How to mine on RandomX Monero (XMR) algorithm
November 30, Monero (XMR) held a hard fork and will now work hard on block 1978433 to switch to the new RandomX algorithm. Fork will change the current CryptoNight R mining algorithm to the new Random X PoW algorithm, essentially transferring Monero coin mining to the CPU.
There are already several miners mining coins using the RandomX algorithm, which you can use now:
XMR-STAK-RX
The developers of the XMR-STAK program specially released the initial version of the miner to support the RandomX algorithm – the XMR-STAK-RX program.
There is no commission to developers in the new version of the miner, it will probably be added later.
This release only supports various variants of the RandomX algorithm.
Download XMRig
Configure XMR-STAK-RX for RandomX
- Download and unzip precompiled binary (.EXE) files to a new folder
- Change the currency parameter in pools.txt to “currency”: “randomx”, example pool configuration
- Run xmr-stak-rx via bat file
You can run the program through the bat file too:
An example of setting up a batch file :
xmr-stak-rx.exe -o xmr-eu.dwarfpool.com:8050 -u 44tLjmXrQNrWJ5NBsEj2R77ZBEgDa3fEe9GLpSf2FRmhexPvfYDUAB7EXX1Hdb3aMQ9FLqdJ56yaAhiXoRsceGJCRS3Jxkn.5d3c802ee0f8e12e4eb9792722b7816a42178aa29ef7477c138ddb940c55648d.rig1 -p x --noCPU
pauseIf you do not want to mine Monero / Random X after forking on video cards, run xmr-stak-rx once before the fork and let the miner create amd.txt and / or nvidia.txt configurations. Edit both files and set “gpu_threads_conf”: [] to disable the video cards and leave only the processor.
If the application does not start properly, make sure the Visual Studio libraries are installed. You can download them from
XMRig
Similarly, you can use the program XMRig.
XMRig v5.1.0 – High-performance open-source cross-platform miner RandomX, CryptoNight and Argon2 CPU / GPU, with official Windows support
Download XMRig:
Configure XMRig for RandomX
Example of a batch file for processors:
:start xmrig -a randomx -o pool.supportxmr.com:5555 -u 44tLjmXrQNrWJ5NBsEj2R77ZBEgDa3fEe9GLpSf2FRmhexPvfYDUAB7EXX1Hdb3aMQ9FLqdJ56yaAhiXoRsceGJCRS3Jxkn.5d3c802ee0f8e12e4eb9792722b7816a42178aa29ef7477c138ddb940c55648d.rig1 -p x --donate-level=1 goto start
Example of a batch file for AMD:
:start xmrig -a randomx -o pool.supportxmr.com:5555 -u 44tLjmXrQNrWJ5NBsEj2R77ZBEgDa3fEe9GLpSf2FRmhexPvfYDUAB7EXX1Hdb3aMQ9FLqdJ56yaAhiXoRsceGJCRS3Jxkn.5d3c802ee0f8e12e4eb9792722b7816a42178aa29ef7477c138ddb940c55648d.rig1 -p x --donate-level=1 --opencl goto start
An example of a batch file for Nvidia:
:start xmrig -a randomx -o pool.supportxmr.com:5555 -u 44tLjmXrQNrWJ5NBsEj2R77ZBEgDa3fEe9GLpSf2FRmhexPvfYDUAB7EXX1Hdb3aMQ9FLqdJ56yaAhiXoRsceGJCRS3Jxkn.5d3c802ee0f8e12e4eb9792722b7816a42178aa29ef7477c138ddb940c55648d.rig1 -p x --donate-level=1 --cuda goto start
SRBMiner-MULTI RandomX
SRBMiner-MULTI CPU — This is a program for mining cryptocurrencies on various algorithms for the processor.
AMD GPU Miner — This is a miner for mining cryptocurrencies on video cards of the AMD family.
Both programs are part of a single release.
Download SRBMiner-MULTI
Configure SRBMiner-MULTI for RandomX
In order to start mining, we need to create or edit a file with the extension .bat. Indicate the following commands in it:
- SRBMiner-MULTI.exe — SRBMiner application launch command
- —algorithm randomx — specify the algorithm for mining
- —pool xmr-eu1.nanopool.org — specify pool address
- 14444 — specify pool port
- —wallet 44tLjmXrQNr…ef7477c138d2340c55648d indicate coin purse + Payment ID after the point. The wallet can be obtained either on the exchange or install a cold Monero wallet.
- —gpu-target-temperature 70 — the program will strive to maintain this temperature
- —gpu-off-temperature 83 — the miner will turn off when this temperature is reached and turn on when it drops
- —send-stales — send outdated balls to the pool (some pools partially pay for them, or add bonuses).
- —enable-restart-on-rejected — auto miner restart if too many rejected ball
Example of a batch file:
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100 setx GPU_MAX_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 setx GPU_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 @echo off cd %~dp0 cls set LOGTIME=%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%_%time:~3,2% set LOGTIME=%LOGTIME: =% set LOGTIME=%LOGTIME:,=.%.txt SRBMiner-MULTI.exe --algorithm randomx --pool xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14444 --wallet 44tLjmXrQNrWJ5NBsEj2R77ZBEgDa3fEe9GLpSf2FRmhexPvfYDUAB7EXX1Hdb3aMQ9FLqdJ56yaAhiXoRsceGJCRS3Jxkn.5d3c802ee0f8e12e4eb9792722b7816a42178aa29ef7477c138ddb940c55648d.rig1 pause
- The program is launched as usual by double-clicking on the file with the .bat extension
Running the program, we will see the following window:
We wrote in the batch file only those commands that will help to connect to the pool and start the cryptocurrency mining process. However, to improve performance, you need to configure some other command line arguments, depending on the type of equipment you have.
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