Running equihash algorithm on NiceHash on Ubuntu

You can run equihash algorithm through NiceHash on Ubuntu. I just did this on my machine which is running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a Nvidia GTX 960 GPU.

1) Install latest nvidia drivers (unless you already have them installed)

• First purge previous drivers sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
• Then checking what the latest drivers are by running ubuntu-drivers devices
• Then install the recommended one sudo apt-get install nvidia-387
• Then reboot the computer

2) Install CUDA

• Download CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux picking the runfile (local)
• Run sudo sh cuda_xxxxx_linux.run but select no for drivers, select yes for toolkit, select no for samples

3) Install nheqminer

• git clone https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer.git
• cd nheqminer/cpu_xenoncat/asm_linux/
• sh assemble.sh
• cd ../../../
• mkdir nicehash && cd nicehash (name this dir whatever you want)
• cmake ../nheqminer (assuming you have cmake v3.5+ already installed)
• make -j $(nproc)

4) Benchmark NiceHash

• ./nheqminer -b -cd 0

5) Run NiceHash

• ./nheqminer -l equihash.usa.nicehash.com:3357 -u YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS_HERE.worker_name -cd 0
• You can name your worker anything you like. It will come up in the NiceHash dashboard
• You can change the -l to be another region as per the github documentation: https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer
• -cd 0 means use GPU at slot 0. You can check GPU numbers by running nvidia-smi

6) Create a bash script to cd to your /nicehash directory and run the above script

Let me know if this is useful info!

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