Tutorial – Mine for blocks with Microsoft Windows

Mine for blocks with your Windows wallet and the following instructions.

Click here to download the file kotia-qt-windows.zip.

Open File Explorer and go to your downloads directory.

Extract the zip file kotia-qt-windows.zip

Open “Run” with the keyboard shortcut winkey + r.

Enter the following text behind “Open”: notepad

Press on the button “OK”.

Paste the following into notepad.

rpcuser=rpc_kotia
rpcpassword=dR2oBQ3K1zYMZQtJFZeAerhWxaJ5Lqeq9J2
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
listen=1
server=1
addnode=node2.kotia.cash

Click on the menu item “File” -> “Save As…”.

The open dialog box will appear, click on “Save as type” and select the option “All Files (*.*)”.

Enter the following text behind “File name”: kotia.conf

Click on the menu bar, type the following text %appdata% and press on the enter key. enter

Create the folder kotia and open the folder.

Press on the button “Save”.

Create a new file with the keyboard shortcut ctrl + n.

Paste the following into notepad.

@echo off

set SCRIPT_PATH=%cd%

cd %SCRIPT_PATH%

echo Press [CTRL+C] to stop mining.

:begin

 for /f %%i in ('kotia-cli.exe getnewaddress') do set WALLET_ADDRESS=%%i

 kotia-cli.exe generatetoaddress 1 %WALLET_ADDRESS%

goto begin

Click on the menu item “File” -> “Save As…”.

The open dialog box will appear, click on “Save as type” and select the option “All Files (*.*)”.

Enter the following text behind “File name”: mine.bat

Click on the menu bar, open the location where you extracted the zip file kotia-qt-windows.zip.

Press on the button “Save”.

Open your wallet and execute mine.bat to mine your first block.

 

 

Tutorial – Mine for blocks with macOS

Mine for blocks with your macOS wallet and the following instructions.

Open Spotlight Search and type the following:

terminal

Click on terminal.

Execute the following command, to open your downloads directory:

cd Downloads

Install Homebrew with the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Enter your sudo password to install Homebrew.

Install wget with the following command:

brew install wget

Download your macOS wallet with the following command:

wget

“https://kotia.cash/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kotia-qt.dmg”

 

-O kotia-qt.dmg

Download the macOS tools for your wallet with the following command:

wget

“https://kotia.cash/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kotia-tools-macos.tar.gz”

 

-O kotia-tools-macos.tar.gz

Extract the tar file with the following command:

tar -xzvf kotia-tools-macos.tar.gz

Create the data directory for your coin with the following command:

mkdir "$HOME/Library/Application Support/kotia/"

Open nano.

nano "$HOME/Library/Application Support/kotia/kotia.conf" -t

Paste the following into nano.

rpcuser=rpc_kotia
rpcpassword=dR2oBQ3K1zYMZQtJFZeAerhWxaJ5Lqeq9J2
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
listen=1
server=1
addnode=node2.kotia.cash

Save the file with the keyboard shortcut ctrl + x.

Go to the directory kotia-tools-macos, with the following command:

cd kotia-tools-macos

Open nano.

nano mine.sh -t

Paste the following into nano.

#!/bin/bash

SCRIPT_PATH=`pwd`;

cd $SCRIPT_PATH

echo Press [CTRL+C] to stop mining.

while :

do

./kotia-cli generatetoaddress 1 $(./kotia-cli getnewaddress)

 

done

Save the file with the keyboard shortcut ctrl + x.

Make the file executable.

chmod +x mine.sh

Open your downloads directory in Finder.

Install your macOS wallet with the file kotia-qt.dmg.

Open your wallet.

Go back to your terminal and execute the following command to mine your first block:

./mine.sh