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CPUMiner-Multi

###NOTE: Wolf's cpuminer-multi is no longer maintained - please use https://github.com/genesismining/sgminer-gm.

This is a multi-threaded CPU miner, fork of LucasJones' cpuminer-multi.

Table of contents

Algorithms

Currently supported

  • cryptonight (Bytecoin [BCN], Monero)

Dependencies

Download

Build

Basic *nix build instructions:

  • ./autogen.sh # only needed if building from git repo

  • Optimal GCC flags are built in - you only need to use -march=native if you want it

  • Use -march=native if building for a single machine

  • With AES-NI:

  • CFLAGS="-march=native" ./configure

  • Without AES-NI:

  • CFLAGS="-march=native" ./configure --disable-aes-ni

  • make

Architecture-specific notes:

  • CryptoNight works only on x86 and x86-64.
  • If you don't have AES-NI, it's slower. A lot slower, around 1/3rd the speed. This implementation is deprecated and will not be improved.

Usage instructions

Run "minerd --help" to see options.

Example command line

./minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://mine.moneropool.com:3333 -p x -u 42QWoLF7pdwMcTXDviJvNkWEHJ4TXnMBh2Cx6HNkVAW57E48Zfw6wLwDUYFDYJAqY7PLJUTz9cHWB5C4wUA7UJPu5wPf4sZ -t nproc

Connecting through a proxy

Use the --proxy option.

To use a SOCKS proxy, add a socks4:// or socks5:// prefix to the proxy host
Protocols socks4a and socks5h, allowing remote name resolving, are also available since libcurl 7.18.0.

If no protocol is specified, the proxy is assumed to be a HTTP proxy.
When the --proxy option is not used, the program honors the http_proxy and all_proxy environment variables.

Donations

Donations for the work done in this fork are accepted at

  • XMR: 42QWoLF7pdwMcTXDviJvNkWEHJ4TXnMBh2Cx6HNkVAW57E48Zfw6wLwDUYFDYJAqY7PLJUTz9cHWB5C4wUA7UJPu5wPf4sZ
  • BTC: 1WoLFumNUvjCgaCyjFzvFrbGfDddYrKNR

Credits

This faster CPUMiner-multi was forked from LucasJones', and has been developed by Wolf. Special thanks to Intel for helping me with the usage of the AESKEYGENASSIST instruction, which I used to replace the calls to the slow, unoptimized oaes_lib. Special thanks also to dga for his code with that loop - since it runs over 500,000 times per hash, it's extremely important.

License

GPLv2. See COPYING for details.