Mining¶

CPU Mining¶

Currently, Seele provides CPU Miner.

Attention，If you want to do mining on Seele，please make sure you are running the Seele Node on the Main-Net，and has to be run as full node.If you are not familiar with Seele，please read Getting Started With Seele.

Start mining on Seele Node¶

You could start mining at the same time when Seele Node is starting，Setting Up a Node will help you on how to build a Node and start Seele Node.

Seele Node provides the --miner, -m command line parameter to specify whether to start mining when Node starts. The default is to start. If you don’t want to mine, you can use --miner stop when starting Node. The Seele Node also provides the --threads command line argument to set the number of threads used by the Miner started by Node.

Example¶

A configuration file is required at start of Seele Node, and the format of the configuration file is referenced configpath.

configpath¶

{
  "basic":{
    "name": "seele node1",
    "version": "1.0",
    "dataDir": "node1",
    "address": "0.0.0.0:8027",
    "coinbase": "0x4c10f2cd2159bb432094e3be7e17904c2b4aeb21",
    "algorithm": "sha256"
  },
  "p2p": {
    "privateKey": "0xf65e40c6809643b25ce4df33153da2f3338876f181f83d2281c6ac4a987b1479",
    "staticNodes": [],
    "address": "0.0.0.0:8057",
    "networkID": "seele"
  },
  "log": {
    "isDebug": true,
    "printLog": true
  },
  "httpServer": {
    "address": "0.0.0.0:8037",
    "crossorigins": [
      "*"
    ],
    "whiteHost": [
      "*"
    ]
  },
  "wsserver": {
    "address": "0.0.0.0:8047",
    "crossorigins": [
      "*"
    ]
  },
  "metrics": {
    "address": "0.0.0.0:8087",
    "duration": 10,
    "database": "influxdb",
    "username": "test",
    "password": "test123"
  },
  "genesis": {
    "difficult":8000000,
    "shard":1,
    "timestamp":1539742676
  }
}

// Start mining by default when starting Seele Node

node start -c configpath

// Start mining when starting Seele Node, and set the number of threads used by Miner to 2

node start -c configpath --threads 2

// Mining does not start when starting Seele Node

node start -c configpath --miner stop

Start mining with Seele Full Client¶

If you already have a Seele full node, you can use the full node client to start and manage your Node Miner Create a Full Node Client will help you on how to acquire a full client node.

Example¶

Client starts mining：

client miner start

true

Client starts mining and sets the number of Miner threads to 2：

client miner start --threads 2

true

Client stops mining：

client miner stop

true

Get the Seele Node Miner running status：

client miner status

"Running"

or

"Stopped"

Get Seele Node Miner Coinbase:

client miner getcoinbase

"0x4c10f2cd2159bb432094e3be7e17904c2b4aeb21"

Sets Seele Node Miner Coinbase:

client miner setcoinbase "0x4c10f2cd2159bb432094e3be7e17904c2b4aeb21"

true

Sets Seele Node Miner thread to 2:

client miner setthreads --threads 2

true

Get Seele Node Miner Engine Information:

client miner getengineinfo

{
    "hashrate": 495812.2433994204,
    "threads": 1
}

Other Mining¶

Other Mining is currently under development.