This funny virtual coin with the image of a Japanese Shiba Inu dog has become the center of attention of miners today, since even owners of computers that are not particularly powerful can mine dogecoin.

Is it easy to get “dog money”?

The attention of cryptocurrency miners was unexpectedly attracted by the only cryptocurrency in the world created for fun.

Dogecoin (which, by the way, is a branch of litecoin) is good because even the owner of a not particularly powerful computer can mine it. In 2017, the total turnover of “doggy coins” was one hundred and twelve million.

How to mine dogecoin for beginners?

To start earning Dogecoins, old-timers of the Network recommend that their inexperienced brothers first decide on the program through which mining will take place. For example, owners of video cards manufactured by Nvidia are in most cases recommended the CUDAminer program.

In order for the program to start working and generate passive income, its developers want to receive information from users regarding their personal data, as well as the pool address. In some cases, the program requests information about the graphics chip installed on the user's PC.

A beginner should not have any difficulties finding a pool. You need to select one from the list of sites, register and create a virtual worker. And most importantly, do not forget to automate the withdrawal of earned funds.

The next step for a newly miner is to create a bat file (without this action, mining will not start) and fill it with information of a certain kind. It is not known for certain how effective this type of income is. Reviews from people who have used this method of earning money can be characterized as mutually exclusive: enthusiastic reviews alternate with negative ones.

The answer to the question of beginners who want to become cryptocurrency miners (in particular, Dogecoin): “How to mine without spending money on buying equipment?” - found a long time ago. This is the well-known cloud mining, a method that involves renting already installed and operating capacities.

Mining Features

Generating new dogecoin blocks takes only two minutes (generating litecoins and bitcoins takes six and ten minutes, respectively), so you can mine it even on a simple computer or laptop.

In addition, both a pool participant and a single miner whose computer is equipped with an NVidia or ATi video card can mine Dogecoins. Miners with many years of experience note that the best results can be achieved with an AMD video card.

For newbie miners who want to learn how and where to mine Dogecoin without investing personal funds in purchasing equipment, it is better to use faucets or join cloud mining participants.

Another tip from experienced entrepreneurs: it is advisable to store earned DOGE in a virtual wallet downloaded from the official website (dogecoin.com) and installed on a PC.

In 2014, on one of the thematic forums, a list of components for the latest computer, which was assembled specifically for Dogecoin mining, was published. We advise beginners who have earned their first capital to take care of their own mining rig, consisting of four R9 290 video cards, as well as a power supply from any manufacturer (power - at least 1275 watts), any storage device (hard drive), motherboard (for example , Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7), an 8 GB memory unit, four PCI-E cables.

Particular attention was paid to the need to purchase cables. Since video cards overheat during mining, it is not recommended to connect them directly to the motherboard, even if cryptocurrency mining takes place in the winter in an unheated room.

But let's return to video card models. We don't think the R9 290 is the best option, but we can explain why we chose this particular model. The fact is that in the event of a collapse and the computer needs to be urgently sold, the latest model of video card will quickly attract the attention of potential buyers.

Which video card is better?

As mentioned above, the R9 290 video card is not the best option for mining. Experienced miners chose this model, as mentioned above, for reinsurance. This model was also chosen because it is the most acceptable option in terms of matching the productivity of the mining farm and the cost of costs.

During the discussion, it turned out that advanced users consider the R9 280 or 7970 model to be the most optimal option for mining.

Which video cards are most suitable for mining?

• GTX 1060 and GTX 1070. The latter model is recognized as the best mining video card of 2017.

All of these models are manufactured by Nvidia. According to experts, the GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 are among the most productive and practical.

Now there is something left to figure out: how to mine dogecoin on an old computer?

Is mining now available to everyone?

There is good news for those who want to mine dogecoin on an Nvidia video card. If you believe the information published on the Internet at the beginning of last year, this type of income is now available to owners of old equipment. Moreover, not all components will be used as a “machine” that prints cryptocurrency, but only a video card. Experts say that if a card released by Nvidia is no more than 3-4 years old, it is suitable for mining.

If a miner is a beginner and is going to take his first steps on a personal computer, then he should make sure that a 64-bit version of Windows is installed on his PC.

True, such equipment will only be able to mine certain types of cryptocurrencies. In particular, the coins named are ether and dogecoin.

How to mine dogecoin using Nvidia video cards using CUDAminer

After the user downloads and installs the CUDAminer console mining program on his computer, and then goes through a simple registration procedure, he will only have to enter the received identification code in a specially designated field. After this, according to information published on the Internet, the program itself begins to mine Dogecoin.

It should be noted that information about this method of earning money is alarming for three reasons:

• individual pools listed as suitable for mining on old computers are perceived by browsers as “scam sites”;
• Discussion participants, commenting and adding to the interactive instructions on how to mine Dogecoin, are limited to only providing their links to download programs and joyful messages about passively earned coins. It may be easy for experienced miners to understand this information mess, but such instruction is unlikely to help novice miners;
• some users join the discussion just for a short line like: “I tried it, mine it... it worked!”

Authors of reviews, reporting incorrect operation of the projects specified in the instructions for making money, immediately redirect users via their affiliate links - to new, “working” sites. We have given the answer to the question of how to mine dogecoin (instructions are given in the article). The question of how much a miner earns remains open.

Dogecoin has the same algorithm as Litecoin, but with some changes.

So, dogecoin has some differences from litecoin:

1. A block is created once a minute, that is, 2.5 times faster. Therefore, transaction confirmation is faster. The confirmation procedure will take about 6 minutes, while Bitcoin transactions take an hour, and Litecoin - approximately 15 minutes.
2. The difficulty of coin mining is recalculated once every 240 blocks, approximately updated every 4 hours. The currency becomes less vulnerable to attacks by miners. If at this time the rate was artificially inflated by the raid of miners, then after 4 hours it will stabilize.

Dogecoin was developed using the “Scrypt” algorithm, this was done so that this cryptocurrency could not be mined using specialized ASIC chips, which were already used in Bitcoin mining. However, this time did not last long, and from about mid-2014, ASICs that operated based on the Scrypt algorithm began to be widely used. Over almost the entire existence of the network, the complexity of dogecoin mining has been growing, and it is already difficult for CPU and GPU miners to compete with more energy-efficient ASIC miners.

The hashrate of the Dogecoin network and the difficulty of this currency have literally skyrocketed. Now it is unprofitable to mine this cryptocurrency separately; many are switching to pools that support combined mining of Doge and Litecoin.

Each digital currency, in particular Dogecoin, has its own mining difficulty indicators. The number of mined coins per unit of time depends on this data. And the higher these numbers are, the fewer coins will be mined as a result.

Figure 1. Dogecoin mining difficulty graph.

The graph shows changes in network difficulty, and Dogecoin mining itself, given this data, resembles an ascending ladder with slight fluctuations. And the higher these steps, the fewer coins the miner will receive at the output.

Everything here is very simple - when creating the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, the developers laid down a specific number of coins that would be mined. If in a certain period of time more of them are mined than expected, mining costs will increase. This is all done in order to reduce the rate of digital money production. If the difficulty of mining in the network decreases from the planned parameters, then the block is found faster.

If interest in cryptocurrency increases, it makes sense that there will be an increase in difficulty and value over time. The difficulty of mining a token shows that this currency is in great demand, so its price on the market is rising.

How to mine dogecoin?

In order to mine DogeCoin, you first need to get the wallet address where the mined coins will be sent. To do this, you need to install the Doge wallet on your computer.

The mine dogecoin process itself is a calculation of the hash of header blocks using the resource capacity of the equipment itself. Accordingly, the extraction of money is, in fact, carried out by a computer or ASIC. If the key is selected first, then the entire reward for solving the block will be transferred to the wallet.

There are three main ways to mine Dogecoin:

1. Using a computer.
2. Joint association in a mining pool.
3. Renting capacity in the cloud or cloud mining.

Unlike other cryptocurrencies, the process of solving dogecoin blocks and receiving rewards remained random. Only in 2014 the situation changed, and “miners” began to receive a fixed number of coins for their work.

Pools for dogecoin

The difficulty level of dogecoin mining is so high that you cannot make a profit alone with a powerful computer. For this purpose, there are pools where everyone connects their equipment.

Existing dogecoin mining pools:

All three pools are multi-user and together make up the main power of the network. They can be used to mine dogecoin coins, as well as other cryptocurrencies.

Dogecoin mining programs

These GUI programs allow you to effortlessly mine dogecoin on your computer OS. With their help you can control the mining process. In order to use the program, you need to download it and configure it for Doge cryptocurrency mining. Such programs are called dogecoin miner. The most popular of them are:

1. CGMiner 3.72 for ATI GPUs. Setting up CGMiner with a full description and instructions from the official developer is on the bitcointalk forum.
2. Cudaminer for Nvidia GPUs. How to properly configure Cudaminer in accordance with the developer’s instructions, read on the bitcointalk forum.

Figure 2. Program for mining the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.

To run the program you will need to create a run.bat file. Open it with Notepad and paste the information from the pool there. Adjust the necessary parameters and enter the data of the “worker”. After which you can launch the miner program.

Mining dogecoin on a video card

Let's immediately note the fact that ATI video cards are more productive than Nvidia. This is due to the hardware and software architecture of the video cards: ATI has many more unified shader units (ALUs), which themselves are less powerful than their competitors in this industry GeForce Nvidia, but for mining, quantity is better than quality. Each video card differs in processor performance and has its own dogecoin mining power, which is indicated in kH/s.

For mining on Nvidia, you will need to install the Cudaminer program, and for ATI, you will need sgminer or cgminer 3.72, which are worth searching on the Internet, these miners support the Scrypt algorithm.
As a rule, when you first start up, video cards do not provide maximum performance, and to speed up work you need to make adjustments to the startup line, as well as change the frequencies of the video card.

However, we must not forget when setting up mining that the video card will remain under 100% load for a long time and will become very hot. Therefore, it is imperative to provide ventilation to the case in order to lower its temperature.

Important: the permissible temperature value should not be higher than 80-90 degrees.

Mining dogecoin on a CPU

For mining, you will need a processor that is as powerful and core-based as possible. This method is the easiest to set up and does not require installing any drivers or related programs. To do this, you will need to download and install the miner program (for downloading for different OS).
After that, you should configure the miner to launch in a file with the bat extension, opening it as a text document. Specify the pool name, worker name and password.

Figure 3. Program for mining on a processor.

Solo mining dogecoin

Solo mining is mining coins on your own, that is, searching for blocks only on your computer. Currently, it is not effective; it was popular at the time of the creation of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. This type of mining requires a powerful supercomputer, which, in turn, will consume a lot of electricity.

The disadvantages of this method are that searching for a block can take a lot of time. And if the solution to the block is not found, then the reward will not be received.

Cloud dogecoin mining

Cloud mining of dogecoin is presented on the Internet as the rental of specialized equipment. The profitability of cloud mining depends on the power and number of mined coins at the current cost, i.e. upon completion of the purchased contract, the investment will bring a certain share of profit.

This type of mining is popular because many users do not want to buy expensive ASICs, configure video cards and spend a lot of time on the computer. There are enough services providing this type of service, you just need to find a time-tested and reliable one. The only cloud mining where there are dogs is the old proven one.

Screenshot of dogee mining in Eobot cloud mining

The first thing you need to do is create an account, familiarize yourself with the tariff and the capacity offered, and only then purchase the service. When all conditions are met, you will be able to see how the amount in your dogecoin wallet increases daily.

How can you mine Dogecoin on a video card? Practice shows that there are fans of mining this cryptocurrency using Raspberry Pi, although their power is tens of times inferior to current computers. The best option for this would be to choose not even modern processors, but powerful video cards, because with their help you can get the maximum profit.

When choosing a specific graphics editor, experts recommend choosing ATI rather than Nvidia, since they have better performance, which is due to the architecture of their boards, namely the larger number of shader units. It is necessary to pay attention to quantity, not quality.

When choosing a specific video card model, you should pay attention to the kH/s indicators. For Nvidia video cards, this figure stops at around 400 kH/s. In turn, top ATI models reach values ​​of 1500 kH/s.

Each video card requires the use of different programs for this. If you choose the first option, it is Cudaminer. If you choose an ATI video card, then choose Cgminer. Despite the fact that the choice of programs is different, the procedure remains the same for everyone:

• specifying the required pool;
• entering login and password;
• The most important component is setting up the video card.

In order to select the right pool for mining, you should do the following:

• run one of the programs that was mentioned above (depending on the selected video card);
• introduce a Dogecoin mining pool;
• Enter the user’s personal data that is necessary for work.

There are a large number of pools on the network, so finding the right option is not difficult. The only thing you need to pay attention to is choosing a large pool. In this way, a potential tampering of one of the blocks can be avoided.

After successful registration, the next step is to create a worker. To do this, you need to go to the desired tab and specify your username and password. There is a peculiarity that if an account is hacked, the creator can safely receive all the profits on his own. The user can set up automatic withdrawal of money to a personal wallet.

To start Dogecoin mining on a video card, you need to create a special bat file. Practice shows that video cards do not operate at full capacity. That is why, if desired, it can be adjusted. To do this, you need to use Trixx or Afterburner. In addition, increasing the frequency of operation is not always the main goal when using these applications. There are situations when it is necessary to reduce the power of the video card in order to avoid rapid wear and tear of the device.

What are the features of Dogecoin mining?

There are a number of features that are associated with mining this particular currency. If only one person is engaged in mining, then he receives all the profits. If several people mine the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, then all income should be distributed proportionally relative to the power of their computers. However, the speed of this process does not at all depend on the number of miners who extract currency at the same time. This is all realized thanks to changes in the complexity of cryptocurrency mining. This also manifests itself in the self-regulation of the system, as it continuously monitors its own performance. Depending on the results obtained, the difficulty of mining changes or remains the same.

Taking this factor into account, several scenarios for currency extraction should be determined, since this will only lead to increased profits.

We sell Doge here

Hello dear readers. Today we will talk about such a cryptocurrency as dogecoin. It has existed since 2013 and is gradually gaining momentum. This can also be seen in how its exchange rate changes - at the time of launch, 1 dogecoin costs 0.01 ruble, but now its price has doubled - 0.02 ruble. But we will talk about this in more detail below.

What is DogeCoin? Dogecoin is considered one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the world (second only to the undoubted leaders in this segment), which was created on the basis of Litecoin. Most foreign experts report that this cryptocurrency will “gain in value” every year, and the forecast for 2017 is as follows: 1 DOGE = 0.5 rubles.

At the beginning of this year, reality does not coincide with expectations, but at the same time, we should not draw hasty conclusions - let’s wait, perhaps the forecast will come true.

How to earn Dogecoin on the Internet without investment?

There are only two ways to earn this currency, and both of them are similar to those used to “mine” other cryptocurrencies, these are:

1. Mining using specialized programs;
2. Visiting sites with faucets and collecting currency on them.

But before we start reviewing and recommending software and websites, I want to briefly tell you about the process of creating a wallet for dogecoins.

To get a personal wallet you need:

Go to the website my.dogechain.info, where we click on the button “ Create wall t";

• A dialog box will open in which you must specify your email address, password and repeat it to confirm;

• After which a new dialog box will appear in which you will be told your wallet number, which can be used in the future;

• And this is what your dogecoin wallet looks like from the inside.

Nowadays there are more than a hundred sites on the Internet where anyone can start earning cryptocurrency. This operation is very easy - we go through registration, then indicate your wallet in your profile and start using it.

Freedogecoin– the top project, which is recommended by everyone without exception (including me). Registration is very simple here, and in your profile settings you can set the ability to make automatic payments of your earnings. The minimum withdrawal amount is 10 DOGE.

Overhash is another equally popular site where you can mine more than 40 cryptocurrencies. But one of its most important advantages is support for the Russian interface. The minimum withdrawal amount is 100 DOGE.

My Free Dog– a fat faucet with the ability to withdraw up to 16 dogs every 30 minutes. The most interesting thing is that it does not have a minimum amount for withdrawal. Faucets like this with instant withdrawal to a wallet are very valuable among users.

777Doge– a site where you can earn every hour from 1 to 777 doge.

CryptoCave– a project that is similar in functionality to 777Doge. They also give out doge every 60 minutes - up to 100 units.

5MinDoge– I think from the title you understand that on this site you can mine Dogecoin every 5 minutes. The minimum amount for withdrawal is 1 DOGE. Payments can also be ordered every 5 minutes. By the way, registration is not needed here - just enter your wallet in a special field. Cryptorials– distributes from 1 to 4 dogs every hour.

Criptomania– you can mine one Dodge every hour.

is another project where you can mine cryptocurrency without registration. Here you have the opportunity to receive from 3 to 5 dogs every 90 minutes. The minimum wage is 100 DOGE.

If you are interested in website rotors, then some of the best ones are: FAUCETHUB And ePay.

And, of course, where would we be without faucets that distribute dogs without interruption and without captcha? DogeCola And FieldDogecoins. These services, among other things, have various bonuses.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that each of the above services provides users with the opportunity to earn money using a referral program - invite your friends and comrades and receive DOGE together.

Frankly speaking, you won’t be able to earn a large amount of dogecoin using faucets, but you can still get some. On average, (without connecting the referral system) working with 10 services at the same time, I was able to receive 200-600 dogecoins per day.

Many or few? Decide for yourself, because cryptocurrencies have a different meaning for everyone - someone “mines” them and stores them in their wallet to wait for better times and exchange them when the rate rises. Others want to exchange currency immediately. It is for the latter category of people that working with cranes will be very unprofitable.

Program for mining on a video card

There are quite a lot of programs that allow you to earn free cryptocurrency, including dogecoin. At the same time, you should be very careful when choosing them, since most programs. are created with the aim of deceiving users - without withdrawing the earned cryptocurrency.

To prevent you from falling for the tricks of scammers, I will recommend you some programs that I myself use for mining bitcoins, dogecoins and other currencies.

Kriptex– one of the best programs for mining various cryptocurrencies on a video card and processor. Provides the opportunity to earn about 6 thousand rubles monthly without doing anything. Naturally, the amount of your earnings will directly depend on the technical characteristics of the PC on which the program is used.

The process of “mining” money from Kriptex is very simple - first, go to the official website of the service (kriptex.org), then download and install the software on your computer, go through registration, start mining and wait until the amount is collected to make a payment.

MicroMiner is another mining program that can be downloaded from microminer.cloud. In addition to DogeCoin, you can also receive other cryptocurrencies here.

MinerGate– you can mine several types of cryptocurrencies, and instantly withdraw the mined money to wallets.

CoinMiner– official software created by Cointellect, which allows you to earn up to 1.5 euros daily.

DogeMaker– application for mobile phone. It can be downloaded from the Play Store and installed on a smartphone running the Android operating system. Allows you to earn 8 dogs every 30 minutes by viewing advertisements.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that to start the miner you will need: specify the pool address, user authorization data and video card optimization settings. And one more important point - recently Dogecoin mining through cloud mining services has achieved enormous popularity. You can learn more about this from the following video:

Exchange dogecoin to rubles or other currencies

One of the best exchanges for exchanging dogecoins for other currencies is Exmo. Here anyone can register in just 1-2 minutes and attach their wallets to their profile. You can also exchange bitcoin for dogecoin on Eksmo, and vice versa.

You can buy dogecoin for qiwi using other online exchangers, a list of which can be viewed on the website bestchange.ru. A very convenient calculator for making calculations is also available here. And, of course, the current exchange rate of dogecoin against the ruble, hryvnia, dollar and other currencies.

The main advantages of dogecoin:

1. Easy mining that any beginner can handle;
2. Minimum computer system requirements for good mining;
3. Does not require any investments or invitations;
4. With just a few clicks, dogecoin can be converted to any other currency;
5. New sites with faucets appear very often.

Some users organize Dogecoin mining on Raspberry Pi computers, the performance of which is even lower than that of processors ten years ago. But in reality, it would be inappropriate to use modern processors to mine cryptocoins, since their power does not exceed several tens of kilohashes/s, while top-end graphics cards exceed them tens of times. Consequently, mining Dogecoin coins on video cards can bring great profits, so we’ll get to know it in more detail below.

The first thing worth noting is that ATI graphics adapters are more productive than Nvidia when it comes to mining crypto coins. This is due to the architecture of the boards: ATI has many more shader units. And although the latter are characterized by lower performance than their Nvidia counterparts, in this case quantity is more important than quality. Mining simply does not support a formula that successfully equalizes the performance of both companies' devices in games by simply multiplying quantity by power.

The issue of analyzing the performance of processors, desktop and mobile graphics cards today will not cause any particular difficulties, because you can find many thematic ratings on the Internet. But it is important to know which parameters to compare. And the main characteristic that the miner needs to take into account will be displayed in a graph with kH/s values. Often, Nvidia performance does not exceed 400+ kH/s, while top ATIs can reach 1500 kH/s. The choice is yours!

Mining Dogecoin on Nvidia requires installing the Cudaminer program, and mining cryptocoins on ATI is possible after installing cgminer. In both cases, launching the miner will require specifying the pool address, login/password of the network participant, and video adapter settings.

Among the most reliable and popular Dogecoin pools among miners are https://fast-pool.com/ and https://doge.hashfaster.com. Remember that pools are sometimes long and therefore it is worth choosing among time-tested options. In addition, for the same reason, it is advisable to immediately add a reserve pool to the miner when setting it up, to which it will automatically switch if there is no response from the main pool.

In most cases, graphics cards are not configured to operate at maximum performance by default; in addition, to achieve optimal mining, you will need to change the device frequencies. Afterburner or Trixx programs can help with this. It is noteworthy that in some cases, an increase in device performance is possible after reducing the frequency of the video card (a feature of the Scrypt algorithm), which makes it cooler and quieter.

When setting up Dogecoin mining, it is important to take into account the fact that after starting the mining of crypto coins, the graphics adapter will be 100% loaded for a long time, which will certainly be followed by strong heating of the device. Therefore, the issue of ensuring good ventilation in the case to reduce the temperature of the computer deserves special attention. It is advisable that under load the PC temperature does not exceed 80-90 degrees.