Quai CPU Miner

Official Golang implementation of Quai's CPU Miner.

Building the source

For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions.

Building quai-cpu-miner requires both a Go (version 1.19 or later) and a C compiler. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run

Build via Makefile

make quai-cpu-miner

Build via GoLang directly

go build -o ./build/bin/quai-cpu-miner main.go

Configuring the Manager The config.yaml file In the file config.yaml.dist you should see something like this:

Config for node URLs

Proxy Credentials

• ProxyURL: "tcp ip address+port"
• RewardAddress: "address"
• Password: "password"
• Proxy: boolean

Connection details to Quai nodes

• PrimeURL: "url"
• RegionURLs: "urls"
• ZoneURLs: "urls"

This file is responsible for storing your settings. The settings saved in this file on starting the manager are what will be applied when it runs.

Location: this stores the Region and Zone values for setting the mining location manually. (Will only be used if Optimize is set to false.) Values must correspond to the current Quai Network Ontology. At mainnet launch, the values for Region will be 1-3 and for Zone 1-3. So, for example, to mine on Region 2 Zone 3 you would save the Location value like this:

Location: [2,3]

PrimeURL: stores the URL for the Prime chain. Should not be changed.

RegionURLs: stores the URLs for the Region chains. Should not be changed.

ZoneURLs: stores the URLs for the Zone chains. Should not be changed.

Note that some of the values supplied in the config.yaml file can be overridden with the appropriate command and arguments.

Run the miner

Setting the region and zone flags for mining location

Run via Makefile

make run-mine region=0 zone=0

Run via command line

./build/bin/quai-cpu-miner 0 0

When the manager starts it should print something like:

To run in the background:

make run-background

It is also possible to manually set the location. Doing so will override the location value set in the config.yaml file. The appropriate arguments must also be supplied like this:

make run-mine region=1 zone=2

This will start the manager mining in Region 1 Zone 2. Location values must correspond to the current Quai Network ontology - at start, that ontology is 3x3, meaning Region values are 1-3 and Zone values are 1-3. So, for example, to mine in Region 3 Zone 1 you would enter:

make run-mine region=3 zone=1

If you start in manual mode the manager should print:

Set Run via Go binary