, we have the option of using xmr-stak or xmrig. xmr-stak only has precompiled binaries for Windows, while xmrig has them for Windows and Linux. They both have the source code, so you can compile them yourself to work with Linux if you need to. You can download xmr-stak at https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases You can download xmrig Nvidia at https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-nvidia/releases For this tutorial we will use xmr-stak. After we went through the initial setup, we should be ready to mine. One thing to do is to try and tweak the 