We can guarantee that the file is clean but there may be some anti-virus programs that doesn't like it. We have tried all the major ones and they do not find anything. The .exe is not packed but it contains some code to detect if debugger or profiler is attached to try and debug and reverse it. In such case PhoenixMiner just exits.


Unfortunately we don't know why this is happening so there is no easy way to fix it. It shouldn't be the CUDA toolkit as it is installed on all of our development machines and it doesn't interfere with PhoenixMiner.


As you can see on the screenshot from the first post  (you can also see it here: ), we print the difficulty to each found share and also the maximum difficulty of any found share. The nonce itself can be seen in the log file but it is not very interesting as what it matters is the difficulty of the found share. If it is bigger than the current difficulty of the coin that you mine, you have found a block! For example for Pirl the current difficulty is about 9.8 TH and the screenshot shows that the maximum difficulty of found share is 14.3 TH, so at least one block as found in the current mining session.