[nVidia & AMD] How to mine Sparks (SPK) ?

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What is Sparks (SPK) ?

"Sparks - is a form of digital currency which is provided by cryptography.
It is produced through decentralized and advanced mining market.
It is based on Dash for improvement of masternode with 50% rewards, instant and safe transitions and also anonymous transactions.
Sparks has great growth and expanding potential.
The perspective team of developers has long been specializing in the development of blockchain."

Coin Properties :

First Release :
Algoritm : neoscrypt
Name : Sparks
Official Symbol : SPK
Max Supply :
Premine : 2.3%
Reward : 9 SPK
Block Time : 2 min

Coin Community :

Official BitCoinTalks ANN : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2634042.0

UniMining Configuration :

Stratum : neoscrypt.eu1.unimining.net
Port : 4239
Bench : https://www.unimining.net/bench?algo=neoscrypt

What you need to mine Sparks on a mining pool ?

1. Wallets.

You'll need a wallet address to receive the SPK coins mined. It is better to either create a web wallet or download the wallet according to your Operating System.

Official Repository : http://github.com/sparksreborn/sparkspay

2. Mining Sparks with nVidia GPU

2.1 Miner Software.

For nVidia cards we recommand using CCminer.
You can download ccminer according to your Operating System:

CCminer 8.15 (KlausT) : https://github.com/KlausT/ccminer/releases
CCminer 2.2.3 (tpruvot) : https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases
CCminer 7.8 (Alexis) : https://github.com/nemosminer/ccminer-Alexis78/releases

2.2 CCMiner Configuration.

2.2.1 Create a new launch file ("mine SPK on unimining.bat" using notepad or notepad++ under windows) and paste the following command into it:

ccminer-x64 -a neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.eu1.unimining.net:4239 -u GZN33XfdNHUsZEeR8bzF2b1XQ5Q12NwWmq -p c=SPK --cpu-priority=3

Please note the following arguments to the miner ccminer :
-a neoscrypt : set the algorithm to neoscrypt
-o stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.eu1.unimining.net:4239 : set the mining pool URL and stratum port
-u GZN33XfdNHUsZEeR8bzF2b1XQ5Q12NwWmq : wallet address used as username. Please remove this example address and write your own address created at step 1
-p c=SPK : optional (password) parameters. -p is used to give the password related to the username. As mining is anonymous, the password is used to pass optional arguments. c=SPK is used to force YiiMP to mine Sparks (SPK is the symbol defined on the pool for Sparks) : YiiMP should detect the crypto-currency mined according to the wallet address but as coins are forks of other coins (and some don't adapt address' code), it doesn't always work as expected. So we recommand to always set the coin with at least the optional parameter c (ex: c=SPK).. stats is used to perform a benchmark of your GPU (first GPU on multi-GPU) on the 50st share. To add several parameter, seperate them by commas, e.g. -p c=SPK,stats to set the coin as Sparks and perform benchmark
--cpu-priority=3 : parameter used to set the cpu priority.

2.2.2 Launch the *.bat file and check wallets' page after 5 to 10 minutes.


3. Mining Sparks with AMD GPU

3.1 Miner Software.

Using Gateless Gate miner, we were able to mine Sparks (SPK, neoscrypt algo) with recent AMD GPU drivers (see details here below) but some miners experienced problems and used NSGMiner or some forks of SGminer.

Gateless Gate: https://github.com/zawawawa/gatelessgate/releases/
SGMiner : https://github.com/nicehash/sgminer/releases/
NSGMiner : https://github.com/ghostlander/nsgminer

3.2 Gateless Gate Configuration.

Gateless Gate: https://github.com/zawawawa/gatelessgate/releases/
Only windows binaries are provided, you can download the source code and compile it if your OS is not Windows.

I also updated my AMD graphic cards drivers to "Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.1 10/10/2017" but I didn't install the ReLive part.

1 Create a new launch file ("mine SPK on unimining.bat" using notepad or notepad++ under windows) and paste the following command into it:

@echo off
set GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
set GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
set GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
set GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
set GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
gatelessgate.exe --gpu-platform 1 --default-config gatelessgate-SPK.conf
pause

2 Create a new conf file ("gatelessgate-SPK.conf" using notepad or notepad++ under windows) and paste the following command into it:

{
"algorithm": "neoscrypt",
"intensity": "13",
"worksize": "256",
"gpu-threads": "1",
"load-balance": true,

"auto-fan": true,
"temp-cutoff": "90",
"temp-overheat": "85",
"temp-target": "75",

"pools": [
{
"name": "MAIN",
"user": "GZN33XfdNHUsZEeR8bzF2b1XQ5Q12NwWmq",
"pass": "c=SPK",
"quota": "99;stratum+tcp://neoscryt.eu1.unimining.net:4239"
},
{
"__comment": "Please keep this entry. Otherwise, I won't be able to continue open-source development. - zawawa",
"name":"DEVFEE",
"user": "zawawa.gatelessgate",
"pass": "x",
"quota": "1;s1.theblocksfactory.com:3333"
}
]
}

Start the miner by launching the *.bat file.

Remark: some anti-virus and anti-malware may detect the miner as a virus. It is due to the fact that miners were integrated in malwares and virusses so some anti-virus detect the miner as a potentially dangerous component. We use these binaries since years: we've never encounter problems because we avoid to download any binaries and always use the offial binary release on bitcointalk or github.