| Captain_Tom said: ^ I cannot get bit mining to work. I have followed a few guides, but do you have any simple steps I could follow? |
1. You MUST download AMD's SDK Stream. This is what allows the GPU to run GPGPU tasks like bitcoin mining. Download Version 2.8, depending on your OS, 32 or 64-bit.
2. Go here and make an account.
This is basically a Mining pool where PCs work together to mine bitcoins. Don't worry about the Payee Address for now. There are other good ones like:
or
I have accounts at 4 mining pools in case some goes down and I switch servers to another one so my GPU is rarely down.
3. Download this digital Wallet to your desktop.
4. Download this mining Client to actually do the work, called GUIMiner. There are other options but I find this one easy to use. It has 1 major downside, greater CPU usage than others. There are flash ones like www.bitminter.com, or Diablo Miner, etc.
https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0
Now what you have to do is Launch GUIMiner and select Server: MtREd (since this is your mining pool, or BTCGuild or Deepbit depending which you registered). Enter your username and password based on the Worker Username on those websites. Press Start mining.
For your videocard, put this flag in the GPU miner box: -w 256 -f15 (you don't have to this right away but ill explain later what it does).
All you have to do now is link your Wallet (point #3) and your MtRed account (point #2). Your wallet is like your bank account. MtRed is like your employer that pays you money. Therefore, the Payee address in MtRed you enter allows you to payout bitcoins you earn in the pool to your wallet (bank account).
In the beginning you can keep your coins in MtRed. You don't have to send them to your wallet until you decide to cash them out.
