Once you have created your wallet (please refer previous post if not), you are ready to setup miner.
Here I explain the process in Windoes10.
Download cpuminer
Goto the download page, current version is 3.0 asof Dec-2018. If your windows is 64bit, download “KotoMiner_Win_x64.zip”, or “KotoMiner_Win_x86.zip” for 32bit windows.
If your AntiVirus software gives warning, you need to unblock it.
Extract all of the contents of the zip into one folder created wherever you like, (again, AntiVirus software might block it, then you have to unblock…). There are several *.exe files.
README.txt explains what they are, says:
minerd-sse2.exe Core2, Nehalem
minerd-aes-sse42.exe Westmere, Sandy-Ivybridge
minerd-avx.exe Sandy-Ivybridge
minerd-avx2.exe Haswell, Sky-Kaby-Coffeelake
minerd-avx2-sha.exe Ryzen
Based on the CPU your PC has, you should choose one of the executable from above. If you are not sure about your CPU, you can do trial and error. The executable listed at top is for older CPU, and the lower it is listed, for the newer CPU.
If the binary for newer CPU works on your PC, usually you should use it as it has better optimization. If you use older CPU than the executable is made for, it immidiately quit and you’ll notice easily.
Create a batch file in the same folder, say, named miner.bat, with follwoing contents:
minerd<your_choice>.exe -a yespower -o stratum+<pool url> -u <your KOTO address>[.<name>]
Here, <pool url> is to which pool you are connecting to. you can choose from pool list. <your KOTO address> is the address you are receiving reward. [.<name>] is optional name to distinguish your miners in the status page (you can omit it).
This is my file, and you just need to change the KOTO address (otherwise I’ll get your credit), and the choice of your binary if you need.
minerd-sse2.exe -a yespower -o stratum+tcp://koto.veniomining.com:5555 -u k1EW7sUuerksxr9YUScZgBpZBKKsZiJtswL
When you get output like below, your miner is successfully working. The (yay!!!) means your miner found an answer to report to the pool (not necessarily mean actual block is found).
C:\KotoMiner_Win_x64>minerd-sse2.exe -a yespower -o stratum+tcp://koto.veniomining.com:5555 -u k1EW7sUuerksxr9YUScZgBpZBKKsZiJtswL
[2018-12-29 08:35:45] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://koto.veniomining.com:5555
[2018-12-29 08:35:45] 4 miner threads started, using 'yespower' algorithm.
[2018-12-29 08:35:45] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2018-12-29 08:35:45] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2018-12-29 08:35:47] Stratum requested work restart
[2018-12-29 08:35:52] thread 1: 1058 hashes, 0.23 khash/s
[2018-12-29 08:35:52] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 0.23 khash/s (yay!!!)
Next, I’ll post how to setup offical wallet and solo mining