How to mine pancake swap using your Laptop/Desktop

Shashi Prakash Gautam
4 min readDec 18, 2021

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In this post, we will talk about how you can mine pancake swap using your laptop or desktop.

DISCLAIMER: Take this as an exploration and learning crypto.

What is pancake swap you ask?

Pancakeswap is a decentralizaed DEX where you can Trade, earn, and win crypto on the most popular decentralized platform in the galaxy, you can Trade any token on Binance Smart Chain in seconds and you can earn passive income with your CAKE tokens.

You can read more about it from https://pancakeswap.finance/

Get Started!

Step I: Getting a crypto wallet

You can start with Metamask as a crypto wallet. Go ahead and download the Metamask as a chrome extension.

Download Link: https://metamask.io/download.html

Once installed let's set up the Metamask account.

Metamask Get Started Screen

Click on Get Started button, and you should see the following screen.

Metamask create wallet screen

Click on Create a Wallet button.

Metamask I Agree Screen

Click on I Agree button.

Metamask create password

Provide a strong password and click Create button.

Metamask Secure wallet Screen.

Click on Next button.

You will be presented with a Secret Recovery Phrase screen.

Click on the locked area to REVEAL SECRET WORDS.

Write this phrase on a piece of paper and store in a secure location. If you want even more security, write it down on multiple pieces of paper and store each in 2–3 different locations.

Memorize this phrase. or keep the phrase in an external files.

Metamask secret recovery phrase screen

Click on Next button.

In the next screen, you will need to input the secret recovery phrase word.

Metamask secret recovery phrase screen

And click on Confirm.

Here we are done with the Metamask setup.

Now click on All Done.

Step II: Setting up Metamask and Binance Smart Chain network

Next, we need to connect Metamask and Binance Smart Chain network. Follow the following link to connect.

Metamask + Binance Smart Chain

Step III: Download unMineable Miner

Next step is to download the unMineable. Please follow the following official link to download. https://www.unmineable.com/miner

unMineable download

Extract the file and run the .exe file.

Note: You might need to turn off/allow your antivirus and windows defender/windows security to allow the file to run.

Once you start the application you will see the following screen.

unMineable Home Screen

Next either select GPU or CPU to mine the pancake swap.

In the next screen select the pancake swap token and provide the address.

To find out the address go to Metamask and select Account1 and click on copy address to the clipboard.

Metamask address

You can also provide an optional referral code. The code will allow you to drop your Dev Fee from 1% to 0.75%.

Use the code: o6b9-s367 to drop your Dev Fee from 1% to 0.75% (it make difference in long run).

Finally, click on Start. You should see the following screen.

So we are done and we can see pancake swap balance.

Let’s see unMineable stats, click on the Stats button and you will be taken to unmineable where you can see the details and statistics.

You can also see another post on how to mine Pancake swap here.

https://shweshi.medium.com/how-to-mine-shiba-inu-using-your-laptop-desktop-aa3678070297

Thanks for reading. If you have some feedback, please provide your response or reach out to me on Twitter or Github.

Happy Mining!!!

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