Join mining pool with Geth

Question

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

Answer 1

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.