Tutorial: Mining dogecoin with AMD graphics card using cgminer.

Dogecoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency that enables you to easily send money online. Think of it as "the internet currency."
Mining itself is very time consuming, and hardware intensive. This tutorial, Amd graphics would be used, which, is better in terms of hardware efficiency than, nividia cards and just CPU mining. Meaning desktops are preferred.

Requirements

Hardware

1. I don't recommend you use laptops such as Mac, as they would not be able to discipate the heat generated.

2. AMD graphics.

Software

1. Windows 64bit
2. .Net Framework
3. Cgminer miner software.

Let start

Step 1: Registering on the pool

Register on a mining pool, for this tutorial I would be using multipool.us as our mining pool.
I would be showing the registration process below.

To start, you will need to join a pool, we would be using multipool.us and sign up for an account.
Check for the login route and use your newly registered details. on this pool, you would find the login route on the header.

Step 2: Making a worker

you can add as many workers as you want, each worker and mine a different coin on the same pool but different stratum (address).

Once you joined a pool, login to their web page. You need to one worker or more for diferen Select "my workers" on the left, which is usually under "my account".

Setting up cgminer

we will be going through this process with cgminer 3.7.2
Check for the latest drivers of your card if not available, download here. You can check the version by navigating to control panel > hardware and sound > device manager).

Next, get AMD SDK

Now you can open your download cgminer and extract to a location you can remember.
Using any text editor paste the following, replacing your-pools-stratum, port-number, web-login, worker-name, and worker-password with your information:

Creating the config.bat file.

the config.bat is create with any text editor, and it is done when you are mining with a single stratum.
In the root of the cgminer file, create a new file and add the code below and save as config.bat

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 
cgminer --scrypt -I 13 --temp-target 70 --gpu-fan 10-70 -o stratum+tcp://your-pools-stratum:port-number -u web-login.worker-name -p worker-password

For multiple mining, use the code below.

for multiple coin mining use the config file above and replace the with the configuration below.

{
"pools" : [
    
    {
        "url" : "stratum+tcp://us.multipool.us:3341",
        "user" : "username.work -name",
        "pass" : "password"
    }
{
        "url" : "stratum+tcp://us.multipool.us:3341",
        "user" : "username.work -name",
        "pass" : "password"
    }
{
        "url" : "stratum+tcp://us.multipool.us:3341",
        "user" : "username.work -name",
        "pass" : "password"
    }
{
        "url" : "stratum+tcp://us.multipool.us:3341",
        "user" : "username.work -name",
        "pass" : "password"
    }
    
]
,
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "2048,",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "75",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "65",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Remember to replace with the actual details when you were registering and setting up your workers.

lastly lunch your cgminer executable.

congratulation you just started mining dogcoin.

How to get started

Ok, you’re all set to mine Doge, how do you begin?

First of all, go to the official Dogecoin site here and download and install your wallet (or you can select the “Browser” option to see some online wallet options).

using the downloaded Windows Dogecoin Core wallet in this example, however most of the wallets share the same basic features.

Click on ‘Much Receive’ to see your wallet address. You can use this long string of letters as the address to use when you want to receive money in to your wallet.

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