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cpuminer-opt is a fork of cpuminer-multi by TPruvot with optimizations imported from other miners developped by lucas Jones, djm34, Wolf0, pooler, Jeff garzik, ig0tik3d, elmad, palmd, and Optiminer, with additional optimizations by Jay D Dee.

All of the code is believed to be open and free. If anyone has a claim to any of it post your case in the cpuminer-opt Bitcoin Talk forum or by email.

Miner programs are often flagged as malware by antivirus programs. This is a false positive, they are flagged simply because they are cryptocurrency miners. The source code is open for anyone to inspect. If you don't trust the software, don't use it.

New thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5226770.msg53865575#msg53865575

Old thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

mailto://[email protected]

This note is to confirm that bitcointalk users JayDDee and joblo are the same person.

I created a new BCT user JayDDee to match my github user id. The old thread has been locked but still contains useful information for reading.

See file RELEASE_NOTES for change log and INSTALL_LINUX or INSTALL_WINDOWS for compile instructions.

Requirements

  1. A x86_64 architecture CPU with a minimum of SSE2 support. This includes Intel Core2 and newer and AMD equivalents. Further optimizations are available on some algoritms for CPUs with AES, AVX, AVX2, SHA, AVX512 and VAES.

32 bit CPUs are not supported. Other CPU architectures such as ARM, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, Xeon Phi, etc, are not supported.

Mobile CPUs like laptop computers are not recommended because they aren't designed for extreme heat of operating at full load for extended periods of time.

Older CPUs and ARM architecture may be supported by cpuminer-multi by TPruvot.

  1. 64 bit Linux or Windows OS. Ubuntu and Fedora based distributions, including Mint and Centos, are known to work and have all dependencies in their repositories. Others may work but may require more effort. Older versions such as Centos 6 don't work due to missing features.

Windows 7 or newer is supported with mingw_w64 and msys or using the pre-built binaries. WindowsXP 64 bit is YMMV.

FreeBSD is not actively tested but should work, YMMV. MacOS, OSx and Android are not supported.

  1. Stratum pool supporting stratum+tcp:// or stratum+ssl:// protocols or RPC getwork using http:// or https://. GBT is YMMV.

Supported Algorithms

                      allium        Garlicoin
                      anime         Animecoin
                      argon2        Argon2 coin (AR2)
                      argon2d250    argon2d-crds, Credits (CRDS)
                      argon2d500    argon2d-dyn,  Dynamic (DYN)
                      argon2d4096   argon2d-uis, Unitus, (UIS)
                      blake         Blake-256
                      blake2b       Blake2-512
                      blake2s       Blake2-256
                      blakecoin     blake256r8
                      bmw           BMW 256
                      bmw512        BMW 512
                      c11           
                      decred
                      deep          Deepcoin (DCN)
                      dmd-gr        Diamond-Groestl
                      groestl       Groestl coin
                      hex           x16r-hex
                      hmq1725       
                      jha           Jackpotcoin
                      keccak        Maxcoin
                      keccakc       Creative coin
                      lbry          LBC, LBRY Credits
                      lyra2h        
                      lyra2re       lyra2
                      lyra2rev2     lyra2v2
                      lyra2rev3     lyrav2v3
                      lyra2z        
                      lyra2z330     
                      m7m           
                      minotaur 
                      minotaurx
                      myr-gr        Myriad-Groestl
                      neoscrypt     NeoScrypt(128, 2, 1)
                      nist5         Nist5
                      pentablake    Pentablake
                      phi1612       phi
                      phi2          
                      polytimos     Ninja
                      power2b       MicroBitcoin (MBC)
                      quark         Quark
                      qubit         Qubit
                      scrypt        scrypt(1024, 1, 1) (default)
                      scrypt:N      scrypt(N, 1, 1)
                      scryptn2      scrypt(1048576, 1, 1)
                      sha256d       Double SHA-256
                      sha256dt
                      sha256q       Quad SHA-256
                      sha256t       Triple SHA-256
                      sha3d         Double keccak256 (BSHA3)
                      sha512256d
                      skein         Skein+Sha (Skeincoin)
                      skein2        Double Skein (Woodcoin)
                      skunk         Signatum (SIGT)
                      sonoa         Sono
                      timetravel    Machinecoin (MAC)
                      timetravel10  Bitcore
                      tribus        Denarius (DNR)
                      vanilla       blake256r8vnl (VCash)
                      veltor        (VLT)
                      verthash      Vertcoin
                      whirlpool
                      whirlpoolx
                      x11           Dash
                      x11evo        Revolvercoin
                      x11gost       sib (SibCoin)
                      x12           
                      x13           
                      x13bcd        bcd
                      x13sm3        hsr (Hshare)
                      x14           
                      x15           
                      x16r          
                      x16rv2        
                      x16rt         
                      x16rt-veil    veil
                      x16s          
                      x17
                      x20r
                      x21s
                      x22i
                      x25x
                      xevan         Bitsend (BSD)
                      yescrypt      Globalboost-Y (BSTY)
                      yescryptr8    BitZeny (ZNY)
                      yescryptr8g   Koto (KOTO)
                      yescryptr16   Eli
                      yescryptr32   WAVI
                      yespower      Cryply
                      yespowerr16   Yenten (YTN)
                      yespower-b2b  generic yespower + blake2b
                      zr5           Ziftr

Many variations of scrypt based algos can be mine by specifying their parameters:

scryptn2: --algo scrypt --param-n 1048576

cpupower: --algo yespower --param-key "CPUpower: The number of CPU working or available for proof-of-work mining"

power2b: --algo yespower-b2b --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

sugarchain: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 -param-r 32 --param-key "Satoshi Nakamoto 31/Oct/2008 Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote"

yespoweriots: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-key "Iots is committed to the development of IOT"

yespowerlitb: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "LITBpower: The number of LITB working or available for proof-of-work mini"

yespoweric: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "IsotopeC"

yespowerurx: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "UraniumX"

yespowerltncg: --algo yespower --param-n 2048 --param-r 32 --param-key "LTNCGYES"

Errata

Old algorithms that are no longer used frequently will not have the latest optimizations.

Cryptonight and variants are no longer supported, use another miner.

Neoscrypt crashes on Windows, use legacy version.

AMD CPUs older than Piledriver, including Athlon x2 and Phenom II x4, are not supported by cpuminer-opt due to an incompatible implementation of SSE2 on these CPUs. Some algos may crash the miner with an invalid instruction. Users are recommended to use an unoptimized miner such as cpuminer-multi.

cpuminer-opt does not work mining Decred algo at Nicehash and produces only "invalid extranonce2 size" rejects.

Benchmark testing does not work for x11evo.

Bugs

Users are encouraged to post their bug reports using git issues or on the Bitcoin Talk forum or opening an issue in git:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/issues

All problem reports must be accompanied by a proper problem definition. This should include how the problem occurred, the command line and output from the miner showing the startup messages and any errors. A history is also useful, ie did it work before.

Donations

cpuminer-opt has no fees of any kind but donations are accepted.

BTC: 12tdvfF7KmAsihBXQXynT6E6th2c2pByTT

Happy mining!