Changes in version 4.9c (since 4.8c):

• Added support for AMD RX5500 cards
• Added support for the latest AMD Windows drivers 19.12.3
• Adding support for AMD Linux drivers 19.50-967956
• Adding option -rate 2 to use the command name "eth_submitHashRate" instead of "eth_submitHashrate" when solo mining
• Fixed the problem with loading NVML with the latest Nvidia drivers
• Fixed a problem that was introduced in 4.8c causing mismatching of the cards when using more than one value in -cclock or any other command-line argument with more than one value (i.e. when using different values for each card)
• Added an HTML version of the documentation for better navigation and readability
• Other small improvements and fixes.

PhoenixMiner is fast (arguably the fastest) Ethash (ETH, ETC, Muiscoin, EXP, UBQ, etc.) miner that supports
both AMD and Nvidia cards (including in mixed mining rigs). It runs under Windows x64 and Linux x64
and has a developer fee of 0.65% (the lowest in the industry). This means that every 90
minutes the miner will mine for us, its developers, for 35 seconds.

PhoenixMiner also supports Ubqhash for mining UBQ, ProgPOW for mining BCI, and dual mining
Ethash/Ubqhash with Blake2s.

The speed is generally faster than Claymore's Ethereum miner in eth only mode
(we have measured about 0.4-1.3% speed improvement but your results may be slightly lower or
higher depending on the GPUs). To achieve highest possible speed on AMD cards it may be needed
to manually adjust the GPU tune factor (a number from 8 to about 400, which can be changed
interactively with the + and - keys while the miner is running).

If you have used Claymore's Dual Ethereum miner, you can switch to PhoenixMiner with
minimal hassle as we support most of Claymore's command-line options and confirguration
files.

Easy Plug&Play OS Linux with our miner: https://SimpleMining.net

Please note that PhoenixMiner is extensively tested on many mining rigs but there still may be some bugs.
Additionally, we are actively working on bringing many new features in the future releases.
If you encounter any problems or have feature requests, please post them here (in this thread).
We will do our best to answer in timely fashion.

Screenshot:


1. Quick start

You can download PhoenixMiner 4.9c from here:

https://mega.nz/#F!2VskDJrI!lsQsz1CdDe8x5cH3L8QaBw (MEGA)

If you want to check the integrity of the downloaded file, please use the following hashes (you need the last file PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip only if you want to mine BCI with Nvdia cards under Windows):

Here are the command line parameters for some of the more popular pools and coins:

ethermine.org (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -pool2 us1.ethermine.org:4444 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3
ethermine.org (ETH, secure connection):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555 -pool2 ssl://us1.ethermine.org:5555 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3
ethpool.org (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 us1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3  
dwarfpool.com (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eth-eu.dwarfpool.com:8008 -wal YourEthWalletAddress/WorkerName -pass x
nanopool.org (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eth-eu1.nanopool.org:9999 -wal YourEthWalletAddress/WorkerName -pass x
nicehash (ethash):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool stratum+tcp://daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353 -wal YourBtcWalletAddress -pass x -proto 4 -stales 0
f2pool (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -epool eth.f2pool.com:8008 -ewal YourEthWalletAddress -pass x -worker WorkerName  
miningpoolhub (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535 -wal YourLoginName.WorkerName -pass x -proto 1
coinotron.com (ETH):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool coinotron.com:3344 -wal YourLoginName.WorkerName -pass x -proto 1
ethermine.org (ETC):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -wal YourEtcWalletAddress.WorkerName
epool.io (ETC):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu.etc.epool.io:8008 -pool2 us.etc.epool.io:8008 -worker WorkerName -wal YourEtcWalletAddress -pass x -retrydelay 2
whalesburg.com (ethash auto-switching):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool proxy.pool.whalesburg.com:8082 -wal YourEthWalletAddress -worker WorkerName -proto 2
dwarfpool.com (EXP):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool exp-eu.dwarfpool.com:8018 -wal YourExpWalletAddress/WorkerName
miningpoolhub (MUSIC):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20585 -wal YourLoginName.WorkerName -pass x -proto 1
maxhash.org (UBIQ):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool ubiq-us.maxhash.org:10008 -wal YourUbqWalletAddress -worker WorkerName -coin ubq
ubiq.minerpool.net (UBIQ):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool lb.geo.ubiqpool.org:8001 -wal YourUbqWalletAddress -pass x -worker WorkerName -coin ubq
ubiqpool.io (UBIQ):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu2.ubiqpool.io:8008 -wal YourUbqWalletAddress.WorkerName -pass x -proto 4 -coin ubq
minerpool.net (PIRL):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool pirl.minerpool.net:8002 -wal YourPirlWalletAddress -pass x -worker WorkerName
dodopool.com (Metaverse ETP):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool etp.dodopool.com:8008 -wal YourMetaverseETPWalletAddress -worker Rig1 -pass x
minerpool.net (Ellaism):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool ella.minerpool.net:8002 -wal YourEllaismWalletAddress -worker Rig1 -pass x
etherdig.net (ETH PPS):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool etherdig.net:4444 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 4 -pass x
etherdig.net (ETH HVPPS):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool etherdig.net:3333 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 4 -pass x
epool.io (CLO):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu.clo.epool.io:8008 -pool2 us.clo.epool.io:8008 -worker WorkerName -wal YourEthWalletAddress -pass x -coin clo -retrydelay 2
baikalmine.com (CLO):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool clo.baikalmine.com:3333 -wal YourEthWalletAddress -pass x -coin clo -worker rigName


  
Dual-mining command-line examples:

ETH on ethermine.org ETH, Blake2s on Nicehash:
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555 -pool2 ssl://us1.ethermine.org:5555 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3 -dpool blake2s.eu.nicehash.com:3361 -dwal YourBtcWalletAddress -dcoin blake2s
Nicehash (Ethash + Blake2s):
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool stratum+tcp://daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353 -wal YourBtcWalletAddress -pass x -proto 4 -stales 0 -dpool blake2s.eu.nicehash.com:3361 -dwal YourBtcWalletAddress -dcoin blake2s

ProgPOW command-line examples:
BCI on BCI-Server:
  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu-1.pool.bci-server.com:3869 -wal YourBciWalletAddress.Rig1 -coin bci -proto 1

2. Features, requirements, and limitations

* Supports AMD RX5700, Radeon VII, Vega, 580/570/480/470, 460/560, Fury, 390/290 and older AMD GPUs with enough VRAM
* Supports Nvidia 20x0, 16x0, 10x0 and 9x0 series as well as older cards with enough VRAM
* Highly optimized OpenCL and CUDA cores for maximum ethash mining speed
* Optional "green" kernels for RX580/570/560/480/470/460 to lower the power consumption by 2-3% with small, or no drop in hashrate
* Lowest developer fee of 0.65% (35 seconds defvee mining per each 90 minutes)
* Dual mining ethash/Blake2s with lowest devfee of 0.9% (35 seconds defvee mining per each 65 minutes)
* Advanced statistics: actual difficulty of each share, effective hashrate at the pool, and optional showing of estimated income in USD
* DAG file generation in the GPU for faster start-up and DAG epoch switches
* Supports all ethash mining pools and stratum protocols
* Supports secure pool connections (e.g. ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555) to prevent IP hijacking attacks
* Detailed statistics, including the individual cards hashrate, shares, temperature, fan speed, clocks, voltages, etc.
* Unlimited number of fail-over pools in epools.txt configuration file (or two on the command line)
* Automatic GPU tuning for the AMD GPUs to achieve maximum performance with your rig
* Supports devfee on alternative ethash currencies like ETC, EXP, Music, UBQ, Pirl, Ellaism, Metaverse ETP, PGC, Akroma, WhaleCoin, Victorium, Nekonium, Mix, EtherGem, Aura, HBC, Genom, EtherZero, Callisto, DubaiCoin, MOAC, Ether-1, and EtherCC. This allows you to use older cards with small VRAM or low hashate on current DAG epochs (e.g. GTX970).
* Full compatibility with the industry standard Claymore's Dual Ethereum miner, including most of command-line options, configuration files, and remote monitoring and management.
* Supports the new Ubqhash algorithm for the UBQ coin. Please note that you must add -coin ubq to your command line (or COIN: ubq to your epools.txt file) in order to mine UBQ
* Supports the ProgPOW algorithm for the Bitcoin Interest (BCI) coin mining. Please note that you must add -coin bci to your command line (or COIN: bci to your epools.txt file) in order to mine BCI
* Supports the ProgPOW algorithm for mining BCI.
* More features coming soon!

PhoenixMiner requires Windows x64 (Windows 7, Windows 10, etc.), or Linux x64 (tested on Ubuntu LTS
and Debian stable).

PhoenixMiner also supports dual mining (simultaneous mining of ethash/ubqhash and other cryptocoin algorithm).
Currently we support only Blake2s as secondary algorithm for dual mining. Note that when using dual mining,
there is no devfee on the secondary coin but the devfee on the main coin is increased to 0.9%. In other words,
if you are using the dual mining feature PhoenixMiner will mine for us for 35 seconds every 65 minutes.

Solo mining is supported since version 2.7c.

While the miner is running, you can use some interactive commands. Press the key 'h' while the
miner's console window has the keyboard focus to see the list of the available commands. The
interactive commands are also listed at the end of the following section.

3. Command-line arguments

Note that PhoenixMiner supports most of the command-line options of Claymore's dual Ethereum miner
so you can use the same command line options as the ones you would have used with Claymore's miner.

Pool options:
  -pool Ethash pool address (prepend the host name with ssl:// for SSL pool, or http:// for solo mining)
  -wal Ethash wallet (some pools require appending of user name and/or worker)
  -pass Ethash password (most pools don't require it, use 'x' as password if unsure)
  -worker Ethash worker name (most pools accept it as part of wallet)
  -proto Selects the kind of stratum protocol for the ethash pool:
     1: miner-proxy stratum spec (e.g. coinotron)
     2: eth-proxy (e.g. dwarfpool, nanopool) - this is the default, works for most pools
     3: qtminer (e.g. ethpool)
     4: EthereumStratum/1.0.0 (e.g. nicehash)
     5: EthereumStratum/2.0.0
  -coin Ethash coin to use for devfee to avoid switching DAGs:
     auto: Try to determine from the pool address (default)
     eth: Ethereum
     etc: Ethereum Classic
     exp: Expanse
     music: Musicoin
     ubq: UBIQ
     pirl: Pirl
     ella: Ellaism
     etp: Metaverse ETP
     pgc: Pegascoin
     akroma: Akroma
     whale: WhaleCoin
     vic: Victorium
     nuko: Nekonium
     mix: Mix
     egem: EtherGem
     aura: Aura
     hbc: Hotelbyte Coin
     gen: Genom
     etz: EtherZero
     clo: Callisto
     dbix: DubaiCoin
     moac: MOAC
     etho: Ether-1
     etcc: EtherCC
     yoc: Yocoin
     b2g: Bitcoiin2Gen
     esn: Ethersocial
     ath: Atheios
     reosc: REOSC
     qkc: QuarkChain
     bci: Bitcoin Interest
  -stales Submit stales to ethash pool: 1 - yes (default), 0 - no
  -pool2  Failover ethash pool address. Same as -pool but for the failover pool
  -wal2 Failover ethash wallet (if missing -wal will be used for the failover pool too)
  -pass2 Failover ethash password (if missing -pass will be used for the failover pool too)
  -worker2 Failover ethash worker name (if missing -worker will be used for the failover pool too)
  -proto2 Failover ethash stratum protocol (if missing -proto will be used for the failover pool too)
  -coin2 Failover devfee Ethash coin (if missing -coin will be used for the failover pool too)
  -stales2 Submit stales to the failover pool: 1 - yes (default), 0 - no
  -dpool Dual mining pool address
  -dwal Dual mining wallet
  -dpass Dual mining pool password (most pools don't require it, use 'x' as password if unsure)
  -dworker Dual mining worker name
  -dcoin blake2s Currently only the Blake2s algorithm is supported for dual mining. If you want to put
        all dual mining pools in dpools.txt, you need to set -dcoin blake2s in the command-line or in config.txt
   to force the miner to load the dual mining pools from dpools.txt
  -dstales Submit stales to the dual mining pool: 1 - yes (default), 0 - no
General pool options:
  -fret Switch to next pool afer N failed connection attempts (default: 3)
  -ftimeout Reconnect if no new ethash job is receved for n seconds (default: 600)
  -ptimeout Switch back to primary pool after n minutes. This setting is 30 minutes by default;
     set to 0 to disable automatic switch back to primary pool.
  -retrydelay Seconds to wait before reconnecting (default: 20)
  -gwtime Recheck period for Solo/GetWork mining (default: 200 ms)
  -rate Report hashrate to the pool: 1 - yes, 0 - no (1 is the default), 2 - (for solo mining only)
     use alternative name of the report method "eth_submitHashRate" instead of "eth_submitHashrate"
Benchmark mode:
  -bench [],-benchmark [] Benchmark mode, optionally specify DAG epoch. Use this to test your rig.
     If you specify only the -bench option, you will benchmark the ethash algorithm. If you want to bench
     the dual mining, use the options -bench -dcoin blake2s. If you want to benchmark the ProgPOW BCI
     algorithm, use the options -bench -coin bci
Remote control options:
  -cdm Selects the level of support of the CDM remote monitoring:
     0: disabled
     1: read-only - this is the default
     2: full (only use on secure connections)
  -cdmport Set the CDM remote monitoring port (default is 3333). You can also specify
     if you have a secure VPN connection and want to bind the CDM port to it
  -cdmpass Set the CDM remote monitoring password
  -cdmrs Reload the settings if config.txt is edited/uploaded remotely. Note that most options require restart in order to change.
      Currently the follwing options can be changed without restarting: -mi, -gt, -sci, -clf, -nvf, and all hardware control parameters
      (-tt, -fanmin, -fanmax, -powlim, -tmax, -cclock, -cvddc, -mclock, -mvddc).
Mining options:
  -amd  Use only AMD cards
  -acm  Turn on AMD compute mode on the supported GPUs. This is equivalent of pressing 'y' in the miner console.
  -nvidia  Use only Nvidia cards
  -gpus <123 ..n> Use only the specified GPUs (if more than 10, separate the indexes with comma)
  -mi Set the mining intensity (0 to 14; 12 is the default for the new kernels). You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -gt Set the GPU tuning parameter (6 to 400). The default is 15. You can change the
          tuning parameter interactively with the '+' and '-' keys in the miner's console window.
          If you don't specify -gt or you specify value 0, the miner will start auto-tuning to determine the best GT value for each GPU
          Note that when the GPU is dual-mining, it ignores the -gt values, and uses -sci instead.
  -sci Set the dual mining intensity (1 to 1000). The default is 30. As you increase the value of -sci,
           the secondary coin hashrate will increase but the price will be higher power consumption and/or
           lower ethash hashrate.
           You can change the this parameter interactively with the '+' and '-' keys in the miner
           console window. You may specify this option per-GPU. If you set -sci to 0,
      the miner will use auto-tuning to determine the best value, while trying to maximize the
      ethash hashrate regardless of the secondary coin hashrate.
  -clKernel Type of OpenCL kernel: 0 - generic, 1 - optimized, 2 - alternative, 3 - turbo (1 is the default)
  -clGreen Use the power-efficient ("green") kernels (0: no, 1: yes; default: 0).
                 You may specify this option per-GPU. Note that you have to run auto-tune again as the
                 optimal GT values are completely different for the green kernels
  -clNew Use the new AMD kernels (0: no, 1: yes; default: 1)
  -clf AMD kernel sync (0: never, 1: periodic; 2: always; default: 1)
  -nvKernel Type of Nvidia kernel: 0 auto (default), 1 old (v1), 2 newer (v2), 3 latest (v3).
                Note that v3 kernels are only supported on GTX10x0 GPUs. Also note that dual mining is
                supported only by v2 kernels. You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -nvdo Enable Nvidia driver-specific optimizations (0 - no, the default; 1 - yes). Try -nvdo 1 if your
            are unstable. You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -nvNew Use new Nvidia kernels if supported (0: no, 1: yes; default: 1)
  -nvf Nvidia kernel sync (0: never, 1: periodic; 2: always; 3: forced; default: 1). You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -mode Mining mode (0: dual mining if dual pool(s) are specified; 1: ethash only even if dual pools are specified).
            You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -list List the detected GPUs devices and exit
  -gbase Set the index of the first GPU (0 or 1, default: 1)
  -minRigSpeed Restart the miner if avg 5 min speed is below MH/s
  -eres Allocate DAG buffers big enough for n epochs ahead (default: 2) to
      avoid allocating new buffers on each DAG epoch switch, which should improve DAG switch stability
  -lidag Slow down DAG generation to avoid crashes when swiching DAG epochs
      (0-3, default: 0 - fastest, 3 - slowest).
  -gser Serializing DAG creation on multiple GPUs (0 - no serializing, all GPUs generate the DAG simultaneously, this is the default;
      1 - partial overlap of DAG generation on each GPU; 2 - no overalp (each GPU waits until the previous one has finished generating the DAG);
      3-10 - from 1 to 8 seconds delay after each GPU DAG generation before the next one)
  -gpureset Fully reset GPU when paused (0 - no, 1 - yes; default: no, except on 1080Ti). You may specify this option per-GPU.
  -altinit Use alternative way to initialize AMD cards to prevent startup crashes
  -rvram Minimum free VRAM in MB (-1: don't check; default: 384 for Windows, and 128 for Linux)
  -wdog Enable watchdog timer: 1 - yes, 0 - no (1 is the default). The watchdog timer checks
      periodically if any of the GPUs freezes and if it does, restarts the miner (see the -rmode
      command-line parameter for the restart modes)
  -wdtimeout Watchdog timeout (30 - 300; default 45 seconds). You can use this parameter to increase
      the default watchdog timeout in case it restarts the miner needlessly
  -rmode Selects the restart mode when a GPU crashes or freezes:
     0: disabled - miner will shut down instead of restarting
     1: restart with the same command line options - this is the default
     2: reboot (shut down miner and execute reboot.bat)
  -log Selects the log file mode:
     0: disabled - no log file will be written
     1: write log file but don't show debug messages on screen (default)
     2: write log file and show debug messages on screen
  -logfile Set the name of the logfile. If you place an asterisk (*) in the logfile name, it will be
      replaced by the current date/time to create a unique name every time PhoenixMiner is started. If there
      is no asterisk in the logfile name, the new log entries will be added to end of the same file. If you
      want to use the same logfile but the contents to be overwritten every time when you start the miner,
      put a dollar sign ($) character in the logfile name (e.g. -logfile my_log.txt$).
  -logdir