Software

There are many advantages to installing the Arduino IDE in "portable mode". This logically separates the actual IDE from the personal settings, libraries and core architecture.

A normal Arduino IDE installation quickly overflows with additionally installed libraries, board definitions and other things. You can hardly find your way around in this chaos. A small trick ensures that the actual development environment and data for your own projects are cleanly separated from each other.

Those who want to mine the Duinocoin (DUCO) need software to program an Arduino UNO/Nano or an ESP8266/ESP32. The easiest way to do this is to use the free and open source Arduino IDE.

The easiest way to program mining software on a microcontroller is to use the Arduino IDE (development environment). The free and open source software is offered by the Arduino Project as a free download for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.

If the Duinocoin network is under (too) heavy load or if a comedian has started another DDoS attack, the miners will time out when trying to connect. There is a solution.

Sometimes the pool servers - for whatever reason - do not respond to requests from the miners. On the one hand, this is annoying because at that moment your own miners cannot generate a DUCO. On the other hand, it can also cost a lot of time when troubleshooting your own mining rig, because it is not always clear at first whether the error lies in the software for the rig or with the servers.

The development team around Duinocoin inventor Robert Piotrowski (revoxhere) has released version 3.0 of the cryptocurrency tailored for microcontrollers.

Version 3.0 of the Duinocoin software brings more speed to the Arduino Uno, the ESP8266/ESP32 boards and other microcontrollers and thus higher hash rates for mining. There is a fancy, web-based dashboard for the ESP8266/ESP32 and the PC miner manages up to ten times the hash rate thanks to "fasthash".