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I followed this guide to set up aws to mine ethereum with an instance that has GPUs. After set up, I let the miner go for a day without any pay in the smallest denomination of Ethereum. I researched and found that, at this point, you should be mining with a pool. I searched around, but found no instructions of how to mine in a pool with Geth.

Can someone help me find out the right way to join a mining pool using geth?

Thank You

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You don't need geth to mine with a pool, just Ethminer.

Simply do ethminer --opencl-device 0 -G -F "POOL_ADDRESS"

You will need to look at the documentation for your pool to find the proper URL for the "POOL_ADDRESS" field.

For example, if you wanted to mine on dwarfpool, you would use ethminer -G -F http://eth-eu.dwarfpool.com:80/YOUR_WALLET where YOUR_WALLET is the address you would like to receive payouts at.

Tjaden Hess
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  • Is ethminer a part of official etherum toolset? It lives in another github repo https://github.com/ethereum-mining. Where is the backstory? Sorry for a random question. – Anthony Kong Dec 01 '17 at 03:14
  • It's kind of hard to say what the "official" Ethereum toolset is. When this answer was posted, it reffered to the ethminer in the cpp-ethereum GitHub. It is now separately hosted and developed by respected members of the community, including original contributors to the cpp version – Tjaden Hess Dec 01 '17 at 06:05
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    Is it possible to mine through geth since ethminer does not allow CPU miners? @Tjaden Hess♦ – alper Dec 17 '17 at 16:40
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    This doesn't answer the question – Srneczek Feb 08 '21 at 06:51