Hey everyone,
I’m trying to get started on mining, but cannot get past the message “Mining is paused while downloading blocks”. It has been running for over 8 hours but hasn’t started mining. I tried starting it again but it is doing the same thing. Am I doing anything wrong?
.zcash/zcash.conf:
addnode=mainnet.z.cash
rpcuser=*************
rpcpassword=****************
gen=1
genproclimit=-1
equihashsolver=tromp
Are you syncing from scratch? That’ll take a while - particularly as of the last few weeks there’s been some burdensome transaction activity that results in slow verification. High transaction volumes causing problems for miners · Issue #2333 · zcash/zcash · GitHub
Yes it is from scratch, I was just following the mining guide to get set up. Is there a faster way to get started up?
Not unless you have a wallet that’s already synchronised on another computer…
Thanks for the info, I’ll just let this run for a while and hopefully it kicks in soon. Thanks!
yeah initial syncing is one of the downsides of blockchains…at least its not the bitcoin chain, which takes over a week, best-case? 
It took me about 2 hours to download 141577 blocks.
The current “Block Height” can be found here: https://explorer.zcha.in/
