cpuminer-opt is a fork of cpuminer-multi by TPruvot with optimizations imported from other miners developped by lucas Jones, djm34, Wolf0, pooler, Jeff garzik, ig0tik3d, elmad, palmd, and Optiminer, with additional optimizations by Jay D Dee.
All of the code is believed to be open and free. If anyone has a claim to any of it post your case in the cpuminer-opt Bitcoin Talk forum or by email.
Miner programs are often flagged as malware by antivirus programs. This is a false positive, they are flagged simply because they are cryptocurrency miners. The source code is open for anyone to inspect. If you don't trust the software, don't use it.
New thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226770.msg53865575#msg53865575
Old thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0
mailto://jayddee246@gmail.com
This note is to confirm that bitcointalk users JayDDee and joblo are the same person.
I created a new BCT user JayDDee to match my github user id. The old thread has been locked but still contains useful information for reading.
See file RELEASE_NOTES for change log and INSTALL_LINUX or INSTALL_WINDOWS for compile instructions.
- A x86_64 architecture CPU with a minimum of SSE2 support. This includes Intel Core2 and newer and AMD equivalents. Further optimizations are available on some algoritms for CPUs with AES, AVX, AVX2, SHA, AVX512 and VAES.
32 bit CPUs are not supported. Other CPU architectures such as ARM, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Xeon Phi, etc, are not supported.
Mobile CPUs like laptop computers are not recommended because they aren't designed for extreme heat of operating at full load for extended periods of time.
Older CPUs and ARM architecture may be supported by cpuminer-multi by TPruvot.
- 64 bit Linux or Windows OS. Ubuntu and Fedora based distributions, including Mint and Centos, are known to work and have all dependencies in their repositories. Others may work but may require more effort. Older versions such as Centos 6 don't work due to missing features.
Windows 7 or newer is supported with mingw_w64 and msys or using the pre-built binaries. WindowsXP 64 bit is YMMV.
FreeBSD is not actively tested but should work, YMMV. MacOS, OSx and Android are not supported.
- Stratum pool supporting stratum+tcp:// or stratum+ssl:// protocols or RPC getwork using http:// or https://. GBT is YMMV.
allium Garlicoin
anime Animecoin
argon2 Argon2 coin (AR2)
argon2d250 argon2d-crds, Credits (CRDS)
argon2d500 argon2d-dyn, Dynamic (DYN)
argon2d4096 argon2d-uis, Unitus, (UIS)
blake Blake-256
blake2b Blake2-512
blake2s Blake2-256
blakecoin blake256r8
bmw BMW 256
bmw512 BMW 512
c11
decred
deep Deepcoin (DCN)
dmd-gr Diamond-Groestl
flex Flex
groestl Groestl coin
hex x16r-hex
hmq1725
jha Jackpotcoin
keccak Maxcoin
keccakc Creative coin
lbry LBC, LBRY Credits
lyra2h
lyra2re lyra2
lyra2rev2 lyra2v2
lyra2rev3 lyrav2v3
lyra2z
lyra2z330
m7m
minotaur
minotaurx
myr-gr Myriad-Groestl
neoscrypt NeoScrypt(128, 2, 1)
nist5 Nist5
pentablake Pentablake
phi1612 phi
phi2
polytimos Ninja
power2b MicroBitcoin (MBC)
quark Quark
qubit Qubit
scrypt scrypt(1024, 1, 1) (default)
scrypt:N scrypt(N, 1, 1)
scryptn2 scrypt(1048576, 1, 1)
sha256d Double SHA-256
sha256dt
sha256q Quad SHA-256
sha256t Triple SHA-256
sha3d Double keccak256 (BSHA3)
sha512256d
skein Skein+Sha (Skeincoin)
skein2 Double Skein (Woodcoin)
skunk Signatum (SIGT)
sonoa Sono
timetravel Machinecoin (MAC)
timetravel10 Bitcore
tribus Denarius (DNR)
vanilla blake256r8vnl (VCash)
veltor (VLT)
verthash Vertcoin
whirlpool
whirlpoolx
x11 Dash
x11evo Revolvercoin
x11gost sib (SibCoin)
x12
x13
x13bcd bcd
x13sm3 hsr (Hshare)
x14
x15
x16r
x16rv2
x16rt
x16rt-veil veil
x16s
x17
x20r
x21s
x22i
x25x
xevan Bitsend (BSD)
yescrypt Globalboost-Y (BSTY)
yescryptr8 BitZeny (ZNY)
yescryptr8g Koto (KOTO)
yescryptr16 Eli
yescryptr32 WAVI
yespower Cryply
yespowerr16 Yenten (YTN)
yespower-b2b generic yespower + blake2b
zr5 Ziftr
Many variations of scrypt based algos can be mine by specifying their parameters:
scryptn2: --algo scrypt --param-n 1048576
cpupower: --algo yespower --param-key "CPUpower: The number of CPU working or available for proof-of-work mining"
power2b: --algo yespower-b2b --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
sugarchain: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 -param-r 32 --param-key "Satoshi Nakamoto 31/Oct/2008 Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote"
yespoweriots: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-key "Iots is committed to the development of IOT"
yespowerlitb: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "LITBpower: The number of LITB working or available for proof-of-work mini"
yespoweric: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "IsotopeC"
yespowerurx: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "UraniumX"
yespowerltncg: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "LTNCGYES"
Old algorithms that are no longer used frequently will not have the latest optimizations.
Cryptonight and variants are no longer supported, use another miner.
Neoscrypt crashes on Windows, use legacy version.
AMD CPUs older than Piledriver, including Athlon x2 and Phenom II x4, are not supported by cpuminer-opt due to an incompatible implementation of SSE2 on these CPUs. Some algos may crash the miner with an invalid instruction. Users are recommended to use an unoptimized miner such as cpuminer-multi.
cpuminer-opt does not work mining Decred algo at Nicehash and produces only "invalid extranonce2 size" rejects.
Benchmark testing does not work for x11evo.
Users are encouraged to post their bug reports using git issues or on the Bitcoin Talk forum or opening an issue in git:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0
https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/issues
All problem reports must be accompanied by a proper problem definition. This should include how the problem occurred, the command line and output from the miner showing the startup messages and any errors. A history is also useful, ie did it work before.
cpuminer-opt has no fees of any kind but donations are accepted.
BTC: bc1qm83mf2l7cm3sff6prn9hqdkfs04ptfwvhz0xca
Happy mining!
