How to mine Ethereum Classic (ETC) with GTX 1070 and Linux Ubuntu.

how.to.mine.ethereum.classic.etc.ubuntu.md

Steps to mine Ethereum Classic (ETC) using:

Linux Ubuntu 16.04 operating system + NVIDIA GTX 1070

Ethminer: https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer

Mining pool: https://ethermine.org/

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• Make sure NVIDIA driver and CUDA successfully installed, check with:

nvidia-smi
nvcc --version

• Build Ethminer with CUDA support

git clone https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer
cd ethminer
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DETHASHCUDA=ON -DETHASHCL=OFF

• Create and edit a shell script vi start.sh and add:

export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=0
export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
./build/ethminer/ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -U -S us1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1-etc.ethermine.org:14444 -O 0xd7a747999f09e64225ee744b570b88f7d9d65608.worker1

Replace with your ETC wallet address, close script with ESC + wq. Update permission: chmod +x start.sh

• Start mining

./start.sh