Turn your computer's spare cycles into freshly-minted BRTO. The chain is brand new and difficulty is low — right now mining is realistic on a normal laptop or desktop. Pick your operating system to get started.
Mining is the process of running a program that does math problems for the network. When your computer solves one, the network rewards you with newly-created BurritoCoin and you've also helped confirm transactions for everyone else.
BurritoCoin uses the same mining algorithm as Litecoin, called Scrypt. That means any standard Scrypt mining software (like cpuminer-opt) will work. You don't need special hardware — a regular CPU works fine, especially while the network is small.
The setup is similar on every operating system, but the specific commands differ. Choose yours below for a step-by-step guide.
Every OS guide walks you through the same five steps:
This is the software that connects you to the BurritoCoin network and holds your wallet. Your miner will talk to it locally.
Add a few lines to a config file so your miner can connect to the node and submit found blocks.
This is where your mining rewards will be sent. The node generates one for you.
We recommend cpuminer-opt — it's free, open-source, and runs on every major OS.
Run a single command. Your computer starts hashing. When you find a block, 10 BRTO appears in your wallet.