[SOLVED] Ethereum : Am I mining to my correct wallet address?

Ethereum : Am I mining to my correct wallet address?

I'm trying to start Ethereum, so I created my wallet first using metamask and I added to geth using private key with this command.

geth account import private_key.txt

After that I run the mining command using geth --mine, so my question is : am I really mining to my correct wallet ?

Solution

OPTION 1: You can set the account your Ethereum miner mines to by running the following in the geth console:

miner.setEtherbase('yourethaddress')

You can also set a local address to mine to using:

miner.setEtherbase(eth.accounts[2])

Replace '2' with the number of your account.

OPTION 2: When starting your geth node you can use the --etherbase flag.

geth --rpc --etherbase 0xC95767AC46EA2A9162F0734651d6cF17e5BfcF10

Using your ETH public address.