Even if you don't care about them, others do. I would appreciate it if you made your miner available to Macs, even if I have to donate some extra for you to do it. I want Monero to be available to all, including the mining for it. Please reconsider
Open source AMD miner by Wolf0
Gingeropolous posted this 8 years ago
Introduction
Who - Wolf0, renowned miner developer. Worked on the original monero solo miner and the nvidia miner. Also responsible for mining software for many other algos.
What - Open source AMD miner for Monero with solo mining support.
Why - The only AMD miner is Claymore's, and its closed source and also has a fee. In order to increase the strength of the Monero network, we need as much hashpower as we can get. Furthermore, GPU solo mining may increase the number of people running full solo nodes. Finally, Wolf0 is an excellent mining software developer with a proven track record, and has found some flaws in the monero pool software and is interested in creating a new monero pool software / architecture that will both correct these flaws and provide a means to allow an individual miner to confirm that the pool is honest. Getting him on board with this project will hopefully spur further developments.
Amount: 5750 XMR.
Milestones / Payouts / Timeframe:
1 - Working OpenCL implementation. Payout: 1000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 days
2 - Host code and pool interface. Payout 2000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 weeks
3 - Performance on a 290x. 400 h/s = 500 XMR. 400-500 h/s = 750 XMR. 500-600 h/s 1000 XMR. 600-750 h/s 2000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 weeks.
4 - Solo mining support. Payout: 750 XMR. Timeframe: open-ended
Conditions for payouts:
1 - it works. Code is released open source. License to be determined, but it will NOT be GPL. Perhaps MIT or WTFPL.
2 - Software is released open source via github. Compiled binaries are released for all major platforms. Software is as user friendly as possible. Software can be customized using configuration files.
update
beta of first versions https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner/releases/tag/0.1
Hey Wolf, do you have instructions to get this miner working on an iMac with a radeon 290x? It is my friends and he is interested in mining on it, but I don't have the first clue about how to use a mac, so I will need ELI5 instructions. Thanks!