How to Mine ZEC / ZCASH with your CPU in Minutes on Debian Linux

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago (edited)

Mine Z Cash within minutes of running a fresh Debian Linux OS

First, install your Debian flavor, these exact steps are only guaranteed to work on Debian Jessie, but will likely work for many other versions of Debian and it's derivatives.

If you have a graphical user interface version of debian, then you should open a terminal, otherwise, you will already be at one. Type the following lines in one by one, and your done installing:

sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential libboost-all-dev git clone --recursive https://github.com/kost/nheqminer.git cd nheqminer/nheqminer mkdir build cd build cmake -DXENON=1 .. make

Then from the same folder your in, ./nheqminer/nheqminer, you can benchmark your hashrate using this command:
./nheqminer -b

You can then use a command similar to this, only with your Bitcoin address instead of the generic one, to start mining:
./nheqminer -l usa -u GeN3r1cZc4shBTCaDdr3ss.worker1 -t 1
and the 1 should be set to the amount of cores you have in your CPU.

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@technium I find your post educative! Kudos.