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Your spare PC can mine $GLaDOS tonight, and now it can mine real-world assets
too. Boot the miner, give it your wallet, pick what you want to be paid in,
and walk away: $GLaDOS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, a basket of chip makers, or gold,
silver and oil. It all lands straight in your wallet. Nothing to claim,
nothing to install.

Download: glados-1.3.10-miner.iso (33 MB), plus SHA256SUMS to
check it:

sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS

Run it in a virtual machine with QEMU, or boot a real PC from a USB stick.
Both land on the same screen: mining.

In a virtual machine (QEMU)

  1. Install QEMU and OVMF, the UEFI firmware the miner boots on:
    sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 ovmf (Debian/Ubuntu),
    sudo pacman -S qemu-full edk2-ovmf (Arch),
    sudo dnf install qemu-kvm edk2-ovmf (Fedora).

  2. Copy the firmware's settings file next to the ISO. The VM keeps your
    wallet in it between boots:

    cp /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS_4M.fd vars.fd           # Debian/Ubuntu
cp /usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_VARS.4m.fd vars.fd       # Arch
cp /usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd vars.fd         # Fedora

  3. Boot it, using the firmware file from the same folder
    (OVMF_CODE_4M.fd, OVMF_CODE.4m.fd or OVMF_CODE.fd):

    qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -accel kvm -m 2G \
    -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on,file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE_4M.fd \
    -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=vars.fd \
    -cdrom glados-1.3.10-miner.iso

  4. Type your 0x wallet address and press Enter. You're mining. Next time,
    the same command goes straight to mining.

-machine q35 gives the VM the PCI Express bus the miner finds its network
card on. -accel kvm runs it at full speed; on a machine without KVM, drop it
and it runs slower.

Why QEMU? The miner boots on UEFI and finds its network card over PCI
Express. A new VirtualBox machine boots legacy BIOS on a chipset with no PCI
Express, so it can't see the network. QEMU with the flags above is what this
release is built and tested on.

On a real PC (USB stick)

  1. Flash the ISO to a USB stick with balenaEtcher, Rufus (DD mode) or
    dd. The stick shows up on your computer as a drive named GLADOS.
  2. Put your wallet on the stick: on the GLADOS drive, open the GLADOS
    folder, then MINER.TXT. Replace ask on the worker line with your 0x
    address and save. The PC won't even need a keyboard.
  3. Boot from the stick with your PC's boot menu key: usually F11, F12 or
    Esc.

What the PC needs:

  • x86-64 with UEFI, with Secure Boot off. Roughly 2011 and newer.
  • Ethernet (Intel e1000-family or Realtek RTL8168/8111, which covers most
    desktops and laptops), or a phone sharing its connection over USB.

Choose what you're paid in

Every miner gets the same share of each payout. You pick what that share is
paid in:

Code Paid in
glados $GLaDOS (the default)
nvda NVIDIA
spcx SpaceX
googl Alphabet
amzn Amazon
gme GameStop
spy S&P 500
chips Chip makers: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Micron, Broadcom, TSMC, ASML, Marvell, SK hynix, Dell
os Operating systems: Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, IBM, BlackBerry
index S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100
metals Gold, silver and oil
  • On the mining screen: type a code, like nvda, and press Enter. The
    miner restarts and the screen says YOU ARE MINING NVDA.
  • On a USB stick: set the reward line in GLADOS/MINER.TXT, like
    reward metals.
  • It's remembered on that PC, like your wallet. A code typed on the screen
    stays until you type another, or until you change the reward line in
    MINER.TXT.

The same 1,000,000 $GLaDOS rule applies whatever you're paid in.

Your wallet

  • Hold at least 1,000,000 $GLaDOS to mine on the pool, and keep holding
    it to get paid. The screen tells you if you're short.
  • It's remembered. An address typed at boot is saved on that PC, so every
    later boot goes straight to mining.
  • Switch wallets by typing a new 0x address on the mining screen and
    pressing Enter.
  • Forget the saved address by typing mine forget. The next boot asks
    again.

All the miner ever needs is your address. It never asks for a key or a
signature.

How you get paid

  • Everyone gets the same. Each payout is split equally between every
    eligible wallet, and each share is paid in what that wallet chose.
  • Who is eligible: wallets holding at least 1,000,000 $GLaDOS that did at
    least a quarter of the typical miner's work in that round. Miss a round and
    your work carries over to the next.
  • How often: as soon as the pot is big enough that fees stay under 10% of
    it. More miners means more frequent payouts.
  • Straight to your wallet on Robinhood Chain. There is nothing to claim.
  • Every payout is public, with its transaction:
    https://pool.aperture.institute/payouts.json, or on
    https://glados.aperture.institute/pool/.

Also new in 1.3.10

  • It tells you what's wrong, in plain words. No network card, no cable,
    no address from the router, no internet: each one is its own message on the
    screen, and the miner keeps retrying by itself until it's fixed.
  • Clear wallet messages. If your wallet holds less than 1,000,000
    $GLaDOS, the pool says exactly how much it holds and what it needs. A
    mistyped address or a contract address gets its own message too.

Also in this release

glados-pool and glados-miner: static Linux builds of the pool and a
host-side miner, if you'd like to mine without booting an ISO.

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