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I have recently switched from geth to parity. I want to know how to mine using parity in testnet? I am synched using parity --testnet and I have the web page but how to mine blocks?

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  • I'm pretty sure ethminer ca be pointed at it.
    – o0ragman0o
    Commented Dec 8, 2016 at 2:36
  • so parity itself didn't mine? it needs ethminer or geth to do so?
    – Arslan Smal
    Commented Dec 11, 2016 at 19:05

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Parity doesn't come with bundled miner (not even CPU miner).

You need to install ethminer and point it to your Parity instance.

# Start Parity and connect to ropsten testnet
$ parity --chain=ropsten

# and in second terminal start ethminer
$ ethminer -F http://localhost:8545
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    Additionally, --author is required for mining, the value to pass in can be the account address.
    – Yuanfei Zhu
    Commented Mar 18, 2017 at 7:01

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