Bitmark Mining Guide v0.9.7 fork
There are 8 Proof-of-Work algorithms which mine Bitmark and add blocks to its blockchain:
| Proof of Work Algorithm | Number pow_algo_id | Merge-Mineable with – (many possibilities) | |
| SCrypt | (0) | Digibyte, Gulden | |
| SHA256d | (1) | Bitcoin | sha256d |
| Yescrypt | (2) | Unitus | yescrypt |
| Argon2d | (3) | Argentum, Unitus | ar2 |
| X17 | (4) | Verge | x17 |
| hLyra2REv2 | (5) | VertCoin, Unitus | lyra2REv2 |
| EquiHash | (6) | ZCash | equihash / special executable needed |
| CryptoNight | (7) | Monero | cryptonight |
Bitmark has an inter-block time target of 2 minutes (Beta=120 seconds).
In order to achieve this block time with 8 algos contributing, each algo’s mining difficulty is independently governed by DGWv3 to achieve a 16 minute inter-block (Beta=960 seconds).
Setting the Reference Node’s Mining Algorithm
It can be set manually via command-line client bitmark-cli (here aliased to ‘marks’, here setting the mining algo to Argon2d:
marks setminingalgo 3
or,
via configuration file setting in ‘ ~/.bitmark.conf ‘ :
miningalgo = 3
Note: the conf file parser only recognizes numeric codes for the proof-of-work algorithm; pow_algo_id;
| Pooled Mining | SCrypt | SHA256d | Yescrypt | Argon2d | X17 | Lyra2REv2 | EquiHash | CryptoNight |
| http://www.smilingmining.com | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
| https://mp3.markmine.io | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
| https://drkmrk.xyz | √ | |||||||
| http://yapool.net | √ |
Solo Mining
The client is able to mine
setgenerate true
cpuminer -a -o http://localhost: -u -p -t –coinbase-addr=
Your node’s mining algo must be set either on startup by the bitmark.conf configuration fileminingalgo=3or through a CLI RPC commandbitmark-cli setminingalgo 3
