NurseryPool

1. Run the installer below. It checks the build dependencies first and installs them only if you agree.
2. Option 3: enter the address you already have, or create a wallet with the official eCash node.
3. Option 8 compiles the miner for your own CPU, option 9 starts it.
4. Open your miner page to watch your shares arrive.

1. Get an address first: there is no eCash node for Windows, so create the wallet in WSL2 or on a Linux machine. See the wallet section on the pool page.
2. Open PowerShell in an empty folder and run the one-line installer below.
3. Answer three questions: your address, a name for this machine, and how many cores to use.
4. Open your miner page to watch your shares arrive.

The miner is downloaded and its checksum checked before anything runs.

irm https://ecx.nurserypool.com/dl/install-ecx-miner.ps1 | iex

One command, then a menu. It checks your build dependencies, can fetch the official eCash node to create a wallet, compiles the miner for your own processor, and lets you start it, stop it, read its logs, check your balance and send your coins.

curl -fsSL https://ecx.nurserypool.com/dl/install-ecx-miner.sh | sh

Piping a script into a shell means running code you have not read. If you would rather check first — and you should:

1 — download it

curl -fsSL -O https://ecx.nurserypool.com/dl/install-ecx-miner.sh

2 — compare the checksum

sha256sum install-ecx-miner.sh

expected:

1f680dadfdb9e14bac49f1010b2ade5c31c5159f93481291e8fe4e2296fca7da

3 — read it, then run it

less install-ecx-miner.sh && sh install-ecx-miner.sh

Everything lands in ./ecx-miner and ~/.ecash-wallet: no service, no autostart, nothing added to your shell. rm -rf ecx-miner removes the miner, and a reboot has nothing to undo. Keep the wallet folder — it holds your key.

The script ships no binary of ours: it compiles the miner from JayDDee's official sources, and downloads the node only from the project's own release site. It never asks for anything but your public address, and it never runs sudo without showing you the exact package list first.

On Windows there is no compiling: the miner is a single 762 kB executable. One command in PowerShell asks three questions, checks the download, and starts mining.

irm https://ecx.nurserypool.com/dl/install-ecx-miner.ps1 | iex

If PowerShell refuses to run it, Windows is blocking downloaded scripts. Allow it for this window only:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process Bypass

Prefer to run nothing you have not read? Download the miner yourself:

https://ecx.nurserypool.com/dl/pooler-cpuminer-2.5.1-win64.zip

expected:

a33f6d637a71a69b21d95aa0237e9e5227da62b437e986d28d964fd5395ace37

Unzip it, then run this in the same folder:

minerd.exe -a sha256d -o stratum+tcp://ecx.nurserypool.com:8855 -u YOUR_BC1_ADDRESS.rig1 -p x

Say plainly what this does not do: there is no eCash node for Windows, so the script cannot create a wallet, show you a balance or spend your coins. Get an address first, from a machine running the Linux installer or from WSL2, and point the miner at it. Your coins are paid to that address either way.

The miner is pooler\u2019s cpuminer, rehosted here unmodified so you do not have to hunt for it, with the checksum above to check it against. It is slower than the Linux build, which is compiled for your own processor.