How to Mine Torque (XTC): Complete Beginner’s Guide

Torque is a cryptocurrency that aims to provide the most decentralized experience. They have their seed node files on IPFS and zeronet, for secure decentralized storage of the seed nodes. They also are aiming to provide mining on all internet connected devices like phones, Televisions etc. The coin has 21 Billion max supply.

As for Stellite’s features, they are a fork of Monero. Because of this, Stellite has Monero’s privacy aspects to it called RingCT. The coin is based on the anti ASIC CryptoNight XTL algorithm, but is changed to provide anti Nicehash as well.

Stellite Website: https://stellite.cash/
Announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2813261.0
Community Discord: https://discord.gg/yFRdGtx
Website Mirror: https://stellitecoin.github.io
Block Explorer: https://explorer.stellite.cash
Wiki: https://wiki.stellite.cash
Mining profitability calculator: https://www.cryptunit.com/

V5 Adamantium

• 5 Minute block time
• New features from XMR upstream
• Bulletproofs
• A new GUI wallet
• No changes in block reward

Specifications
PoW Algorithm: CryptoNight Stellite v8 (AKA CryptoNight Half)
Total Supply: 21,000,000,000
Pre-mine: 0.6%
Block Rewards: (MoneySupply — A) >> 18
Decimal Places: 2
Difficulty Adjustment: Every block
Genesis Block: 2018–01–22 01:21:34

Now that we know the details about Torque, let’s get to mining some XTC!

Torque Mining:
Those who have no idea about mining can easily start mining by watching this video.

Torque (XTC) Mining Pool: https://torque.herominers.com

SRBMiner Cryptonight AMD GPU Miner V1.7.8+ (Windows, AMD GPU)

Example start.bat file

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
@echo off
cd %~dp0
SRBMiner-CN.exe --config Config\config-stellitev8.txt --ccryptonighttype stellitev8 --cpool torque.herominers.com:10131 --cwallet YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS  --cpassword YOUR_WORKER_NAME

XTL-Stak 2.7.1+ (Windows, Linux, CPU, GPU)

Run xmr-stak and answer questions:
Do you want to use HTTP interface: 0
Please enter the currency you want to mine: stellite
Pool address: torque.herominers.com:10131
User name: YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS (can be ADDRESS+paymentID or ADDRESS.DIFF or ADDRESS+paymentID.DIFF)
Password: YOUR_WORKER_NAME
Rig identifier: (Empty)
Does this pool support TLS/SSL: n
Do you want to use nicehash on this pool: n
Do you want to use multiple pools: n

Example pools.txt:

"pool_list" :
[
{"pool_address" : "torque.herominers.com:10131", "wallet_address" : "YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS", "rig_id" : "", "pool_password" : "YOUR_WORKER_NAME", "use_nicehash" : false, "use_tls" : false, "tls_fingerprint" : "", "pool_weight" : 100 },
],
"currency" : "stellite",

Cast XMR — HighSpeed CryptoNight Miner 1.7.1+ (Windows, Vega, RX 470/480/570/580)

Example run.bat:

NOTE: Try — opencl 0/1/2 to find out your platform.

cast_xmr-vega.exe -S torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --reconnects 0 --opencl -1 -G 0,1,2,3 --algo=6 --maxmem --nonicehash --fastjobswitch

XMR-Stak 2.7.1+ (Windows, Linux, CPU, GPU)

Run xmr-stak and answer questions:
Do you want to use HTTP interface: 0
Please enter the currency you want to mine: cryptonight_v8_half
Pool address: torque.herominers.com:10131
User name: YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS (can be ADDRESS+paymentID or ADDRESS.DIFF or ADDRESS+paymentID.DIFF)
Password: YOUR_WORKER_NAME
Rig identifier: (Empty)
Does this pool support TLS/SSL: n
Do you want to use nicehash on this pool: n
Do you want to use multiple pools: n

Example pools.txt:

"pool_list" :
[
{"pool_address" : "torque.herominers.com:10131", "wallet_address" : "YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS", "rig_id" : "", "pool_password" : "YOUR_WORKER_NAME", "use_nicehash" : false, "use_tls" : false, "tls_fingerprint" : "", "pool_weight" : 100 },
],
"currency" : "cryptonight_v8_half",

XMRig 2.12.0+ (Windows, Linux, CPU)

Example start.cmd:

@echo off
xmrig.exe --donate-level 1 -o torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --variant xtl -k 
pause

XMRig 2.12.0+ (Windows, Linux, AMD GPU)

Example start.cmd:

@echo off
xmrig-amd.exe --donate-level 1 -o torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --variant xtl -k 
pause

XMRig 2.12.0+ (Windows, Linux, NVIDIA GPU)

Example start.cmd:

@echo off
xmrig-nvidia.exe --donate-level 1 -o torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --variant xtl -k 
pause

XMRigCC 1.8.12+ (Windows, Linux, AMD GPU)

Create start.cmd file and copy/paste example below.

@echo off
xmrigDaemon.exe --donate-level 1 -o torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --variant xtl -k 
pause

XMRigCC 1.8.13+ (Windows, Linux, CPU)

Create start.cmd file and copy/paste example below.

@echo off
xmrigDaemon.exe --donate-level 1 -o torque.herominers.com:10131 -u YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS -p YOUR_WORKER_NAME --variant xtl -k 
pause

Happy Mining.