A Quick Guide on How to Mine Steem on Windows
Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards by contributing quality content and rating content published by others. You can also mine it using a dedicated CPU miner if you have some spare power that you want to dedicate to supporting the network. The information regarding Steem is still highly fragmented and you need to spend quite a lot of time figuring things out even though they do not seem to be that complicated. We have spent some time trying to get things working and we have managed to successfully start mining Steem, so we have prepared a short guide to help you get started mining on Windows.
The first thing you need to start with before moving with the actual mining is to register yourself an account on the steemit website. Do note that registering currently requires you to either have a Facebook or Reddit account to use as a means of verification for your registration. After you register you can also earn Steem by posting quality articles on the website and interacting in the community in general and then you can also start mining using the guide below.
– Start by downloading the latest Steem Windows Wallet and Miner for Windows
– The miner binary is compiled for 64-bit Windows, so it will not work on 32-bit ones
– Extract the steem-win-x64-012-2.zip archive to a folder on your computer and run steemd.exe
– The first time you run the Steem Daemon executable it will create a witness_node_data_dir directory and inside will generate some additional files and folders
– Go inside the witness_node_data_dir folder and open the config.ini file with Notepad or another text editor
– Start by adding a few steem nodes to connect to, just paste the following list under P2P nodes to connect to on startup: READ MORE
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