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Headless Ethminer (nVidia) Setup Guide

STR, July 2018

This outlines setting up mining on Ubuntu. This was first written in April 2017, and was extended in July 2018 to make it easier for both people who can handle headless ubuntu and for people who prefer desktop. It's also been updated for Bitmethod goodness to make it easier for a larger collection of people to successfully mine using GPUs.

This guide assumes the reader already has a crypto wallet set up, is comfortable with Linux and the command line, and knows how to use Google if they run into problems.

The end result is an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop running CUDA ethminer via systemd.

Hardware

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	SOP for a bootable USB key is:

	Launch DiskPart as an Administrator.
	Use List Disk to find your USB key
	Use Select Disk to choose your USB key.
	Clean (to wipe out the USB and delete the partition entries).
	Run Create Partition Primary to create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive.
	Format FS=NTFS Quick to lay down the file system as NTFS.
	Assign (to give our USB a drive letter).
	Active to make it bootable.

	// Define two dates to compare to get to the number of days
	// This example is the number of days a woman has to work
	// before then making the same pay as a man in the US https://www.pay-equity.org/day.html
	var date1 = '2018-04-10';
	var date2 = '2018-01-01';

	// First we split the values to arrays date1[0] is the year, [1] the month and [2] the day
	date1 = date1.split('-');
	date2 = date2.split('-');