hey everyone and welcome back to another mining chamber video in
today's video i'm going to walk you through how to use nb miner
we're going to first go through a quick setup so you guys can get going right away
and then we're going to get into more details and how you should download it and all that
information that you need to know so now let's go ahead and get into the video right after the intro
first we're going to start off with the overview on nb miner if you guys want to jump to a specific
point of this video feel free to look in the descriptions below everything will be time
stamped below so nb miner is a cryptocurrency miner that can be running on windows or a linux
based mining operating system if they support it so the coins that you can mine with nb miner are
all these coins that are mentioned right here or in general any coin that follows these algorithms
that are showing on this table so there's a vast majority of the popular coins that you can mine
here including ethereum raven coin and then coin flux as well you can also mine ethereum classic
and multiple other coins in these algorithms here so as for the developer fee the fees on this miner
you'll be paying one percent if you're mining ethereum or ethereum classic so anything on ether
or atc hash will take from you one percent and then for raven coin you guys can see here on kapow
you will be paying two percent and on octopus which is cone flux you will be paying three
percent you also have the other algorithms in here with their percentage as well so just keep
that in mind when you're using this miner now nb miner supports the vast majority of the gpus so
usually you won't have any troubles trying to use it on newer hardware or older hardware but
you can come back here and double check so this will all be in the readme section of the nb miner
i will leave the links for all this in the descriptions below so here you guys can see
different algorithms as well as the coins and then the compute compatibility so this
applies to nvidia cards although i was not able to find amd cards compatibility so to look at
these compute compatibility you just want to look for the number here and then you can go to this
compute compatibility reference link and then from there you guys will find the number and then with
the gpus that are included in that number so for example for the rtx 3000 series they are on the
8.6 so if we go back here you'll see that 8.6 is supported on almost all the algorithms now
as for the vram i don't think this is updated since in ethereum now you do need more than 4
gigabytes to mine ethereum so just follow the vram information based on the dac size of the coin that
you're trying to mine now to download this miner you want to go to releases and then from releases
you can download the latest one so you guys can see here there's different versions and then
if you go lower you'll find the older versions with all the fixes they added so in the time of
this video the latest one is 36.1 so you guys can download the most recent version if it's different
than this one now if you scroll down a little bit you will find here the assets for this miner
and then you have here the linux installation as well as the windows installation and then where it
says dot shot 256 that is the check sums for the miner so we will compare those later on after we
install the miner and then you have all the source code in here as well so it's an open source miner
which gives it credibility and it makes it secure for yourself to use it for mining so now since
we're on windows and we're going to test it on windows i'm going to install this nb miner 36.1
winzip if you're on hiveos or any mining specific operating system you won't have to do anything
you'll just find it in the list of miners and you can use it directly from there so to download it
just click on the zip file and then you can save it anywhere you want but just remember that your
antivirus might flag it as a virus and then you'll just have to whitelist it from your antivirus
now what i did is i just have a folder named miners in my desktop and then that folder i have
it whitelisted from windows defender so that every time i install a miner in there it doesn't delete
it for me right away thinking it's a virus it's all just false flags so don't worry about them at
all now if you have no idea how to do that i have a video on mining on your pc and then i go into it
with details in that video i will leave the link for that video in the descriptions below so now
let's go ahead and save it here and then after we save it here you guys can see on the bottom
left i got a dangerous so brave has blocked it now this is normal like i said it's just a false flag
and all you need to do is you want to click on show all and then on show all you want to go
ahead and hit on keep dangerous file so after that you will see that it finished installing and then
you can do show in folder and then you'll be able to find the miner in your folder so now the first
thing you want to do before extracting your miner you want to make sure it's an authentic version
of nb miner like we've seen recently with the news that phoenix miner was recently compromised
so please make sure to do this step just to make sure that you have an authentic version of the
miner and it matches the checksums which is like a fingerprint for the folder of the miner to do that
all you will need to do is go ahead and open up the command prompt to open up a cmd and then from
there you can go ahead and navigate to the miners folder so if you have no idea how to navigate
in command prompt you can look it up it's not really that complicated i will give you a simple
explanation here so you just want to do cd to change directory and then from there you want to
go to wherever this miner is so now i'm currently in my so canon user and then in that user i have
downloads documents and all these folders right here so i want to go to desktop so i would say cd
desktop and then from there i can just hit enter and that will put me in the desktop folder so now
after the desktop folder i have my miners folder so now i need to go to cd and then miners and
after that i am in the folder where i have nb miner installed so i can go ahead and type out
dir which will show all the stuff that's in this folder so here i have nb miner 36.1 win.zip so now
i want to make sure that this is authentic through the checksums and to do that all you need to do is
type out cert util and then dash hash file and then you want to put the name of that folder so
what you can do is just type out nb and then hit tab it should automatically fill it out for you
just make sure that it's the zip and then after the zip you want to go ahead and say the algorithm
so you want to say sha 256 and the reason that we're saying shot 256 is because here at nb minor
they have the shot 256 one so we can go ahead and hit enter and then you guys will see here there's
a long string that comes out and that string will be in this file right here so i'm going to install
this file as well now and then i can go ahead and save this to the same folder and now after
you save it you just want to go ahead and do open with and then select notepad and open this file
with notepad so now once you have that open you will see here a string and then the matching zip
file so if we go back to our command prompt we can compare them and then they are matching exactly
the same so that means that the nb miner that we have is authentic and we're good to go so now i'm
going to go ahead and delete this shot 256 file and then i'm going to extract nb miner within my
miners folder and now here we have the extracted folder so usually what i like to do when i
install any miner i don't like to have to click on two different folders to reach the items so what i
will do is i will just drag all these files in here back to the other folder the first folder
and then like that i can go ahead and delete the second folder so now once i open up nb miner 36.1
i don't have to open up two different folders to reach the files for the miner so that's for the
installation of the miner and now you're all set and you have that miner installed on your system
securely without any issues or anything you need to worry about so now the first thing i want to
go over after installing the miner is showing you guys a quick start to get going right away without
any extra information and then after that we're jumping into details with this miner and talking
about different commands that can help you out later on so let's go ahead and get started with
the quick start so the first thing you're going to see when you download your folder for nbminer you
will see all these different files right here so all these are different batch files and they all
say start and then the coin so here you have start adc start eth and the o follows simple principle
so all you need to do is just go ahead right click on it and then do edit and then you might get this
pop-up right here just do one more info and then run anyways and then after that you will see some
information like this now when you're here all you need to do is change the address here for
your own wallet address now if you don't know how to get a wallet address you guys can come to
miningchamber.com platforms and then here you will find some wallets that i do like and i use so you
guys can't download any of those and then get your ethereum address from there so since this is for
start eath then you will be putting your ethereum address here and then you're also going to be
changing the pool based on what works best for you so there's multiple different pools out there
you guys can use ethermine it's a good choice and then just put the server that's close to you and
the port number and then you're all set after that you just close this file make sure that you save
it first and then you run that file you don't need to run it as an administrator because you're not
doing any overclocks there so you can just double left click on it and then it will start kicking in
and start mining for you so that also applies for all these other ones so if you go for raven coin
for example if you have a four gigabyte card you just go ahead hit edit and then same thing run
anyways and after that change the raven address and then the raven pool and that's all you need
to do to get started super quickly now if you want to learn more about the different commands
please stick around and then we're going to go into details on all these commands so that you can
learn how to use these miners efficiently so now that we covered a quick start let's go ahead and
jump into details with the commands so there is a huge list of commands but we're not going to go
over all of them i'm just going to pick the ones that i think are very important to know so the
first one i want to start off with is dash a and that's the first command in your script so dash
a or dash dash algo and what that does is selects your mining algorithm so if you're mining ethereum
you would do dash a e and then that would be the ethereum algorithm so eth and if you're mining
ravencoin or anything like that you would select a specific algorithm that that coin runs on so
it's a fairly simple command and you guys will be able to find all the algorithms that supports it
in the requirements list here and then one other command that goes hand by hand with this one is
for example let's say ethas when ethereum classic used to also be on ethash and now it has its own
algorithm which is etc hash so back then when there was ethereum and ethereum classic running
on the same algorithm you would have to use the command dash dash coin so dash dash coin would
set a coin for ether algo whether it's eth or etc so if you wanted to an ethereum classic you would
do dash dash coin etc and the default is ethereum but now since ethereum classic is not in ethash
anymore you guys don't need to worry about this command if you're trying to mine ethereum classic
all you need to do is just change that algorithm to etc hash now they don't mention etc hash here
in the algorithms but you guys can give it a try and see if it works out for you
now if using the etc hash method doesn't work you can try doing eth and then dash dash coin
and ethereum classic so after dash a and dash dash coin the next important command to know is
dash o or dash dash url so what that does is basically specifies your mining pool url you
guys can select any mining pool you want i have a full video on mining pools so if you have no idea
how mining pools work feel free to check out that video the link will be in the descriptions below
and with the dash 0 there is also dash 01 or 02 and what that does is you specify a backup
mining pool so if mining pool number 1 goes down mining pool number 2 will kick in and then etc the
maximum that you can specify is three pools so you have dash o and then dash 01 and dash o2 so after
the mining pools you have your user and your user is your wallet address so here you see the isu or
dash dash user and this is usually your wallet address now in some scenarios you would make a
username and password with your mining pool and in that case you can use your username and password
but most of the time all you need to do is just put your wallet address if you don't have a
username and password with the mining pool that you're trying to mine to and this also goes back
to u1 and u2 so you can have backup users for your backup pools now the next important command would
be dash d or dash dash devices and what that does is basically you specify the gpus that you want to
use for mining so let's say you have two gpus in your mining rig you can do dash d0 and then that
would select only the first gpu that's on your mining rig that also goes with your main pc so
if you're trying to mine with just one gpu you can do dash d0 and then you would select the first gpu
or you can do dash d1 and that would select the second gpu now note that it starts from zero so
the counting would start zero one two three and that would be for the first four gpus so just
keep that in mind when you're trying to disable one of your gpus just like the devices command
there is also the dash dash platform command and what that does is it chooses for your platform
so whether it's nvidia or amd now the default is both of them but you can do one to choose nvidia
cards only and you can do number two to choose amd cards only meaning that if you do one you'll only
be mining with your nvidia cards and if you do two you'll only be mining with your amd cards and then
there's also the dash dash feed command and then this command basically changes the percentage of
your fee for the miner so you can set it to zero to turn off your dev fee or you can keep it the
way it is and not change anything the only thing about this is if you do set it to zero it reduces
your performance now i'm not sure exactly what comes out to be more profitable either turning
off the defeat or lowering your performance but honestly i would say just keep it on and then use
it the way it is if you want to give it a test and turn off your death fee then feel free to do that
and another really useful command is temperature limit temperature limit sets a limit for your gpu
in celsius and if that exceeds it will stop the gpu for 10 seconds so that means if your card is
overheating it will stop mining for 10 seconds so it cools down a little bit and then it will
kick back in and now the last command i want to cover is dash dash mt or dash dash memory
tweak so what that does is basically modifies your nvidia cards memory specifically the 1080
and 1080 ti so before with the 1080s and 1080tis you have to run the pill before running the miner
which would increase your hash rate up to 40 or 45 mega hash but now you can do it through this
command instead so this command ranges from 1 to 6 so that means you can do mt and then 1 or
mte2 and keep going until 6 so you can try all of these numbers and see which one works best for
your gpu the one that gives you the highest hash rate will be the better one for your gpu now that
is it for the commands for nb miner we covered the most important ones that i think you guys should
know if you guys have any other commands that you think people should know please leave it in
the comments below and then from there everybody can read it and learn from it so now that we've
covered the commands let me tell you guys a couple of things that you can do with this miner as well
so first you can monitor your rig through the web monitor using your port number and if you
are a developer you can also use this to build on it applications now i'm not going to get into this
in this video but this is just something that you can keep in mind or go more into details with it
if you are more technical and there are also the config files that you can run which will save your
settings and then from there you can open it in a different computer that's also a good choice to do
but with how simple the bat files are in nb miner you don't really need to worry about that as well
so now before i wrap up the video let me give you guys my conclusion on nb minor i think it's
a pretty good miner it does come at a one percent fee for eth which is a bit high so comparing to
phoenix miner which has point sixty five percent fee it is considered a bit higher but all around
nb miner is not a bad choice at all if you're looking for a simple nfs mining software for amd
and video together now one of the things i wish nb miner had is being able to overclock through the
command line arguments that would be pretty nice so you can just put your overclocks in nb miner
and then it will automatically apply them as soon as you run the minor we can do that in phoenix
minor but not in nb minor so hopefully eventually they will apply it to here that is unless i missed
it and i didn't figure out how to do it so if you guys know a way to apply your overclocks
with nbminer please let me know in the comments below now that wraps up the video guys i hope
you enjoyed this video if you have any questions or feedback let me know in the comments below now
the next mining softwares i'm going to be covering are team redminer as well as t-rex miner so if you
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