This guide will help you get started mining for Marconi Coins using your GPU and Marconi Pool.

Official mining binaries have been provided, but you can also compile from source using the marconi-stak repo.

For general information about Marconi mining please refer to the Mining Overview.

• Ubuntu 16.04
• NVIDIA GTX 1060 or higher OR AMD RX 480/580 or higher
• 1GB Memory

Depending on where you are mining, follow the Mainnet setup guide or Testnet setup guide to create an account for your mined coins

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev libhwloc-dev

1. Download

   NVIDIA

   $ curl -L https://marconi.download/marconi-stak/0.1.1/marconi-stak-v0.1.1-ubuntu.16.04-generic-nvidia.tar > marconi-stak.tar
   

   AMD

   $ curl -L https://marconi.download/marconi-stak/0.1.1/marconi-stak-v0.1.1-ubuntu.16.04-generic-amd.tar > marconi-stak.tar
   

   If you'd like to mine on the Testnet please refer to the Mining Releases for the appropriate download URL

2. Untar

   $ tar xvf marconi-stak.tar
   

NVIDIA

Download CUDA Toolkit.

Note that the following steps can take several minutes to complete.

$ curl -L https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.1/Prod/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39_1.0-1_amd64.deb > cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39_1.0-1_amd64
$ mv cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39_1.0-1_amd64 cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39_1.0-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39_1.0-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-10-1-local-10.1.105-418.39/7fa2af80.pub
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cuda -y
// reboot the machine

AMD

1. Download AMD Drivers

   Download AMDGPU-Pro Driver Version 16.40 for Ubuntu 16.04 driver from this page:

   https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-radpro-lin-16-40

2. Extract

   $ tar xvf amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864.tar.xz
   

3. Install Drivers Run the following command from the unzipped directory. Note that this can take 5-10 minutes to complete.

   $ ./amdgpu-pro-install
   

Open the pools.txt config file with your favorite editor and:

1. Update 0x_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS with your account address from Step 1

2. Update MINER_NAME with a name for this miner (limit to 8 characters, letters, numbers and "-" only)

3. Update the 7777 port in the pool_address with the port that corresponds to your mining hardware

   Port Number	GPU Tier	Sample Hardware
   7777	Single GPU	Low-end AMD RX 400/500, NVIDIA GTX 6/7/9/10 Series
   9999	Multiple GPUs	High-end AMD RX400/500 & AMD RX VEGA, NVIDIA Multi-GPU GTX 9/10 series

   It's important to choose the appropriate port for your hardware. Using higher hashing power hardware on lower difficulty ports may result share submissions being throttled.

   If you are submitting shares successfully then suddenly receiving Result rejected by the pool. messages, this is a symptom of shares being backlogged. Consider using a higher difficulty.

NVIDIA

$ ./marconi-stak

AMD

sudo is required, otherwise a segmentation fault may occur

$ sudo ./marconi-stak

When prompted you can setup a web-based mining UI if desired.

1. Check Progress

   Visit https://pool1.marconi.org and search for your account address

2. Check Payouts

   Payouts occur multiple times every day. Visit https://pool1.marconi.org or https://explorer.marconi.org and search for your account address to view payouts

If you're mining on the Testnet refer to the Testnet Resources wiki for the appropriate URLs