Mining

Parity is designed to be fully compatible with ethminer. If you're already using a combination of geth and ethminer then you'll find mining with Parity very familiar.

First get a Parity node up and running (either build yourself or install one of the packages; the Quick-start guide can help you). Next, you'll need to install ethminer.

Getting the miner

Rolling your own

There are packages built for various platforms, though if all else fails, you can just build it straight from the main repository:

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum
cd cpp-ethereum
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUNDLE=miner ..

ethminer can be found in the libethereum/ethminer directory; you'll probably want to copy it to somewhere in your $PATH.

Ubuntu

To install ethminer on Ubuntu, you can use the package manager:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethminer

Mac OS X Homebrew

brew tap ethcore/ethcore
brew install parity

Starting it

Once you have a synced Parity node running the JSONRPC interface, you'll be able to mine with ethminer. You'll probably want to set the destination address (where the rewards go). If you have an address already, great. If you don't, then you can make one in Parity with:

parity account new

You'll be asked for a password and be given an address. Once done, you should run parity and tell it to mine to that address when required. Supposing your address is 0037a6b811ffeb6e072da21179d11b1406371c63, then you would run:

parity --author 0037a6b811ffeb6e072da21179d11b1406371c63

Once Parity is running and synced, running ethminer with work without any further configuration. e.g. run ethminer -G --opencl-device 0 to GPU mine on the first OpenCL device found.

Parity can push work package notifications to a set of URLs by using the option --notify-work URLS, where URLS should be a comma-delimited list of HTTP URLs.