A Quick Guide on How to Mine Steem on Windows (The Simple Way)

The first thing you need to start with before moving with the actual mining is to register yourself an account on the steemit website.

steemd-first-run

– Start by downloading the latest Steem Windows Wallet and Miner for Windows from:
https://github.com/btscube/steem/releases/

– The miner binary is compiled for 64-bit Windows, so it will not work on 32-bit ones

– Extract the steem-win-x64-012-2.zip archive to a folder on your computer and run steemd.exe

– The first time you run the Steem Daemon executable it will create a witness_node_data_dir directory and inside will generate some additional files and folders

steem-config-ini :

– Go inside the witness_node_data_dir folder and open the config.ini file with Notepad or another text editor

– Start by adding a few steem nodes to connect to, just paste the following list under P2P nodes to connect to on startup:
you can change the seeds if you wish by going to https://status.steemnodes.com/ and seeing which seed is currently active:

seed-node = 212.117.213.186:2016
seed-node = seed.riversteem.com:2001
seed-node = 52.74.152.79:2001
seed-node = 52.63.172.229:2001
seed-node = steemd.pharesim.me:2001
seed-node = seed.steemnodes.com:2001
seed-node = steem-seed1.abit-more.com:2001
seed-node = steem.clawmap.com:2001
seed-node = 52.62.24.225:2001
seed-node = steem-id.altexplorer.xyz:2001
seed-node = seed.steemd.com:34191
seed-node = 52.4.250.181:39705

– Under the name of witness add your steemit.com username (you need to register prior to start mining), so make sure it is something like: witness = "myusername" - make sure your account id is written inside "id" like that.

– Under the name of miner and its private key add your steemit.com username and private key, so make sure it is something like: miner = ["myusername","yourWIFprivatekeyhere"]

– When setting different parameters in the ini file make sure you don’t leave the # sign in front of the line as it essentially comments it out and the miner behaves as this parameter is not set, so you can get an error that a witness or miner is not set!

– If you are not sure where to get the private key, then just login to your steemit.com account, go to your Profile and then to the Permissions tab. Here you need to click on Show the private key for Active (you may need to relogin first). Do note that the key shown by default is the public key, you need to show the private key and use the private key in the config! Alternatively you can use the Owner private key, this is also your login password, but due to security reasons you better stick with the Active key.

– Under the Number of threads to use add mining-threads = 1 or higher depends on your CPU specs

– After this just run steemd.exe again and wait for the blockchain to synchronize, it will take sometime to connect (depending on your internet speed or connection)

– All you have to do now is to wait for your miner to first find a POW block and then put you in the Miner-witness queue until your turn comes in to confirm a block in order to get your reward transferred to your steemit.com account

–Now you can basically trade the Steem at on online exchange to change it into a different crypto if you wish or just use the steempower to boost your posts on the steemit network.

I am also trying to figure out how to mine steem with GPU when I find out something can be done will make a guide about that also.