

The reason were covering a wallet setup in this tutorial is because the mimblewimble protocol coins are designed much differently when compared to the other cryptocurrencies. In this tutorial we are also going to show the wallet setup process. I then exclude the top level folder from the antivirus and that excludes all the mining software.

What I like to do, is I make one folder and then put all of my mining software in sub folders.

Because of this, if your mining on your normal everyday use or gaming computer that has an antivirus installed, you will want to exclude the mining software from the antivirus. Secondly, most mining software will get flagged as a virus from virus scanners. First make sure you have the latest drivers for your GPU’s.

So before we start this tutorial, I have two tips for making the most out of your mining experience. Now that we know the details about Beam, let’s get to mining some BEAM! Some General Mining Tips The main differences from the users perspective is Grin allows for IP, file and address based transactions, while beam uses temporary ID’s that help wallets communicate with each other, and has the ability to create permanent ID’s since regular ID’s change after each connection to a wallet, to increase privacy. Beam is a lot different in architecture of the system, compared to Grin. You might have heard about Grin, which was the second cryptocurrency to come out with a version of the mimblewimble protocol. I suggest everyone who wants to mine this coin, reads our article, since it talks about how they are able to accomplish this, as well as how this differs from Monero and ZCash.īeam is using the Equihash 150/5 protocol, is written in C++ and is open to allowing ASICS at some point.
