Mining Ergo ($ERG) Cryptocurrency Full Guide
A collection of links I’ve thrown together while researching myself to save anyone else the time.
With Ergo’s recent hard-fork ‘The Hardening’— difficulty has dropped, miners have seen a massive boost in efficiency.
These are stock GPUs with no overclocking using NV Miner
2080 TI — 17MH/s>>>42MH/s — 240% increase better hash
2080 Max Q — 10 MH/s>>>27MH/s — 270% (Dedicated Laptop Card)
2060 Super — 9 MH/s>>>35MH/s — 388%
1660 GTX — 5 MH/s>>>15MH/s — 300%
FAQ
- Block time is 4 minutes
- Block-reward is 67.5 ERG
- Circulation is near 33m currently. Max 90m and full circulation in about 8 years
- The Ergo Treasury locks 10% for the first 2-years (ending soon), before dropping to 4%
Calculator
Some calculators you can use to get a rough estimate of profit.
Official Guides
Requirements: PC/Linux + GPU (Nvidia/AMD) of 6GB minimum as Ergo heavily relies on memory usage while the core processor sits idle.
Ergo node
Stratum server (for pools)
Stratum proxy
There’s also guides from ADA Pool North, Woolypooly and you can you can also now mine ERGO on Nanopool with any existing miner.
edit — 6/2. Added to HeroMiners
GPU
For the AMD miner, the compatible Operating Systems are
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (64-bit version)
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.8 (64-bit version)
- Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit version)
Ergo can also be mined with Nvidia miner
Community Support
There are active miner communities for Ergo on Discord and Telegram
