Use these instructions to mine for selacoins.

Open your Sela wallet, and make sure your wallet is connected with a node using the addnode=%some ip% in the coin app data /selacoin/selacoin.conf file
You will know your wallet is connected when you see the icon   in the lower corner of your wallet.

The message “Synchronizing with network…” will disappear once you mine your first block on the selacoin network.

Close your wallet and create the file selacoin.conf in the folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\”.

Paste the following text into selacoin.conf and save the file. or you can download the selacoin.conf file from here – download

rpcuser=rpc_selacoin
rpcpassword=2519d4ef50064515486153139
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=25521
listen=1
server=1

Download cpuminer from here and extract the zip file.

Create a .bat file named mine.bat and paste the following text into mine.bat.

minerd --url=http://127.0.0.1:25521--userpass=rpc_selacoin:2519d4ef50064515486153139

Save the file inside the extracted cpuminer folder.

Open your wallet and execute mine.bat to start mining your first Sela block.

How to mine SelaCoins on macOS

Use the following instructions to mine a SleaCoin block if you are using macos (apple).

1. Downloads the latest version of SelaCoin Wallet for MacOS from here. Next Open your SelaCoin wallet, and make sure your wallet is connected with a node.
   You will know when Your wallet is connected when you see the icon  in the lower corner of your wallet.

The message “Synchronizing with network…” will disappear once you mine your first block.

2. Close your wallet and create the file selacoin.conf in the folder “$HOME/Library/Application Support/SelaCoin/”.

3. Paste the following text into selacoin.conf and save the file.

rpcuser=rpc_selacoin
rpcpassword=2519d4ef50064515486153139
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=25521
listen=1
server=1

4. Re-Open your SelaCoin wallet and let it sync, leave it open.

5. Download cpuminer for macOS from here and extract the zip file.

6. Click the Finder icon in your dock.
Click Go.
Click Utilities.
Double-click Terminal.

Go to the directory where you extracted cpuminer.

For example if you downloaded it to the downloads directory, then you’d  cd in to the the Downloads folder by pasting this in the terminal :

cd Downloads

7. Execute the following command in Terminal to start mining your first block.

./minerd --url=http://127.0.0.1:25521 --userpass=rpc_selacoin:2519d4ef50064515486153139

This can happpen in all crypto currrencies aspecially at first when there are fewer nodes.

the solution doesnt require any thing from you as the error will dissapear when another block is mined .

1) Close your wallet.
2) Open the folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\”.
3) Copy the file “wallet.dat” to a safe location, as that is the most important file and holds all of your funds .

4)It is highly recoomended to perform this action at least once a day or when ever the wallet recieves new funds

1) Open the console of your Selacoin wallet.

2) Unlocking your wallet is only required when you encrypted your wallet with a password/ parraphrase.

Unlock your wallet using the following command:

walletpassphrase mypassword 600

Replace the text “mypassword” with the password you used to encrypt your wallet.
The number 600 is the amount of seconds your wallet will remain unlocked.

Example:

walletpassphrase topsecretpassword 600

3) Export your private key using the following command:

dumpprivkey mywalletaddress

Replace the text “mywalletaddress” with an actual wallet address that can be obtained from “recieve” menu in the maiin selacoin wallet gui.

Example:

dumpprivkey S678777gmDvi7CQVqdktP4dghghhytr5fg

Example output:

VZt9WMWuJF5zbTCJSuX9cwZdtuMzPhz7EkAZUFBxsvak33wg8Kvr

copy the output, and save it somewhere safe as that is your private key!!

1) Open the console of your wallet.

2) This step is  only required if you encrypted your wallet with a password/parrphrase.

First you will need to unlock  your wallet using the following command:

walletpassphrase mypassword 600

Replace the text “mypassword” with the password you used to encrypt your wallet.
The number 600 is the amount of seconds your wallet will remain unlocked.

Example:

walletpassphrase mytopsecretpassword 600

3) Import your private key using the following command:

importprivkey myprivatekey

Replace the text “myprivatekey” with your private key you exported in the previos step.

Example:

importprivkey

1) Open the console of your wallet.

2) Unlocking your wallet is only required when you encrypted your wallet with a password.

Unlock your wallet using the following command:

walletpassphrase mypassword 600



Replace the text “mypassword” with the password you used used to encrypt your wallet.
The number 60 is the amount of seconds your wallet is unlocked.

Example:

walletpassphrase topsecretpassword 600



3) Import your private key using the following command:

importprivkey myprivatekey



Replace the text “myprivatekey” with your private key.

Example:

importprivkey VZt9WMWuJF5zbTCJSuX9cwZdtuMzPhz7EkAZUFBxsvak33wg8Kvr
UFBxsvak33wg8Kvr

1) Close your SelaCoin wallet.
2) Open the folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\”.
3) Make an (extra) backup of the file “wallet.dat”.
4) Copy the file “wallet.dat” from your original backup you made back to the folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\”.

5) Make sure to keep things organized, because if you accidently delete a backup wallet.dat file there will be no way to recover the funds that were in that file – so make sure to backup to several safe locations!

Use the following instructions to start your wallet on Raspbian Stretch.

Update your Raspberry Pi.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install the required dependencies.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils python3

sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-all-dev libboost-program-options-dev
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev libzmq3-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler unzip software-properties-common

Install Berkeley DB from source code.

wget https://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.zip
unzip db-4.8.30.zip
cd db-4.8.30
cd build_unix/
../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx
make
sudo make install

Configure environment variable.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib"

The error message saying “You need to rebuild the database using -reindex to change -txindex.” is caused by the setting “txindex=1” in your selacoin .conf file.

Use these instructions to fix it.

1) Close your SelaCoin wallet.
2) Make a backup of the entire folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\”.
3) Remove everything in the folder “%APPDATA%\selacoin\” except wallet.dat and selacoin.conf files.
4) Start your wallet Again.