Wownero: How to solo mine on testnet with XMRig
This is useful to see what it looks like when finding a block if you're solo mining wownero on mainnet and to check you have it setup right. Since you will get blocks quite rarely when mining on mainnet, this is a nice way to see what it would look like. These instructions are for Windows 10. Instructions 1. Download the latest release: https://git.wownero.com/wownero/wownero/releases 2. Extract it and open a cmd or powershell in the folder where you extracted it to. Run this command: ./wownerod --testnet --offline --fixed-difficulty 10000 3. Open the cli wallet in testnet mode. Again, do this by opening a cmd or powershell window in the folder and running this line: .\wownero-wallet-cli.exe --testnet 4. Make a new testnet wallet or open one you have already by following the prompts in the console. 5. Run this in the wallet. You can change the number 1 to run on more threads: start_mining 1 6. Wait until it reaches block 55 in the daemon, at which point it stops working and you