Introduction

Here, we’ll be installing quai-gpu-miner, the implementation of a Quai Network ProgPOW miner. This tutorial focuses on installing and running quai-gpu-miner on HiveOS using a Flight Sheet. HiveOS also provides a web based dashboard for streamlined management and maintenance of your Quai Network GPU miner.

Be sure to keep the private keys of the accounts you mine into. Signing a message from the accounts you mine into will be required to claim Mainnet rewards.

Requirements

In order to run the quai-gpu-miner on HiveOS and mine valid blocks, you’ll need the following:

Synced go-quai node

Configured Stratum proxy

HiveOS machine

NVIDIA or AMD GPU

4GB+ of RAM

Environment Setup

HiveOS

For this tutorial, you’ll need a HiveOS machine. Instructions for how to install HiveOS on your rig and configure it can be found on the HiveOS installation documentation.

Dashboard

Once you’ve installed HiveOS, configure your GPU workers into a Farm. Once configured, you’ll be able to manage workers from a HiveOS dashboard and utilize Flight Sheets.

Installation

To start the Flight Sheet installation, open up your HiveOS Farm Dashboard.

1

Add Wallet

In the farm menu, click the wallets tab.

On the right side of the page, click the add wallet button.

Fill in the wallet information:

  • For the Coin field, type Quai then click on the Create Quai option in the drop-down menu.
  • In the Address field, copy/paste your Quai wallet address. (This address is not used by the miner, so you can put any address here.)
  • For Name field, choose a name for your wallet.

To finish creating the wallet, click “Create” in the bottom right corner.

2

Add Flight Sheet

In the farm menu, click the flight sheets tab.

Click “add flight sheet”. Fill out the flight sheet information:

  • For the Miner name, type quai_custom.
  • For the Installation URL, paste in the URL for your card type:
https://github.com/dominant-strategies/quai-gpu-miner/releases/download/v0.4.0/quai-gpu-miner-nvidia-v0.4.0.tar.gz
  • For the Hash algorithm, type progpow.
  • For the Wallet and worker template, type %WAL%.%WORKER_NAME%.
  • For the Pool URL, type stratum://EXTERNALIPADDRESS:PORT.

For the Extra config arguments, enter the following depending on your graphics card type:

-U --HWMON 1 -P stratum://EXTERNALIPADDRESS:PORT

On bottom right corner, click “Apply Changes”.