How to begin mining Ether and set up a task schedule on Windows 10
The first thing you want to do before mining is set up a wallet. (You should not mine to an exchange deposit address.) There are a ton of options for wallets
https://metamask.io/
https://www.myetherwallet.com/
two of the simplest wallets to set up and get rolling.
MAKE SURE TO WRITE DOWN YOUR TWELVE WORD SEED PHRASE AND PASSWORD. WITHOUT THESE STORED SAFELY YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY RECOVERY OPTIONS.
Now you need to pick a mining pool. Solo mining is like playing the lotto, joining a pool will allow more frequent income.
https://ethermine.org/ — (1% fee) one of the largest pools at the moment (Unpaid balances above 0.05 ETH will be paid out every 7 days unpaid balances above 0.01 ETH will be paid out every 14 days) https://www.f2pool.com/ — (2.5% fee) PPS or Pay per share, calculated by dividing your mining power with the total mining power of the global network. This gives the pool an estimate of the part you have in the total work done by the pool. The pool then estimates the daily reward you can get by simple math calculation, giving you a fixed income.
Next you need to download the mining software.
Windows
Nvidia — https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4432704.0
AMD — https://github.com/todxx/teamredminer/releases
Now that you have your miner software downloaded, unzip it to a folder. Ex. ~/Desktop/Mining
Open that folder and locate one of the example batch files for the pool you have chosen. Ex. ETH-ethermine.bat
Right Click the file and select edit. A notepad document will open that looks like this
All you need to do is copy your Ethereum deposit address from your wallet and paste it after -u
Now save the file and try out your miner using that batch file. If everything is working properly you will see a window appear. It should look like this.
After a minute the miner will begin. With no errors the window should look something like this.
Check online to see what expected hashrate your GPU will have. My RTX 2070 gets around 36–37 MH/s (44–45 MH/s OC’d)
You can then check your pool after about 10–15 minutes to confirm they are receiving valid shares.
The final thing you should do is automate the entire process so you don’t need to worry about starting and stopping the miner all the time. To do this I will use Windows Task Scheduler.
Go to Start and search for Task Scheduler
Right Click Task Scheduler Library folder and select New Folder…
Name the folder whatever you want EX. EtherMiner
Right Click the new folder you made and select Create Task
Name the task anything.
Next select the Triggers tab, click on New…
choose On Idle and click OK
Next select the Actions tab
Select New…
Select the miner.exe you are using in the Program box in this example I’m using t-rex.exe
Input your arguments from your batch file in the Add arguments box
EX. -a ethash -o stratum+tcp://us1.ethermine.org:4444 -u *********************************************** -p -w
Click OK and go to the Conditions tab
Here you can set any conditions that will declare when the computer is Idle. Make sure to set the task to end if the computer ceases to be idle. (To test the Task you can set the idle time to 1 minute and wait to see if it is working properly.)
Next go to the Settings tab
all the settings should be the same as above, and click OK
Now you’re all set up! Enjoy hassle free mining :)
(If you are having any issues most likely it is your antivirus blocking the software. You just need to add an exception for the mining folder.)
