What you need
Any 64-bit CPU — x64 or ARM64 — and about 2.5 GB of free memory to mine at full speed. More cores, more hashes: every thread counts.
Mine Tesserax in three steps
Tesserax is mined on CPUs. A laptop, a desktop or a server is enough: no GPU, no ASIC, no node to run. The pool finds the blocks with you and pays your share automatically.
CPUany 64-bit processor
~18 sper block
0.85TESS per block
0%developer fee
Your system
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01
Get an address
Your rewards are paid to a Tesserax address. Create an account in the wallet — it takes a minute, in the browser — and copy its address. It starts with
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02
Download the miner
The Tesserax build of XMRig, the most used CPU miner, set up for the
rx/tessalgorithm. Open source, with no developer fee.Then unpack it — or do it all from a terminal:
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03
Start mining
In the miner's folder, run:
Within a minute the miner prepares its dataset, then prints
acceptedfor each share the pool takes. That's it: you are mining. Follow your hashrate, your balance and your payouts on the pool:
Good to know
Fair by design.
RandomTESS keeps mining on general-purpose CPUs, where everyone competes on equal terms.
How you are paid
Each block found by the pool is split between its miners by their work (PPLNS). Rewards are credited once the block is 60 deep, and balances from 1 TESS are paid every 30 minutes. The pool keeps 1%.
Safe to run
Every binary is built from public sources, checked against the reference RandomTESS implementation, and published with its SHA-256. The miner never touches your wallet: it only knows your address.
Questions
Before you start.
My antivirus blocks the miner. Is it safe?
Antivirus software flags every XMRig build as a "potentially unwanted program", because malware hides the same miner on other people's machines. The Tesserax build is open source and published with checksums: compare the SHA-256 of your download with SHA256SUMS, then allow the miner's folder in your antivirus.
Can I mine with a GPU?
No. RandomTESS is built for CPUs: GPUs and ASICs gain nothing over them, so the GPU
backends of the miner are disabled for rx/tess.
How much will I mine?
Your share of the rewards is your share of the network's hashrate: 0.85 TESS per block, about 4,800 blocks a day, split between all miners by their work. The pool dashboard shows your hashrate next to the network's. As an example, an Apple M1 mines about 600 H/s on its 4 performance cores.
I run many rigs with Hive OS or RaveOS.
The miner is packaged for both, as a custom miner. On Hive OS, create a flight sheet
with the miner Custom, the installation URL of
tesserax-<version>.tar.gz from the
downloads,
the template %WAL%.%WORKER_NAME% and the pool address of step 3; the
dashboard then shows the hashrate and temperature of every rig. On RaveOS, add
tesserax-raveos-<version>.zip in Custom mining. Every field is
described in the
miner's README.
Can I mine without the pool?
Yes: run your own node with --mine, or serve XMRig from it with
--stratum, and every block you find is yours alone. See
the mining guide.
Do testnet TESS have any value?
No: the testnet is for trying everything out, and its TESS are worth nothing. The mainnet uses the same miner and the same three steps; only the pool address will change.
How do I keep it running?
Leave the terminal open; the miner reconnects by itself after a network drop. On a
server, run it in tmux or as a service. Press h in the miner
to print its hashrate, p to pause and r to resume.