Is there a Bitcoin miner that I can run using the command line on Windows? I want a CPU miner, not a GPU miner.
3 Answers
You can install the standard Bitcoin-QT client, navigate to
\Program Files (x86)\bitcoin\daemon\
and then run
bitcoind -gen=1
However this isn't recommended except on the Test network because it is next to impossible to generate any coins this way on the production network.
answered Dec 22, 2012 at 17:52
One of the best for both LiteCoins and BTC is
CGminer
It supports both Linux & Windows
Download from here
https://github.com/ycros/cgminer/downloads
You can get complete instructions from
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0
Or just check the readme including in the zip
It Supports FGPA GPU and GPU for BTC & GPU for LiteCoins..there is extensive tuning instructions as part of teh community so if you want to get the most bang for your $$ then this is the one :D
answered Dec 22, 2012 at 23:03
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Does the litecoin cgminer use IRC? Also do you know if cgminer works with Butterfly Labs FPGA for litecoin? I thought lightcoin was made to resist FPGA/GPU optimizations Commented Dec 22, 2012 at 23:54
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ckolivas has got it working for GPU with TacoTime (big Litecoinminer) using both it & reaper for GPU Litecoin mining with cgminer being the most stable i.e 9 days and no probs with cgminer...FGPA wont work as the code is specific for BTC ..my bad should have stated FGPA only for BTC..have edited answer to suit :D Commented Dec 23, 2012 at 0:38
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This client includes a command-line miner which supports CPU mining (and GPU, should you have one available).
But unless you're mining in a pool, you're not going to get any benefit from CPU mining. And even with a pool, you'll get very little.
bitcoin-cli -rpcconnect=127.0.0.1 generate 1