Mining ARWeave in your Windows

Following are the wasy to Mine ARweave in your Windows 10 PC. 

1. First you have to install WSL (Windows Subsystemf ro Linux) in your windows. For my case, i installed it using Windows Store. Search for "Ubuntu" in Microsfot Store, and pick 1 to install as following :

2. Next you can directly run it in Search Bar : 

3. You may access the home folder in Linux in the following location : 

• C:\Users\[your window username]\AppData\Local\Packages\[The Linux Version you just install]]\LocalState\rootfs\home

4. Download the AR Weave Miner : https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave/releases

5. Extract the miner in your Home, creating a new folder for the miner, for example : AR

6. Setup support for large files in your linux environment :

• Add the following in /etc/security/limits.conf
• *    soft    nproc    1000000
• *    hard    nproc    1000000
• *    soft    nofile    1000000
• *    hard    nofile    1000000
• root    soft    nproc    1000000
• root    hard    nproc    1000000
• root    soft    nofile    1000000
• root    hard    nofile    1000000
• Add the following in /etc/pam.d/common-session
• session required    pam_limits.so
• execute "sudo su"
• execute "ulimit -n" to see it it return 1000000

7. Goto the AR folder in your home folder and you can execute the miner using following command :

• ./bin/start mine disk_space [disk space] mining_addr [your ar wallet to keep the mined coins] data_dir [location of your data folder, example : /mnt/f/AR] peer 188.166.200.45 peer 188.166.192.169 peer 163.47.11.64 peer 139.59.51.59 peer 138.197.232.192

* use the following command if you need to mount your drive from Windows to Linux :

df

sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

* Some useful link for AR Weave miner :

• Official mining guide
  
• You can check fastest peer, calculate reward, etc 
• Some info on Ar weave Miner