The release page includes precompiled binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows.
To start mining you need to run kaspad and have an address to send the rewards to. See the Rusty Kaspa testnet docs for running a full node and generating addresses: https://github.com/kaspanet/rusty-kaspa/blob/master/docs/
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kaspa-miner 0.2.1
A Kaspa high performance CPU miner
USAGE:
kaspa-miner [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --mining-address <mining-address>
FLAGS:
-d, --debug Enable debug logging level
-h, --help Prints help information
--mine-when-not-synced Mine even when kaspad says it is not synced, only useful when passing `--allow-submit-
block-when-not-synced` to kaspad [default: false]
--testnet Use testnet instead of mainnet [default: false]
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-s, --kaspad-address <kaspad-address> The IP of the kaspad instance [default: 127.0.0.1]
-a, --mining-address <mining-address> The Kaspa address for the miner reward
-t, --threads <num-threads> Amount of miner threads to launch [default: number of logical cpus]
-p, --port <port> Kaspad port [default: Mainnet = 16111, Testnet = 16211]
To start mining you just need to run the following:
./kaspa-miner --mining-address kaspa:XXXXX
This will run the miner on all the available CPU cores.