How to Mine DOGE on Linux

Mining DOGE coins is pretty simple, the same as how we mined Monero previously. This time, the DOGE currency is causing the crypto market to go insane. As a result, we believe now is the ideal moment to discuss how to mine DOGE coin on any PC.

For DOGE mining you will need a Computer/Laptop, Internet connection, software/tool for mining, wallet for DOGE.

Yes, these are the prerequisites for mining DOGE. We don't need graphics cards or mining rigs to achieve this, although having graphics cards or mining rigs will help us get a higher hash rate.

Before starting anything we need a DOGE wallet. Where we can store our mined DOGE coin. We can use any crypto exchange's DOGE address where we are registered. But for safety, we need to use software/hardware wallets to store our crypto. Hardware wallets are expensive but they store crypto offline so they are hackproof. Software wallets are better to sore few amounts of cryptocurrency.

DOGE has official wallets for the various operating systems on the DOGE official website.

We can see that there are wallets according to Operating systems like Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. We can choose whatever we want. The easiest installation will be for Android. The DOGE wallet is available on the Play Store.

If we click on any OS name the installation process with details will come on below the page. The details are so much clear that no one has trouble setting up a DOGE wallet. We are on Linux so we click on Linux. The detailed guide comes following.

We click here "Download MultiDoge for Linux". Then another window will open with the download link.

This MultiDoge wallet is lightweight if we want to do serious and big amount mining or trading then we shouldn't use it and use the "Dogecoin Core" wallet. But here we are going to use it for small mining so it is okay. If we have a big mining rig then we should choose the "Dogecoin Core" wallet.

After downloading this .jar file we need to set it up. The downloaded JAR file will be in our Downloads folder. So we need to navigate to our Downloads directory by using the cd Downloads command. Then we need to run the following command to set the executable permission for the downloaded jar file.

sudo chmod +x multidoge*.jar

To run the setup process we need to run the jar file by applying the following command:

java -jar multidoge*.jar

Then the execution process will start as we can see in the following screenshot:

Now it is very simple. Just doing Next>Next > I accept terms.....blah blah. Just like Windows software installations. If we got this error "gconftool-2: not found" during MultiDoge install we can click on "Continue Installation" and ignore this.

After the installation is complete we can find the wallet on our menu, or search "MultiDoge" on the applications list.

After opening the MultiDoge wallet we got a welcome screen as shown in the following screenshot:

We need to move to the "Request" tab to get our receiving address of the DOGE coin.

We just need this now. Our mined DOGE coins will be sent to this address and stored here. If we wish we can send DOGE from here to exchanges and sell there.

So our wallet setup is complete and we got a DOGE receiving address now it's time to set up the miner.

Installing Miner on PC

First, we need to install a mining tool called XMRig on our computer. This tool can be used to mine almost any cryptocurrency, but today we are going to mine DOGE using this. First of all, we need to move to the download page of XMRig. Here we got installation files for every operating system like Windows, Ubuntu, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD.

We can download the Windows installer (exe) file if we are on the Windows system. We need to download a zip file then extract it to get the exe file. In our case, we are on the Kali Linux system, so we need to go to the Linux section and download the Static CPU only XMRig because we don't have GPU or Graphics Card on our system.

After clicking on the green button our download will get a warning to turn off Antivirus. This warning might be for Windows users, we Linux users don't use antivirus kinds of stuff.

Anyways, we need to click on "I understand, show the link". Then the download link will be shown as the following screenshot:

By clicking on "Download" we can download the tar.gz compressed file.

After the download is complete (under 3 MB for Linux) we need to open our terminal window and type the cd Downloads command to navigate to the Downloads directory.

cd Downloads

Now we need to type the following command to extract the downloaded compressed file:

tar -xvf xmrig-*.tar.gz

Then the compressed file of XMRig will be de-compressed and create a new folder named xmrig-6.12.1 (6.12.1 is the latest version number it might be changed later check the folder name by ls command).

Now we need to navigate inside the xmrig directory by applying the following command:

cd xmrig-6.12.1

Now here we got some files by using the ls command, as we can see in the following screenshot:

We can see on the above screenshot there is an executable file named xmrig (If it is not executable then we need to make it by using sudo chmod +x xmrig command). It's time to start mining by using a mining pool.

Mining Pool for DOGE

We have set up the wallet and DOGE address and we have the mining software. Now we just need the mining pool. Then we join there and start mining. To mine DOGE we got a mining pool on unMineable, not only DOGE we can mine Tron (TRX) BTT, BTC, ETH, LTC, AAVE, SUSHI, UNI, etc various cryptocurrencies, and tokens.

On the start bar of unMineable we can see the mining pool server for global use. as we can see in the following screenshot:

On the above screenshot we can see that we need to choose CPU mining (RandomX) and the global server and port for mining pool (Green highlighted boxes). There are also instructions for Windows PC and xmrig on the blue box. But the mining pool will be same for all Operating System. Now we got everything to start mine.

Mine DOGE on Linux PC

Just like Windows mining from Linux is also very easy we need to put a single command. Inside the xmrig directory on our terminal we run a command like this

./xmrig -o rx.unmineable.com:3333 -a rx -k -u DOGE:"Our DOGE Address"

In our case we are showing the command using our wallet address (Don't put our address shown below, then the earning from DOGE mining will be our 😂):

./xmrig -o rx.unmineable.com:3333 -a rx -k -u DOGE:D8LLZfKmcxqscGDnae21mZjJwjCikBnRUU

In the following screenshot we can see that our mining has been started.