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<h1><span class="grad">Mine testnet coins</span></h1>
<p class="lede">Mining is how new blocks and coins are created. On testnet you can do it just to learn. The coins are worthless and the difficulty is low, so the whole process becomes something you can watch happen.</p>
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<p><strong>Mining</strong> secures the network and issues new coins. Miners race to find a number that makes a block's cryptographic hash meet a difficulty target. This is <em>proof of work</em>. The first to find it publishes the block and earns its reward. Finding a block solo can take a long time, so miners join a <strong>pool</strong>.</p>
<p>A <strong>pool</strong> combines everyone's effort. You submit <em>shares</em> (near-miss solutions that prove you're working), and when the pool finds a block it splits the reward among contributors in proportion to the shares they sent. <a class="ext" href="https://testnetpool.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TestnetPool</a> runs pools for the Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero testnets so you can see all of this without spending anything.</p>
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<div class="step"><span class="n"></span><div><h3>Get a testnet payout address</h3><p>Create one in <a href="/wallet">TestnetWallet</a> for the coin you want to mine.</p></div></div>
<div class="step"><span class="n"></span><div><h3>Pick a coin and pool endpoint</h3><p>On <a class="ext" href="https://testnetpool.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TestnetPool</a>, choose the chain and note the pool's connection details, which include its <em>stratum</em> address (the standard way miners connect to a pool).</p></div></div>
<div class="step"><span class="n"></span><div><h3>Point a miner at the pool</h3><p>Testnet uses the same miners as mainnet. For learning, a CPU miner is plenty, and Monero in particular is designed to be CPU-mined. Configure it with the pool address and your payout address.</p></div></div>
<div class="step"><span class="n"></span><div><h3>Watch your shares</h3><p>The pool dashboard shows your hashrate and accepted shares in real time.</p></div></div>
<div class="step"><span class="n"></span><div><h3>Get paid in test coins</h3><p>When the pool finds a block, your share of the reward lands at your payout address.</p></div></div>
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