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The New bfgminer 4.0.0 is Now Officially Available
27, May 2014
The software bfgminer 4.0.0 has been released and now the latest version does come with official support for Gridseed-based ASIC devices built-in, among a lot of other new features and improvements. The miner is intended for mining Scrypt and SHA-256 crypto currencies and the biggest advantage is the support for many ASIC miners, though most of these are still for Bitcoin mining and not for Scrypt. If used for Gridseed ASIC mining the advantage here is that you don’t need to replace the virtual USB to COM drivers with WinUSB or to send as parameters the COM ports for the ASIC devices to the miner – they will be autodetected. Below you can download the compiled windows binaries for the miner (32 and 64-bit) and be sure to check the example BAT files for running on Gridseed ASICs or just for Scrypt mining with a GPU. You can also compile bfgminer from source if you are using other operating system for example.
– You can download the new bfgminer 4.0.0 binaries for Windows OS here…
A few days ago a modified x11 sgminer appeared offering higher performance for AMD GPU miners. That release however has been controversial as the author did not release the source code and only binaries thus violating the GPL license of sgminer. Furthermore he has released only compiled binaries and added a forced 2% fee by hardcoding the miner to switch to another pool to mine some of the time. And while the author’s approach was not good at all, still many people used the miner just because of the significant performance increase not caring about the rest. The good news is that there is now a fork of sph-sgminer from lasybear that uses the kernel from the controversial miner providing the same performance, but with the source code available and no 2% forced fee. We have tried it and can confirm it is working well, we have also compiled a windows binary that you can download and try.
– To download the new sph-sgminer_x11mod with performance increase for X11 crypto mining…
There were some requests from readers to provide a compiled binary for windows of the latest cgminer 3.7.2 with Gridseed support based on the jmordica fork, so we have compiled it. The most notable difference from the previous compiled version of cgminer we have posted with support for the G-Blades (also present here) is the addition of support for NiceHash service where you can now also use your Gridseed ASICs to sell your hashrate. The supported frequencies range from 700 to 1400 with finer grain selection available, for the complete list of supported frequencies you can check the Readme file. Below you can download the windows binary, you can change options by editing the config file.
– You can download the latest cgminer 3.7.2 with Gridseed ASICs support on Windows OS here…