[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29z miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs16.2.11

[Joseph12]

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.
• Bminer supports mining Grin (GRIN) with 1% of devfee.

Features[/u]:

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 [color=rgb(23, 96, 147) !important]OhGodAnETHlargementPill[/color]: 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

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:

• Linux x64: bminer-v16.2.11-4ecd066-amd64.tar
• Windows x64: bminer-v16.2.11-4ecd066-amd64
• Windows x64: bminer-lite-v16.2.11-4ecd066-amd64

Release notes


16.2.11 (Current)

• Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
• More fixes on fidelity issues on GRIN (both Cuckaroo29z and Cuckatoo32).

16.2.10

• Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.
• Fix fidelity issues for GRIN.

16.2.9

• Improve performance of the Cuckaroo29z miner.

16.2.8

• Support the Cuckaroo29z algorithm for the GRIN hardfork.

• Various performance improvements on the AMD ETH miner.

16.2.7

• Improve performance for the BeamHashIII algorithm.

• Reduce rejection rates for all miners.

16.2.6

• Fix compatibility issues with Beam mining pools.

• Fix compatibility issues on Windows

16.2.5

• Improve performance of the BeamHash III miner.
• Fix critical issues that the BeamHash III miner computes invalid solutions.
• Reduce the rejection rates of the Ethereum and ProgPOW miners.

16.2.4

• Fix critical issues that Bminer fails to connect to the pools under Windows.
• Fix the miscalculations of the targets for Qitmeer.

16.2.3

• Support the Cuckaroo29m hardfork for Qitmeer.
• Retire the CKB miner.
• Fix compatibility issues when mining Ethereum on Nicehash.

16.2.2

• Improve the performance of Ethereum mining on AMD GPUs.
• Retire ZEC miner.
• Improve stability of the Cuckatoo32 miner.
• Support automatic transition to BeamHashIII.
• Improve compatibility with Windows.

16.2.1

• Fix compatibility issues with some Raven mining pools.

16.2.0

• Improve the performance on mining Aeternity / BFC.
• Initial support for mining SERO / Raven.