Starter Guide
- To get started, register for an account at: https://the.hiveos.farm/register/
- Create your farm. This is where you will manage your worker (mining rig)
- Click the + button at the top right by your username
- Give your farm a name
- Set your timezone
- Unselect Hiveon Pool Charging
- Get your Farm Hash. This will be used by me to assign your worker to your farm.
- In your farm, click the settings tab and copy your farm hash.
- It will look like this: 5c1409474c847e11759e74f83d769c67b444727d
- Setup your Wallet. This assumes you want to mine Ethereum which is the most profitable coin at the time of writing, and that you have an Ethereum wallet already.
- (If you do not already have an ETH wallet, you have many options. Personally I use a software wallet like Metamask for short term storage, and a hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S for long term storage. You can also use your Crypto Exchange wallet like Binance or Coinbase.)
- Click the Wallets tab in your farm
- Click Add Wallet
- Select ETH as the coin
- Name it
- Paste your wallet address. (If using Metamask, it will be in the top center of the extension when you click on it)
- Set as global wallet
- Setup a new Flight Sheet. This is where you will configure your miner.
- In your farm, click the flight sheets tab and add flight sheet
- Coin: ETH
- Wallet: the wallet you just added
- Pool: ethermine (in my experience it's the most profitable)
- Pool profitability can change however, so you want to keep an eye on the blocks here: https://miningpoolstats.stream/ethereum
- The more blocks, the better. However block availability can be based on luck
- Pool: Hiveon is also a good choice due to more stable fees based on network demand
- Select Pool Server: choose the servers closest to you (US East, US West)
- Miner: PhoenixMiner
- PhoenixMiner has given me my best results and is great mining software actively being developed for.
- Wait for your mining rig to arrive... (the hardest part)
- Start Mining!
- Plug in the GPU to the riser card and plug in the PCI power cable(s) zip tied to the GPU shelf to the top of the card.
- Plug in your miner to the wall and to your router.
- Power it on by pushing the button on the breakout board next to the voltage readout.
- Push the power button zip tied to the frame by the graphics cards..
- You should see your miner added as a worker to your farm. (It may take a few minutes to boot up)
- Apply your flight sheet to your worker: In the Flight Sheet tab, click the rocket icon
- You can also change flight sheets this way if you decide to setup additional flight sheets using different pools and mining software.
- Monitoring
- You can monitor your miner, power it off, and connect to its command line interface all from the HiveOS dashboard
- Verify that your card is overclocked and undervolted:
- Under the cards tab, for RTX 3070 equipped rigs, it should look like this: