If you want to mine at MVIS Mining Pool using the Stratum protocol, but your mining software does not support this protocol, you can use this proxy program to bridge the gap. See the FAQ page at http://mvis.ca/faq.html for general information regarding the Stratum protocol.

1. For Windows users, download the zip package from the Releases page. If you are on Linux, you will have to run from source. (see below).
2. Unzip the package and open up config.ini in your preferred text editor. The only thing you need to change is the EthAddress setting. This is the ETH address you will receive payouts to from the pool. This address needs to match the ETH address set in your mining software.
3. Run the program. You can simply double-click on the .exe and it will open up in a console window, however it is preferable to open a command prompt first, 'cd' into the correct directory, and then run it from there by typing stratumproxy.exe, the reason being, if the program crashes this will allow you to see the error message that caused the crash.

If you have multiple mining rigs, you can either run a separate instance of the proxy program on each mining rig, each one configured with a separate ETH address, or you can point all miners to the same proxy via your local area network. In this case all miners need to be configured with the same ETH address, which needs to match the EthAddress setting in config.ini.

Keep in mind if you do it this way, the mining pool will see all miners as one high-hashrate miner, and assign a difficulty according to the cumulative hash rate.

This procedure should work either under Windows or Linux:

1. Make sure you have Node 10 installed. Node 8 may work as well, but I haven't tested it.
2. Clone the repo to a folder of your choice.
3. cd into that folder and type npm install
4. Edit config.ini as explained above.
5. To run the program, type node index.js