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Official ElaptaCoin PoW Miner

Welcome to the official page of ElaptaCoin Proof of Work Miner!

Here are features that the miner include:

  1. Auto-Reconnect - If some expection occur or connection would be lost the miner would restart it self (The restarting could be interupted by pressing any key)

  2. Rust hasher - For better hashing performance we decided to code the hasher inside the Rust

  3. One File - Only one file miner.py needs to be executed. The rest gets installed afterwards e

  4. Auto Package Install - The miner auto install all required packages

Platform support

  1. Windows 10/11 (Theoretically Windows 7) (Issues while exiting miner! Use Taskmgr!)
  2. Linux x32/x64
  3. ARM x64 (AArch64)

Tech Support

Our discord server: https://discord.com/invite/4MzUF5s6xC

Disclaimer! Keep in mind the miner is still in BETA, lot issues while exiting the miner can occur!

ElaptaCoin PoW Miner Setup Guide

Windows

1. Download Python 3.8 or 3.9

We recomend downloading Python 3.8/3.9 from Microsoft Store, if you can't download Python 3.8/3.9 you can download it from Python offical webpage

Note: Don't forget to enable "include the python in PATH" in the installer!

(Note that other versions of Python wouldn't work!)

2. Download the latest release of PoW ElaptaCoin

You can find the most recent release of elapMine on https://github.com/DuckyPolice/Elaptacoin-PUBLIC/releases/

3 Un-ZIP the latest release ZIP file

4. Open the Un-ZIPed directory in Powershell

5. (OPTIONAL) Create and Enter Python virtualenv

>>>If you are having any issues with miner, try use virtualenv!<<<

Virtualenv should be part of python, if you don't have it you can install the virtualenv by pip3.9 install virtualenv or python3.8 -m venv venv

Type python3.9 -m venv venv or python3.8 -m venv venv to create virtualenv

Then type venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1 in order to activate virtualenv

Make sure there is (.venv) before path in powershell

6. Run the miner

To run the miner type python miner.py or python3.9 miner.py or python3.8 miner.py

And Enjoy! If experience some errors let us know on our discord server!

Linux 64x/32x or Linux ARM x64

1. Download Python 3.8 or 3.9

We recomend downloading Python by pyenv

1. Install pyenv

Type curl https://pyenv.run | bash to your linux console and wait till setup finishes

2. Add pyenv to .bashrc

Type sudo nano ~/.bashrc go to end of the file and add these three lines: export PATH="$HOME/.pyenv/bin:$PATH" eval "$(pyenv init --path)" eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

And save the file by pressing CTRL+X, press Y and then press Enter

Then type exec $SHELL

3. Install the system packages

Type sudo apt-get install --yes libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libgdbm-dev lzma lzma-dev tcl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev wget curl make build-essential openssl

Then confirm installation by pressing Y and wait till the installation finish

4. Setup pyenv

Update the pyenv by typing pyenv update

And install the python by typing pyenv install 3.9.13 or pyenv install 3.8.10

Then use pyenv global (version you installed)

(Note that other versions of Python wouldn't work!)

2. Download the latest release of PoW ElaptaCoin

You can find the most recent release of elapMine on https://github.com/DuckyPolice/Elaptacoin-PUBLIC/releases/

3 Un-ZIP the latest release ZIP file

You can use unzip

We recomend to place the directory with miner to user folder

4. Open the Un-ZIPed directory in bash

5. (OPTIONAL) Create and Enter Python virtualenv

>>>If you are having any issues with miner, try use virtualenv!<<<

Virtualenv should be part of python, if you don't have it you can install the virtualenv by pip3.9 install virtualenv or python3.8 -m venv venv

Type python3.9 -m venv venv or python3.8 -m venv venv to create virtualenv

Then type source myvenv/bin/activate in order to activate virtualenv

Make sure there is (.venv) before path in bash

6. Run the miner

The miner needs to be executed by sudo privileges!

If you used pyenv global you can use python miner.py directly

To run the miner type python miner.py or python3.9 miner.py or python3.8 miner.py

And Enjoy! If experience some errors let us know on our discord server!

- Elaptacoin Team 2024, Written by tommarek