Earn some XNC mining at the Hasher pool:

http://xnc.hasher.ca   -  PPLNS 1%

Happy Hashing!

Syncing with the network will take some time - several hours depending on your computer and network speed.  After that, you must determine how you will mine - either via GPU (graphics card - ATI or NVidia cards only) or CPU (much slower).  XNC is a Scrypt coin, and as such can be mined with versions of CGMiner from 3.7.2 or older and BFGMiner.  Alternative is GUIMiner (which is a graphic front end for CGMiner).  When running either of the mining programs, you will need to be in a pool.  The xnc.hasher.ca is a stable pool with good security (2FA required for many actions), and I've never had a problem with it (although pool choice is preference only).

CGMiner and BFGMiner both depend on a GPU to mine with (most newer ATI cards) or CudaMiner (for NVidia Cards).

I recommend starting with basics and read up on Scrypt Mining with GPU if you have one of those cards.  Keep in mind that GPU mining will work your video card hard, and cause it to run hot, so you will need to monitor that.  The litecoin wiki will have some good pointers on getting started with GPU mining.

You can alternatively mine with your CPU(s) directly with the Xencoin-QT client - but this will mine directly to the block chain, so until you solve a complete block, you will see no 'progress (so to speak) from your mining'.  CPU mining Scrypt (most alt-coins) and SHA-256 (bitcoin) is pretty much useless anymore due to the speeds achieved by GPUs and ASICs (which are now coming to Scrypt based coins as well.

When I have more time to offer more advice, I will add another post.  For now, you won't be able to do anything until your Xencoin-QT client has finished downloading the blockchain (which at last check was well over 600,000 blocks).

NVidia hardware = CudaMiner (quick search on how'tos for configuring CudaMiner to talk to a pool.  Next step is to locate a pool to mine on and register an account.  The pool will have information on how to configure your 'worker (your miner's identity on the pool)' and your 'payout address settings' - how to get your share of the coins you mine on the pool.  The settings above relate to if you're mining using your CPU with the XNC-qt client or solo-mining by pointing your CudaMiner to your client.  Search topics for "Solo Mining vs. Pooled Mining" - hundreds available either on these forums or on the internet in general.

Basic explanation:
Solo-Mine (CPU):  xnc-qt client with "mining enabled" via mining tab in client (uses CPU = slow - must solve whole block to earn reward)
Solo-Mine (GPU):  CudaMiner --> xnc-qt (search topics for 'solo mining with GPU and QT clients - 90% of the clients have the same settings, just different things like 'port number' and of course username and password for your client)

Pooled Mining (GPU): CudaMiner --> Stratum Server (Mining Pool of your choice).  Mining pool requires registration, and setup of your 'payout address/miner workers'.  When you earn coins on the pool, it will pay out to the address you give it from the "Receive" tab of your XNC client.  When your xnc-qt client is running, it will see those transactions on the network, and they will be sent to your wallet address in your client. 

Also See search for "securing your wallet" and so on...  xencoin-qt is based on the litecoin-qt client but is an older version (about 0.6.x) - so any information you see about mining litecoins will be a pretty solid 'starting point' for mining xencoin.  only differences will be if you mined solo and had to point your miner at your client.  Keep in mind solo mining will only earn a reward if you solve a block - then you get the block reward.  Pooled mining pays you on the number of useful shares you submit to your pool as members of the pool solve blocks.  The more blocks the pool solves, the more coins you earn your share of... 

CUDAMiner is fine for Xencoin and the best by far for Nvidia cards - just make sure your laptop doesn't overheat - download it from the thread on this forum.  Once you have downloaded it and unzipped the files you need to write a small program to tell it where to mine. This needs to be a ".bat" file and should be in the same folder as the cudaminer program.  I'm currently mining at http://xnc.altcoins.pw/ - to get cudaminer to mine there your file should contain this:

cudaminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://xnc.altcoins.pw:7809 -O WORKER:PASSWORD

WORKER and PASSWORD will be what you register on the pool in the Getting started section when you create a worker.

Hope this helps 

mmm it seems don't work.

I tryied to execute in the shell:

cudaminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.hasher.ca:3373 -O D4rkAng3l:MyPassword

but I always obtain this error message:


What could be the problem? The username and the password are the one used for the pool account creation

I didn't understood that I had to create also a worker into my pool control panel, now it worl using something like D4rkAngel.Worker1Name as username. Tnx so much 

1) The first line says that your graphics card is mining at 23 khash/second, the second line says you have found a valid share, so far you have found 55 valid shares out of a possible 55 so 100% of the shares you have found have been good

2) When you are logged into your pool you need to look at the dashboard - it will show you there how many coins you have mined - you will get some coins when your pool finds a block - you have a very low hashrate so will not find many by yourself

3) On your Xencoin wallet click the receive tab - create a new address (bottom left) and give it a name like 'Xencoin Hasher' if you're mining on that pool (so that you know where the coins have come from) - copy and paste the address into the payment address section on the 'my account - edit account' section of the pool.

If you want to test your wallet create a payment address, call it 'Donations' and post the address on here and i'll send you some free Xencoin to get you started    You never know some of the other Xencoin miners might take pity on your low hashrate and send you some too!!!

4) You'll earn a percentage of the block found based on the percentage of shares you submitted to the finding of that block by the pool as a whole - so basically yes.

5) Not sure of the answer to this one - i do know that you should avoid mining on a laptop for long periods though as it will not be able to cope with the overheating.

I just joined the pool and we have now found a block so you should have some coins showing as unconfirmed now on the Dashboard section of the pool.

I have the resources to set up around 10 or so permanent nodes for Xencoin. I love this little coin I really do - no idea on how to set up nodes though. Any suggestions please?

Hello to everybody,

I have the following problem: I can't see my earned XenCoin on the XenCoin wallet.

I have do the following operation:

Into the wallet: "gets coin" (I don't know the correct english voice name) and I created a new label (automatically related to a new address)

Then I go into the pool backend and I edit my account inserting the previous address into the Account Details ---> Payment Address voice and I have execute the Cash Out toward the previous address

Ok...now in my dashboard it say that I have 0 coins but I still don't see the coins into my wallet (it is still synchronizing).

Could depend by the fact that is not sincronized? or what? have I wrong something?