Toncoin (TON) mining on Hive OS

TON miner for HiveOS is a customized version of GPU-based TON miner.

This is an early version of HiveOS custom miner, so don’t hesitate to report any issues in the related section on GitHub.

Current limitations: Hive OS auto-update not supported; Hive OS detailed stats not supported.

Instead of solo Toncoin mining you also can join TON mining pool (read more here).

Step 1: Installing HiveOS to mine TONcoins

This instruction is based on an official HiveOS guides. In case of missunderstanding, stuck, etc please refer to the original guides.

• If your HiveOS account and rig are already configured move to the next step.
• Download hiveos*.img.gz file.
• Prepare external storage device (min 8Gb) which will be used to flash a hiveos*.img.gz file – USB flash drive (USB 3.0 is preferred), external SSD or another type of external storage drive.
• HiveOS recommendations:
  

  Etcher is a recommended tool to write Hive images on the drives. It supports Windows, Mac, Linux. It can write unpacked ZIP archive as well.

  Alternatively you can use Rufus as an image writing tool.

  Advanced Unix (Linux or Mac) users can use dd to write RAW image to disk. Something like dd if=hiveos-XXX.img of=/dev/sdX bs=10M status=progress. But be careful finding out output disk “of”, use fdisk -l to list your partitions.

• Flash the hiveos*.img.gz to chosen external drive in binary mode.
• Create an account on HiveOS – https://hiveos.farm/.
• Create HiveOS rig (in Farms, click on a farm from the list, then Add Rig). Remember the RigID and RigPassword.

  

• Boot your PC/server/computer for mining using flashed external drive. Note: your PC/server/computer must have an internet connection.
• After boot use your RigID and RigPassword to proceed.
• Open web configuration of your HiveOS Rig.
• Check the state of your HiveOS Rig in your HiveOS account.

Step 2: Configuring TON Miner on Hive OS

• Create a “TON wallet” in HiveOS account with custom “Toncoin” coin.

• Source for coin is optional, so you can ginore it:

  

• Fill and check your personal wallet address in the Address field.

• Now you must create HiveOS flight sheet for your Rig with custom Miner:

  

  Example below:

  OPTION	VALUE	COMMENT
  Coin	toncoin
  Wallet	{YOUR TON WALLET ADDRESS}
  Pool	Configure in miner
  Name	TON flight sheet
  Miner Name	tonminer_cuda_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz or tonminer_opencl_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz	Generated automatically based on Miner Installation URL below
  Miner Installation URL	https://github.com/tontechio/pow-miner-gpu-hiveos/releases/download/h.20211130.1/tonminer_cuda_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz or https://github.com/tontechio/pow-miner-gpu-hiveos/releases/download/h.20211130.1/tonminer_opencl_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz	Depends on your GPU device. Choose cuda version for Nvidia GPU and opencl version for AMD GPU
  Miner Hash algorithm		No value (empty)
  Miner Wallet and worker template	%WAL%	Only wallet number for easy script mechanics
  Miner Pool URL	stratum+tcp://p2p.antpool.com:3333	Keep the default value, this value is not used by TON miner
  Miner Extra config arguments		see below

  Miner Extra config arguments:

  "miner_0": ["kf-P_TOdwcCh0AXHhBpICDMxStxHenWdLCDLNH5QcNpwMHJ8",0,32,0,2],
  "miner_1": ["kf-P_TOdwcCh0AXHhBpICDMxStxHenWdLCDLNH5QcNpwMHJ8",1,32,0,2],
  "miner_2": ["kf-P_TOdwcCh0AXHhBpICDMxStxHenWdLCDLNH5QcNpwMHJ8",2,32,0,2],
  "miner_3": ["kf-P_TOdwcCh0AXHhBpICDMxStxHenWdLCDLNH5QcNpwMHJ8",3,32,0,2],
  "tmpfs_logs_enable": "yes"
  

  Format (please refer to miner documentation for details):

  "miner_{ID}": [ "{GIVER_ADDR}",{GPU_ID},{BOOST_FACTOR},{PLATFORM_ID},{LOG_LEVEL}],
  "miner_{ID}": [ "{GIVER_ADDR}",{GPU_ID},{BOOST_FACTOR},{PLATFORM_ID},{LOG_LEVEL}],
  ...,
  "tmpfs_logs_enable": {yes/no}
  

• Apply changes in miner options.

• Update flight sheet.

• Push the rocket button near flight sheet to start the configured miner.

Notes

How to download and install this plugin manually

1. Download latest miner:

• CUDA: https://github.com/tontechio/pow-miner-gpu-hiveos/releases/download/h.20211130.1/tonminer_cuda_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz
• OpenCL: https://github.com/tontechio/pow-miner-gpu-hiveos/releases/download/h.20211130.1/tonminer_opencl_hiveos_x86_64-h.20211130.1.tar.gz

2. Copy downloaded archive to the system directory /hive/miners/custom/downloads/

3. Open HiveOS terminal shell (console) and execute commands:

cd /hive/miners/custom/downloads/
tar -xf tonminer_*.tar.gz -C ../

4. Start the flight sheet.

Updating miner tools and blockchain config

Currently TON miner doesn’t support HiveOS miner updates system. To update to the recent miner version just follow instructions for manual installation.