HCC-miner 0.5.0

v0.5.0 Release Notes

This release adds a POTATO mode optimized for low-power devices and introduces a local benchmark mode to measure real mining performance (no API calls).

Added

• POTATO mode (-potato)

  • Requests /challenge_potato and mines at a lower difficulty.
  • Designed for Raspberry Pi / low-power CPUs that sometimes struggle with normal-mode timeouts.
  • Counts toward the normal daily cap and uses a longer cooldown (server-side policy).
  • Mutually exclusive with -extreme.

• Benchmark mode (-bench)

  • Runs a local-only benchmark (no key required, no API calls).
  • Uses the real mining inner loop: SHA256(stamp + "|" + decimal nonce).
  • Flags:
    • -bench-bits (default: 28)
    • -bench-rounds (default: 10)
  • Prints per-round tries/time/MH/s and averages.

Notes

• Example benchmark:
  • ./hcc_miner_* -bench -workers 4 -bench-rounds 5