Re: BitMinter miner (Win/Linux/Mac, NEW: Supports FPGA devices from Butterfly Labs)
BitMinter mining pool has it's own custom miner.
Features of the BitMinter miner:
- FAST - top notch GPU and FPGA speeds
- Easy to use good-looking GUI
- Zero installation(!)
- Long polling, to reduce stale work
- Mine on OpenCL-compatible GPUs or BFL FPGAs
- Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
No need to manually install the miner, and certainly no need to build/compile the miner yourself.
Try it now:
- 1. Fill in the pool sign-up form at http://bitminter.com/signup
- 2. Start the miner with "engine start" here or on our website (Java required)
- 3. Experience mining the way it should be
I just tried using this pool miner. It's pretty straightforward... snazzy display...good stuff. But it automatically mines for namecoins along with bitcoins. Why?? After looking around, there is no obvious way to disable the namecoins from being generated. Why waste the processing power? Can it be disabled so that all resources mine exclusively bitcoins?
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