To mine Beam, you will require at least one graphics card with minimum 3Gb of memory (RAM). There are two brands of GPU, NVIDIA or AMD and you will find below recommended mining software for both Nvidia and AMD cards.
For those who already know what they are doing and have previous knowledge of setting up a mining software to interact with your GPUs, here are the command lines for each different miner software.
--algo beamhash --server pool.raskul.com --port 1690 --ssl 1 --user YOUR_ADDRESS.RIG_ID --pass x
--par=beam2 --pers Beam-PoW --url=ssl://[email protected]:1690 --pass x --oc1
--coin BEAM --devices AMD --pool pool.raskul.com --port 1690 --user WALLET_ADDRESS.RIG_ID --pass x
NVIDIA MINER SOFTWARE
AMD MINER SOFTWARE
Using Windows & Gminer
First thing is first. Identify that you have a suitable GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in your computer. This needs to have at least 3Gb of memory, so most onboard graphics won’t quite manage it. It will need to be a gaming GPU or such like.
If you are unsure if your computer has enough GPU processing power to mine Beam, you can check your device manager. If in further doubt, ping me a message and i’ll advise.
To make it simple, I am going to show you how to do this using one single software program, that you will need to install.
That is called GMINER. Gminer will allow both Nvidia and AMD GPU’s to mine Beam using a simple configuration line.
So, download the latest version suitable for your computer operating system (Windows or Linux currently available) from here:
Secondly, you need to get a Beam wallet, which will give you an address to mine with.
From https://beam.mw/downloads
Identify your operating system and download the correct wallet. You can also use a mobile wallet on android or iOS.
In the wallet, generate a new address, and make it ‘never expiring’.
Copy the wallet address and paste it to the device you will be mining with (the computer with the GPU)
Next, run the Gminer software with a command line in the .bat file.
Let’s look at this from a windows perspective. Once you have extracted the Gminer software, you will find a file which is a file type .bat. Right click the .bat file and > edit. Remove all contents in it and paste in the following configuration.
miner.exe --algo beamhash --server pool.raskul.com --port 1690 --ssl 1 --user YOUR_ADDRESS.RIG_ID --pass x
Don’t forget to replace YOUR_ADDRESS with your wallet address.
Example: 505f148dd75bc4f450694d9a4f45bce1996f0d6892c39e948390231265cd788f0f
Also replace RIG_ID with a desired computer name.
For example, desktop.
Save the file.
All being well, you should be able to simply double-click the .bat file and a CMD terminal will open, and begin mining for you. Don’t close this window, unless you want to stop mining!
After a short while you will see your Beam address appear on the http://pool.raskul.com/workers page, with corresponding rig name in a coloured graph.
You may need to allow the software to bypass your antivirus software – this is safe to do.
If you have any queries on how to do any of this, email me at [email protected] and i’ll talk you through it.