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[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29d miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 15.8.4


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  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.,) with 2% of devfee.


    Features

    Fast
    • Grin31 mining on stock settings
      • 2.25 G/s on RTX 2080Ti
      • 1.45 G/s on RTX 2080
      • 1.35 G/s on GTX 1080Ti
      • 0.85 G/s on GTX 1080
    • Grin29 mining on stock settings
      • 11.2 G/s on GTX 2080Ti
      • 8.6 G/s on GTX 2080
      • 7.8 G/s on GTX 1080Ti
      • 7.15 G/s on P102
      • 4.8 G/s on GTX 1070
      • 4.10 G/s on GTX P104
      • 3.30 G/s on GTX 1060 6G
    • 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)
      • Without OhGodAnETHlargementPill: 32.2 MH/s
    • 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 :)


    Downloads
    Release notes

15.8.4

  • Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm on RTX cards.


15.8.3 (Current)

  • 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.

 


  1. 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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