A Mining Setup Guide for Scala (updated)
Scala developed a custom CPU and ARM-friendly algorithm called Panthera which comes into action when you mine on your PC or mobile device.
In this article, we want to give you a little guidance on how to set up your CPU miner.
Updating your applications
1. Wallet
Remote nodes: If you don’t want to download the node list on your computer, you have the possibility to use remote nodes.
- Official: mine.scalaproject.io:8000
- ScalaNode: scalanode.com:20189
- XLANode: XLAnode.com:20189
- EthosPool: scala.ethospool.org:11812
- GTNL: daemon.pool.gntl.co.uk:11812
- Teredic (Team Member): 164.68.115.234:11812
2. Miner
Running the mining software
To start the miner simply run the following command :
Windows
xlarig.exe -o mine.scalaproject.io:3333 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x --algo panthera
You can copy/paste this command in a batch file located in the same folder as xlarig.exe. Just create a new text file, paste the command and save it as .bat instead of .txt.
To improve your hashrate, you can enable Huge Pages. To do so, you have to run the batch file with Administration rights. For some reason, Windows may try to run the .exe in C:/windows/system32, so you have to add “@setlocal enableextensions @cd /d “%~dp0” to the batch file and restart your computer.
The batch file should look like this:
@setlocal enableextensions
@cd /d “%~dp0
xlarig.exe -o mine.scalaproject.io:3333 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x — algo panthera
Linux
./xlarig -o mine.scalaproject.io:3333 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x --algo panthera
MacOS
./xlarig -o mine.scalaproject.io:3333 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p x --algo panthera
We recommend using a mining pool for mining since the results will be more steady than with solo mining.
The official mining pool is pool.scalaproject.io.
To get more information about what port to use, you can head to https://pool.scalaproject.io/#getting_started
Need help?
If you need help with setting up your miner, we will be glad to give you a hand on our Discord. And if you wonder what the best hardware for mining Scala is, feel free to check out our Hashrate Chart.
Happy mining!
