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glados-miner 0.2.0

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The native GLaDOS pool miner. It mines into the same pool as the browser miner at mine.aperture.institute: same ledger, same payouts, paid in the reward you choose. It's 2–3× faster than the browser on the same hardware.

Install

Replace 0xYOURADDRESS with your wallet address (42 characters, starting 0x).

Linux and macOS (Terminal)

curl -fsSL https://mine.aperture.institute/install.sh | sh -s -- 0xYOURADDRESS

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://mine.aperture.institute/install.ps1 | iex

That asks for your address. To give it up front, with options:

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://mine.aperture.institute/install.ps1))) -Address 0xYOURADDRESS

Options

What Linux / macOS Windows
What you are paid in (as on the miner page) --reward glados -Reward glados
How hard it works, 10–100% --duty 50 -Duty 50
CPU threads --threads 4 -Threads 4
What an NVIDIA GPU mines Pearl by default; --algo neoscrypt for NeoScrypt Pearl by default; -Algo neoscrypt
CPU only --no-gpu -NoGpu

With an NVIDIA GPU, the installer test-starts the Pearl helper once and mines Pearl, which pays the most per card. A card too old for it (before the GTX 10 series) mines NeoScrypt instead.

Example, NeoScrypt instead of Pearl, at half power:

curl -fsSL https://mine.aperture.institute/install.sh | sh -s -- 0xYOURADDRESS --algo neoscrypt --duty 50

What the installer does

  • Downloads the files for your system from this release.
  • Checks each file against SHA256SUMS.
  • Puts them in one folder:
    • Linux: ~/.local/share/glados-miner
    • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/glados-miner
    • Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\glados-miner
  • Starts mining in that window.

There is no background service, nothing starts at boot, and no sudo or admin is needed. Ctrl+C stops it. To mine again later, run mine (Windows: mine.cmd) in that folder. To remove it, delete the folder.

Windows Defender may flag it, because it is a cryptocurrency miner, which is what you asked for.

Files

File For
glados-miner-linux-x86_64, glados-miner-linux-arm64 Linux, Intel/AMD and ARM
glados-miner-macos-arm64, glados-miner-macos-x86_64 macOS, Apple Silicon and Intel
glados-miner-windows-x86_64.exe Windows
xpu-linux-x86_64, xpu-windows-x86_64.exe NVIDIA GPU helper for NeoScrypt (CUDA)
pearl-linux-x86_64, pearl-windows-x86_64.exe NVIDIA GPU helper for Pearl (CUDA; tensor cores on RTX 30-series and newer)
SHA256SUMS checksums of all of the above

By hand, without the installer (Linux example)

sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
chmod +x glados-miner-linux-x86_64 xpu-linux-x86_64 pearl-linux-x86_64
# CPU
./glados-miner-linux-x86_64 --pool wss://pool.aperture.institute/mine --worker 0xYOURADDRESS --cpu
# NVIDIA GPU, NeoScrypt
./glados-miner-linux-x86_64 --pool wss://pool.aperture.institute/mine/gpu --worker 0xYOURADDRESS --gpu --xpu ./xpu-linux-x86_64
# NVIDIA GPU, Pearl (beta)
./glados-miner-linux-x86_64 --pool wss://pool.aperture.institute/mine/pearl --worker 0xYOURADDRESS --algo pearl --pearl ./pearl-linux-x86_64

Add --reward ASSET and --duty PERCENT as you like.

The miner is open source: miner/ and cuda/.

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