Requirements

Requirements

Hardware requirements.

CPU

• A x86_64 architecture CPU with a minimum of SSE2 support. This includes Intel Core2 and newer and AMD equivalents.
• Arm64 CPU supporting AArch64 and NEON including Apple, Cortex, Snapdragon, Rockchip & others.

32 bit CPUs are not supported.

Mining on mobile devices that meet the requirements is not recommended due to the risk of overheating and damaging the battery. Mining has unlimited demand, it will push any device to or beyond its limits. There is also a fire risk with overheated lithium batteries. Beware of apps claiming "mobile only mining". There is no such thing, they aren't miners. If a mobile CPU can mine it any CPU can.

Memory

Memory requirements are very dependant on the algorithm. Some algorithms require over 100 MB per thread.

Software requirements

Operating system

• 64 bit Linux OS. Debian and Fedora based distributions, including Ubuntu, Mint, RHEL and clones, are known to work and have all dependencies in their repositories. Others will work but may require more effort.
• 64 bit Windows OS is supported on x86_64 with MinGW_w64 and MSys2 or pre-built binaries. Windows 7 and newer work, XP is not supported.
• Windows 11 on ARM64 with MSys2 is a work in progress and may not work.
• MacOS is supported compiled from source code. Prebuilt binaries are not available.
• 64 bit FreeBSD is supported, other BSDs have not been tested.
• Mobile OSs like IOS & Android as well as alt OSs like Haiku & ReactOS are not supported and will not work.

Server

• Network access to a stratum server for shared mode pool mining. Some pools also offer solo mining.
• A full node wallet for the coin to be mined solo using getblocktemplate (GBT). Some coins may not be suported, YMMV.