Video set up for Grin

Mining
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Hello,

Is there a video tutorial for mining on the testnet? Trying to get it working on my Windows X6 GTX1070 rig…

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I could make a video going from clean Win10 Pro to grin node in HyperV + miner mining, but the one windows miner there is will stop working with Testnet4 so there is little point. You should go all linux for now - grin node and mining.

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Hi photon,

If you could set up that video, that would be very sweet. I would be thankful it would help me get the gist of it. Will mainnet mining support Win10?

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I’m sure there will by many miners on launch for all platforms, but I’ll see what I can do about the video.

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I made a test video for testnet3 mining - all on a single windows machine in 30 minutes from scratch. I’ll make a new proper version if a new miner is released. Hope that helps.

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Very nice, can’t find the getting started github page now but this should be on there.

Submitted to the r/grin subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/GRIN/comments/9kljhz/grin_windows_nodemining_in_30min_realtime_video/

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This is awesome, thanks for doing this photon!

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can testnet4 be mined on a raspberry pi?

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If it has less than 2.2 GB of memory, then it’s limited to lean mining, which on a RPi probably takes over a minute per graph, if not several minutes, so no, in practice you cannot mine…

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Thank you Photon! Do you have one for T4 as well?

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There is no windows miner for T4 at this time (for cuckatoo cycle). While it is possible to pass a PCIE GPU device to a VM (in theory) IF motherboard and CPU support it, it is far easier to simply run Linux directly.

I have no ETA for T4 Windows miner update due to highly experimental nature of the new code.

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So if Grin launches tomorrow: having windows = no gpu mining

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Incorrect, I’ve already seen closed cuckoo miners, there will be many released with mainnet, established miner devs are not blind and have plenty of resources.