How to get started

1. Download and install the bitcoin application
   • Once downloaded, launch the bitcoin application and wait for the block count to stop increasing in order for your client to be in sync with the network.
   • This can take a few hours, thankfully you only need to do this once on you main computer. TIP: You can open and forward port 8333 to the computer running bitcoin to increase the speed.
2. Create an account on Bitarama pool by visiting signup
   • Once signed up, visit My workers .
   • Create a worker, by typing in username and password and clicking create.
   • It is not nessisary to create a unique username and password for each mining client. You can put one device per worker or thousands, it is up to you.
3. Install a bitcoin miner on your computer, we recommend Phoenix Miner for GPUs. Configure your miner to use the worker username and passowrd you created earlier. Some of the more popular GPU and CPU miner clients are:
   • GUIMiner - Windows GPU miner (instructions) (Recommended)
     Host: pool.bitarama.com    Port: 80    Username/Password: You created on My Workers
   • Phoenix - GPU miner (instructions) (Advanced)
     command line: phoenix.exe -u http://WORKERNAME:WORKERPASSWORD@pool.bitarama.com:80/ -k poclbm DEVICE=0
   • jgarzik's CPU miner (instructions)
   • Diablo's GPU miner (instructions)
     command line: DiabloMiner-Windows.exe -u WORKERNAME -p WORKERPASSWORD -o pool.bitarama.com -r 80
   • m0mchil's GPU miner (instructions)
     command line: oclbm.exe -d1 --host=pool.bitarama.com --port=80 --user=WORKERNAME --pass=WORKERPASSWORD
   • puddinpop's CPU/GPU miners (instructions)

So how does it work?

The server gives members blocks to solve. Each solution found is registered as one share. We pay you for every solved block proportional to your part in the pool hashing rate.

The server notifies your bitcoin miner about new blocks with the help of long polling. This allows to minimize the number of stale shares.

There is a 1% fee used to keep this service alive. And we provide instant payout with up to five payments per day.