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Installation

You will likely want to run a local Tesseract node for your miner.

Windows binaries

• Download and unpack tesr-miner.0427.zip to your local drive
• Optionally customize start-bfgminer.bat
  • Generate a miner address by running this command in the tesr-node folder:
  • tesseract-cli.exe -datadir=data getnewaddress miner bech32
  • You should get an address that looks like tsrtest1qqfagf3xx0gdgq54pz68tmsr98wjmrncgu2wusf (testnet addresses start with tsrtest)
  • Replace the address in start-bfgminer.bat with your own after the --generate-to option
  • If you changed the RPC name or password in data\tesseract.conf you will have to update them here too

Ubuntu

• Get the source: git clone https://github.com/cryptotechguru/bfgminer-sha3.git
• Run ./autogen.sh and resolve any missing dependencies
  • Typically sudo apt install uthash-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libncursesw5-dev
• Configure the build
  • If you want CPU-only mining, run: sh reconfigure-cpu.sh
  • If you want GPU-only mining, run: sh reconfigure-gpu.sh
  • If you want both, run: sh reconfigure-combo.sh
• Run make

Ubuntu Resources

• AMD GPU drivers download: https://www.amd.com/en/support
• AMD GPU opencl howto: https://linuxconfig.org/install-opencl-for-the-amdgpu-open-source-drivers-on-debian-and-ubuntu

Command Line

• On windows customize and run start-bfgminer.bat

• More doc available in the repo's README

• On linux create a shell script:

bfgminer -u [username] -p [password] --generate-to [mining-address] --coinbase-sig "[Some text you want in the coinbase transaction]" -D -o http://localhost:18331 --no-default-config -S opencl:auto --algo keccak --set-device OCL0:intensity=d 2> debug.log

Options

• username and password should correspond to rpcuser and rpcpassword in the tesseract.conf file
• make sure mining-address is a bech32 address
• use -S auto if CPU-mining
• use --set-device only if GPU-mining