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Gigahorse 3.0 Farming Series - Part 2: Building the Farmer

At the time of writing, my recommendation is to build with MadMax. I also would like to ask the community to replot away from NoSSD until they make the necessary changes that is negatively affecting the decentralization of the Chia Network. I also would like any Bladebit farmers that have at least a GPU with 4GB VRAM to consider using MadMax's Gigahorse.

For those that want to try Dr. Solver, I do not have a GPU with 24GB VRAM and do not want to spend the money to buy at least 2 of them. One thing to consider is that possibly within 3 years we will have new plots that cannot have significant compression and you may not recover the significant costs. I may change my mind but you'll be the first to know.

I have Nvidia GTX 1080 GPUs with 8GB VRAM. I will choose the C31 Plots with 38.6 GiB in size

G3 Farmer Specs

Intel i5
16GB
1TB SSD
GTX 1080

XRDP

To get remote access to your new farmer

sudo apt install xrdp
UFW Setup
sudo apt install ufw
sudo ufw allow 
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw status
Install the Nvidia Drivers
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525 nvidia-cuda-toolkit clinfo
IMPORTANT: You must reboot your computer for the Nvidia drivers to work
Required Package

You need to install the following package for Linux

sudo apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1

Install the Official Chia Wallet

MakeGoto htts://chia.net/downloads

Complete the Installation and create your wallet

If you are synching the database for the first time, download the mainnet checkpoint

Where to copy the database

Make sure Show Hidden Files is checked in Files

Make sure you Chia Wallet is closed


Goto Home/.chia/mainnet/db and delete everything. Copy the db that you downloaded to this location

Join a Pool

In your Chia Wallet, go to the Pooling menu on the sidebar.

You will need some Chia to join a pool. The 1 mojo in the faucet may not be enough so you can ask anyone on the Chia Reddit or X Chia community. Then click on Add a Plot NFT

My Preference is https://xch.spacefarmers.io

You need to grab 2 pieces of information

  1. The Pooling Contract Address
    On the pool you joined, click the question mark and copy down the pool contract address

  1. The Farmer Public Key
    Open up Terminal and type in the following.

chia keys show

Recommended Security

Encrypt your wallet

In the Chia Wallet, under settings, make sure you setup your Passphrase

Download the Latest Gigahorse

https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-gigahorse/releases

You can extract it but we won't use it until after we finish plotting

That's it for setting up the Farmer

Next

  1. We need to setup the plotter

  2. Once we have some plots, we will return to the Farmer and add the plots to the config.yml and start the farmer

  3. We can also setup Harvesters and use the Recompute programs to load balance our GPUs.

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