wrkzdev / violetminer

An argon2 miner

violetminer

Algorithms Supported

• TurtleCoin - choose turtlecoin or chukwa
• WrkzCoin - choose wrkzcoin or chukwa_wrkz

Notes

• Supports xmrig-proxy - Make sure to enable niceHash: true in your pool config.

Example Config

Simply go through the normal setup and a config will be written to config.json on completion. Alternatively, copy and modify the following config to your purposes.

{
    "pools": [
        {
            "agent": "",
            "algorithm": "turtlecoin",
            "host": "127.0.0.1",
            "niceHash": false,
            "password": "",
            "port": 3333,
            "rigID": "",
            "username": "TRTLv2Fyavy8CXG8BPEbNeCHFZ1fuDCYCZ3vW5H5LXN4K2M2MHUpTENip9bbavpHvvPwb4NDkBWrNgURAd5DB38FHXWZyoBh4wW"
        },
        {
            "agent": "",
            "algorithm": "wrkzcoin",
            "host": "127.0.0.1",
            "niceHash": true,
            "password": "",
            "port": 5000,
            "rigID": "",
            "username": "WrkzjJMM8h9F8kDU59KUdTN8PvZmzu2HchyBG15R4SjLD4EcMg6qVWo3Qeqp4nNhgh1CPL7ixCL1P4MNwNPr5nTw11ma1MMXr7"
        }
    ],
    "threadCount": 12
}

Compiling

Windows

• Download the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 Installer
• When it opens up select C++ build tools, it automatically selects the needed parts
• Install the latest full version of OpenSSL if you want to compile with SSL support. (currently OpenSSL 1.1.1c). Select the appropriate version for your system:
  • OpenSSL 64-bit
  • OpenSSL 32-bit

For 64-bit:

• From the start menu, open 'x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019'.
• git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/violetminer
• cd violetminer
• git submodule update --init --recursive
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64
• MSBuild violetminer.sln /p:Configuration=Release /m

For 32-bit:

• From the start menu, open 'x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019'.
• git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/violetminer
• cd violetminer
• git submodule update --init --recursive
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32 ..
• MSBuild violetminer.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=Win32 /m

Ubuntu, using GCC

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install aptitude -y
• sudo aptitude install -y build-essential g++-8 gcc-8 git python-pip libssl-dev
• sudo pip install cmake
• export CC=gcc-8
• export CXX=g++-8
• git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/violetminer
• cd violetminer
• git submodule update --init --recursive
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..
• make

Ubuntu, using Clang

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
• wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

You need to modify the below command for your version of ubuntu - see https://apt.llvm.org/

• Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://apt.llvm.org/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty 6.0 main"

• Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://apt.llvm.org/xenial/ llvm-toolchain-xenial 6.0 main"

• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://apt.llvm.org/bionic/ llvm-toolchain-bionic 6.0 main"

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get install aptitude -y

• sudo aptitude install -y -o Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost='100*canceled-actions,200*removals' build-essential clang-6.0 libstdc++-7-dev git python-pip libssl-dev

• sudo pip install cmake

• export CC=clang-6.0

• export CXX=clang++-6.0

• git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/violetminer

• cd violetminer

• git submodule update --init --recursive

• mkdir build

• cd build

• cmake ..

• make

Generic Linux

• git clone https://github.com/turtlecoin/violetminer
• cd violetminer
• git submodule update --init --recursive
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..
• make

Developing

• Update submodules to lastest commit: git submodule foreach git pull origin master