Tools for crypto mining

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LuxOS

LuxOS is Luxor’s custom firmware for Bitmain Antminer and selected MicroBT Whatsminer ASICs, with autotuning, power targeting and fast curtailment. Free to install and closed source; Luxor documents a 2.8% firmware fee.

Braiins OS

Braiins OS is aftermarket firmware for Bitmain Antminer S19, S21 and T21 miners that autotunes every chip to your power target. Free to run with a 2-2.5% dev fee (closed source). Braiins Toolbox installs and manages it in batches.

SimpleMining OS

SimpleMining OS (SMOS) is a plug-and-play Linux system for NVIDIA and AMD GPU rigs, managed from a cloud dashboard. Flash it to a 7 GB+ drive, add your account email and boot. Shareware: free test on one rig, then paid per rig.

mmpOS

mmpOS is a Linux mining OS that boots from USB or SSD, managed from a web dashboard that also controls Windows 10 rigs. Supports AMD, NVIDIA and Intel Arc GPUs, CPUs and FPGAs. Shareware: free credits cover up to 8 GPUs.

Hive OS

Hive OS is a Linux-based mining OS with a cloud dashboard for GPU rigs, CPU rigs and ASIC miners. Flash it to a USB stick or SSD, boot, and manage pools, overclocks and alerts remotely. Shareware: free for up to 2 workers.

UEFI BIOS Updater (UBU)

Free Windows toolkit by SoniX (Win-Raid Forum) that updates CPU microcode, LAN, RAID/AHCI and GOP modules inside AMI Aptio IV/V UEFI BIOS files. It only edits the image; flashing a modified BIOS can brick the board and void the warranty.

MorePowerTool

Free Windows tool from igor’sLAB that writes custom power, voltage, clock and fan limits for AMD Radeon cards (Polaris, Vega 20, RDNA 1/2) to the driver’s registry table, without flashing the BIOS. Values above stock can damage hardware.

ASRock Timing Configurator

Free ASRock utility for Windows that shows primary, secondary and tertiary DRAM timings, and on some ASRock boards lets you adjust them. Supported only on ASRock motherboards that list it; use the build from your board’s download page.

AMDVBFlash (ATIFlash)

Free AMD command-line utility (formerly ATIFlash) that saves and flashes the video BIOS of Radeon cards, from Polaris to RX 9000. Back up every card before flashing: a wrong image can brick the GPU and void the warranty.

XMRig

XMRig is a free, open-source (GPL-3.0) command-line miner for RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and GhostRider on CPUs and GPUs. Builds for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD; default 1% donation.

unMineable

unMineable is a mining service that converts your rewards into any of 80+ coins and tokens; unMiner is its free, closed-source Windows 10/11 app that runs the miners for you. The service takes a 1% platform fee.

GMiner

GMiner is a closed-source command-line miner for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs (KawPow, Autolykos2, Equihash, kHeavyHash and more). Free to run with a 1-5% developer fee. No releases since 3.44 in March 2024.

NiceHash QuickMiner

NiceHash’s own free Windows miner. It runs the in-house Excavator GPU miner with OCTune tuning and one-click optimisation, pays in BTC through your NiceHash account and charges no developer fee.

Rigel

Rigel is a free, closed-source command-line miner for NVIDIA GPUs on Windows and Linux. It mines 16 algorithms, supports dual and triple mining with ZIL, and has built-in overclocking, thermal limits and an HTTP API. Dev fee 0.7–2% per algorithm.

Kryptex

Kryptex is a free, closed-source Windows 10/11 mining app that detects your GPU and CPU, mines the coin it rates most profitable and converts rewards to a Bitcoin balance. Kryptex keeps a pool fee; payouts in BTC, USDT, ETH and more.

OneZeroMiner

OneZeroMiner is a free, closed-source command-line GPU miner for newer algorithms: Dynex, XelisHashV3, Qubitcoin (qhash), PearlHash, Cryptix and ZIL. NVIDIA is the main target; AMD is supported for XelisHashV3. Dev fee 1–3% depending on algorithm.

NiceHash Miner

NiceHash’s free multi-miner for Windows rigs. It installs miner plugins (Excavator and Gminer, optionally lolMiner and NanoMiner), benchmarks every algorithm and switches to the best-paying one on the NiceHash marketplace, with payouts in BTC.

NerdMiner

NerdMiner is free, open-source (MIT) firmware that turns an ESP32 board such as the LILYGO T-Display S3 into a tiny Bitcoin solo miner with a stats screen. It is a hobby and learning gadget: the chance of finding a block is practically zero.

Quick CPU

Quick CPU by Coderbag tunes core parking, frequency scaling, turbo and Windows power plans and monitors CPU temperature and power on Windows 10/11. Shareware (conditionally free): the Free edition covers one PC.

APMinerTool

APMinerTool is a free Windows utility from the Antpool team for managing Antminer ASICs on a LAN: batch scanning, static IPs, pool settings, firmware upgrades and reboots. Last known version 1.0.11; development appears dormant.

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