Mining litecoin with cpuminer

Posted On December 28, 2017

Lets look at how we can mind litecoin with cpuminer and litecoinpool.
1. Go to www.litecoinpool.org website and create an account.
2. Install cpuminer

# apt-get update
# apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev git
# apt-get install  build-essential
# apt-get install autotools-dev autoconf
# apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl4-gnutls-dev
# apt-get install automake
# mkdir /downloads
# cd /downloads
# git clone https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer
# cd cpuminer
# ./autogen.sh
# CFLAGS="-march=native" ./configure
# make
# make install

3. Start mining litecoin. Use your default worker credentials.

# minerd -o stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 -u "myusername" -p "mypassword"