Quick start

Let's get you mining

Two ways in. Pick the one that fits — you can switch any time.

Advanced

Technical setup — just the essentials

Sign in to the miner portal and add a worker, then point any Scrypt miner at the community pool using that worker login — your account.worker and its password. Payouts go to the payout address on your portal account.

Stratum URL

stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org

Port

3333

Algorithm

Scrypt

Username

account.worker

Password

your worker password

Pool fee

2%

Easiest path — CPU with cpuminer. cpuminer / cpuminer-opt (the minerd binary) mines Scrypt on any 64-bit CPU — the simplest way to get your first accepted shares. Swap in your own account.worker login and its password.

minerd --scrypt \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
  -u youraccount.rig1 \
  -p yourworkerpassword

GPU / ASIC path — ccminer, sgminer, cgminer. These do not CPU-mine. Two GPU miners are recommended — pick the one for your card: ccminer on NVIDIA (needs CUDA + a recent NVIDIA driver) and sgminer on AMD (needs OpenCL). Both deliver the top Scrypt hashrate on their respective GPUs. CGMiner 3.7.2 is only a legacy fallback — 4.x removed Scrypt GPU support. ASICs use their own built-in dashboard with the same worker login. The command below takes the same worker login for any of these miners.

cgminer --scrypt \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
  -u youraccount.rig1 \
  -p yourworkerpassword

bfgminer --scrypt \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
  -u youraccount.rig1 \
  -p yourworkerpassword

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

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Done-for-you mining setup

Don't want to touch a config file? Tell us about your hardware and we'll set your miner up on the pool for you. This is a paid service — send the details and we'll reply with what's involved.

Prompt agents

Prompts & scripts — copy, paste, go

This is how Winslow teaches the AI on your own machine to set you up. Click Copy, then paste into your AI assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, or any — or straight into your miner's config. Swap in your own portal worker login — account.worker and its password.

I want to mine Tracercoin (TFX) on the community pool. It is a Scrypt
proof-of-work coin (Litecoin fork model). Help me configure my miner
step by step for these settings:

- Pool: stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333
- Algorithm: scrypt
- Username: [MY_PORTAL_ACCOUNT].[WORKER_NAME]   (e.g. youraccount.rig1)
- Password: [MY_WORKER_PASSWORD]   (the worker password I set in the portal)

My hardware is: [DESCRIBE YOUR CPU, GPU, OR ASIC].
My operating system is: [WINDOWS / LINUX / etc.].

If I am mining on a CPU, use cpuminer / cpuminer-opt (the minerd binary) —
not cgminer, which cannot CPU-mine. For a GPU, use ccminer on NVIDIA
(recommended, highest Scrypt hashrate) or sgminer on AMD; CGMiner 3.7.2 is
only a legacy fallback since current CGMiner removed Scrypt GPU support.

Give me the exact commands or config file for my setup, explain how to
confirm it is submitting accepted shares, and tell me how to check my
hashrate and payouts in the Tracercoin miner portal. Do not give any
financial or price advice — just the technical setup.

minerd --scrypt \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
  -u youraccount.rig1 \
  -p yourworkerpassword

cgminer --scrypt \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.tracercoin.org:3333 \
  -u youraccount.rig1 \
  -p yourworkerpassword

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

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

rpcuser=changeme
rpcpassword=change-this-to-a-long-random-string
server=1
listen=1
# daemon=1   # uncomment on Linux to run in the background