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Open source. No dev fee. Mines Ergo, Bitcoin III and Pearl.
SRBMiner takes 1% on Autolykos. lolMiner takes 1.5%. Their own tables say so. This one takes nothing, and you can read the source.
Ergo runs CUDA on NVIDIA and Vulkan on AMD.
Bitcoin III is a Bitcoin fork. It swapped the block hash to SHA3-256t, so no Bitcoin ASIC can touch it. v0.2.17 mines it on both vendors, CUDA and Vulkan.
CUDA is the faster backend for Bitcoin III. A 4090 does 1543 MH/s on CUDA against 1086 on Vulkan. A 4060 Ti does 415. Both of those are pool runs with shares accepted and none rejected.
The AMD numbers are benchmarks, not pool runs. A 7900 XT does 538 on Vulkan. That build is checked digest for digest against the same reference the CUDA one is, but no pool has taken a share from it yet.
The launcher picks the backend for you now, per algorithm rather than once for the whole miner.
Pearl is in there too. It is experimental and NVIDIA only, because nobody has written the Vulkan shader for it yet.
Windows and Linux. Unzip and run. There is no toolkit to install.
| GPU | Backend | Ergo MH/s |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 5080 | Vulkan | 267.6 |
| RTX 4090 | CUDA | 235.5 |
| RX 7900 XT | Vulkan | 151.9 |
| RTX 4080 | CUDA | 140.0 |
| RTX 4070 SUPER | CUDA | 117.6 |
| RX 6700 XT | Vulkan | 82.9 |
| RTX 4060 Ti | CUDA | 76.9 |
Measured here at the 7.27GB dataset, on cards I own.
Your number drops as the dataset grows. Old figures online are about double what any miner gets today. Compare like with like.
BE WARNED: a hashrate on screen is not proof you are getting paid. Confirm it on the pool site.
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Connection info for every self-hosted game server. Minecraft, Palworld, Enshrouded, Dune Awakening and more. Voice and text chat live in Outpost.
See servers →What runs the whole operation. A Proxmox hypervisor, a NAS fleet, monitoring, backups, an internal CA, and a pile of self-hosted apps replacing cloud services.
Tour the rack →115 guides, scrubbed of anything private and written for anyone to follow. Most of them are a named failure mode and the fix, because that is what I actually hit.
Browse guides →577 measured results across 50 cards and 51 coins, stock and overclocked, with the miner version and the wall watts for each one.
Compare cards →Ten verdicts on hardware and software after running them for real. Includes what I walked away from and why, which is usually the more useful half.
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