Posts made by nkshirsa

@Wellenreiter thanks for the help,
is this video a good reference to get started mining ftc? https://tsakf.org/2017/06/how-to-mine-feathercoin or shall i just download ccminer and thats all i need ? dont i have to create account on wemineftc or similar for a mining pool ? or do i do solo mining ?

@wrapper thanks ! so a desktop with 2 graphics cards (reocmmendations? nvidia geforce?) would be fine to mine ftc ?right?

@AcidD said in Getting started with Crypto Mining...:

2x graphics cards on PCI express slots.

thanks a ton!

so basically i need 2 graphics cards, u said? So 2 nvidia geforce, will do?

im a little confused, why graphics cards, why not just a fast multi core cpu ? does mining basically use the graphics cards cpu, and not the main cpu ?

also i guess i need average ram, like say 16 GB for the desktop will do ?

last question, can i mine multiple coins at the same time, other than feathercoin? any recommendations ?

thanks a ton for all the help! im basically just eager to get started mining !
-nkshirsa

@Wellenreiter said in help me get started mining feathercoin !:

which the build in power supply must be able to delive

Hello,

thanks for your reply! I’m not sure why the graphics card is so important in mining, isnt it more about CPU speed ? Anyway, I will definitely take your recommendation, but can you recommend a particular graphics card, since Im just gonna setup the desktop from scratch, any configuration help will help me because I’ll get that particular configuration and set it up at home.

I’m connecting it to a regular power switch and the electricity in my buildings pretty stable, so I guess it shouldn’t have an issue with power fluctuations etc.

More importantly, how much ram do i need, or on motherboard memory, any cpu in particular (intel/amd/etc), and what else could i buy to help maximise?

another question i had was, is feathercoin the best coin to mine nowdays, ? Are there potentially others I can mine at the same time? Is it difficult mining multiple coins at once?

i look forward to your reply, and thank you a lot for your help so far !

-nkshirsa

Hello!

I’m planning to buy a desktop for mining. So can someone please suggest a suitable configuration for mining feathercoin (I may also mine other coins on it at the same time if such a thing is possible … )

I’d like to use this desktop only for mining, so I dont plan to use it for anything else except the occasional download from the net.

I’d appreciate any tips, help and pointers getting started, i.e, whether linux is better or windows, what CPU and other cards I should have (nvidia, etc?), whether I should do asic or gpu mining, and whether i can do both, (whats the difference? ) and also what I need to install, to get started on this desktop.

Thanks in advance, science bless!
nkshirsa.

@AcidD thanks a ton for the quick response. what would you recommend, as a desktop configuration ? I could sell both the laptops and trade for a decent desktop i guess… Is it easier getting started on windows, guessing from the fact that there’s packages available for installing cpu miner?

Hello,

I’m new to this forum. I want to get started mining feathercoin. I have 2 (cheap) laptops on which I plan to install linux (ubuntu/fedora/similar).

Can someone suggest recommendations on how to mine feathercoin using my 2 spare laptops ? I came across https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=712650.0 is this the right link for getting started mining feathercoin? I’m a newb to mining in general. Is this the right link to start with, and do i get packages for linux anywhere, like I see for windows ?

Thanks,
nkshirsa.