<p>No you cannot. Monero uses a different PoW that is incompatible with sgminer, but also uses a different pool communication protocol that is Stratum-like but not actually Stratum.</p>

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2016-05-21T08:58:17.733Z
2016-05-21T08:58:17.733Z
fluffyponyza
<p>I've been mining Monero using my sgminer. I pointed it at <a href="https://moneropool.com/" rel="nofollow">https://moneropool.com/</a>, but i when i visit the site to see my stats i see that my address is not found. Is my miner not working?</p>

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Are you aware that Monero uses CryptoNote as their hashing algorithm?
Murch
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Can you mine Monero using sgminer?
jack
# Can you mine Monero using sgminer?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-04-03)

I've been mining Monero using my sgminer. I pointed it at <https://moneropool.com/>, but i when i visit the site to see my stats i see that my address is not found. Is my miner not working?

**Tags:** cgminer, miner-configuration, guiminer, monero

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Are you aware that Monero uses CryptoNote as their hashing algorithm?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2016-05-21. Score: 1

No you cannot. Monero uses a different PoW that is incompatible with sgminer, but also uses a different pool communication protocol that is Stratum-like but not actually Stratum.


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