Signum Miner / Scavenger Installation

Signum Miner

A miner written in Rust. It features direct io, avx512f, avx2, avx, sse, and OpenCL
Submits only the best deadline each round, reducing network traffic and stress on pool operations. (Submitting progressively smaller deadlines is no longer relevant after the Sodium hard fork.)
Principal Developer: PoC Consortium
https://github.com/signum-network/signum-miner/
Platform: Windows, Linux

Basic Instructions for Windows:

Note: Plot files are a prerequisite for Signum mining. If you have not already created your plot files, see the plotting software section in the software library. If you will be pool mining, execute the reward assignment transaction now to be in effect when you begin mining. Editing a YAML file is identical to opening and editing a text file. It is easy to restore it to default and start over if mistakes are made.

Create a new folder called «Signum Miner» in any location of your computer, such as desktop or C: drive.
Download «signum-miner.exe» and «config.yaml» from the latest release and place them in the new folder.
Double-click on «signum-miner.exe». Follow your system’s prompts to install.

Optional: Make a backup copy of the config.yaml in the same folder for use if troubleshooting is needed later or you need to restore the default configuration.

With the miner closed, open the config file.
Edit the file according to the details in either the pool or solo configuration tab above.
Save and close the config file.

Double click on signum-miner.exe to begin mining.

Notes:

If changes are made to the config file while the miner is running, the miner must be restarted for the configuration changes to take effect.
«HDD, wake up!»: Powers up your hard drive anticipating a new round so that you can submit your deadlines as soon as possible after a round starts.
Pool mining: To verify that you are mining successfully on a pool, look for your miner on the pool’s website.
To verify your reward assignment setup, locate the reward assignment transaction in your wallet and verify the details listed.
Reward assignments become effective after 4 confirmations (4 blocks); this takes an average of 16 minutes.
If your mining pool does not list block winners, you can find blocks you have won in a block explorer (see online services).

To configure the Signum miner for pool mining:

for pool mining, do not add numeric id and passphrase to «account id to secret phrase». Leave these lines as they are.
under plot dirs, adjust one or more of the lines under plot dirs to point to your plot files.
under url, adjust the url within the quote marks to the url provided by your selected pool.
no other changes are necessary.

account_id_to_secret_phrase: # define accounts and passphrases for solo mining
10282355196851764065: ‘glad suffer red during single glow shut slam hill death lust although’ # Bold’s example wallet
1796535821016683299: ‘stand rude those door invite reflection anywhere lace safe hidden fur horrible’ # Johnny’s example wallet

# List of directories with your plot files, adjust to suit your disks
plot_dirs:
– ‘D:\plot\dir‘ # Sample Windows directory
– ‘E:\plot\dir’ # Sample Windows directory
– ‘/mnt/hd1/plot/dir’ # Sample Linux directory
– ‘/mnt/hd1/plot/dir’ # Sample Linux directory

url: ‘https://pool.signum.ro‘ # mainnet pool
#url: ‘http://nivbox.co.uk:9000’ # testnet pool
#url: ‘http://localhost:8125’ # solo mining
#url: ‘http://localhost:8125’ # solo mining testnet
#url: ‘http://localhost:6876’ # solo mining testnet

No changes are needed beyond this point

hdd_reader_thread_count: 0 # default 0 (=auto: number of disks)
hdd_use_direct_io: true # default true
hdd_wakeup_after: 240 # default 240s

cpu_threads: 0 # default 0 (=auto: number of logical cpu cores)
cpu_worker_task_count: 4 # default 4 (0=GPU only)
cpu_nonces_per_cache: 65536 # default 65536
cpu_thread_pinning: false # default false

gpu_threads: 0 # default 0 (=GPU off)
gpu_platform: 0 # default 0
gpu_device: 0 # default 0
gpu_worker_task_count: 0 # default 0 (=CPU only)
gpu_nonces_per_cache: 262144 # default 262144
gpu_mem_mapping: false # default false
gpu_async: false # default false

target_deadline: 31536000 # default 31536000 (1 year)
account_id_to_target_deadline: # target dls for multi-id (optional)
10282355196851764065: 600000
1796535821016683299: 55555555

get_mining_info_interval: 3000 # default 3000ms
timeout: 5000 # default 5000ms
send_proxy_details: true # default false
submit_only_best: true # default true
#additional_headers: # add/overwrite html header
# «AccountKey» : «1234567890»

console_log_level: ‘info’ # default Info, options (off, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
logfile_log_level: ‘warn’ # default Warn, options (off, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
logfile_max_count: 10 # maximum number of log files to keep
logfile_max_size : 20 # maximum size per logfile in MiB

show_progress: true # default true
show_drive_stats: false # default false
benchmark_only: ‘disabled’ # default disabled, options (disabled, I/O, XPU)

# Low noise log patterns
console_log_pattern: «{({d(%H:%M:%S)} [{l}]):16.16} {m}{n}»
logfile_log_pattern: «{({d(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)} [{l}]):26.26} {m}{n}»

# More detailed log patterns
#console_log_pattern: «{d(%H:%M:%S.%3f%z)} [{h({l}):<5}] [{T}] [{t}] – {M}:{m}{n}»
#logfile_log_pattern: «{d(%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%3f%z)} [{h({l}):<5}] [{T}]-[{t}] [{f}:{L}] – {M}:{m}{n}»

To configure the signum miner for solo mining:

delete the lines shown with a strike-through. Alternative: place a hash symbol at the beginning of these lines to «comment out».
delete the hash symbol shown in purple.
adjust the items shown in red. (numeric id, passphrase, and path to your plot file folder)
preserve the two spaces preceding numeric id.

# PLEASE ONLY ENTER YOUR PASSPHRASE BELOW IF YOU ARE GOING TO MINE SOLO!
# YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENTER YOUR PASSPHRASE FOR POOL MINING.
# NEVER POST YOUR CONFIG.YAML INCLUDING YOUR PASSPHRASE TO ANY BOARD OR CHAT!

account_id_to_secret_phrase: # define accounts and passphrases for solo mining
10282355196851764065: ‘glad suffer red during single glow shut slam hill death lust although’ # Bold’s example wallet
1796535821016683299: ‘stand rude those door invite reflection anywhere lace safe hidden fur horrible‘ # Johnny’s example wallet

# List of directories with your plot files, adjust to suit your disks
plot_dirs:
– ‘D:\plot\dir‘ # Sample Windows directory
– ‘E:\plot\dir’ # Sample Windows directory
– ‘/mnt/hd1/plot/dir’ # Sample Linux directory
– ‘/mnt/hd1/plot/dir’ # Sample Linux directory

url: ‘https://pool.signum.ro’ # mainnet pool
#url: ‘http://nivbox.co.uk:9000’ # testnet pool
#url: ‘http://localhost:8125’ # solo mining
#url: ‘http://localhost:8125’ # solo mining testnet
#url: ‘http://localhost:6876’ # solo mining testnet