Litecoin wallet GPU mining

Step 1: Litecoin LTC GPU mining

This guide will show you how to get started with Litecoin GPU mining. If anything is unclear in this guide please leave a comment about it. In this guide a AMD/ATI Radeon 6870 is used but settings for other AMD/ATI cards are available also. If you are looking for the most efficient card to mine with then you’ll want to get a AMD R9 290 or the AMD Radeon 7950 (which is hardly available anymore). When looking at the hash to watt ratio these are currently the most efficient cards on the market.

You’ll want to start with pooled mining as solo mining is not very viable anymore. The difficulty of the network is too high to effectively solo mine with a single computer. to get a single block of 50 LTC. I suggest you skip to step 2 for pooled mining. However, for people with access to many computers I’ll leave the basics of solo mining in this guide and you can continue reading.

If you want to solo-mine you’ll need to have the litecon client installed and configured. You can download the litecoin client, if you are running windows look for the latest litecoin-x.x.xx-win32-setup.exe as this is the easiest way to install the client.

After you installed the litecoin client it will have to catch up with the network first before you can start mining as you can see in the image below.

Once the client is done synchronizing with the network (this can take some time) you’ll have to setup the litecoin client.

In order for the litecoin client to support mining you’ll have to create an ini file in the %appdata%\litecoin folder. To get to this folder click your start button (start->run for Windows XP) and type in %appdata%\litecoin

Now right click in the folder (not on a file or directory) and goto New->Text Document

And rename it to litecoin.conf

Now you should get this pop-up as you’re trying to change the extension of a .txt file to .conf. Click Yes.