Announcing BFGMiner 4.10, the modular cryptocurrency miner written in C. BFGMiner features dynamic clocking, monitoring, and remote interface capabilities.
"St.
Barbara's
Faithfully
Glorified
Mining
Initiative
Naturally
Exceeding
Rivals", or just
basically a
freaking
good
miner.
This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer, so donations would be greatly appreciated.
Please consider donating: 1QATWksNFGeUJCWBrN4g6hGM178Lovm7WhIf you find a bug or have a suggestion, please check to see if it's
already been reported and, if not,
report it.
Help can also be obtained (or provided) by joining
the support mailing list or IRC:
chat.freenode.net #eligiusREAD THE README FILES INCLUDED IN THE ARCHIVE BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS.
Also, please note that this thread is for discussion of BFGMiner, its features and bugs - if you feel the need to troll or talk off-topic, start another forum thread (and PM me with it if you want my attention).
If you want to help develop BFGMiner, the best way to get in touch with us is
on IRC.
We also have
a development mailing list, mainly used to pre-announce upcoming releases for third-party packagers.
If you would like to be notified of new versions, please
join the announcement mailing list.
Latest release: 4.10.0 (
announcement & changes)
Testing release: 4.7.2Stable release: 3.10.7Archive of all official release source & binariesFeatures:- A variety of device drivers for Bitcoin (SHA256d):
- BFx2 Bitfury USB miner
- BiFury
- Big Picture Mining Bitfury-based USB miners (BF1, RedFury, BlueFury)
- BitCentury LittleFury USB miners
- Bitfountain Block Erupter blades, cubes, USB miners (Emerald and Sapphire), and tube
- Bitmain AntMiner U1
- BTCFPGA's ModMiner Quad FPGA-based mining device
- Butterfly Labs's Monarch bitcoin mining card
- Butterfly Labs's BitForce SC (ASIC) product line
- Butterfly Labs's FPGA BitForce Singles and MiniRigs
- Canaan Creative Avalon1/2/3 ASIC mining rigs
- The Chili miner assembly
- Cointamination
- CoinTerra TerraMiner ASIC miner
- Drillbit Thumb and Eight
- DualMiner ASIC-based USB miner
- Enterpoint's Cairnsmore1 FPGA mining board
- FPGA Mining X6500
- HashBuster mining boards
- HashFast Baby Jet
- Intron/C-scape BitFury-based mining device (distributed through megabigpower.com and BFSB)
- JingTian miner
- Klondike boards
- KnCMiner Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter
- Metabank BitFury-based mining device
- NanoFury NF1 and NF2 units
- One String Miner
- Qi Hardware's Icarus and Lancelot FPGA mining boards
- ROCKMINER R-BOX and T1
- Spondoolies SP10 and SP30
- Twinfury USB stick miner
- Ztex's 1.15x and 1.15y FPGA boards
- OpenCL GPUs, such as AMD Radeons
- Kernels: Diablo, DiaKGCN, Phatk and poclbm
- BFI_INT patching for Catalyst versions before 13.2
- Vector support
- Dynamic intensity that keeps desktop interactive under load and maximises throughput when desktop idle
- Support for mining with free Mesa/LLVM OpenCL
- CPU (not enabled by default nor included in Windows build)
- Coming soon:
- A few device drivers for scrypt:
- Automatically can configure itself to failover to solo mining and local block submission when Bitcoin Core is running
- Support for getblocktemplate decentralized mining protocol (no proxy needed!)
- Builtin stratum and getwork proxy server
- Very low overhead free C code for Linux and Windows with very low CPU usage
- Integrated overclocking and fan control (including automatic adjustment, if configured)
- Heavily threaded code hands out work retrieval and work submission to separate threads to not hinder devices working
- Caching of submissions during transient network outages
- Preemptive generation of work prior to completion of current work
- Automatically detects failing pools and disables them
- Multi-device support (all or discrete selection)
- Summarised and discrete device data statistics of requests, accepts, rejects, hw errors, efficiency and utility
- Watchdog thread to restart idle threads but not crash machine if they don't respond
- Summary displayed when quitting
- Supports multiple pools with multiple intelligent failover mechanisms
- On the fly menu based management of most settings
- Trickling of extra work to backup pools if primary pool is responding but slow
- On the fly enabling/disable/restarting of devices
- Device temperature monitoring (for devices that support it)
- Reuses persistent connections when possible
- RPC interface for remote control
- Ability to cope with slow routers
- Lots of other stuff I can't remember. See options.
Sample output:
bfgminer version 4.10.0 - Started: [2014-06-10 20:13:01] - [ 0 days 06:15:32]
[M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [H]elp [Q]uit
Pool 0: ...ning.eligius.st Diff:128 +Strtm LU:[02:28:32] User:1QATWksNFGeUJCWBrN4g6hGM178Lovm7Wh
Block: ...6e8ba4d9 #305190 Diff:11.8G (84.16P) Started: [02:07:22]
ST:156 F:0 NB:31 AS:0 BW:[269/ 12 B/s] E:1127.28 I:1.04mBTC/hr BS:21.8M
5/24 63.0C | 94.10/98.68/95.60Gh/s | A:1974 R:2+2(.20%) HW:5729/2.6%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BFL 0: 54.0C | 8.11/ 8.10/ 7.65Gh/s | A: 62 R:1+2(4.6%) HW: 273/1.3%
HBR 0: 63.0C | 22.91/22.85/21.55Gh/s | A: 208 R:0+0(none) HW:3022/5.4%
TBF 0: 28.0C | 5.13/ 5.10/ 4.89Gh/s | A: 49 R:0+0(none) HW: 331/4.5%
PXY 0: | 27.85/30.23/29.84Gh/s | A: 358 R:1+0(.28%) HW: 450/1.0%
RKM 0: 40.0C | 30.10/32.40/31.67Gh/s | A:1297 R:0+0(none) HW:1653/.92%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2014-06-11 02:28:10] Accepted 00c819ef HBR 0d Diff 327/255
[2014-06-10 02:28:13] Accepted 012058dd PXY 0 Diff 227/128
[2014-06-11 02:28:15] Accepted 01778be1 RKM 0b Diff 174/128
---
Pool menu:
0: Enabled Strtm Quota 1 Pool 0: stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 User:1QATWksNFGeUJCWBrN4g6hGM178Lovm7Wh
1: Disabled GWork Quota 1 Pool 1: http://127.0.0.1:9332 User:x
Current pool management strategy: Load Balance
[A]dd pool [R]emove pool [D]isable pool [E]nable pool
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
Or press any other key to continue
Device management menu:
Select processor to manage using up/down arrow keys
MMQ 0d: 41.0°C │ 194.0/190.9/32.98Mh/s │ A: 4 R:0+0(none) HW: 0/none
ModMiner LJRalpha from BTCFPGA
Serial: 19191F145358077D4FAADA7AF5000004
Clock speed: 194
[D]isable [C]lock speed
Or press Enter when done
Select processor to manage using up/down arrow keys
OCL 0 : 77.0C | 272.2/272.2/265.7Mh/s | A:2992 R:13+0(.43%) HW:0/none
I:10 F: 69% (2655 RPM) E: 765 MHz M: 1000 MHz V: 1.088V A: 99% P: 0%
Last initialised: [2013-07-08 05:33:26]
Thread 0: 90.9 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 90.6 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 90.8 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
[D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press Enter when done
Change GPU settings menu:
Temp: 72.0 C
Fan Speed: 50% (4489 RPM)
Engine Clock: 950 MHz
Memory Clock: 825 Mhz
Vddc: 1.175 V
Activity: 99%
Powertune: 20%
Fan autotune is enabled (0-85)
GPU engine clock autotune is enabled (880-950)
Change [A]utomatic [E]ngine [F]an [M]emory [V]oltage [P]owertune
Or press any other key to continue
Settings menu:
[L]ongpoll: On
[Q]ueue: 0
[S]cantime: 60
[E]xpiry: 120
[R]etries: -1
[W]rite config file
[B]FGMiner restart
Select an option or any other key to return
Display menu:
[N]ormal [C]lear [S]ilent mode (disable all output)
[D]ebug:off
[P]er-device:off
[Q]uiet:off
[V]erbose:off
[R]PC debug:off
[W]orkTime details:off
su[M]mary detail level:devices
[L]og interval:20
S[T]atistical counts: absolute
[Z]ero statistics
Select an option or any other key to return
On exiting:
Summary of runtime statistics:
Started at [2011-07-19 14:40:09]
Runtime: 2 hrs : 31 mins : 18 secs
Average hashrate: 1680.1 Megahash/s
Solved blocks: 0
Best share difficulty: 49
Share submissions: 3489
Accepted shares: 3489
Rejected shares: 0 + 9 stale (0.00%)
Accepted difficulty shares: 32
Rejected difficulty shares: 0
Hardware errors: 3
Efficiency (accepted shares * difficulty / 2 KB): 0.05
Utility (accepted shares / min): 34.26/min
Unable to get work from server occasions: 16
Work items generated locally: 330
Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 33
New blocks detected on network: 10
Pool: http://getwork.mining.eligius.st:8337
Share submissions: 3426
Accepted shares: 3426
Rejected shares: 0 + 0 stale (0.00%)
Accepted difficulty shares: 31
Rejected difficulty shares: 0
Efficiency (accepted * difficulty / 2 KB): 0.08
Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0
Summary of per device statistics:
ICA 0: | 375.9/376.0/349.5Mh/s | A: 487 R:4+0(none) HW: 0/none
MMQ 0: 46.0C | 629.9/632.0/526.8Mh/s | A: 734 R:0+0(none) HW:196/none
XBS 0: 46.9C | 392.0/397.8/398.3Mh/s | A: 555 R:0+0(none) HW: 57/none
ZTX 0: | 198.6/198.5/190.2Mh/s | A: 265 R:0+0(none) HW: 95/none
ZTX 1: | 855.0/848.7/825.3Mh/s | A:1150 R:4+0(none) HW:176/none
GUI frontends:
Bare-metal operating systems with BFGMiner: