Mining Instructions

Overview

Want to be rewarded BCDX? Start mining now!

Mining helps sustain our blockchain network by using your compute resource to act as a ledger.
In return, you are rewarded BCDX for your contribution.

Since Bitcoin DX is fairly young, mining rewards currently are HIGH.

Instructions

The below instructions have been prepared for running CGMiner on Microsoft Windows OS.

You can download a pre-prepared version of CGMiner here. Otherwise, follow the below instructions if you wish to download from source and start mining on a Windows PC.

Remember to change Wallet ID to your own Bitcoin DX Wallet ID / Receive Address. Bitcoin DX is mined using SHA256 algorithm.

1. Download and install WinRAR. We also recommend installing Notepad++.
2. Download CGMiner.
3. Right-click the downloaded file cgminer-3.7.2-windows.rar and click Extract Here.
4. Go into the newly extracted folder cgminer-3.7.2-windows.
5.Edit the file cgminer.conf using an editor such as Notepad++.
6. Edit line 4 with the mine pool URL. This can be found via mine pool websites.
Edit line 5 with your wallet receive address. You can get this from your BitcoinDX wallet.
Edit line 6 with your mine pool password.
7. Omit the comma symbol “,” from line 7.
Omit lines 8 to 22.
Omit line 28 "kernel" : "scrypt",
Omit line 51 "scrypt" : true,
8. Save and close your Notepad editor. A final version of cgminer.conf should resemble below.
9. Return to your cgminer-3.7.2-windows folder and create a new text file.
10. Rename “New Text Document.txt

To “Start.bat
11. Right-click Start.bat and click Edit.
12. Append the following line in Start.bat:
cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://54.79.14.22:3008 -u {YOURWALLETID} -p anything
13. Save and close Start.bat.
14. Your can now right-click Start.bat and click Open to begin mining.
15. You should now receive a command prompt window displaying your mining status and statistics. Your Bitcoin DX wallet will incrementally receive mining rewards. Happy mining!

Is it safe?

Yes. See per CGMiner FAQs:
Cgminer is being packaged with other trojan scripts and some antivirus software is falsely accusing cgminer.exe as being the actual virus, rather than whatever it is being packaged with. If you installed cgminer yourself, then you do not have a virus on your computer. Complain to your antivirus software company. They seem to be flagging even source code now from cgminer as viruses, even though text source files can’t do anything by themself.

Our recommendation is to always ensure you are using a secure workstation to store your Bitcoin DX wallet and to add an AV exclusion if required.