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Now you need to download Ethminer, which makes your GPU or CPU run the hashing algorithm that is integral to securing the Ethereum ?network through proof of work.? You can download this here. Sometimes your fire wall can block this process. At this point, you are synchronising with the rest of the Ethereum network. Press enter, and the screen should start downloading the blockchain for Ethereum. You need to tell your Geth Program to start communicating with the rest of the Ethereum network. Congratulations, your about a third of the way there! Once you have entered your password, and confirmed it by entering it a second time, you will have created a new account. If you lose this password, you will lose all your Ether attached to the wallet held by that Private key! This is the password that locks your account and keeps your Private key safe. You will not be able to see what you are typing in, so type it carefully. It should look like this: C:\>geth account newĪfter hitting the enter button in Step 5, you will be asked to enter a password. As you have installed it in your user directory in Step 2, it is just a simple case of typing in: geth account new You need to tell your Geth program to create a new account. You have just used the cd command or "change directory" command to make command prompt look at the C:/ drive. Into the newly opened command prompt, type: cd / You need to tell the computer to look in another place. Showing in it - where Username is your username - so if you log into your computer with the username cryptocompare, then the command prompt box will open with: C:\Users\cryptocompare The Command Prompt box usually has C:\Users\Username> (It can look terrifying to people who aren't familiar with it!)

You can do this by searching in the search function in Windows for "CMD" and then clicking on it when it shows up.Ĭommand Prompt is now open. To do this you need to run Command Prompt. Now you need to run the program you just downloaded. All you need to do is copy the file you have downloaded and unzipped and move it to the hard drive folder. In this case we'll move it to the hard drive, usually (C:) - which will make the next step easier. (Right click on the zipped file and select unpack.) You need to unzip the GETH file and move it to a location on your hard drive. Geth is the program that communicates with the Ethereum Network and acts as the a relay between your computer, its hardware and the rest of the ethereum network computers so if a block is mined by another computer your Geth program will pick it up and then pass on the new information onto your GPU or CPU for mining. The first thing you need to do is go to this link download Geth.