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[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/CuckooCycle miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 15.4.0
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realbminer
on 04/12/2017, 16:20:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by suchmoon (5) ,dbshck (5) ,CjMapope (5) ,xandry (5) ,vapourminer (2) ,socks435 (2) ,DireWolfM14 (2) ,OgNasty (1) ,sandinthebones (1) ,bakermining76 (1) ,papampi (1)
                Bminer is a highly optimized cryptocurrency miner that runs on modern AMD/NVIDIA GPUs (Maxwell and Pascal, i.e. GPUs that have compute capability 5.0 or above). Bminer is one of the fastest publicly available miners today -- we use various techniques including tiling and pipelining to realize the full potentials of the hardware.

                Bminer also comes with REST APIs to facilitate production deployments (e.g., mining farms).

              • Bminer supports mining Equihash-based coins (e.g., Zcash) with 2% of devfee.
              • Bminer supports mining Zhash / Equihash 144,5 based coins (e.g. BitcoinGold, BitcoinZ) with 2% of devfee.
              • Bminer supports mining Ethash-based coins (e.g., Ethereum) with 0.65% of devfee.
              • Bminer also supports dual mining mode - mining Ethash-based coins (e.g. Ethereum) and Blake14r-based coins (e.g. Decred) / Blake2s-based coins (e.g. Verge) at the same time. Devfee for the dual mining mode is 1.3%, and the second coin (e.g. Decred/Verge) is mined without devfee.
              • Bminer supports mining Tensority-based coins (e.g., Bytom(BTM)) with 2% of devfee.


              Features

              Fast

              • Grin31 mining on stock settings
                • 2.60 G/s on RTX 2080Ti
                • 1.65 G/s on RTX 2080
                • 1.55 G/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 0.95 G/s on GTX 1070

              • Bminer 16.0.6 Grin29m mining on stock settings
                • 8.32 G/s on GTX 2080Ti
                • 5.18 G/s on GTX 2070
                • 3.96 G/s on 2060
                • 2.18 G/s on 1060
                • 3.34 G/s on 1070
                • 5.03 G/s on 1080ti   
                • 3.00 G/s on P104-4G
                • 3.56 G/s on P104-8G
                • 4.95 G/s on P102-10G

              • AE mining on stock settings:
                • 11.8 Sol/s on GTX 2080Ti
                • 8.90 Sol/s on GTX 2080
                • 7.40 Sol/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 4.7 Sol/s on GTX 1070
                • 3.4 Sol/s on GTX 1060 6G


              • Beam mining on stock settings
                • 30 Sol/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 21 Sol/s on GTX 1070
                • 12 Sol/s on GTX 1060 6G

              • Equihash mining on stock settings
                • 735-745 Sol/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 450-460 Sol/s on GTX 1070
                • 315-325 Sol/s on GTX 1060
              • Equihash 144,5 (Zhash) mining on stock settings
                • 61 Sol/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 25 Sol/s on GTX 1060
              • Ethash mining on GTX 1080Ti stock settings (power: 250 W)
              • Dual mining using automatic tuning (default) on GTX 1080Ti stock settings (power: 250 W)
                • With OhGodAnETHlargementPill:
                  • ETH 46 MH/s and DCR 1000 MH/s
                  • ETH 46 MH/s and XVG 1770 MH/s
                • Without OhGodAnETHlargementPill:
                  • ETH 32 MH/s and DCR 2200 MH/s
                  • ETH 32 MH/s and XVG 3750 MH/s
              • Bytom mining on stock settings:
                • 4650 H/s on GTX 1080Ti
                • 2850 H/s on GTX 1070
                • 1800 H/s on GTX 1060 6G

              Secure and reliable

              • SSL support
              • Automatic reconnects to recover from transient network failures
              • Automatic restarts if GPUs hang

              Operation friendly

              • Comes with REST APIs to facilitate production deployments


              Quickstart

              • Download and extract Bminer into a folder (e.g. C:\bminer or /home/bminer)
              • Depending on the coins that you want to mine, find the corresponding script in the folder. For example, the corresponding script is mine_grin29.bat (on Windows) or mine_grin29.sh (on Linux) when mining Grin using the Cuckaroo29 algorithm.
              • Change the address and account information in the script.
              • Run the script and Enjoy mining :-)

              Please see https://www.bminer.me for advanced usages, APIs and updates.
              Please find frequently asked questions and answers by visiting https://www.bminer.me/faq/.

              Downloads


              Release notes

              16.1.0(Current)
              • Fix fidelity issues on Cuckaroo29m.
              • Support for BFC and Cuckatoo32.
              • Improve the stability of ETH mining.

              16.0.7
              • Retire the supports for XVG, DCR, and VBK.
              • Initial support for mining Ethash as well as dual mining Ethash and Handshake on AMD platforms.

              16.0.6
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
              • Fix the regression that the Cuckatoo / Cuckoo miners failed to start.
              • Fix the performance regression of Cuckaroo29m under Windows.
              • Fix the compatibility issues on Windows system.


              16.0.5
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.


              16.0.4
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
              • Reduce the rejection rate of the Cuckaroo29m miner.


              16.0.3 (Current)
              • Improve performance and stability of the Cuckaroo29m miner.
              • Fix fidelity issues of the Cuckaroo29m miner.

              16.0.2
              • Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.

              16.0.1
              • Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner fails to start on Turing-based cards or cards that have only 4G memory.
              • Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner submits shares that have low difficulty.
              • Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.

              16.0.0
              • Initial support for the Cuckaroo29m algorithm.


              15.8.7
              • Improve the performance of Beam bminer for RTX cards.
              • Experimental support for dual-mining Ethash and the Eaglesong algorithm.

              15.8.6
              • Improve the performance of automatic tuning of dual mining parameters.

              15.8.5
              • Add an API to stop the miner.

              15.8.4
              • Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm on RTX cards.

              15.8.3
              • Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm.

              15.8.2(Current)
              • Fix the regression on the BeamHashII fails to start on GTX 2060.

              15.8.1
              • Support for the BeamHashII algorithm.

              15.7.6
              • Fix the regression that the Cuckaroo29d miner fails to start on RTX-series cards.

              15.7.5
              • Improve the performance of the miner of Cuckatoo31.
              • Increase the dynamic ranges of -intensity for older machines to fully utilize the GPUs (at the cost of a slight performance loss).

              15.7.4
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29d / Aeternity.
              • Support 4GB cards for Cuckaroo29d.
              • Fix the regression that the Cuckaroo29d miner fails to start on Windows.

              15.7.3
              • Improve the performance of the Cuckaroo29d miner.

              15.7.2
              • Improve the stability of the Cuckaroo29d miner.
              • Reduce the CPU usage of Cuckaroo29d miner.
              • Support 5GB cards for Cuckaroo29d.

              15.7.1
              • Improve the performance of the Cuckaroo29d algorithm.
              • Fix the issue that the Cuckaroo29d failed to start for Turing-based cards.

              15.7.0
              • Support the cuckaroo29d algorithm

              15.5.3
              • Fix invalid shares ETH + VBK when using multiple cards.

              15.5.1
              • Fix the regression that Cuckaroo29 fails to work on Turing cards.
              • Significantly improve the performance of ETH / VBK dual mine.

              15.5.0
              • Improve the performance of the Cuckatoo algorithm.
              • Support dual-mining ETH and VBK.
              • Add the parameter -version to output the version and exit.


              15.4.0
              • Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
              • Improve compatibility on Windows
              • Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems

              15.3.1
              • Slightly improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
              • Reduce CPU usages of Cuckatoo31.
              • Fix the regressions of Cuckaroo29 on RTX cards.
              • Fix the incorrect reportings of Ethash speed to the mining pools.

              15.3.0
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29 by 5%.
              • Slightly improve the performance of Cuckatoo31.
              • Improve compatibility on Windows.

              15.2.0
              • Improve performance and stability of Cuckatoo31.
              • Slightly improved performance of Ccukaroo29.
              • Reduced the chance of reject and stale shares of CC29/CC31.
              • Support RTX 2080/2070 for Cuckatoo31. RTX 2080 expected speed 1.45G/s.

              15.1.0
              • Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.
              • Experimental support Cuckaroo29 on AMD cards (ROCM only)
              • Improve compatibility on Windows.
              • Fix the regression on UI dashboard.
              • Reduce reject rate of Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.

              15.0.2
              • Improve the fidelity of Cuckaroo29 on 1060 / P106 / 1070.

              15.0.1
              • Fix compatibility issues on Windows.

              15.0.0
              • Support 8G cards for Cuckatoo31 (except for Windows 10).
              • Improve stability of the Cuckatoo31 solver.

              14.3.1
              • Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29.
              • Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares of Cuckatoo31.
              • Support Nicehash for both Cuckaroo29 / Cuckatoo31.

              14.3.0
              • Improve the performance for Cuckatoo31.
              • Support 2080Ti for Cuckatoo31.
              • Reduce the CPU usages for Grin / Aeternity by default.
              • Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares for Cuckatoo31.

              14.2.0
              • Experimental support for Cuckatoo31 on 1080Ti.
              • Fix the regression where ETH dual mine fails to start on Windows.
              • Improve performance on mining Aeternity.
              • Support tweaking the CPU usage for mining AE / Grin with the -intensity flag.

              14.1.0
              • Improve performance of AE / Grin on Turing cards.
              • Improve performance of AE / Grin on lower-end CPUs and Windows platforms.
              • Support mining beam on leafpool and nicehash.
              • Fix the regression where /api/v1/devices is occasionally unresponsive.

              14.0.0
              • Improved Grin/AE mining speed.
              • Print fidelity information. It is a measure of the luck/miner correctness. Overtime, the number should be close to one. For miners running over two hours, the fidelity should be at least greater than 0.95.
              • Improved multi-card performance on Windows.
              • Improved the miner fidelity by 8%-10%. You will not see big local difference but you will see roughly 10% higher speed on the pool side.
              • Reduced reject chance.
              • Fixed equihash issue.
              • Fix the regression that the equihash miner fails to start on Windows.

              13.2.0

              • Improve the performance of Turing GPUs when mining Grin.
              • Reduced rejected share chance for all cards.

              13.1.0

              • Support mining Grin / AE with 4G or 5G of video memory. (P104 only on Linux).

              13.0.0

              • 30% performance improvement on Grin and AE.
              • Reduce the likelihood of rejected shares.

              12.2.0

              • Optimize CPU usage.
              • Fix compatibility issues with grin-pool.org and grinmint.com.
              • Experimental support for Turing GPUs.
              • Allow bminer to run with older NVIDIA drivers.

              12.1.0

              • 50% performance improvement on Aeternity.
              • 10% performance improvement on Grin.
              • Support 8GB cards on Windows 10.
              • Support SSL connections for Grin.

              12.0.1

              • Experimental support mining Grin on NVIDIA GPUs. Currently bminer only supports the Cuckaroo29 algorithm.
              • 100% performance improvement on the beam miner on NVIDIA GPUs compared to 11.4.1.
              • Bug fixes
              11.4.1

                • Support AMD Crimson driver mining beam [/b]
                11.4.0

                  • Experimental support mining beam with AMD cards

                  11.3.0

                    • Improve the performance of Aeternity for 6GB cards
                    • Support mining beam over beepool
                    • Output solution/s instead of nounce/s when mining beam

                    11.2.0

                    • Experimental support for Beam.

                    11.1.0

                    • Experimental support for Aeternity.

                    11.0.0

                    • Support ETH/BTM dual mine.

                    10.7.0

                    • Fix `-devices value` option bug in 10.6.0.
                    • Fix a bug in `GET /api/v1/status/device` api.

                    10.6.0

                    • Require CUDA 9.2 or above for this version.
                    • Substantially increase BTM mining speed, e.g. 4650H/s on 1080Ti now.

                    10.5.0

                    • Require CUDA 9.2 or above for this version.
                    • Substantially increase BTM mining speed, e.g. 4500H/s on 1080Ti now.
                    • Maximum temperature is monitored more precisely.
                    • Support BTG mining on zhash.pro pool.


                    10.4.0

                    • Add `-pers auto` option to support pools (e.g. zergpool.com) to automatically switch personalization string for equihash144,5 mining.

                    10.3.0

                    • Make API robust and accessible even when GPUs are hung.
                    • Support ethproxy protocol pools, such as dwarfpool, to display worker names.

                    10.2.0

                    • Support all the other Equihash 144,5 based coins besides BTG, using equihash1445 scheme and -pers config.

                    10.1.0

                    • Fix performance regression in BTM mining.

                    10.0.0

                    • Support mining Zhash (Equihash with parameter set 144,5) based coins.
                    • Substantially increase BTM mining speed again (up to another 30%).
                    • Support reported hashrate feature on ETH pools.

                    9.1.0

                    • Substantially increase BTM mining speed (up to 30%).
                    • Fix editing problems of .bat files on windows.
                    • Add scheme suggestions in scripts for ETH mining.

                    9.0.0

                    • Experimental support for mining Bytom (BTM).
                    • Optimize the performance of automatic tuning in dual mining mode.
                    • Start REST APIs much faster than previous versions.
                    • Improve compatibility of mining Ethereum on Nicehash pool.

                    8.0.0

                    • Support a dual mining mode for Ethereum (ETH, Ethash) and Decred (DCR, blake14r) / Verge (XVG, blake2s) without affecting Ethereum mining performance.
                    • Automatically tune mining performance in dual mining mode.
                    • Support dual mining mode in launcher and dashboard GUI.
                    • Add scripts to download third party software OhGodAnETHlargementPill to improve Ethereum mining performance on GTX 1080/1080Ti.
                    • Introduce new REST APIs to display stratum/solver/device status.

                    7.0.0

                    • Experimental support for mining Ethereum.
                    • Various usability improvements on the launcher GUI.
                    • Create a lite distribution without the launcher GUI.

                    6.1.0

                    • Fix potential regression caused by 6.0.0 for GPUs mounting on risers.
                    • Improve mining algorithm stability.

                    6.0.0

                    • Failover server supports. Supply multiple uris (separated by commas) via the -uri option to enable the failover support.
                    • A launcher GUI for Windows.
                    • Reduce reject rate caused by stale shares.
                    • 0.3-0.5% performance improvement depending on card models.
                    • Fix inaccurate metrics at the start of Bminer.
                    • Reduce CPU usage the start of bminer.
                    • Support miner.reconnect().
                    • Experimental support for miningrigrentals.
                    • A new option -no-runtime-info to disable runtime information collection.

                    5.5.0

                    • Show the fan speed in both console and UI.
                    • Fix compatibility issues for pool.miningspeed.com.
                    • Fix a bug that causes Bminer fails to start on Windows under some configuration.

                    5.4.0

                    • Fix a reconnection issue in the network layer.
                    • Show additional statistics in console.
                    • Allow cross-domain requests to access the API.
                    • Fix the compatibility issue with docker.
                    • Introduce the option `-share-check` to make the time of recovering from no accepted shares configurable.

                    5.3.0

                    • Experimental support for EthOS / Ubuntu 14.04.
                    • Support AMD K10 CPUs.
                    • Automatically restart hanged network connections.
                    • Improve compatibilities with mining rigs with more than 8 cards.

                    5.2.0

                    • Introduced the option -logfile to append the logs into a file.
                    • Minor optimization on Windows for cards that are mounted on the risers.
                    • Improve compatibility for NiceHash.

                    5.1.0

                    • Support NiceHash.
                    • Fix unstable network connections in 5.0.0.
                    • Fix performance regressions for 1080Ti under Linux.

                    5.0.0

                    • Minor performance improvement for GTX 1060.
                    • Fixed performance regressions in 4.0.0 on Windows.
                    • Optimization on the networking layer.
                    • Show GPU ID in case of hardware errors.
                    • Introduced the option -no-timestamps which suppresses the timestamps in the logging messages.

                    4.0.0

                    • Minor performance improvement.
                    • Support older CPUs like Core 2 Duo.
                    • Support mining rigs that have more than 8 GPUs.
                    • Support luckpool.org.
                    • Removed the polling option.
                    • Introduced the option `-max-network-failures` which allows Bminer to exit after consecutive network failures.
                    • Various improvement on the UI.
                    • Localization for Russian and Chinese.

                    3.0.0

                    • Minor performance improvement.
                    • Disable CPU polling by default.
                    • Introduce a Web-based dashboard.
                    • Support slushpool.

                    2.1.0

                    • Add the -polling option to make GPU polling configurable.
                    Disabling polling reduces the CPU usage but it might reduce the performance in some configurations.
                    • Improve the stability of the network connections.
                    • First public release for Linux.

                    2.0.0

                    • First public release.
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