How to Mine IronFish (IRON)? Complete Beginner’s Guide

Hero Miners
2 min readMar 11, 2023

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The Privacy Platform
for web3

Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides the strongest privacy guarantees on every single transaction. Leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), and the highest industry standards for encryption.

See https://ironfish.network

Empowering users to choose privacy

We’re putting back the power of choice into the hands of users. Whether you want to keep your information public or private, that should be your choice — on any chain.

Borderless, decentralized, and built for everyone

Privacy should be a right. Iron Fish’s simplicity gives everyone that right. Confidentiality shouldn’t be reserved for the powerful or technically gifted. Anyone can create a wallet and run their own node

Regulatory compliance,
built in

Privacy and compliance don’t have to be at odds. Every Iron Fish account comes with a set of view keys allowing an exchange or financial organization to provide a full audit of the accounts they manage and comply with all their AML obligations.

Now that we know the details about Iron Fish, let’s get to mining some IRON!

Iron Fish (IRON) Mining Pool: Those who have no idea about mining can easily start mining by watching this video.

Step 1 — Create Iron Fish (IRON) Wallet Address

Before you Start Mining, you need a wallet address. There are various options for having an IRON wallet.

Step 2 — Download Mining Software

There are many miner applications where you can mining Iron Fish. Below we have explained in detail how to organize them.

Step 3 — Edit the bat File

SRBMiner-Multi v2.5.0+ (Windows, Linux, CPU, AMD, NVIDIA, INTEL)

Open start-mining-ironfish.bat file and copy / paste example below.


setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_MAX_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_ENABLE_LARGE_ALLOCATION 100
setx GPU_MAX_WORKGROUP_SIZE 1024

@echo off
cd %~dp0
cls

SRBMiner-MULTI.exe --disable-cpu --algorithm FISHHASH --pool de.ironfish.herominers.com:1145 --wallet YOUR_IRONFISH_WALLET_ADDRESS.YOUR_WORKER_NAME
pause

Rigel v1.15.1+ (Windows, Linux, NVIDIA)

Open iron.bat file and copy / paste example below.

@echo off
@cd /d "%~dp0"
:: mine to herominers
rigel.exe -a fishhash -o stratum+tcp://de.ironfish.herominers.com:1145 -u YOUR_IRONFISH_WALLET_ADDRESS -w YOUR_WORKER_NAME
pause

lolMiner v1.85+ (Windows, Linux, AMD)

Open mine_ironfish.bat file and copy / paste example below.

lolMiner.exe --algo FISHHASH --pool de.ironfish.herominers.com:1145 --user YOUR_IRONFISH_WALLET_ADDRESS.YOUR_WORKER_NAME
pause

Thank You.

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