kawpowminerv1.2.3 is an ProgPoW GPU mining worker: with kawpowminer you can mine Ravencoin, which relies on an ProgPoW-based Proof of Work thus including Ethereum ProgPoW and others. This is the actively maintained version of kawpowminer. It originates from the ethminer project. Check the original ProgPoW implementation and EIP-1057 for specification.
Keep trying to connect, and miner version
Added a loop so that the software will continue to try to connect to the stratum if it gets disconnected
Added miner version to mining.subscribe
Bumped version to 1.2.3
Features kawpowminer:
First commercial KawPow miner software for miners.
OpenCL mining
Nvidia CUDA mining
realistic benchmarking against arbitrary epoch/DAG/blocknumber
on-GPU DAG generation (no more DAG files on disk)
stratum mining without proxy
OpenCL devices picking
farm failover (getwork + stratum)
Ethereum-based ProgPoW implementations supported only, doesn’t support previous ethash version or Bitcoin-based forks
Standalone executables for Linux, macOS and Windows are provided in the Releases section. Download an archive for your operating system and unpack the content to a place accessible from command line. The kawpowminer is ready to go.
For AMD-only rigs please use the version with -amd tagged , cuda version wouldn’t work for you rig.
The kawpowminer is a command line program. This means you launch it either from a Windows command prompt or Linux console, or create shortcuts to predefined command lines using a Linux Bash script or Windows batch/cmd file. For a full list of available command, please run: