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SignaL Mining Pool · Beginner's guide

Start mining SL

One PC with a graphics card is enough. Follow these steps from what you need to your first mining session.

Anything mined through December 8 (KST) has a 0% pool fee.

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What you need

  • A PC with a graphics card

    An NVIDIA (GeForce RTX, etc.) card is recommended. AMD (Radeon RX 6000 series) works on Windows. Most gaming PCs work as they are.

  • Windows, Linux or HiveOS

    For one or two PCs Windows is easiest. Linux suits a 24/7 server and HiveOS suits several rigs. Mining speed is about the same.

  • An SL wallet

    The address your rewards are paid to. You can create one on SignaL for free.

  • Internet and power

    Your PC needs to stay on while mining. A regular home connection is enough.

Buying new hardware?

  • The graphics card is what matters. NVIDIA is recommended because the miner's automatic power-saving tuning works only on NVIDIA. Compare expected earnings per card in the calculator before you buy.
  • Check your electricity cost. Daily use is the card's power draw (W) × 24 ÷ 1,000 kWh — for example, a 220 W card uses about 5.3 kWh a day.
  • Your power supply must meet at least the wattage the graphics card maker recommends.
  • Running 24/7 makes heat and noise. Keep the PC somewhere with good airflow.

Mining income changes with the SL price and difficulty. Think it through before buying hardware.

Open the calculator

Which way should you mine?

  • Windows — one or two PCs; the easiest way to start.
  • Linux — handy for a PC or server that runs 24/7 and is managed remotely (SSH).
  • HiveOS — a Linux made for mining; manage many rigs from a web dashboard (free for up to 2 rigs).

Mining speed is about the same with all three. Pick yours below.

Installation

The first setup takes about 20 minutes. Follow the steps in order; after that, just double-click start.bat or let autostart begin mining for you.

  1. Install the latest graphics driver

    The miner only needs your graphics driver. Even on a gaming PC, check that the driver is up to date.

    1. NVIDIA: press “NVIDIA driver”, choose your card (for example GeForce RTX 3070) and install the latest driver. Version 525 or later is required.
    2. AMD: install the Adrenalin driver from “AMD driver”.
    3. Restart the PC when the installation is done.
    NVIDIA driverAMD driver

  2. Have your SL wallet address ready

    Rewards are paid to this address. The miner needs only the address — never type your private key or recovery phrase anywhere.

    1. Create or open a wallet under “Wallet” on SignaL.
    2. Copy your wallet address (44 letters and digits). If you are signed in to SignaL, “Start mining” fills it in for you.
    Open wallet

  3. Create the miner folder and add an antivirus exclusion

    Windows antivirus often mistakes mining software for a threat and deletes it. So before downloading, create the folder for the miner and exclude just that folder from scanning.

    1. In File Explorer open “This PC” → “Local Disk (C:)”. Right-click an empty area, choose “New” → “Folder” and name it ffgs. You now have the folder C:\ffgs.
    2. Open “Windows Security” from the Start menu, go to “Virus & threat protection”, then under “Virus & threat protection settings” press “Manage settings”.
    3. Scroll down to “Exclusions”, press “Add or remove exclusions” → “Add an exclusion” → “Folder” and choose C:\ffgs.

    Only put files from the ffgs developers' GitHub releases page in this folder. If you use another antivirus program, add the same folder as an exclusion there too.

  4. Download the miner (ffgs)

    ffgs is SL mining software for NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards. It is made by the ffgs developers, not SignaL, and is free on GitHub.

    1. Press “Download ffgs for Windows” below. The file ffgs-0.5.4-windows-x64.zip is saved to your Downloads folder.
    2. If your browser warns that the file is uncommon or may be harmful, see “Troubleshooting” below.
    3. To download from the releases page yourself, open the newest release at the top and, under “Assets”, click the file whose name ends in -windows-x64.zip.
    Download ffgs 0.5.4 for Windowszip file · 2.7 MBffgs releases page

  5. Unzip it

    Unzip the downloaded file into the C:\ffgs folder from step 3.

    1. In your Downloads folder, right-click ffgs-0.5.4-windows-x64.zip and choose “Extract All…”.
    2. Press “Browse”, choose C:\ffgs and press “Extract”.
    3. A folder ffgs-0.5.4 appears inside C:\ffgs. Open it and you will see ffgs.exe and start.bat.

  6. Get your start file (start.bat) and put it in place

    We build a start file that already contains your wallet address and the SignaL pool address.

    1. Under “Start mining” on the pool page, check your wallet address and pick a worker name. With several PCs, give each one its own name, such as rig1 and rig2.
    2. On the “Windows” tab press “Download start file”. start.bat is saved to your Downloads folder.
    3. Drag start.bat into the folder C:\ffgs\ffgs-0.5.4. When Windows asks about a file with the same name, choose “Replace the file in the destination”.
    Your folder should now look like this
    • C:\ffgs\
    • ffgs-0.5.4\
    • ffgs.exe← the miner
    • start.bat← your start file from step 6
    • install-autostart.bat← turns on autostart (step 8, optional)
    • logs\← log folder, created on the first run
    Go to Start mining

  7. Run it

    Double-click start.bat. A black window (Command Prompt) opens and mining starts.

    1. If a blue “Windows protected your PC” window appears, press “More info”, then “Run anyway” (first time only).
    2. For the first few dozen seconds the miner checks your graphics card; after that a status line appears every 10 seconds.
    3. Closing the window stops mining, so minimize it instead. If the miner stops, it restarts by itself after 10 seconds.

  8. Keep it running

    Mining runs only while the PC is on and the miner window is open.

    1. Turn off sleep: Settings → System → Power (on laptops “Power & battery”) → “Screen and sleep”, and set sleep to “Never”.
    2. Autostart (optional): double-click install-autostart.bat in the same folder and press “Yes” when Windows asks for administrator rights. From then on mining starts by itself 30 seconds after you sign in to Windows. To undo it, double-click remove-autostart.bat.

Check that it's working

Every 10 seconds the miner window shows a line like this (the numbers are an example).

GPU0 4.374 (75 W, 58.2 MH/W) | total 4.374 GH/s (75 W, 58.2 MH/W) | user sub 2 acc 2 rej 0 | fee sub 0 acc 0 rej 0
  • total … GH/s — the mining speed (hashrate) of this PC.
  • user … acc — work accepted by the pool. It should keep going up.
  • rej — rejected work. It should stay close to 0.
  • fee — work done during the ffgs developers' fee time. For 1 minute every 100 minutes the miner mines the developers' share, so a short dip in your pool hashrate is normal.

After about 10 minutes, enter your wallet address under “Check your mining” in pool stats to see your worker name and hashrate.

Check your mining

Rewards are sent to your wallet every hour once you have 1 SL or more.

Mining FAQ

Which coin can I mine with a graphics card?

SL, the coin of the SASEUL mainnet, is mined with graphics cards (GPUs) by proof of work (PoW). On the SignaL pool you mine SL with an NVIDIA or AMD card and the ffgs miner, and rewards go to your own SL wallet. If you've been looking for something to mine with your GPU since Ethereum stopped mining in 2022, you can start right away.

Why mine in a pool instead of solo?

To get paid steadily. With one or two graphics cards, finding a block on your own can take a long time and you never know when a reward will come. In a pool, many miners look for blocks together and each reward is shared by the work each miner contributed (PPLNS), so you're paid more often and more evenly. For the fees, see “What are the total fees?” below.

How much can my graphics card (e.g. an RTX 3060) earn per day?

There's no fixed amount — it depends on your card's hashrate, your electricity rate, the network difficulty and the SL price. In the profit calculator on the pool page, pick your card and enter your electricity rate to see the expected SL per day at the current difficulty, the electricity cost and your net profit (after pool and miner fees). Actual results vary with luck and difficulty changes.

Is GPU mining still worth it?

It depends on your electricity cost and the SL price, so it's different for everyone. First check in the profit calculator whether your daily net profit is positive. A gaming PC you already own can mine during idle hours with no hardware cost. Prices go up and down, so earnings aren't guaranteed — if you're buying new hardware, also check the calculator's break-even price.

Which graphics cards can mine SL?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards are recommended. AMD Radeon RX 6000 series cards are confirmed to work on Windows (AMD on Linux and HiveOS isn't tested yet). Most gaming PCs work as they are, and mining speed is about the same on Windows, Linux and HiveOS. If you're buying new, choose NVIDIA — the automatic power-saving tuning is NVIDIA-only.

Do I need to enter my private key or sign up?

No. The miner only needs the SL wallet address your rewards are paid to — never enter your private key anywhere. There's no sign-up either. If you don't have an SL wallet yet, you can create one on SignaL for free.

Troubleshooting

Mining doesn't start

Check that ① start.bat is in the same folder as ffgs.exe (C:\ffgs\ffgs-0.5.4) ② your antivirus has not deleted ffgs.exe ③ your graphics driver is up to date. The file logs\ffgs.log in the same folder has the details.

My browser or antivirus blocked or deleted the download

With mining software this is often a false alarm. First make sure the file came from the ffgs developers' GitHub releases page (github.com/pepsykolya/FreeForGemSaseul). 1. If your browser blocked it, choose “Keep” (or “Download anyway”) in its download list. 2. If Windows Security deleted it, open “Virus & threat protection” → “Protection history”, open the entry, choose “Actions” → “Allow” and download again. 3. Unzip into C:\ffgs, the folder you excluded in step 3. If you are not sure where the file came from, do not run it.

The black window says “ffgs.exe not found”

start.bat is in a different folder from ffgs.exe. Move start.bat into C:\ffgs\ffgs-0.5.4, where ffgs.exe is, and double-click it again.

A “Windows protected your PC” window appears

Windows shows this the first time you open a program downloaded from the internet. Press “More info”, then “Run anyway”. Only do this for files from the ffgs releases page and the SignaL pool page.

I want to check that the download is genuine

The SHA256SUMS file on the releases page lists the fingerprint (hash) of every genuine file. 1. Open “Command Prompt” from the Start menu. 2. Paste certutil -hashfile %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\ffgs-0.5.4-windows-x64.zip SHA256 and press Enter. 3. If the result matches the windows-x64.zip line in SHA256SUMS, the file is genuine.

It says a new version is available

ffgs shows a yellow notice when a new version is out. Mining keeps working on your current version. To update: 1. Download the new zip and unzip it into C:\ffgs, as in steps 4 and 5. 2. Download start.bat again under “Start mining” and put it in the new folder. 3. If you use autostart, run install-autostart.bat in the new folder once more. 4. You can delete the old folder.

My PC is hot and loud

That's normal: mining runs the graphics card at full load. Keep good airflow, and pause mining if it gets too hot.

Can I game while mining?

Mining keeps the graphics card busy, so games will be slow. Close the mining window while you play.

When do I get paid?

Every hour once you have 1 SL or more. How long the first payout takes depends on your graphics card.

What happens if I turn off my PC?

Mining just stops. What you've earned so far stays and is paid once it passes 1 SL.

Does Linux mine faster?

Published measurements show almost no speed difference with NVIDIA cards. The advantage of Linux and HiveOS is easier 24/7 operation and remote management, not speed.

Do AMD cards work?

Yes on Windows, tested with the RX 6000 series. They haven't been tested on HiveOS or Linux yet, and the automatic power-saving tuning is NVIDIA-only. If you're buying new, choose NVIDIA.

What are the total fees?

A 5% pool fee plus a 2% miner (ffgs) fee. As a launch offer, anything mined through December 8, 2026 (KST) has a 0% pool fee. The 2% ffgs fee is 1% for its developers plus a 1% referral share.

The SignaL Mining Pool is an independent service, not an official SASEUL (ArtiFriends) service. Statistics and estimates are calculated from public mainnet data and are for reference only.