Mining LOKI on Windows 10 with NVidia 1080TI Cards
How-to Guide for Mining LOKI
Quick rundown on how to mine a new crypto named LOKI or LOK as some of you may know it as. I mine it with both NVidia and AMD series cards. This guide will walk you through mining it with NVidia Series cards. You will find that the guide is a mirror of the AMD guide, except for how you fine tune it at the end.
The mining software will throw errors with your AV program. You will need to whitelist the files when they are downloaded, or disable Realtime Protection.. Personally, I only use Windows Defender on my mining rigs, so I can keep the costs down, plus it is easy to wipe and reinstall the OS if need be.
For Windows Defender, you will need to open the program up, and disable Realtime Protection
If you are using Chrome as your Browser, you will also need to allow the download there as well. To do this:
Open up Chrome
In your address bar type in chrome://settings and press Enter
Scroll to the bottom and select Advanced
De-Select “Protect your device from dangerous sites”
Now you can download the software
Open up another chrome tab and download XMR-STAK to your Windows 10 computer from here:
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases
Once you have it downloaded, go ahead and unzip the file to your Desktop
Navigate to the unpacked files
Double click on xmr-stak and Run the file
You will need to insert a port for monitoring the progress. I use port 30131 and press Enter
Next type in cryptonight_heavy and press Enter
For the pool address, I use loki.ingest.cryptoknight.cc:7733 press Enter
Your username will be your wallet address, for example
LChtjHqr29p5FojLdMtcUW5ApLWyQHH5j4366V78YECEjUkgK99Y7uLDVLpHjXpYM3UcZ39FFL5Gvd4debF95mcJHbnx5ke
Your password will be your worker name. For example mine is Miner6
Your Rig Identifier can be empty, so just press Enter
Input N for TLS and press Enter
Insert N for Nicehash and press Enter
Input N for multiple pools and press Enter
Select Yes when prompted
and your miner will begin!
Now you can use the ipaddress:port/h of your miner to keep an eye on it’s progress from anywhere in the network. For example, navigate to
Once you are mining, you can open up the nvidia.txt file in the same directory as your xmr-stak executable. Within the nvidia.txt file, you will be able to modify your settings. I have found that changing the threads setting it will yield the most results. Each series of card can act differently, so spend some time, and fine tune this settings. It will be worth the time invested.
Happy Mining!
The hardware that I used in this guide:
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (QTY 6):
https://amzn.to/2JqvXC8
Motherboard (QTY 1):
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CPU (QTY 1):
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Memory (QTY 1):
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Hard Drive (QTY 1):
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Risers (QTY 6):
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Power Supplies (QTY 2):
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Add2PSU (QTY 1):
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Power Switch (QTY 1):
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