In order to make extra money, Julian, a 26-year-old IT analyst decided to start gpu mining ethereum using his computer running Ubuntu linux version 17, his graphic card RX 580 and the ethminer software.

In this post, I will show you how to mine ethereum using an RX 580 GPU, a computer running Ubuntu 17 and a software called ethminer.

• We are using Ubuntu server version 17. (64 bits)
• We are using the MINERGATE minig pool
• Minergate will charge you a small percentage of your mining profits, something like 1.5%

MINERGATE

Access the MINERGATE website and create an account.

DRIVER DOWNLOAD - RX 480 / RX 580

Access the AMD SUPPORT PAGE and download the file: amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821.tar.xz.

I will assume that you transferred the driver installation file to the /downloads directory of your linux computer.

GPU INSTALLATION - RX 480 / RX 580

Use the following commands to install the required packages to enable the RX 480 / RX 580 Graphic card on your linux computer.

# mkdir /downloads
# cd /downloads
# tar -Jxvf  amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821.tar.xz
# cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-450821/
# ./amdgpu-pro-install

After finishing the installation, reboot the computer.

# reboot

ETHMINER INSTALLATION

Use the following commands to download, extract and install the ethminer software.

# mkdir /download/ethminer -p
# cd /downloads/ethminer
# wget https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases/download/v0.11.0/ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
# tar –zxvf ethminer-0.11.0-Linux.tar.gz
# cp bin/ethminer /usr/bin/

MINING ETHEREUM

In order to start mining ethereum, use the following command:

# ethminer -G -F http://eth.pool.minergate.com:55751/virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com

• You need to change the username virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com from the command above to the username that you created on the minergate website.

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