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CPU Mining Guide

CPU Mining Guide

There are basically two ways to mine Hathor: either you compile our cpuminer or you use our Docker images.

ALERT: the mainnet difficulty is too high to mine with CPUs, if you want HTR rewards you most likely want merged-mining.

Docker

Running the Docker image for cpuminer is the easiest way for any operating system. Just run the following command and it is done.

docker run -it hathornetwork/cpuminer -a sha256d --coinbase-addr <YOUR_ADDRESS> -o stratum+tcp://<YOUR_NODE_IP>:8081

Remember to replace <YOUR_ADDRESS> by your actual address. You can generate an address using one of our Hathor Wallets, and it starts with H for mainnet (or W for testnet).

Build your binary

The repository is available here: https://github.com/HathorNetwork/cpuminer/

The building instructions are in the README file. After you've built it, run:

./cpuminer -a sha256d --coinbase-addr <YOUR_ADDRESS> -o stratum+tcp://<YOUR_NODE_IP>:8081

Remember to replace <YOUR_ADDRESS> by your actual address. You can generate an address using one of our Hathor Wallets, and it starts with H for mainnet (or W for testnet).