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How to mine Zcash with console miner?

To connect to MinerGate and start mining Zcash with our pool, choose the suitable miner according to your OS and hardware and follow the instructions below. Currently we support Nicehash, Silentarmy and Claymore miners for ZEC.

NiceHash Zcash miner

You can choose Nicehash miner for Zcash CPU, CUDA and OpenCL mining on Windows and Linux.

Windows (win 64)'

Download the latest release here: https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/releases.

Open cmd.exe
By default, you will see the following:
```
C:\Users\username
```
Copy system path to the folder where you’ve stored the miner and paste it to cmd.exe
Enter the suitable command to start mining.

For CPU:
nheqminer -l zec.pool.minergate.com:3357 -u YOUR_EMAIL

For CUDA:
nheqminer_cuda_tromp -l pool.minergate:3357 -u YOUR_EMAIL -cd 0

For OpenCL:
nheqminer_cuda_tromp -l pool.minergate:3357 -u YOUR_EMAIL -od 0

You will begin mining. To stop the process, enter
```
Ctrl + C
```

Linux

First, you will need to build the miner. Consecutively enter the commands below to do it.

sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential libboost-all-dev 
git clone https://github.com/feeleep75/nheqminer.git 
cd nheqminer/nheqminer 
mkdir build 
cd build 
cmake .. 
make

Once you do it, run the miner with the following command:
cd ./nheqminer/nheqminer/build
To start mining with your CPU, enter
./nheqminer -l zec.pool.minergate.com:3357 -u YOUR_EMAIL

To stop the process, enter
```
Ctrl + C
```

SILENTARMY Zcash miner

SILENTARMY is an OpenCL Zcash miner. Both AMD and NVidia cards are supported.

Linux

First, you will need to build the miner. As there are many details to take into consideration, please visit Github for the full list of instructions.
Once everything is ready, enter the following command to start mining on CPU
./silentarmy -c stratum+tcp://zec.pool.minergate.com:3357 -u YOUR_EMAIL

To stop the process, enter
```
Ctrl + C
```

Claymore’s Zcash AMD GPU miner

Use Claymore if you want to mine Zcash on Windows with OpenCL.

Windows (win 64)'

Download the latest release here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B69wv2iqszefdmJickl5MF9BOEE
Open the folder and right-click on config.txt. Choose Edit and change it as in the example below.
```
-zpool zec.pool.minergate.com:3357 
-zwal YOUR_EMAIL 
-zpsw x 
#-tt 75 
-i 2 
-allpools 1
```
Execute the start.bat
You will start mining. To stop, enter
```
Ctrl + C
```

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