Thread by @NickADobos

How to mine #ETH on your new M1 MacBook Pro in only 15 minutes!

A guide, even for absolute beginners

1. Setup wallet
2. Join a pool
3. Download m1 ETHMiner
4. Setup and press go
5. $$$$$$
6. Make sure you don’t light it on fire
7. Cash out

Here’s how 👇

https://twitter.com/nickadobos/status/1453917785189408768

1. setup a ETH wallet

I already had a Metamask, so I used that. There’s others options too.

Setting one of these up is the most tedious part

Be sure to use a non-custodial one. Aka not managed by an exchange like Coinbase

Coinbase wallet might work (I haven’t tested)

If you haven’t used one before, make absolute sure you write down your secret key or seed phrase

If you lose your key, you can not recover it. Ever.

There is no “I forgot my password” email to reset. There is no one on earth who can find it for you.

Also be extremely careful to not get phished or leak your password.

If someone gets access to your account they will clean it out in seconds and there is no one in the world that can undo it

2. Join a pool!

Flying solo will make it very hard to win a block and get paid on your own. Easier to work together!

I used ethermine.org

(There are others too if you want to shop around poolwatch.io/coin/ethereum)

Go to the Ethermine and connect your wallet

3. Find a mining app

Unfortunately not many of these are setup for Mac, and even less for M1 Apple silicone

Luckily for us, random GitHub page to the rescue!

🙏Yifan Gu!

It’s a fork of a popular mining app custom compiled for M1 chips!

github.com/gyf304/ethmine…

Download that and stick it somewhere. I just put it in Applications

4. Set it up!

Open terminal and navigate to where you put it

For noobs:
“LS” is for showing your folders
“Cd <foldername>” is for moving into your folder

Hit enter

You can also drag the file into the terminal window to automatically fill it in, even without cd-ing
(Handy for desktop and the applications folders which are weird)

The download from github doesn’t come packaged as an executable, so we need to make it one

“chmod +x ethminer-m1”
Or
“chmod +x <drag file here>”

Enter

You’ll see the icon change

Run it!

“./ethminer-m1” then enter

Or just drag it into the window and hit enter

You’ll get a permissions error, click yes on the box. Try again. Once more. Hit yes. Try again

You should see it print a little message about ETHminer and no arguments

Now you just need to tell it to start!!

Go here ethermine.org/start

Pick whatever server is closest

Then use

“<./ethminer-m1 or drag in the exe> -P stratum://<YourETHAddrrssFromMetamask>.<whateverNameYouWant>@<server>:4444

Removing the <> as needed

Mine looked like this

Pro move:
Turn that command into a shell script so you have a button for it

6. Type that command and Hit enter!
BOOM 💥 YOU ARE MINING!!

You’ll see a whole bunch of stuff being logged! Let it do it’s thing!

You can press cntrl-c to stop

Using the etherminer website, tap Miner address in the top right and paste your address to see your dashboard

It will take ~30 minutes or so to mine your first stake in order for it to show up on the dashboard

It will also be much slower at first as it builds the 4GB DAG file with the blockchain’s history

7. 🔥🔥 This might not be required

I noticed that my computer got HOT after a few mins, top left side above keyboard was hot enough I wouldn’t want to leave my hand

And the fans didn’t seem to turn on. Not sure if this miner dodges system heat checks

I was a little concerned

Don’t want to melt my brand new $5000 computer

To be extra sure I used this fan control app to turn them on manually

Totally free don’t need the premium features

crystalidea.com/macs-fan-contr…

On automatic fan control, some sensors were getting up to around 80-85 Celsius which was a bit concerning

So I set them manually to around 4500 rpm’s which kept them the sensors closer to more reasonable 50-55c max

So yeah, use this at your own risk

I might have been overly safe and maybe the new MacBooks are just really good at handling heat and hadn’t hit the limit yet

But with running random ass software from GitHub I didn’t want to risk it since I have no idea what the temp max temp these chips can deal with is

7. That’s it! All that’s left is to wait and cash out!

The website has instructions on how. The default limit is quite high so you might want to lower it. Just watch the gas fees.

They also allow polygon withdrawals for free, but that’s trickier. Instructions on website!

Tada! You are a miner now!