[TUTORIAL] The New Miner Guide To MinerGate

Getting Started

Welcome to MinerGate!

You have downloaded and installed the latest GUI 8.1 miner software and wish to start mining.

If you are having problems downloading the App due to your Anti Virus identifying the file as a threat, turn it off as well as the site blocking option in your browser to allow the download to proceed.

Onscreen View

On launching GUI you will see:-

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Menu Options

Built in Wallet for all coins
Smart Miner - selects the best coin to mine.
Miner - displays all available coins.
Other Pools - enables access to external Cryptonote Pools.
Benchmark - does a hardware performance check.
Achievements - a novelty for those who like rewards.
Support

Internal Columns

Currency Balance from Confirmed Mining
CPU Mining (Set Cores)
GPU Mining (If available and Supported)
Shares (Good/Bad/Last)
Shares Difficulty
Unconfirmed Balance
Reward Method (PPS/PPLNS)
Merged Mining - mine 2 coins for the same hash rate.

You may toggle which coins are displayed using the "eye" symbol.

Dashboard

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The Dashboard is your mining data centre to view your various balances, mining speed (h/s, KH/s etc.), online/offline, Workers = devices mining, Good/Bad shares, Total mined and Blocks. If you have invalid shares they will display here too.

Account Balance is the of all mined coins and one may toggle this to display the value in BTC/USD/EUR.

Total Mined is the all time mined amount of coins inclusive of withdrawals and again may be viewed in the currencies given above.

In addition you see the Pool's total mining speed and the World mining speed along with the Blockchain height and Difficulty.

The Top 5 users in the pool with their individual Hash Rate.

Withdrawal and Transfer options.

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Enter your Blockchain address to send you external wallet or add your e-mail for sending to Freewallet.

Transfer allows you to send coins to a miners MinerGate account using their e-mail address.

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You may also toggle the display to view the coins that you are mining and also adjust their position using the up/down option.

Confirmation Levels

Each Currency here confirms after a certain amount is mined. (DSH:0.1), (BCN:20), (FCN, QCN, XDN, MCN:1), (ETH, ETC, ZEC:0.001), (AEON,XMR:0.005), (BTG:0.01)

Withdrawing to Wallet or Exchange

Withdrawal Amounts

Min Amount Withdrawn to External Wallet - This does NOT include Free-Wallet.

(BCN: 100)(XDN: 1), (XMR,BTG: 0.1), (LTC, BTC, AEON, FCN, DSH, QCN, MCN: 0.01), (ETH,ETC: 0.001), (ZEC: 0.0001)

Withdrawal Fees

Does NOT INCLUDE Withdraw Amounts. (AEON, BCN:0.01),(DSH, MCN, ETC, ZEC, BTG:0.001) (XMR:0.02), (QCN:0.005), (ETH:0.0052), (XDN, FCN:0.1)

Successful mining = good hashrate and that requires using the appropriate devices to achieve that, meaning a PC minimum with GPU(s) otherwise you are really consuming electric for no profit. Choose carefully and learn through continued research and meet fellow miners in the chat who began just as you are.

If you feel there are topics I have missed please post in the Comments with your suggestions, thank you.

Enjoy your time with MinerGate.

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