Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Downloading and compiling nheqminer

The following steps can be used to download and compile nheqminer on an Ubuntu Linux distribution:

$ sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential libboost-all-dev git clone https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer.git 
$ cd nheqminer/nheqminer  
$ mkdir build 
$ cd build  
$ cmake .. make 

Once all the steps are completed successfully, nhequminer can be run using the following command:

$ ./nhequminer -l eu -u <btc address> -t <number of threads>  

nhequminer releases are available for Windows and Linux at the following link: https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/releases

nheqminer takes several parameters such as location (-l), username (-u), and the number of threads to be used for mining (-t).

A sample run of Linux ...