[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29m miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.1.0

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• 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., Bytom(BTM)) with 2% of devfee.

Features

Fast
 

• Grin31 mining on stock settings
  • 2.60 G/s on RTX 2080Ti
  • 1.65 G/s on RTX 2080
  • 1.55 G/s on GTX 1080Ti
  • 0.95 G/s on GTX 1070

 

• Bminer 16.0.6 Grin29m mining on stock settings
  • 8.32 G/s on GTX 2080Ti
  • 5.18 G/s on GTX 2070
  • 3.96 G/s on 2060
  • 2.18 G/s on 1060
  • 3.34 G/s on 1070
  • 5.03 G/s on 1080ti
  • 3.00 G/s on P104-4G
  • 3.56 G/s on P104-8G
  • 4.95 G/s on P102-10G

 

• 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)
  • With OhGodAnETHlargementPill: 46.7 MH/s
  • 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
 

• Windows x64: bminer-v16.1.0-f55fff0-amd64.rar
• Windows x64: bminer-lite-v16.1.0-f55fff0-amd64.rar

Release notes

16.1.0(Current)

• Fix fidelity issues on Cuckaroo29m.
• Support for BFC and Cuckatoo32.
• Improve the stability of ETH mining.

16.0.7

• Retire the supports for XVG, DCR, and VBK.
• Initial support for mining Ethash as well as dual mining Ethash and Handshake on AMD platforms.

16.0.6

• Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.
• Fix the regression that the Cuckatoo / Cuckoo miners failed to start.
• Fix the performance regression of Cuckaroo29m under Windows.
• Fix the compatbility issues on Windows system.

16.0.5

• Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.

16.0.4

• Improve the performance of Cuckaroo29m miner.

• Reduce the rejection rate of the Cuckaroo29m miner.

16.0.3 (Current)

• Improve performance and stability of the Cuckaroo29m miner.

• Fix fidelity issues of the Cuckaroo29m miner.

16.0.2

• Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.

16.0.1

• Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner fails to start on Turing-based cards or cards that have only 4G memory.

• Fix the Cuckaroo29m miner submits shares that have low difficulty.

• Performance improvement on the Cuckaroo29m miner.

16.0.0

• Initial support for the Cuckaroo29m algorithm.

15.8.7

• Improve the performance of Beam bminer for RTX cards.
• Experimental support for dual-mining Ethash and the Eaglesong algorithm.

15.8.6

• Improve the performance of automatic tuning of dual mining parameters.

15.8.5

• Add an API to stop the miner.

15.8.4

• Improve the performance of BeamHashII algorithm on RTX cards.

15.8.3

• 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.

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.