How to mine Warthog (WART)

1Get a wallet

You need a Warthog address to receive what you mine. Use an official wallet:

• Warthog wallets (official docs) - wart-dapp, wart-wallet and Wartlock, all from warthog-network on GitHub

Addresses are 48 hexadecimal characters.

Write the seed phrase down on paper and keep it offline. The miner and the pool only ever need the public address.

2Pick a pool

A pool combines many miners so you get paid steadily instead of waiting to find a whole block. Live fees and payouts for every pool are on the pools table.

HeroMiners has servers in many regions: replace de with fr, es, fi, ru, ca, us, us2, us3, br, hk, kr, sg, tr or au. The same port takes plain and TLS connections. Solo mining: solo:YOUR_WALLET. Kryptex does not host Warthog.

3Pick a miner

Warthog's original janusminer is marked "NOT UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT" and "Unstable on Windows" in its docs, so it is not listed. SRBMiner-MULTI, lolMiner, Rigel and WildRig Multi do not list Janushash.

4Set it up

Replace YOUR_WALLET with your address and YOUR_WORKER with a name for this machine. On Windows, save the line as a .bat file in the miner's folder and double-click it. On Linux, run it from the miner's folder.

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
bzminer.exe -a warthog -p stratum+tcp://de.warthog.herominers.com:1143 -w YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER
pause

./bzminer -a warthog -p stratum+tcp://de.warthog.herominers.com:1143 -w YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER

5Check it works

• Within a few minutes the miner should print accepted shares. Rejected or stale shares above a few percent mean a problem with the connection, the clocks or the pool address.
• Open your pool's dashboard and search for your address. Your worker appears after its first shares; pool hashrate settles over an hour or so.
• Watch temperatures for the first hour: GPU core, hotspot and memory.

Warnings and cautions

Warthog-specific

• CPU and GPU together. Janushash needs both; turning either off stops mining. The CPU needs hardware AES and carry-less multiply (any x86-64 CPU from 2013 on).
• Warthog's docs advise against GPU risers: a gaming PC suits Janushash better than a multi-GPU rig.
• Warthog's docs: mining to an exchange address is risky - use your own wallet.

For every coin

• Download miners only from the official page. Use the GitHub release or website linked in the miner table. Fake miners that steal wallets or mine to someone else are common. Where the developer publishes SHA-256 checksums, compare them before the first start (Windows: Get-FileHash .\file.zip -Algorithm SHA256; Linux: sha256sum file.tar.gz).
• Antivirus warnings. Windows Defender and other antivirus tools flag almost every GPU miner as a "potentially unwanted" program, because malware bundles them. Add a folder exclusion only for a miner you downloaded from its official page and checked, and never turn protection off as a whole.
• Your seed phrase is never needed. A miner and a pool only need your public address. Anyone who asks for your seed (recovery) phrase or private key is trying to steal your coins.
• Power, heat and hardware. Mining runs the card at full load all day. Watch GPU, hotspot and memory temperatures, keep the room ventilated, and do not leave a rig running unattended near anything flammable. A power limit or undervolt usually costs a little hashrate and saves a lot of power. Check that your power supply and cables are rated for the load.
• Profit is an estimate. Price, network hashrate and pool luck change every hour. The calculator shows today's numbers, not a promise. Small coins can be hard to sell, and taxes on mined coins apply in many countries. Nothing here is financial advice.

Sources

Checked 18-19 October 2026. Live numbers above come from the Kryptex and HeroMiners public APIs.

• https://www.warthog.network
• https://github.com/warthog-network/docs
• https://warthog.herominers.com
• https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer

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