How To Mine LBRY Credits With an NVidia GPU on Windows

The LBRY project is getting alot of hype these days. They have set some rather ambitious goals you can read about it some more over on @fyrstikken's post Time to Talk About Our-Tube The Decentralization of YouTube and you can check out their public pre-release version covered in my pervious article LBRY v0.4.4 Pre-Release Available Review and Info on How to get 25 LBRY Credits Free.

Maybe you burned through your free 25 LBC and don't want to buy more or maybe you just like to mine coins whatever the reason LBRY Credits can be mined pretty easily with consumer graphics cards. I'm going to post instructions for using CCMiner on an NVidia graphics card. If you are interested in an article for AMD graphics cards let me know in the comments.

The first thing you need to do is head on over to Tpruvot's GitHub and download the latest version of CCMiner 1.8.1 Windows Binary if you have any issues extracting the 7z file you can use WinRAR for free to extract the files to a folder.

The next thing you are going to need to do is sign-up to a mining pool. It's pointless to solo mine. There are others but I recommend Suprnova's LBRY Credits Pool they are currently offering 0% fees on LBC.

Click on 'My Account' and then click on 'My Workers'. You will need to add a worker for each computer you plan on using. You can mine from several computers to a shared account but each computer needs it's own worker. I recommend just making the username a number like 1 and the password x. The passwords aren't even used anymore so it really doesn't matter.

Alright you are now ready to run your miner. Open a command line by pressing the Windows start button and then type: 'cmd' and press enter. Navigate to the folder you stored ccminer in with the CD command: 'cd \foldername'. Now you're ready start it up. Type the command:

ccminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://lbry.suprnova.cc:6256 -u username.1 -a lbry

You should see a screen like this:

And that's it! You are now mining LBRY Credits to your Suprnova account. You can withdraw the credits to your LBRY wallet and track your mining progress on their website https://lbry.suprnova.cc/index.php?page=dashboard