ForgeMiner v1.1.8

Lower fees, SSL, failover, and ready pool presets.

1.1.8 lowers the dev fee on both algorithms and adds TLS (ssl://) pools, pool failover, a --help screen, and a full set of ready-to-run batch files for the major pools, over 1.1.7. Pearl and qhash mining and hashrate are unchanged.

Fees

• Pearl (pearlhash): dev fee lowered from 3% to 2%.
• QubitCoin (qhash): dev fee lowered from 2.5% to 1%.
• The fee is stated openly and can be verified on your pool - more of your hashrate is credited to you.

Connection

• TLS / SSL pools. Prefix a pool with ssl:// (e.g. --pool ssl://prl.kryptex.network:8048) to connect over an encrypted port. Handy where an ISP filters mining traffic.
• Pool failover. Give --pool several comma-separated addresses (--pool main,backup); if a pool drops, the miner switches to the next and keeps mining. A single pool behaves exactly as before.
• Pool URL schemes. forge now accepts stratum+tcp://, stratum+ssl://, tcp:// and stratum:// prefixes, so a config copied from a pool's site works as-is.
• Help and version. forge --help lists every flag with examples; forge --version prints the version.

Pool presets

• Ready batch files for the major pools, by region and transport (TCP and SSL where supported): Kryptex, HeroMiners, LuckyPool, AlphaPool and BaikalMine for Pearl; LuckyPool and k1pool for QubitCoin. Edit your wallet and run.

Upgrade

• HiveOS: point the flight sheet installation URL to ForgeMiner-1.1.8.tar.gz below. HiveOS will pull it automatically (new version).
• Windows / Linux: download the matching archive below and run as usual.

Builds

• Windows: ForgeMiner-1.1.8-windows.zip
• Linux: ForgeMiner-1.1.8-linux.tar.gz
• HiveOS: ForgeMiner-1.1.8.tar.gz

ForgeMiner v1.1.7

qhash reliability and HiveOS dashboard fixes.

1.1.7 fixes qhash share rejects and HiveOS hashrate charting and adds a few dashboard details, over 1.1.6. Pearl mining and hashrate are unchanged.

Fixes

• qhash — rejected shares resolved. A share-tracking bug could make the miner re-submit the same shares, which the pool then rejected as duplicates; the reject counter could climb while only part of the shares were credited. Fixed — qhash now mines with a clean accept rate.
• qhash — faster startup. The miner now connects, authorizes and reaches full hashrate within a few seconds; previously the first job and login could be delayed by up to ~50 seconds on some pools.
• HiveOS hashrate graph. The dashboard now charts the hashrate correctly — the Pearl algorithm is reported under the name HiveOS recognizes (pearlhash). No change to mining.

Dashboard

• Session Stats now also shows the 24-hour average hashrate, the miner version, and the project Telegram link.

Algorithms

• Selecting an unsupported algorithm now stops with a clear message listing the supported ones, instead of silently falling back to the default. Groundwork for additional algorithms.

Upgrade

• HiveOS: point the flight sheet installation URL to ForgeMiner-1.1.7.tar.gz below. HiveOS will pull it automatically (new version).
• Windows / Linux: download the matching archive below and run as usual.

Builds

• Windows: ForgeMiner-1.1.7-windows.zip
• Linux: ForgeMiner-1.1.7-linux.tar.gz
• HiveOS: ForgeMiner-1.1.7.tar.gz

ForgeMiner v1.1.6

Stability release — mixed-GPU rigs and cleaner pool stats.

1.1.6 carries two fixes over 1.1.4; default behavior is otherwise unchanged.

Fixes

• Mixed RTX 30 + RTX 50 series rigs no longer crash on start. Rigs combining 30-series and 50-series cards in one rig could be terminated shortly after mining began (single-architecture rigs were never affected). Resolved.
• Correct reject vs stale accounting on some pools (e.g. HeroMiners). When a pool rapidly changes job/difficulty (vardiff), a share that arrives a moment late is now counted as STALE (late), not REJECTED — so the reject counter reflects only genuinely bad shares. Previously this made the reject counter look alarmingly high right after start, even though the pool itself recorded those shares as stale (a normal ~1%, on par with other miners). No change to actual accepted work or payout.

Upgrade

• HiveOS: point the flight sheet installation URL to ForgeMiner-1.1.6.tar.gz below. HiveOS will pull it automatically (new version).
• Windows / Linux: download the matching archive below and run as usual.

Builds

• Windows: ForgeMiner-1.1.6-windows.zip
• Linux: ForgeMiner-1.1.6-linux.tar.gz
• HiveOS: ForgeMiner-1.1.6.tar.gz

ForgeMiner v1.1.5

Stability release — mixed-GPU rigs and cleaner pool stats.

1.1.5 carries two fixes over 1.1.4; default behavior is otherwise unchanged.

Fixes

• Mixed RTX 30 + RTX 50 series rigs no longer crash on start. Rigs combining 30-series and 50-series cards in one rig could be terminated shortly after mining began (single-architecture rigs were never affected). Resolved.
• Correct reject vs stale accounting on some pools (e.g. HeroMiners). When a pool rapidly changes job/difficulty (vardiff), a share that arrives a moment late is now counted as STALE (late), not REJECTED — so the reject counter reflects only genuinely bad shares. Previously this made the reject counter look alarmingly high right after start, even though the pool itself recorded those shares as stale (a normal ~1%, on par with other miners). No change to actual accepted work or payout.

Upgrade

• HiveOS: point the flight sheet installation URL to ForgeMiner-1.1.5.tar.gz below and re-install (custom-get -f if it doesn't refresh).
• Windows / Linux: download the matching archive below and run as usual.

Builds

• Windows: ForgeMiner-1.1.5-windows.zip
• Linux: ForgeMiner-1.1.5-linux.tar.gz
• HiveOS: ForgeMiner-1.1.5.tar.gz

ForgeMiner v1.1.4

Full hashrate on AlphaPool (Pearl)

Mining Pearl on the AlphaPool protocol (--proto alpha) now runs the same optimized kernel as the stratum pools — it was leaving roughly 25–35% on the table on RTX 30/40/50. Same bit-exact, 0-reject mining, just the full hashrate at the same clocks and power. Stratum pools and QubitCoin (qhash) are unchanged.

What's new

• AlphaPool (--proto alpha) now uses the fast fused kernel instead of the legacy path — measured ~+23% on an RTX 3080 Ti at the same clocks and power, back to parity with the stratum pools. Results are bit-identical, so mining stays 0-reject. All NVIDIA generations.

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Upgrade — drop-in: same flags, pools, wallets, and overclock. Just replace the binary.
Builds — Windows · Linux · HiveOS.

ForgeMiner v1.1.3

Fewer stale shares on new blocks (Pearl)

When the pool moves to a new block, ForgeMiner now instantly switches to it and drops the stale in-flight work — so no GPU time is wasted on shares the pool would reject. How shares are found is unchanged: bit-exact, 0-reject. QubitCoin (qhash) is unchanged.

What's new

• Instant new-block switch on Pearl: the moment the pool advances the block, the miner abandons the now-stale in-flight batch instead of finishing it. Fewer stale shares and slightly higher accepted hashrate — most noticeable on fast-block / high-rate pools, negligible on slow ones. All NVIDIA generations.

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Upgrade — drop-in: same flags, pools, wallets, and overclock. Just replace the binary.
Builds — Windows · Linux · HiveOS.

ForgeMiner v1.1.2

Faster QubitCoin (qhash)

A faster qhash kernel for NVIDIA RTX 30- and 50-series cards — the same bit-exact, 0-reject mining, just more hashrate at the same clocks and power. Pearl is unchanged.

What's new

• Higher qhash rate on RTX 30-series (Ampere) and RTX 50-series (Blackwell) — around +1.5% at the same clocks and power, from a more efficient hashing path. Results are bit-identical, so mining stays 0-reject.

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Upgrade — drop-in: same flags, pools, wallets, and overclock. Just replace the binary.
Builds — Windows · Linux · HiveOS.

ForgeMiner v1.1.1

RTX 40-series speedup

A faster Pearl kernel for RTX 40-series cards, plus a dashboard clock-reading fix. This release extends the mining-path tuning that sped up the 30-series to the 40-series (Ada), and corrects the core clock shown for the first GPU.

What's new

• Higher PearlHash rate on RTX 40-series (Ada) GPUs — around +6%, from a more efficient mining path at the same clocks and power (measured ~+6% live on RTX 4070 Ti).

Fixes

• The core clock shown for the first GPU in the dashboard is now correct — it no longer reports an inflated idle reading, and that card keeps slightly more of its mining time.

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Upgrade — drop-in: same flags, pools, wallets, and overclock. Just replace the binary.
Builds — Windows · Linux · HiveOS.

ForgeMiner v1.1.0

ForgeMiner v1.1.0 — QubitCoin (QTC) support

ForgeMiner now mines QubitCoin (QTC) too. Full qhash support across NVIDIA RTX 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (and CMP) — same native engine, same speed, efficiency and rock-solid stability that make ForgeMiner one of the fastest, leanest miners around.

New

• QubitCoin (qhash) mining — run with --algorithm qhash. A dedicated kernel for each NVIDIA architecture, auto-selected at launch.
• Broad driver support — qhash loads on driver 535 and newer, so it runs on old and new rigs alike.

Why ForgeMiner

• Top-tier hashrate — a hand-tuned kernel for every NVIDIA generation, auto-selected at launch. On the newest cards it goes head-to-head with the fastest miners out there.
• Faster where others choke — keeps every GPU fed on weak CPUs, many-card rigs, multiple instances and slow x1 risers — exactly the setups where other miners lose hashrate to bottlenecks.
• Leaner and instant — talks to the GPU directly through the CUDA Driver API: near-zero CPU load, starts in a second, no Python, no WSL, no extra runtimes to install.
• Everything built in — per-GPU overclocking, automatic pool reconnect and a clean live dashboard, all inside the miner. No third-party OC or watchdog tools to bolt on.
• Self-contained — one encrypted binary with everything embedded; nothing loose to manage.
• Rock-solid — verify-before-submit means clean, 0-reject mining.

Notes

• Existing Pearl rigs are unaffected — Pearl stays the default and is unchanged; updating is safe.
• qhash quick start (Windows): forge.exe --algorithm qhash --wallet <YOUR_QTC_WALLET> --worker rig1 --pool ru.luckypool.io:8610
• HiveOS: add FORGE_ALGO=qhash to the extra-config field and set the pool URL + wallet to your QTC pool. Overclock from the miner with FORGE_CCLK / FORGE_COFF / FORGE_PLIMIT (root/Administrator required).

Upgrade

Drop-in. Replace the binary (or the HiveOS package) and restart the miner.

Builds

• Windows: ForgeMiner-1.1.0-windows.zip
• Linux: ForgeMiner-1.1.0-linux.tar.gz
• HiveOS: ForgeMiner-1.1.0.tar.gz

ForgeMiner v1.0.12

RTX 30-series speedup

Higher PearlHash rate on RTX 30-series cards, plus a HiveOS dashboard fix. This release tunes the Ampere (30-series) mining path and corrects the dashboard and stats table when you mine only some of a rig's GPUs.

What's new

• Higher PearlHash rate across the RTX 30-series (Ampere) — roughly +8% to +15% depending on the card (the larger gains on cards like the RTX 3060 Ti / 3070), from a more efficient mining path at the same clocks and power.

Fixes

• The HiveOS dashboard and the on-screen stats table now report correctly when mining a GPU subset with --gpu / FORGE_GPU (for example --gpu 1,2,3). Shares were always submitted; only the stats and table display were affected.

Notes

• Refreshed application icon.
• NVIDIA CMP mining cards (such as the CMP 50HX) are supported.

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Upgrade — drop-in: same flags, pools, wallets, and overclock. Just replace the binary.
Builds — Windows · Linux · HiveOS.