Start mining
Tracercoin.

Before you start

What you need to mine

Tracercoin uses the Scrypt proof-of-work algorithm — the same as Litecoin — so it mines on standard, widely available Scrypt hardware. Three things get you going.

Hardware & benchmarks

What can your rig do?

Tracercoin is Scrypt proof-of-work — the same algorithm as Litecoin and Dogecoin — so any Scrypt-capable hardware works, and the wider Scrypt ecosystem is a good yardstick for what to expect. The figures below are approximate reference numbers from public Litecoin/Scrypt hardware data; your real results vary with firmware, tuning, temperature, and power.

Scrypt ASIC miners — the efficient path

ASICs dominate Scrypt. If you're buying hardware to mine seriously, this is the class to look at.

GPU & CPU — great for testing your setup

You can point a GPU — or even a CPU — at the pool to learn the flow and confirm your rig connects and submits shares. Just know Scrypt is memory-hard and ASIC-dominated, so a GPU or CPU is for testing and learning, not competitive output.

Scale check: 1 GH/s = 1,000 MH/s = 1,000,000 kH/s. One Antminer L7 (~9.5 GH/s) is on the order of ten thousand times a tuned GPU — that gap is why Scrypt is an ASIC game.

Benchmark your own rig

Two quick ways to measure your real Scrypt hashrate:

1. 1

   Offline benchmark

   Run your Scrypt miner in benchmark mode — no pool, no wallet needed — to read raw hashrate. Compare it to the tables above.

   cgminer · benchmark

   cgminer --scrypt --benchmark
   # bfgminer: bfgminer --scrypt --benchmark

2. 2

   Live on the pool

   Point your rig at pool.tracercoin.org:3333, then watch your live hashrate and accepted shares in the miner portal — that's your real, network-conditions number.

Get started

Four steps to your first shares

From a fresh machine to submitting work in a few minutes.

1. 1

   Get a wallet address

   Install the Tracercoin wallet and create a receiving address (it starts with tfx1). This is where your mining rewards are sent, so keep your wallet backed up and your keys private.

2. 2

   Install your mining software

   Pick the miner for your hardware. For a CPU, the easiest is cpuminer / cpuminer-opt (the minerd binary). For a GPU, use ccminer (NVIDIA — recommended, highest Scrypt hashrate), sgminer (AMD), or CGMiner 3.7.2 as a legacy fallback. For an ASIC, open its built-in configuration page. You'll enter the pool details from above.

3. 3

   Point it at the pool

   Log in with your portal worker: the username is account.worker (your portal account name, a dot, then the worker name — add one per rig) and the password is the worker password you set in the portal. Rewards are paid to the payout address on your account, not to the username.

   cpuminer (minerd) · easiest, any CPU

   # cpuminer / cpuminer-opt mines Scrypt on any CPU — cgminer cannot CPU-mine
   minerd --scrypt \
     -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
     -u youraccount.rig1 \
     -p yourworkerpassword

   GPU · ccminer / sgminer / cgminer

   # NVIDIA: ccminer (recommended). AMD: sgminer. cgminer only as 3.7.2 legacy.
   # same -u/-p worker login for all — swap the binary name for your miner:
   cgminer --scrypt \
     -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
     -u youraccount.rig1 \
     -p yourworkerpassword

   bfgminer · GPU/ASIC only

   # bfgminer takes the same Scrypt stratum settings
   bfgminer --scrypt \
     -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
     -u youraccount.rig1 \
     -p yourworkerpassword

4. 4

   Start hashing & monitor

   Start your miner. It will connect, request work, and begin submitting shares. Watch your accepted-share count climb — that's your hardware contributing to the network and earning rewards proportional to the work it does.

   generic stratum config

   {
     "algo": "scrypt",
     "url":  "stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333",
     "user": "youraccount.rig1",
     "pass": "yourworkerpassword"
   }