Can I add extra miners to an Ethereum Private Network

Question

I have created an Ethereum Private Network and have started mining. When I mine, there’s only one miner mining the block. I want to increase this number. How can I add more miners to this network?

Answer 1

Miners are basically nodes that are connected to the network. So, when you have one peer connected in the network, you can only have a maximum of one miner. If you want more miners, then you have to add more peers to this network and then start mining.

Answer 2

To add miners, add peers. Then with that peer as an active peer in a new terminal, enter into geth console. And then start mining using:

> miner.start()