Improved support for solo mining and VPN.
For mining, the Stratum bridge was already there, now this release has implemented several improvements.
And using VPN most of the time meant that your public node couldnt be found, with this release there is support for these public nodes to be found. It still depends on the options the VPN has, but for those with compatible VPNs it now will work.
(Coming from 0.4.6? This rolls up everything in 0.5.1 as well.)
What's new
Solo mining: you can point a miner at your own node
The plumbing for it has been in MyKAI for a while: a Stratum bridge, talking to your own node, paying out to your own address, with per-worker hashrate and share counts read straight from the bridge. You can switch it on today enable mining, set your payout address, choose who may connect, and point your miner at your node.
What this release adds is what was missing
- You decide who can reach your miner port. There are now three modes. Localhost keeps it to this PC. LAN binds your real local network adapter and opens the firewall to your own subnet only, so the rig in the other room can connect, and nothing outside your house can. Remote exists for people who genuinely need it, behind a separate opt-in that's off by default. And it fails toward the narrow setting: if no local adapter can be found, or the setting has been tampered with, it falls back to localhost rather than opening up. It cannot silently end up exposed to the internet.
- The block reward is the real one. The interface showed a fixed 15.2 KAS per block. It now shows what a block actually pays.
For same-port VPNs: a custom listen port
Some VPNs forward a port straight through without translating it, which means your node has to listen on that port, not the standard one. There's now a setting for it under Advanced, along with an honest note about the discoverability trade-off above. Off by default; nothing changes unless you turn it on.
Auto-update behavior
If you're on any 0.3.x or 0.4.x version, MyKAI will detect this update on next launch and prompt you to restart. Your data, settings, account key, and node identity are all preserved — and your synced chain data carries over, so there's no full re-sync.
If auto-update doesn't pick it up, download the installer below and run it over your existing install.