Introduction

Welcome to the Sigmanauts pool — a DAO-driven, community-run mining pool dedicated to supporting the Ergo ecosystem.

The Sigmanauts ERGO mining pool is the first to implement Storage Rent on blocks over 4 years old, aka Demurrage. Read more about Ergo's Implementation of Demmurage, which was included since the 2019 Genesis Block.

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Wallet Setup:

To get started with mining Ergo, you need an Ergo wallet. You can create one using Nautilus on Chrome/Brave or Firefox.

Mining Software:

You'll also need mining software compatible with your GPU. Here are some options:

• For Nvidia GPUs: Rigel Miner
• For AMD GPUs: TeamRedMiner
• For mixed rigs: lolMiner
• Optionally you may want use a mining operating system, such as Hiveon OS or minerstat.

Mining Port:

Choose a port based on your hash rate:

Under 10g/h:

• No TLS: 65.108.57.232:3052

Over 10g/h:

• No TLS: 65.108.57.232:3053

Dashboards:

• Ergo Miners: ergominers.com | GitHub page
• Simple Dash: (SMG) Dashboard
• Sigmamining: sigmamining.xyz | GitHub page
• Sigmanauts.com: Mining Dashboard

Example miner configurations

Set-up in 5 Minutes on Microsoft Windows

For Ergo, you need a card with a minimum of 6GB of RAM, ideally more. Create a Ergo wallet using Nautilus on (Chrome/Brave or Firefox), if you don’t have one already. Extract the mining software file in your Download directory. Open a text editor, and type in (or copy & paste) the following, assuming in this example you are on Windows:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

C:\Users\your_username\path\to\mining\file\t-rex.exe -a autolykos2 -o stratum+ssl://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXX -u <YourErgoAddress>.<AnyNameYouWantToIdentifyTheComputer>

For clarity, <YourErgoAddress>.<AnyNameYouWantToIdentifyTheComputer> should look something like:

C:\Users\sigmanaut\Downloads\t-rex-0.24.7-win\t-rex.exe -a autolykos2 -o stratum+ssl://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXX -u 9g1p6UU8XoAeU4yGPLpbTHYiG8aBHwfCFzQqJZrfzuLnmF3zb7P.covertmixeraddress

You can find your address by going to the Receive tab in Nautilus. After you enter add your address, save the file as ERGO_mining.bat. To start mining, simply click on the file.

You can then go to the Sigma Mining Pool Dashboard and put in your addreess to verify that you are connected to the pool.

Note: If you have a virus protection program like McAfee, you’ll need to restore the t-rex.exe file after extraction and exclude it from Real-Time Scanning in order to run it.

If you want the mining software to start when you reboot your computer, then, save ERGO_mining.bat in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. If you have trouble finding the Startup folder, you can always save ERGO_mining.bat somewhere, type the Windows key + R to get the shell prompt, then type:

shell:startup

This will bring up the Startup folder, and you can drag and drop the Ergo_mining.bat file into it.

Set-up in Linux

Let’s assume that you somehow managed to get your graphics card working on Linux. Then, the process is very similar to Windows above. Open a text editor and type the following:

#!/bin/bash

export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

/home/sigmanaut/Downloads/teamredminer-v0.10.14-linux/teamredminer -a autolykos2 -o stratum+ssl://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXX -u  9g1p6UU8XoAeU4yGPLpbTHYiG8aBHwfCFzQqJZrfzuLnmF3zb7P.covertmixeraddress

Then, save the file as ergo_miner.sh. At the command prompt: chmod 744 ergo_miner.sh and then just run it as usual, by typing: ./ergo_miner.sh at the prompt. If you want it to automatically run whenever you restart your machine, this article from linuxconfig.org tells you everything you need to do to set it as a systemd service.