Video · Run the node
Mine test coins and stock your faucet on ARCADE
Admin's Mining tab: how each chain is mined, mining test chains on this machine or with ASICs, and the faucet that gives new users test coins.
Share
What the video says
- Run the node · Part 1 of 3 · Mining and the faucet
- How each chain is mined
- Mine on this machine
- The faucet
- Admin › Mining is for the node's operator. The table shows how each chain is mined on this machine, and by ASICs on your network.
- Real chains are never mined on a home CPU here: it can't keep up with the miners already on them.
- Test chains are different. A CPU can find their blocks, and their coins have no value.
- Mine on this machine: pick a test chain, the address the coins go to, how many threads and for how many hours.
- Tick pay this chain's faucet, and what you mine fills the faucet instead of your own wallet.
- The faucet gives new users a few test coins when they join, so they can try sending, posting and trading straight away.
- ASICs on your network can mine test chains too, over stratum. The page gives the address to point them at.
- Recap · What you saw
- Test chains can be mined on a CPU
- Mined coins can fill the faucet
- The faucet gives new users test coins
- Next · Part 2 · Desktop View and themes
- Windows, a start menu and the App Store