🪟 Mining on Windows

Download the Windows binaries

Grab the official pre-built bundle:

https://burritoco.in/downloads/burritocoin-0.21.4-win64.zip

It's about 14 MB. Inside the zip you'll find burritocoind.exe, burritocoin-cli.exe, burritocoin-tx.exe, burritocoin-wallet.exe, and four required .dll files.

(Optional) Verify the download

Open PowerShell, cd to the folder where you downloaded the zip, and run:

Get-FileHash .\burritocoin-0.21.4-win64.zip -Algorithm SHA256

The SHA256 should match:

D3AA77AF67F97E5B768771213089D76910D17EDC277E42F178C5819396B02071

If it doesn't match, the download is corrupted or tampered with — delete it and try again.

Extract the zip

Right-click the zip → Extract All… → choose a folder you'll remember, e.g. C:\BurritoCoin. All eight files (4 .exe + 4 .dll) must stay together in the same folder.

Create the config file

BurritoCoin Core looks for its config in a fixed location. Open File Explorer, paste this into the address bar, and press Enter:

%APPDATA%\BurritoCoin

If the folder doesn't exist, create it (right-click in %APPDATA%, New → Folder → name it BurritoCoin).

Inside that folder, right-click → New → Text Document, and name it burritocoin.conf (make sure Windows isn't hiding the .txt extension — the file must end in .conf, not .conf.txt).

Open it in Notepad and paste:

server=1
rpcuser=burritouser
rpcpassword=CHANGE_THIS_TO_SOMETHING_RANDOM
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcbind=127.0.0.1

Replace CHANGE_THIS_TO_SOMETHING_RANDOM with a long random string. Save and close.

Start the node

Open Command Prompt (press Win + R, type cmd, Enter), then:

cd C:\BurritoCoin
burritocoind.exe

You'll see startup logs. Leave this window open — closing it stops the node. If you'd rather run it minimized to the system tray, append -daemon (note: on Windows, -daemon just detaches; the node runs as a normal background process).

Open a second Command Prompt

Leave the node window running. Open a new Command Prompt (Win + R → cmd → Enter), then:

cd C:\BurritoCoin
burritocoin-cli.exe createwallet "mining"
burritocoin-cli.exe getnewaddress

The second command prints a BRTO address — something like brto1q… (native SegWit) or B… (legacy). Copy it — you'll need it in step 5.

Whitelist the folder in Windows Defender first

Do this before downloading or Defender will quarantine the file and you'll have to keep restoring it.

1. Create the folder you'll use, e.g. C:\cpuminer.
2. Open Windows Security (Win + S → "Windows Security" → Enter).
3. Click Virus & threat protection.
4. Under Virus & threat protection settings, click Manage settings.
5. Scroll to Exclusions and click Add or remove exclusions.
6. Click Add an exclusion → Folder → select C:\cpuminer.

Now Defender will leave that folder alone.

Download the Windows build

Pre-built Windows binaries are on the cpuminer-opt releases page:

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/releases

Grab the latest cpuminer-opt-X.Y.Z-windows.zip. The zip contains multiple .exe files, one per CPU instruction set (cpuminer-sse2.exe, cpuminer-avx2.exe, cpuminer-zen3.exe, etc.).

If your browser blocks the download, click the warning and choose Keep / Keep anyway. Save it directly into C:\cpuminer (the folder you whitelisted above).

Extract and pick the right binary

Right-click the zip → Extract All… → into C:\cpuminer. Pick the .exe that matches your CPU:

• Modern AMD (Ryzen 5000+ / Zen 3+): cpuminer-zen3.exe
• Modern Intel (10th gen+): cpuminer-avx2.exe
• Anything else / unsure: cpuminer-sse2.exe (slowest but works on every 64-bit CPU)

If you pick wrong you'll just get an "Illegal instruction" error on launch — no harm, just try a less-aggressive build.

Run the miner

In the Command Prompt where you ran burritocoin-cli.exe (or open a new one and cd C:\cpuminer), replace the password and address with your own:

cpuminer-sse2.exe -a scrypt ^
  -o http://127.0.0.1:9226 ^
  -O burritouser:YOUR_PASSWORD ^
  --coinbase-addr=YOUR_BRTO_ADDRESS

(^ is the line-continuation character in Windows Command Prompt — equivalent to \ on Linux/Mac. You can also put it all on one line.)

You should see lines like:

[2026-05-03 14:22:01] 8 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm
[2026-05-03 14:22:05] CPU #0: 12.34 kH/s
[2026-05-03 14:22:09] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 98.76 kH/s

That's it. You're mining.