How to mine Alephium with BzMiner

Alephium mining was introduce in BzMiner v7. This guide will instruct you how to use BzMiner to mine Alephium.

NOTE: There are two network protocols BzMiner supports for Alephium; stratum and alphstratum. Solo mining to a full node or mining to devgent requires the "alphstratum" protocol. BzMiner will attempt to choose the correct protocol, however that may not always work.

Command Line Interface:

Start by downloading the latest version of bzminer, found here. Then extract the contents of the archive.

There is a reference script (alph.bat for windows, alph.sh for linux) which contains a template for mining Alephium on bzminer.

bzminer -a alph -w 000000 000000 000000 000000 -p stratum+tcp://yourpool

Replace each 000000 with your mining wallet, keeping the correct order.

replace yourpool with the pool's address and port you want to mine to.

Some pools expect all 4 mining wallet addresses, including solo mining, while other pools support a single wallet.

Example:

bzminer -a alph -w 000000 000000 000000 000000 -p stratum+tcp://pool.woolypooly.com:3106

Config.txt:

Start by downloading the latest version of bzminer, found here. Then extract the contents of the archive.

A file called config.txt should be present. Open this file and look for the section (at the top) called pool_configs.

There should already be one or two pool config templates in there. In the first template, set the algorithm to alph, the wallet to your wallet (if more than one wallet, can use json array, or single string with comma or space separated wallet addresses), and url to the pool you want to mine to.

Example:

{
    "pool_configs": [{
            "algorithm": "alph",
            "wallet": ["00000", "00000", "00000", "00000"], // replace 0000 with your own wallet addresses
            "url": ["stratum+tcp://pool.woolypooly.com:3106"], // replace with the pool you wish to mine to. Add multiple pools for failsafe when a pool fails
            "username": "worker_name",
            "lhr_only": false
        }],
    "pool": [0], // pool config you wish to use by default when device_overrides does not specify
    "rig_name": "rig",
    "log_file": "",
    "nvidia_only": false,
    "amd_only": false,
    "auto_detect_lhr": true,
    "lock_config": false,
    "advanced_config": false,
    "advanced_display_config": false,
    "device_overrides": []
}

Hive OS:

Go the the Hive OS site, which can be found here

Start by updating your Hive OS rig to latest version. The create a new flight sheet.

Set Coin to ALPH.

Create a new wallet with your wallet addresses (if multiple wallet addresses are required, separate by , or by space.

Set Pool to Configure in miner.

Set Miner to BzMiner.

Set Name to anything you want to name this flight sheet.

In the Miner option, click Setup Miner Config.

In the opened BzMiner configuration panel, Set Hash algorithm to alph.

Set Wallet template to %WAL% (or set to your wallet address directly).

Set Worker name to whatever you want to identify this rig as on the pool.

Set Pool URL to the pool url you want to mine to (eg. stratum+tcp://pool.woolypooly.com:3106.

Click Apply Changes, then deploy to the rigs you wish to mine alephium on.

Config arguments in Hive:

To set config.txt parameters in Hive, you can use the Extra config arguments: box in the BzMiner configuration window.

Add the arguments in this box as you would in the config.txt file

For example, to set the oc for 3 devices, you would need to do it like this:

As of v8.0.0, BzMiner now supports oc_ parameters to be strings of json arrays to get around hives interface preventing valid json arrays as the values:


"oc_fan_speed": "[-1, 80, 0]"
"oc_power_limit": "[0, 250, 0]"
"oc_core_clock_offset": "[100, 200, 100]"
"oc_memory_clock_offset": "[0, 0, 0]"
"oc_lock_core_clock": "[0, 0, 0]"
"oc_lock_memory_clock": "[810, 0, 810]"

Updating Hive with latest version manually:

Start by following the Hive OS guide above to get the latest version on Hive (currently v).

Run the following command on your Hive rig:

rm -f /tmp/*; cd /tmp; wget https://bzminer.com/downloads/bzminer_v{version_you_want}_linux.tar.gz; tar -xvf bzminer_v{version_you_want}_linux.tar.gz; miner stop; cp bzminer_v{version_you_want}_linux/bzminer /hive/miners/bzminer/{version_on_hive}/; miner start

Replacing {version_you_want} with the version you want to update to, and {version_on_hive} with the version you currently have selected in your flight sheet on hive

For example (you want v21.5.3, hive has v21.5.1):

rm -f /tmp/*; cd /tmp; wget https://bzminer.com/downloads/bzminer_v21.5.3_linux.tar.gz; tar -xvf bzminer_v21.5.3_linux.tar.gz; miner stop; cp bzminer_v21.5.3_linux/bzminer /hive/miners/bzminer/21.5.1/; miner start

mmpOS:

Go the the mmpOS site, which can be found here

Start by creating a new miner profile.

Name the miner profile then select `Alephium` for the Coin.

The profile will update with available options for Alephium.

Select the platform you want to run this miner profile on (eg. `Linux / mmpOS`).

Select the miner `BzMiner`

Select the latest version

Now create a pool to mine to by clicking `ADD POOL` near the bottom

Set a name for this pool

Set the coin to `Alephium`

Set the hostname to the pool url (eg. `pool.woolypooly.com`)

Set the Port to the pools port (eg. `20023`)

Set the username you want your rig to show up as in the pools interface

Add a new wallet by clicking on the `ADD WALLET` button

Name your wallet

Set the Coin to `Alephium`

Set your wallet address

Click the `Create wallet` button

Click the `Create pool` button

Click the `Create pool` button

Click the `Create profile` button

Go to your list of rigs, find the rig you want to mine Alephium on and click into it.

Near the top right of the page, click the "Switch miner profile" button.

Now select the profile that was just created and click the `Switch` button.

Solo Mining:

Start by running the full node, found here

Follow any of the guides above to set BzMiner up, replacing the pool url with the ip address of your full node, and port number 10973.

The full node uses the alphstratum protocol, so use alphstratum+tcp://

If your mining on the same pc that the full node is running on, use the ip address 127.0.0.1

Command line example:

bzminer -a alph -w 000000 000000 000000 000000 -p alphstratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:10973

If mining from a remote pc (BzMiner is running on a different pc than the full node), you must update the full node config to allow outside connections by adding the line:

alephium.mining.api-interface = "0.0.0.0"

to the full node config file. Then on the remote pc, use the ip address of the pc that the full node is running on.