Crypto Mining Blog

Below you can find a list of the more common crypto algorithms with some example coins that use them along with a link to windows binary for a miner for the respective algorithm. This way you can quickly get to the GPU miner for AMD or Nvidia GPUs that you would need to use for a specific crypto algorithms, especially if you have not yet mined a coin based on that algorithm. There are of course some more coins that use other specific algorithms and may not be mineable with the GPU miners listed below.

Scrypt – LiteCoin (LTC), DogeCoin (DOGE), FeatherCoin (FTC), WorldCoin (WDC), Reddcoin (RDD)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

Scrypt Adaptive-N – Vertcoin (VTC), ExeCoin (EXE), GPUcoin (GPUC), ParallaxCoin (PLX), SiliconValleyCoin (XSV)
– vertminer 0.5.4pre3 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

Scrypt-Jane (Scrypt-Chacha) – YaCoin (YAC), Ultracoin (UTC), Velocitycoin (VEL)
– yacminer 3.4.2-yac2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

SHA-256 – Bitcoin (BTC), NameCoin (NMC), Devcoin (DVC), IxCoin (IXC)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

SHA-3 (Keccak) – MaxCoin (MAX), Slothcoin (SLOTH), Cryptometh (METH)
– cgminer 3.7.3 with Keccak for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA

X11 – DarkCoin (DRK), Hirocoin (HIRO), X11coin (XC)
– sph-sgminer X11mod for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

X13 – MaruCoin (MARU), BoostCoin (BOST), X13Coin (X13C)
– sph-sgminer X13mod for AMD OpenCL

Blake-256 – BlakeBitcoin, Blakecoin (BLC), Dirac (XDQ), Electron (ELT), Photon (PHO)
– cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 for Nvidia CUDA

Quark – Animecoin (ANI), BitQuark (BTQ), Diamondcoin (DMC)
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

HEFTY1 – Heavycoin (HVC), Mjollnircoin (MNR)
– cgminer 3.7.3 HVC for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 MNR for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA

For other crypto algorithms:
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA for older Compute 2.x cards