# Mining Options

Mining is essentially the process of using your computer to help verify and secure a cryptocurrency network, in our case, it is the Qwertycoin network. By doing this, you will be rewarded with some Qwertycoin.

If you want to learn about cryptocurrencies, mining is a great place to start!

## How to Mine Qwertycoin?

**Please note**: Unfortunately because of some bad people using mining software in malware, most antivirus software will detect the programs below as unsafe.

It is **likely** you will need to add exceptions and exclusions to your antivirus software in order to make things work properly.

Unless you know what you are doing, please **only** download from the links below.

There are currently a few different ways in which you can start mining Qwertycoin:

## 1. [XMR-Stak](https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak)

XMR-Stak is a unified miner, which means the same program will be used to mine with both your CPU and your GPU. It will automatically detect your hardware and adjust the settings accordingly.

Please follow [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/mining/xmr-stak) to start mining Qwertycoin with XMR-Stak.

If you're on Linux, check [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/mining/xmr-stak-linux).

## 2. [XMRig](https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig)

XMRig is a little bit different to XMR-Stak, you need to download a CPU and GPU miner separately and run two separate instances in your computer. One will use your CPU and the other one will use your GPU.

Please follow [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/mining/xmrig) to start mining Qwertycoin with XMRig.

## 3. Cloud Mining

Please follow [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/mining/cloud-mining) to mine with the cloud.

## 4. SBC/Raspberry PI Mining

Please follow [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/guides/mining/Mining-with-SBC) to mine with a SBC/Rasperry Pi.

## 5. Mobile Mining

**Please note**: Using your mobile to mine Qwertycoin is not effective and should only be done for the lulz. It may also cause the phone to overheat and result in premature silicon degradation, shortening the lifespan of your phone.

Please follow [this guide](https://docs.qwertycoin.org/mining/mobile-mining) to mine with your mobile phone.

## 6. Mine with your Daemon

You can do Solo mining with your Qwertycoind.exe (CLI-Download).

1. Open your Qwertycoind.exe
2. Wait for 100% synchronize
3. Type `start_mining <address> <threads>` (`start_mining QWC1N7egU2BQQ1dLHQZfjd5JvmGNd4LiT9wX66QL4ZNTNZkNMTxr54C3wrJK81Ho2RjodprfHhGE6ckKLCkLx4hV9FR8YoRxzh 8`

## Pools

You may view a comprehensive list of pools [here](https://explorer.qwertycoin.org/#pools). Have Questions or Need Help?

Check out our [Discord](https://qwertycoin.org/discord) or [subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/QWERTYCOIN/) to get in touch.


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