I get blank windows in “Hash rate”, “Total shares” and “Bad Shares”, while “Miner output:” continues to read “Starting process”.
I can “Start minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” or “Stop minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” but it doesn’t seem as if any mining is actually happening.
Any new ideas as to why this isn’t working or what I should try?
It is keeping the file in quarintine. Search the file and restore ?
Worked for me
Thanks for the suggestion!
Hello Ben,
I need advice. My miner is not showing a hash rate, total share, or bad share. Miner output was showed once when I clicked “start minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng”, and then it disappeared.
I had done the anti-virus exception, and my anti-virus is turned off.
Please help, what should I do next?
Thanks
Have you updated to version 1.2?
Can anybody tell me how to mine ETN on Ubuntu OS?
You will probably need to download a full miner node from the Electroneum downloads page. There is no graphical interface created for Linux.
Hi, and thanks for posting this it’s been a great help.
3 Questions:
1. How many shares make 1 ETN?
2. I have a Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-3230M 2.60 GHz CPU so is this considered to be a low, medium or high end processor?
3. With my CPU above the cores can handle up to four simultaneous threads so do I set the threads in the ETN Pool Miner to 2 or 4?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Shares don’t correlate with ETN. A share only represents the amount of work you have contributed to the pool you are mining to. The pool will pay you for the shares you’ve contributed, relative to the total number of shares contributed by all other miners on the pool.
It’s difficult to determine exactly which CPU is low/medium/high, and how many cores you should be using. The best method is to play around with these settings and see which one gives you the highest hash rate. All the settings will work on your computer, but the right setting will make it run optimally.
Let me know which settings end up working best for you!
Hello Benjamin,
I am using a mobile phone and a computer to mine coins.
My mobile phone is a cheap Samsung and mines at a Hash Rate or 3 or 4, very slow. I have been mining a week and it shows I have 4.15 ETN.
My computer mines at a hash rate of between 40 and 80. The Easy Hash shows I have a balance of 3.57 ETN after 1 week.
I thought my computer would generate a lot more with a decent Hash rate. Can both a mobile & computer generate ETN to one wallet? If you can think of anything I might be doing wrong I would be very happy for your ideas or assistance. Also why is my mobile showing a different balance to the Easy Hash i/o?
Many thanks,
Big A
Mobiles and computers mine on two very different interfaces, so their hash rates have no correlation. You can’t compare one to the other. An increase in difficulty on the computer mining side won’t affect the mobile mining side, and vice versa.
Yes, you can mine to your mobile wallet, which will make both your computer and mobile mine to the same wallet.
The balance in Easyhash will get transferred to your chosen wallet when the amount reaches the payment threshold. Then the ETN should reflect in your mobile wallet.
stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 (for low to mid-range CPUs)
I am using a Core i5 PC. Should I still select this? Is this a mid-range CPU?
Sounds good!
Will mobile mining for long periods of time damage or degrade or shortspan the mobile’s GPU/CPU or any other components?
I know it doesn’t actually mine but what about the app running and using to mine.
The app uses very little resources to run. It will probably use fewer resources than your browser, Facebook, or Whatsapp.
The app will not damage any part of the phone since it is not performing any calculations or using any intensive resources.
Hi Ben, I am mining successfully on my phones and every time I have 10 ETN it is updated to my online wallet. That’s al good…
The problem I have is using the ETN pool miner desktop app I downloaded for Windows.
I entered the pool: stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 and my public wallet address from https://my.electroneum.com/ but it doesn’t look like anything I mine on my PC goes to my wallet.
Can I use this online wallet from https://my.electroneum.com ?
Or do I have to use the paper wallet when doing CPU mining on a PC?
You can mine to your online wallet address. That will work.
But remember that the mining pool also has a payment threshold (differs from one pool to another). So your payment will only be paid out once the mined balance on the pool reaches that threshold.
I have been running XMR-Stak on my Windows computer with OEN card and have been mining with it consistently. Then I set up an ethos rig using CCminer with 3 cards and I noticed the hash rate went up (tripled) but the payouts didn’t go up.
I checked to see what’s going on by shutting down the mobile miner and the Windows miner and just leaving the 3 card miner running. I was getting around 1000 hash/s but nothing ever paid out.
My balance has been stuck at 9.99 and I never reached the 10 payout over 24 hours. That led me to believe something else is broken. The guys at Ethos IRC can’t really figure it out either. Wallet address is correct as it is showing up on my stats page as hashing, but the only payouts I seem to be getting are from the Windows and mobile miner.
Right now they are shut down so I can really see that nothing is being mined with the Ethos rig. What is going on here?
Does anyone know how to find the port(s) for dedpool mining (ETN)?
How to withdraw mobile mined ETN to an exchange or another wallet? I have no idea. Can you explain?
When depositing with an exchange, you will get a wallet address and a payment ID. In the Electroneum app, click on Send, then scan those two QR codes give to you by the exchange. Also enter how much ETN you wish to send.
Hi Ben,
A few days ago I started mining ETN on my mobile and yesterday I started mining ETN on my desktop. I use the wallet address from my registration on Electroneum.com. But when I looked at my stats on easyhash.io, I had more than 10 ETN, but on my mobile app, I had less than 10 ETN. Is it the same wallet? Can I mine to one wallet address, common for my mobile app and desktop?
Thanks.
Yes, you can use the same wallet address for both (the one in your online Electroneum wallet).
Easyhash will only pay out when your mined balance exceeds a certain threshold. Not sure what this value is.
In addition, I’ve heard some mining pools having trouble with payments recently due to a lot of transactions in the ETN blockchain. Just be patient, it will come.
I’ve done everything right, but all I’m getting is app crash. Can you help with this?
You’ll need to explain what you are seeing on the screen.
I think this is the same as mine. The “minerd.exe” crashes when we click “Start Minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng”.
I have followed all of the instructions.
When I click mine. This happens. Any Idea?
Running on Windows 7 Home Premium.
[Window Title]minerd.exe[Main Instruction]
minerd.exe has stopped working[Content]
Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.[V] View problem details [Check online for a solution and close the program] [Close the program]
I have no idea. Are there some details you can view? What are you typing into the fields.
I have followed all of your instructions. Then this happens when I click “Start Minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng”.
I have put exceptions in firewall and have no anti-virus.
What are you typing into the fields?
Can you click “Details” on the error message?
I have no way of knowing what’s happening if you don’t give any details.
Use xmrstack or the direct windows miner on the Electroneum website. It’s a CLI, but will work.
Same issue with me :/
Hi,
interesting article. You say that we have to overpass/ignore Windows Safety settings to make it running, but how can be sure that this software is not a Trojan, Spy or Virus?
Sorry I am a newbie and I’ve heard a lot about scam and fraud in the Cryptoworld, therefore I am cautious about this.
Excellent question.
All of these new programs are suspicious to Windows security because they are not known yet. Very few people have installed miners on their computers, compared to the overall number of Windows users. It will take some time for these programs to be considered safe by antivirus programs.
But you can be sure that it is safe. I’ve installed it on my computers, and I know thousands of others have done so as well. I’ve been a part of this community since October 2017 and never heard of any issues regarding viruses.
I have a Galaxy S8 and I mine maximum at 26H/s. I got 5 ETN in two days. With my laptop, i5 7200u with 8GB RAM and high-speed internet (50MB/s), I use the beginner miner on Easyhash but I get only 1 ETN a day!
Mobiles and computers mine on two different pools. So the amount of users on the computer side does not affect the payout on the mobile side and visa versa. The computer payment rate is governed by the mining difficulty while the mobile payment rate is governed by an algorithm managed by the team. You cannot compare the two.
So how can I get my laptop to mine better? Should I go to a pool with more difficulty or less?
The difficulty is the same across the entire mining network. A pool that has more users might mine more blocks, but then the rewards are divided amongst just as many people. This means that you won’t really gain by switching pools. It all evens out in the end. The best way to mine faster is to play around with the thread settings or getting faster hardware.
Hi, I’m a beginner to mining and managed to get the ETN miner on my smartphone going and it’s doing fine!
Then I installed the stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io.3630 on my laptop and it seems to run fine, but when I click “Start Minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng”, the Miner output field displays the date in brackets and then… retry in 10 seconds.
Does that mean that I can’t get on to the miner because it’s full?
I tried the 3631, but the same thing happens.
I don’t feel confident enough to choose another miner, so what do I have to do to get on to the beginner’s miner? Wait? Thanks.
No, it won’t be a problem of the pool having too many users.
The most common problem is that your anti-virus is preventing the miner from communicating with the internet. Make an exception in your antivirus and firewall for electroneumd.exe and try again.
I downloaded the software although when I download it using Chrome, they said that it’s harmful. But I just use it and installed. Now when I click “Start Minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” after entering my ETN address and the Pool URL, it just shows “Starting process…” and nothing happens. I exited my anti-virus but still no changes. What can I do please help? Thanks.
You need to create an exception in your anti-virus as well as in your firewall. Simply exiting your antirvirus won’t help.
It seems you have a 32-bit OS. Use xmrig to mine on a 32-bit machine. It’s a CLI, but will work.
I can’t download the miner app. Please help me.
Please explain your problem a little more. I can’t understand what you are having trouble with.
Hashrate not showing, but Stop Mining button is present. Any ideas?
Most probably due to your anti-virus. You need to create an exception in your anti-virus as well as in your firewall.
Can you help me? After pasting my pool URL and all the info such as wallet address, as soon as I click Start Mining, nothing happens. It just shows “Starting process…” and nothing happens. Waiting for the response ?
The miner is having problems communicating with the internet due to your anti-virus. Create an exception for the electroneumd.exe file in your antivirus as well as the firewall.
You are also using a 32-bit OS. Use xmrig to mine on a 32-bit Windows machine.
Thanks, bro… It’s working fine. I’M getting 35H/s. How much can this earn in a day?
The output rate keeps changing as the team understands the average miner better. It has increased again yesterday. Here’s a post from Reddit with a summary.
I’ve done all the steps and clicked start mining, but it shows blanks in hash rate and output. What to do now?
It’s probably your antivirus. You need to add an exception.
Thanks, Ben. Works just fine.
And as expected, even with my gaming i5 CPU, the hash rate is only 56.54 H/s. That equates to $1 per week and definitely not worth wasting time, power, and creating environmental waste for that paltry payback. Similar to other coins I’ve mined using my GPU. Much easier and cheaper to just buy the coin, unless it magically emulates ETH or BTC prices.
With over 50 billion coins I wonder how high it will go. Price will only rise with mass adoption of the payments in the west. Maybe the ‘mobile’ side is the alternate route to reach the mass western markets. Mass poor markets are irrelevant since they have no buying power and may even drag the price down as they use ETN to pay, after which the networks then redeem ETN for fiat. XRP and Stellar are much better options at this stage at least.
ETN has a total of 21 billion coins, though.
But I agree with you. If the mass markets keep paying their carriers with ETN and the carriers then sell those for fiat, that will only drive down the price. Same is true for the Paypal-style integration plugin they’re working on. This will enable people in the Western world to also spend their ETN on stuff online but will create the same selling cycle as merchants cash out. There needs to be some incentive for merchants and networks to keep those coins or pay with ETN for other services.
Understandably, the point of ETN is not to drive up the price, but rather to introduce the world to crypto and create a transactional coin free from government interference. That will happen, in third-world countries at least, as people each get their hands on a few coins through mobile mining, that they can trade between one another, at least just in a bartering sort-of way.
Miner output stuck on “Starting process”. No antivirus, no firewall, right address.
What is wrong?
Same here… Never worked.
Miner output stuck on “Starting process”. No antivirus, no firewall, and right address.
What can be wrong?
Followed all the instructions but get the message “Address is not valid ETN address! Please check for and remove any spaces.”
I have checked and removed spaces. Tried multiple times and even created more offline wallets to use different addresses but still get this message.
All good. Got past this hurdle but now stuck on the starting process part… And I have added the electroneumpoolminer to my firewall exceptions.
Have completely disabled my AntiVirus altogether and still the miner just sits on the ‘starting process’ message. Is there anything else that could be affecting it?
Are you sure you’re copying the public address and not any of the other two addresses?
Yes. Like I said, sorted the address issue. Now stuck on “starting process”. Antivirus disabled, firewall off. What else could it be?
Ben,
I’ve read on the internet that you need high end CPU’s/GPU’s on your rigs/PC’s to get a good return on Bitcoin and Litecoin mining. Would I need the same thing for Electroneum? I’m worried that I might overheat my laptop using this beginner’s Electroneum Miner. Basically, I have a Dell 6400 with Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz CPU, 3GB RAM, 100GB HDD with onboard graphics! What’s your advice on this?
Thanks,
Max.
Yeah, I think the difficulty in mining Electroneum is much less than mining Ethereum or Bitcoin, but the payoff you get is not that much. Bitcoins are worth much more than Electroneum.
In the early days you could get away with mining Electroneum using the beginner’s miner on a CPU, but these days most computers will only fetch you a few coins per day. GPU mining has become much more profitable in Electroneum. But for that, you’ll need expensive GPUs or a rig. Unless you have one of those (plus a fairly cheap electricity rate) I would not recommend performing Electroneum mining at this stage if you want to earn a decent amount. This tutorial is mostly for beginners who want to dabble around with mining and get the ball rolling.
If you have a fast phone, mobile mining should be able to earn you a few coins per day, so you might try that out as well…
Sorry for the late reply!
What’s the highest speed in mobile mining?
Best I’ve heard of is 50 H/s on a Galaxy S8.
Hi. I’ve just downloaded and tried all the steps but nothing seems to work. Unable to proceed any further. Can you please suggest what needs to be done now? The miner output shows nothing and hash-rate, total shares are blank.
Haven’t heard of the miner not giving any output whatsoever. Are you sure your ETN address is correct, with no spaces? And are you sure the mining pool address is correct? Those are the only problems I can think of.
I’m getting this same problem. I’m sure my ETN address is correct along with the mining pool address. Nothing shows in hash rate/total shares/bad shares or miner output boxes. I’m able to push start and stop on the mining button, but that’s about it.
Same issue here.
Ben, do you know how to create or know where i can get a Windows script/batch file where i can get it to load and start this Electroneum Miner running automatically after 30s with the app minimized/hidden? Also, are there Windows miners apps out there that one can use to earn ETN coins besides this official Electroneum app?
Thanks,
Max.
What a great idea! Are you thinking of launching the miner every time you start Windows? Why not just leave it mining while you go to bed or do something else?
Yeah, there are other mining software. Basically, any CryptoNight miner will work. One I know is Sumo Miner.
Ben,
Sorry, I’m still a newbie to this cryptocurrency stuff. I have 2 questions:
Firstly, from the Cryptopia exchange, can I transfer my purchased ETN coins directly to my Electroneum offline public wallet address?
Second, is the Electroneum offline public wallet address the same as my online wallet address? Can I transfer balances from one to another and vice versa?
Thanks,
Max.
Hi,
1) Sure, you can transfer directly from Cryptopia to an offline wallet. Just copy and paste the public key of your paper wallet into Cryptopia. You should be able to follow the transaction in the blockchain using the transaction ID the Cryptopia provides you with.
2) Your Electroneum online wallet and your offline paper wallet are two distinct wallets (two bank accounts, if you will). Their public wallet addresses function the same, so you can send ETN to the online wallet using its public address, and to the offline wallet using its public address. You can also create as many offline paper wallet addresses as you like, all of which will function like separate “bank accounts” with their own addresses.
I’ve downloaded and am currently running the Electroneum miner. Do I need to be connected to the internet all the time (as I don’t want to use up my data cap quickly)?
Thank,
Max
Yeah, you’ll need to be connected the whole time. While mining, your computer is receiving transaction information from the pool, solving cryptographic puzzles, and reporting back to the pool. So you won’t be able to mine while offline.
I understand the pool that your recommended is:
stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630
But it does not work like that alone. From the instructions of v1.2 you have to add your wallet address and thread count, but it all seems to be in basic programing language. And if you don’t enter in just right, it does not work.
The Example they give on Electroneum downloads is:
minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://pooladdress:miningport -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x
So if I took the address you recommended for v1.2, I would add in the following, but it won’t work, even though I have tried a million variations.
stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 -u etnkM8VrWQdF79QP1gGHb9E3y13Cnfdpu4YE4hEmvKa3JzLBeeQcpA2Yuyswmewjb1U35S9zTAUoPHtXivq8RXMd2YfXBb4KiY -p x
Please help.
I’ve successfully mined by entering just the ETN public wallet address, then entering “stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630” as the pool URL (without the quotation marks), and choosing my number of threads. That’ all you need.
Those long programming strings are for when you are running the full miner or a different pool miner. They’re not required here. With v1.2 of Electroneum’s miner, all that’s required is the 3 pieces of information I’ve given above.
What exactly are you seeing when you start mining? I’ve it continually states “Starting process…” your anti-virus might be preventing the program from connecting to the Internet. Make sure to whitelist it with your antivirus program before trying again.
Installed the v1.2 beta and made sure to clear it from the anti-virus.
But for some reason, I keep getting a mining error. Every time I start mining, it auto-stops and says “Restarting in 10 seconds due to an unexpected error.” Hmmm..
Can you see any indication of what the error is? Have you tried clearing the miner with your firewall as well (if you have one installed)?
Hi Ben,
stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630
When I click ‘start mining’ the following message was displayed in the Miner output message box ‘[date and time stamp] Stratum detected new block’.
Can you suggest a solution for me?
Regards, Sheldon
Hi Benjamin. Thanks for the help! I have two questions.
1) My Electroneum Pool Miner has “# of threads” then “Pool URL” below the wallet address as opposed to what your article displays as “Pool Region” and “Mining Port”. Is this a problem? I have entered the # of threads as 4 and the Pool URL you suggested.
2) I’ve pressed the start mining button and it just says “Starting minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” in the “Miner output” box. This has been going for half an hour. Is there a problem or can this take some time?
1) Yeah, there’s no problem there. I updated the text in the article while on vacation and haven’t gotten around to updating the screenshots yet.
2) It seems that your antivirus is blocking the miner from accessing the Internet. I’ve had the same problem with mine. You need to open your antivirus and whitelist the electroneumd.exe file (assuming you run on Windows).
New Electroneum Pool: http://etn.top-miningpool.eu/
Minimum payout is 5 ETN. Pool fee is only 0.1%. Nicehash support + easy GUI Windows CPU miner for Windows users.
Hi Benjamin, fellow SAFA here. Have you updated your website regarding ETN pool mining?
B
Hi Bjorn! I’ve updated it to reflect the new required fields in the new Electroneum miner version (v1.2). But I’m yet to write an article on using third-party mining software. Anything else you think I should be updating about?
Hi Benjamin, thanks for the reply. After following your setup I still have a problem – an error message saying “There was a problem connecting to your selected pool”. What is the correct URL I should enter for mining?
Regards B
Try using stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630
Hi. If I mine and then stop mining, and continue at a later stage, what happens to my progress made? Do I lose it or will it save to my offline wallet?
No, you can stop and start whenever you want. You’ll be reimbursed for the number of shares you’ve contributed to the pool. It’s the pool’s job to keep track of your total amount of shares and divide the ETN equally among all participants.
If you’ve reached the payout threshold before you stopped mining, the ETN will be safely paid out to your offline wallet.
Hi, I have now followed all the steps and have used the easyhash pool as indicated above. I have started mining. How will I be able to see how much I have mined and what my balances are? I’ve created a paperless wallet as above.
It also does not show a hash rate or total shares?
Check your earnings by entering your wallet address under “Your Stats and Payment History” at this address: https://easyhash.io/pools/etn
Thank you! Finally a good explanation on how to use version 1.2. Thank you!
Do you now mine on your PC? I’m having the same issues as you.
Electroneum decided that maintaining mining pools was too much of a drain on resources so they shut them down. The Electroneum Pool Miner now needs to be set to a third party pool. Unfortunately, the 1.2 beta version of the program has some serious flaws.
a) If you lose your connection, even for a moment, its game over. It will stop mining until manually told to start again. I’ve lost many hours when the connection dropped while I was asleep.
b) It simply will not run at all on some systems. Runs fine on my i7 Skylake, but fails silently with event errors in minerd.exe on my i7 Bloomfield. This has nothing to do with anti-virus software which usually gets the blame.
Thanks for your helpful observations.
Do you have suggestions for alternatives? Which program are you currently using to mine?
Maybe you can help me as you’re the first person to ever mention the v1.2 beta which is the only program available. But everybody talks (on every site and video, it seems) about v1.1 and acts as if we can use it.
I believe my only real problem is having the correct pool URL. I have tried everything to make it work. Copying the example instructions just does not work in my experience.
So when I press start it just sits there forever. I have a Windows computer with an i7 8-core processor, etc.
Yeah, v1.2 has recently been released when Electroneum deprecated their official pools, and all the tutorials are still stuck on v1.1.
Try using stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 as the pool URL. Are you having any luck?
I’ve done everything you’ve said to do. You did a great job with this article. It was a great help. But I have pressed Start Mining and it just says Starting process, for ages. I’m not shore if I have done something wrong. My page doesn’t seem to ask the port or anything. Please help me.
I’ve just noticed I’m on version 1.2 and it probably has a different set up for pools, etc. I’m not shore what to do now.
Will update the article in a few days.
I’ve had the same problem before. I figured out it was my anti-virus software that was blocking internet access to the mining software. Make sure electroneumd is whitelisted in your anti-virus software.
Having the same problem
Hi, I just installed the Electroneum Pool Miner V1.2 Beta today. What should I write in Pool URL? Thanks.
I’ve updated the article. You need to put in the URL of the pool you are mining to.
Try using stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 or see the article for more details.
Please update your website. You have instructions on how to set up Miner V1.1 but only Miner V1.2 is available and has different pool options. So zero information on how to mine in V1.2.
Just write an example pool adress, the best and fastest pool, port and so on.
Thanks for noticing. I will do so soon.
You have great tips here Benjamin!
I listed your website as a reference on my fast growing blog.
Great work once more.
PS: here is link: http://electroneumtipstoday.com/top-5-active-online-communities-for-electroneum-users/
Have a nice time!
Awesome! Thanks for the mention!
Hi Benjamin!
Can we mine on 2 different PC’s or with a PC and a laptop at the same time with the same account?
Absolutely! Your profits gets transferred to the same wallet address when the combined profits reach your pool threshold.
I’m using the US Pool and I can’t seem to check my balance any longer. The links now redirect to the downloads page. Is there still an easy way to check your earnings?
Electroneum has ceased support for the official pools (US, EU, and Asia). You’ll need to use third party software and a third party pool to continue mining.
I mined for 3 days now and i see the pending balance not moving to total paid from past 30 hrs now, how much time does it take? do i need to do something to get paid?
Pending Balance: 58.57 ETN
Total Paid: 0.00 ETN
Last Share Submitted: 3 minutes ago
Hash Rate: 64.72 H/sec
Total Hashes Submitted: 28132584
Which pool are you using? Different pools have different thresholds at which they pay out.
Hi Benjamin,
I’m using this pool. They pay at 10 ETN: etn.pool.nocroom.com
Thanks
Raju
Hi Benjamin,
I downloaded the direct mining software and started mining yesterday. I seem to have a good hash rate ~ 105 H/s.
I can’t seem to find any command in the cli which will show me how many ETN I’ve mined, though. Could you please let me know how to do this?
Thanks in advance.
I’m afraid you won’t see ETN for a very long time when you’re mining directly. Direct mining requires your computer to solve a block all by itself. This will takes months of continuous mining. When you do solve a block you get close to 7000 ETN, but it’s really hard.
You should rather try pool mining, in which a number of people work together to solve blocks and they share the rewards. You have a much better chance of seeing ETN soon. I’ll write an article on how to do this, soon.
Hello Ben. I think what Nick is doing is solo mining whereby the computer solves the block by itself.
Correct. My point as well. Currently, you’ll need to mine for years using that method to solve a block and get any ETN.
Mine is not working. The electroneum.com website has the new version, v1.2 Beta. I downloaded it and synced the blockchain for one whole day. After completing the sync I ran the miner and it did not connect me to any pool. It says “there was an error connecting to specified pool”.
My antivirus is already disabled.
Sounds like there might be an error in the pool URL. What is the URL that you have entered in that box?
I’m unable to check my payment history to see how much I’ve mined. Every time I click on the link to try and look at the payment history it takes me to the download software tab. Please help. I want to know how much I’ve mined. Thank you.
Electroneum has stopped supporting the original ETN pools. They have paid out all the mined ETN to each miner’s wallet. That’s why the pool website is redirecting you to the downloads page. Please see the article for updated instructions on using the new miner to mine to a third-party pool.
I have to insert a “Pool URL”. I’ve inverted the EU URL and it says it’s mining but it doesn’t show ‘Hash rate’, ‘Total Shares’ or ‘Bad shares’.
The software has been updated since I last wrote the article now. I suggest you use the EasyHash pool. Try inserting stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 as the pool URL. Or see the article for updated information.
I’m having trouble with the tutorial. I did all the steps in the tutorial above.
I used the software “Electroneum Pool Miner V1.2 BETA”, used the easyhash miner pool “stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630” and selected a thread of 2. But when I start mining it does not mine.
What is the problem? I’ve already allowed the software on my “firewall” and close the antivirus. I need help, thanks.
Are you seeing any output in the form of number of shares, hash rate, etc?
Hi Benjamin,
Thanks for the info! My miner looks slightly different and not sure what to fill in some sections. Can you help, please?
Thanks.
The miner has been updated to version 1.2 since I last wrote the article. Please see the updated article above for instructions on what to insert into the Pool URL.
Hello, thanks for this. I’m new to cryptocurrency mining, but I really want to go into it fully as I understand it’s one of the fastest ways to get rich.
The problem I’m having with the ETN app is that after installing the app, I can’t run it. The error message am getting, is:
“To run this application you first must install one of the following versions of. NET framework: v4.0. Contact your application publishers for instructions about obtaining the appropriate version of the .NET framework.”
Please, how can I resolve this issue?
Please know that cryptocurrency is a very high-risk investment. You may get rich, but you may just as well lose everything when the market turns. Don’t invest any more than you can afford to lose.
As for your problem, you need to have the .NET framework installed. The Electroneum miner will automatically direct you to the correct website to install it. If you can’t find it, you should be able to get it from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55170
In version 1.2 there is a pool URL box… What goes in there? I cannot find any tutorial that shows the new version of the program. Thank you!
I updated my tutorial. You need to put in the URL of the pool you are mining to.
Try stratum+tcp://etn.easyhash.io:3630 or see the post for more details.
It should look like this for the pool I am currently mining at
stratum+tcp://mine.hashusa.win:3333
Change the values if your PC is better from 3333 to 6666 or 9999
Hi, so I’ve created an account on Electroneum’s official site. So I have a public online wallet, not a paper wallet. I downloaded the Cryptonote miner and am using https://etn.spacepools.org pool. For the wallet address, I copied the wallet address from the account page and pasted it into the wallet.address file in Cryptonote folder.
Now my question is, have I done all the steps right? And how do I verify that I am receiving payments? Kindly reply me.
Hi Benjamin, my Electroneum Miner doesn’t seem to work after setting it up as you directed. Both the Harsh rate, total share and Bad shares has no reading since I clicked to start mining. Please, what could be wrong?
Does it show a message in the bottom box? That should probably indicate the problem. As a first fix, you can make sure the program is whitelisted with your antivirus software.
Are you using version 1.2 Beta? That is what I’m using and we have the same problem.
I tried this for a straight 7 to 8 days and it’s showing me 20.39 ETN in my pending balance.
I’m mining in Asia pool and minimum threshold for payout is 20. Why didn’t it show up in my wallet when I logged in to my Electroneum account?
Did you specify your Electroneum online wallet’s address as the mining address? Or did you create a paper wallet and used it’s address instead?
No I didn’t used a paper wallet address. Just used the public wallet address that appears on https://my.electroneum.com/.
How will they appear in my account?
If it still says the ETN is pending, then you’ll need to wait a bit. I know the threshold I’d 20 ETN. But sometimes it waits a whole before paying out.
Give it some time and check your online wallet as soon as the ETN moves from Pending to Paid.
Thanks for the great tutorial! Currently, I’m mining ETN and having them sent to my paper wallet.
I know I can check the balance and do transfers by importihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng my paper wallet to the cli wallet. but i have some questions here.
1. is this “importihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng” process making an “alias” of my paper wallet? i.e., the CLI wallet generated is an alias of my paper wallet.
2. Let’s say I have 10ETN in my paper wallet on 2018/01/05.
2.1) After I imported it to a CLI wallet, will my paper wallet’s balance become 0ETN?
2.2) After I imported it to a CLI wallet on 2018/01/06, I can see 10ETN in my CLI wallet. Then I keep mining and still having the ETN sent to my paper wallet, on 2018/01/08, I got 20ETN from mining.
a) At this moment, I guess my paper wallet’s balance is 20ETN, how about the CLI wallet? Still 10ETN as the last time I imported?
b) Is there any auto-synchronization between paper wallet and the CLI wallet? Or I need to import manually every time?
3. Is there any transaction fee for importing paper wallet to CLI wallet?
Thanks again!
Hi, thanks for your kind words!
1. Yes, the CLI wallet is an alias for your paper wallet. The CLI paper is not a new wallet but merely represents the paper wallet. See it as a “second user” to the same bank account.
2. The CLI wallet reflects the balance of your paper wallet. Make sure the entire blockchain is synced to your computer. You can do this by opening electroneumd and letting it run in the background. If you leave it running, and then open the CLI wallet concurrently, you should be able to simply hit refresh in the CLI wallet to get the most up-to-date balance.
3. Nope, it’s for free. Like I said, the CLI is only a “second access” to the same account.
Hi, I have mined for a few hours in a few day but there is 0 ETN in my wallet. What should I do? Please help.
Pending Balance: 0.00 ETN
Total Paid: 0.00 ETN
Last Share Submitted: less than a minute ago
Hash Rate: 23.87 H/sec
Total Hashes Submitted: 234877
Your hash rate seems a bit low. With 23 H/s I guess you’ll mine about 1 coin per day if you leave it running for 24 hours. This changes daily as the number of active miners vary.
You’ll need to get a faster computer. Or if you have a graphics card, you can use other software to mine with it. Graphics cards are much more efficient at mining and will get you a better hash rate.
Hello, I checked ETN’s price this morning and saw that it reached 11 cents! “Time to start minihttps://electroneum101.com/files/ng”, I thought.
However, the ETN Mining software on my new Lenovo Flex 5 CPU will install, but will not run on Windows 10. Please advise.
By the way, I appreciate this site with all the how to’s!
Hi, thanks for the kind words! Yes, it’s a great time to start mining. I’m not sure why it won’t run. Are you getting an error message? What’s happening?
I know some anti-virus software doesn’t play nice the ETN Mining Software. You might need to whitelist the application before it can connect to the internet.
Hi Benjamin!
The error message I’m receiving while attempting to run the ETN miner app states: “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.” I have McAfee LiveSafe on my CPU.
Looking forward to the Mobile Mining Apps!
Thanks!
Doesn’t seem like it’s anti-virus related. I think you might have a resource problem. Either a very full computer or a very busy processor. Are you getting this message inside the mining app or before you try to run it?
You can also use Minergate. It’s really easy and you can use all the other pools.
1) Go to the Minergate website and download and install the Minergate software.
2) Go to the Views menu in the upper left corner. Tick the checkmark “show other pools.” Now you will see an “Other Pools” menu.
3) Go to the Other Pools menu and then Add Pool. You’ll need pool connections details and your ETN wallet deposit adress for login.
To shop the different pools there is a long list of them in the official Electroneum mining channel
https://t.me/joinchat/FZFSlBCRa3PnBzTF6owOMA
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Aaron. I’m planning to write an in-depth article about other mining software soon.