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MINERD(1) DragonFly General Commands Manual MINERD(1)
NAME
minerd - CPU miner for Bitcoin and Litecoin
SYNOPSIS
minerd [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
minerd is a multi-threaded CPU miner for Bitcoin, Litecoin and other
cryptocurrencies. It supports the getwork and getblocktemplate (BIP
22) methods, as well as the Stratum mining protocol.
In its normal mode of operation, minerd connects to a mining server
(specified with the -o option), receives work from it and starts
hashing. As soon as a solution is found, it is submitted to the same
mining server, which can accept or reject it. When using getwork or
getblocktemplate, minerd can take advantage of long polling, if the
server supports it; in any case, fresh work is fetched as needed. When
using the Stratum protocol this is not possible, and the server is
responsible for sending fresh work at least every minute; if it fails
to do so, minerd may drop the connection and try reconnecting again.
By default, minerd writes all its messages to standard error. On
systems that have a syslog, the --syslog option can be used to write to
it instead.
On start, the nice value of all miner threads is set to 19. On Linux,
the scheduling policy is also changed to SCHED_IDLE, or to SCHED_BATCH
if that fails. On multiprocessor systems, minerd automatically sets
the CPU affinity of miner threads if the number of threads is a
multiple of the number of processors.
EXAMPLES
To connect to a Litecoin mining pool that provides a Stratum server at
example.com on port 3333, authenticating as worker "foo" with password
"bar":
minerd -o stratum+tcp://example.com:3333 -O foo:bar
To mine to a local Bitcoin testnet instance running on port 18332,
authenticating with username "rpcuser" and password "rpcpass":
minerd -a sha256d -o http://localhost:18332 -O rpcuser:rpcpass \
--coinbase-addr=mpXwg4jMtRhuSpVq4xS3HFHmCmWp9NyGKt
To connect to a Litecoin P2Pool node running on my.server on port 9327,
mining in the background and having output sent to the syslog facility,
omitting the per-thread hashmeter output:
minerd -BSq -o http://my.server:9327
OPTIONS
-a, --algo=ALGORITHM
Set the hashing algorithm to use. Default is scrypt. Possible
values are:
scrypt scrypt(1024, 1, 1) (used by Litecoin)
sha256d SHA-256d (used by Bitcoin)
--benchmark
Run in offline benchmark mode.
-B, --background
Run in the background as a daemon.
--cert=FILE
Set an SSL certificate to use with the mining server. Only
supported when using the HTTPS protocol.
--coinbase-addr=ADDRESS
Set a payout address for solo mining. This is only used in
getblocktemplate mode, and only if the server does not provide a
coinbase transaction.
--coinbase-sig=TEXT
Set a string to be included in the coinbase (if allowed by the
server). This is only used in getblocktemplate mode.
-c, --config=FILE
Load options from a configuration file. FILE must contain a
JSON object mapping long options to their arguments (as
strings), or to true if no argument is required. Sample
configuration file:
{
"url": "stratum+tcp://example.com:3333",
"userpass": "foo:bar",
"retry-pause": "10",
"quiet": true
}
-D, --debug
Enable debug output.
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
--no-gbt
Do not use the getblocktemplate RPC method.
--no-getwork
Do not use the getwork RPC method.
--no-longpoll
Do not use long polling.
--no-redirect
Ignore requests from the server to switch to a different URL.
--no-stratum
Do not switch to Stratum, even if the server advertises support
for it.
-o, --url=[SCHEME://][USERNAME[:PASSWORD]@]HOST:PORT[/PATH]
Set the URL of the mining server to connect to. Supported
schemes are http, https and stratum+tcp. If no scheme is
specified, http is assumed. Specifying a PATH is only supported
for HTTP and HTTPS. Specifying credentials has the same effect
as using the -O option.
By default, on HTTP and HTTPS, the miner tries to use the
getblocktemplate RPC method, and falls back to using getwork if
getblocktemplate is unavailable. This behavior can be modified
by using the --no-gbt and --no-getwork options.
-O, --userpass=USERNAME:PASSWORD
Set the credentials to use for connecting to the mining server.
Any value previously set with -u or -p is discarded.
-p, --pass=PASSWORD
Set the password to use for connecting to the mining server.
Any password previously set with -O is discarded.
-P, --protocol-dump
Enable output of all protocol-level activities.
-q, --quiet
Disable per-thread hashmeter output.
-r, --retries=N
Set the maximum number of times to retry if a network call
fails. If not specified, the miner will retry indefinitely.
-R, --retry-pause=SECONDS
Set how long to wait between retries. Default is 30 seconds.
-s, --scantime=SECONDS
Set an upper bound on the time the miner can go without fetching
fresh work. This setting has no effect in Stratum mode or when
long polling is activated. Default is 5 seconds.
-S, --syslog
Log to the syslog facility instead of standard error.
-t, --threads=N
Set the number of miner threads. If not specified, the miner
will try to detect the number of available processors and use
that.
-T, --timeout=SECONDS
Set a timeout for long polling.
-u, --user=USERNAME
Set the username to use for connecting to the mining server.
Any username previously set with -O is discarded.
-V, --version
Display version information and quit.
-x, --proxy=[SCHEME://][USERNAME:PASSWORD@]HOST:PORT
Connect to the mining server through a proxy. Supported schemes
are: http, socks4, socks5. Since libcurl 7.18.0, the following
are also supported: socks4a, socks5h (SOCKS5 with remote name
resolving). If no scheme is specified, the proxy is treated as
an HTTP proxy.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables can be specified in lower case or
upper case; the lower-case version has precedence. http_proxy is an
exception as it is only available in lower case.
http_proxy [SCHEME://]HOST:PORT
Sets the proxy server to use for HTTP.
HTTPS_PROXY [SCHEME://]HOST:PORT
Sets the proxy server to use for HTTPS.
ALL_PROXY [SCHEME://]HOST:PORT
Sets the proxy server to use if no protocol-specific
proxy is set.
Using an environment variable to set the proxy has the same effect as
using the -x option.
AUTHOR
Most of the code in the current version of minerd was written by Pooler
<pooler@litecoinpool.org> with contributions from others.
The original minerd was written by Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>.
cpuminer 2.4 May 2014 MINERD(1)