Hi fellow smarties, yes all you smartcash hodl'rs, if you are like me and want to mine on a pool for more frequent payouts or just like seeing the balance grow steadily, then today's guide is for you. First things first, get your self over to the official smartcash mining pool by going here then choose a miner that best suits your choice of mining, e.g GPU or CPU, though at the time of writing GPU is really the best option. For the purpose of this article i will be using sgminer SGMiner 5.3.4 (tpruvot): mainly because i feel it works best for my gpu which is an AMD RX480, though Nvidia cards do just as well if not better. So you have downloaded the miner software, go ahead and extract it to a directory of your choosing. We will come back to the config of the miner once we have setup our account on the mining pool.

In the period from 14:30 to 16:30 we are mining only 30 blocks with 80k-180k difficulty. Millions shares, but no profit. Mining freezes, when Nicehash connect to pool.

Second thing go to the pool and click on the sign up option then you are greeted with a pretty short user registration form which you fill in etc. Once you have registered, we now click on 'Login' Then login with our new details that you registered with.

You will be greeted with your new mining dashboard. We now need to create a worker so that we can point our mining software to it and begin mining. Click on My Account then click on My Workers. In the 'Add New Worker' dialog add the name of your worker followed by a password for that worker and click 'Add New Worker'. Once you have created your new worker note down the following details and turn on worker monitoring. The worker name will be your 'username.workername' so in my case it is 'hockleyj.slave' then also record your worker password. We now go to the directory where we extracted Sgminer and edit using notepad 'eth' Windows Command Script Which will look like a few lines of commands we want to edit only one of them, by replacing it with the following line.

Sgminer-x64 -k keccak -o stratum+tcp://pool.smartcash.cc:3333 -u PoolUsername.WorkerName -p WorkerPassword If all went to plan it will look like the following with your worker details instead of mine. Click Save, exit notepad and we are now ready to run our miner. I can't get sgminer to work even after following your instructions.

I get this error: SUCCESS: Specified value was saved. SUCCESS: Specified value was saved. SUCCESS: Specified value was saved. SUCCESS: Specified value was saved. 'sgminer-x64' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Any suggestions? I am running this on a Lenovo laptop so not sure if it can run a miner.

Edit: OK I think I see where the problem lies. Buy Mining Hardware With Asch XAS more. The sgminer-x64 file is not in the directory I unzipped to.

Why would it be missing from my download? Edit2: I figured it out. My Adaware Antivirus was deleting the file. I restored the file and added the path to the exclusions list and hey presto my miner is now running!