djm@asgard:~/zcash$ ./src/zcash-cli getmininginfo
{
"blocks" : 7355,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 60.44242846,
"errors" : "This is a pre-release test build - use at your own risk - do not use for mining or merchant applications",
"genproclimit" : 1,
"networkhashps" : 6,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : true,
"chain" : "test",
"generate" : true
}
{
“blocks” : 7363,
“currentblocksize” : 13755,
“currentblocktx” : 1,
“difficulty” : 63.43250152,
“errors” : “This is a pre-release test build - use at your own risk - do not use for mining or merchant applications”,
“genproclimit” : -1,
“networkhashps” : 6,
“pooledtx” : 1,
“testnet” : true,
“chain” : “test”,
“generate” : true
}
Yes you are mining - specifically the generate: true
genproclimit at -1 will mine on all available threads though I prefer to explicitly set this to match the number of threads/cores you want to use (as performance doesn’t scale linearly and using hyper threading can actually decrease performance).
You can mine on any CPU. Currently the native miner in zcashd has very poor performance compared to newly released open-source CPU solvers (see here) so hopefully a standalone miner will be released prior to launch else it’s unlikely your CPU will do very well.