// OPERATION: MINE · OPENS DEC 15, 2026 · 18:00 UTC

Mining guide

CAMO is mined with RandomX, which runs best on ordinary CPUs. No special hardware, no pre-mine for sale. Practice on the stagenet first: it uses the same steps.

ALGORITHM
RandomX

XMRig: -a rx/0

BLOCK TIME
60 s

one block a minute

REWARD AT LAUNCH
~17 CAMO

per block, falling slowly

TAIL REWARD
0.3 CAMO

per block, forever

01 Get a wallet address

Mined coins go to your address, so make a wallet first. With the CAMO software (signed downloads from Dec 7):

./camo-wallet-cli --generate-new-wallet my-wallet

Write the 25 words on paper and keep them offline. Mainnet addresses start with C. The Ghillie wallet (Q1 2027) will make this one tap.

02 Choose how to mine

OPTION A · SIMPLEST

Solo, with your node

Your own node mines for you. You keep the whole block reward when you find one, but blocks come rarely unless you have a lot of CPU.

./camod --start-mining C…your address… \
  --mining-threads 4

OPTION B · FASTER

Solo, with XMRig

XMRig is the standard open-source RandomX miner and is faster than the built-in one. It talks to your own synced node:

xmrig -a rx/0 --daemon \
  -o 127.0.0.1:19741 \
  -u C…your address…

OPTION C · STEADY PAY

The official pool

Miners share work and split each block, so small miners get paid regularly. No node needed.

xmrig -a rx/0 \
  -o [POOL ADDRESS]:4242 \
  -u C…your address… -p my-rig

03 About the official pool

  • 1% fee, paid to CAMO's public marketing wallet. That's the only fee: nothing is hidden in the software.
  • PPLNS payouts: each block is shared by the work in recent shares, which rewards miners who stay connected.
  • Payouts start once a block is 60 blocks deep (about an hour) and your balance passes the minimum: 0.25 CAMO.
  • Check your stats on the pool's page: [POOL STATS LINK].
  • Prefer to stay independent? Options A and B never touch the pool.

04 Get XMRig safely

  • Download only from github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases and check the SHA-256 hash listed there.
  • Antivirus tools often flag miners as "potentially unwanted". That's expected for XMRig from the official page; anything from elsewhere could be malware.
  • Official XMRig builds give 1% of mining time to the XMRig developers by default (--donate-level, minimum 1). That goes to them, not to CAMO.
  • Run it once as administrator (Windows) or with sudo (Linux) so it can turn on huge pages, which makes RandomX noticeably faster.

05 Good to know

When can I spend mined coins?
After 60 more blocks, about an hour. Until then your wallet shows them as locked.
Why did block 1 pay its miner nothing?
Block 1 carries CAMO's disclosed allocation (founder 489,600, marketing 54,400, and 96,000 provably burned). The rules fix its payout, so whoever mines it gets no reward. Every block after it pays the miner as normal.
Can I mine on my phone?
No. Phones are slow at RandomX and app stores ban mining apps. Ghillie for phones will start, stop and watch mining on your own computers instead.
Can I mine on a work or school computer?
Only computers you own or have permission to use. Mining on someone else's machine without permission is theft of their electricity, and often illegal.
Does mining hurt my computer?
It runs the CPU at full load, so it gets warm and uses more power. Keep it ventilated, and use fewer threads (-t 2) if you want to keep using it.