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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.

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Requirements

In order to mine to a DePool you will need the following requirements. If you don’t know a DePool to connect to, you can run your own and earn fees when others use it!

URL of a node operating a DePool

HiveOS machine

NVIDIA or AMD GPU

4GB+ of RAM

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Environment Setup

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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.

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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.

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DePool Parameters

You will need to specify the following information to indicate your preferences to the DePool.

  • zone: This is the IP address and port of the DePool you wish to connect to.
  • quaiCoinbase: This is the coinbase address you want to mine to for Quai rewards.
  • qiCoinbase: This is the coinbase address you want to mine to for Qi rewards.
  • minerPreference: This is the relative preference between Quai and Qi from 0 to 1.
  • lockupByte: This is the lockup duration you would like to mine for. Longer lockups receive higher yield.

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Installation

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

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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 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.

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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, leave it .
  • For the Installation URL, paste in the URL for your card type:
https://storage.googleapis.com/quai-gpu-miner/go-quai-stratum-miner-nvidia-v0.8.0.tar.gz
  • For the Hash algorithm, it should autopopulate as quai-progpow.
  • For the Wallet and worker template, type %WAL%.%WORKER_NAME%.
  • For the Pool URL, type stratum://EXTERNALIPADDRESS:PORT.

For the Extra config arguments, you will enter the parameters you defined earlier. For example:

--zone=ws://127.0.0.1:8200 --quaiCoinbase="0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000001" --qiCoinbase="0x0080000000000000000000000000000000000001" --minerPreference=0.5

On bottom right corner, click “Apply Changes”.