Best Bitcoin Mining Softwares of 2018

in #bitcoin6 years ago

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Since the inception of cryptocurrencies, mining has been one significant activity and over the years certain mining hardwares and softwares have been developed to further increase the efficiency level of mining. The main work is done by the mining hardwares but these mining softwares are needed because they would help you connect your miner to the Bitcoin network before you can begin mining. Also, if you happen to be part of a mining pool, these softwares would also help you connect your miner to the Bitcoin network. These softwares have the sole responsibility of delivering the work to the miners on the network and also ensures that the completed work is also received and have the information transmitted to the blockchain and the mining pool if you happen to part of anyone.
Some of the best mining softwares that have been developed can run on various OS (operating systems) and there have been reports that they can work on Raspberry PI with certain modifications or improvements. These mining softwares send and receive works then transmit information to the blockchain, they carefully monitor the process as well as display statistics like the hashrate, fan speed, average speed and the ambient temperature of the mining hardware. There are various mining softwares that have been made available and each of them happens to have their separate advantage and disadvantages.
Some of these software miners include;

  1. BTCMiner; this is an open source Bitcoin mining software. One of the main features of this software miner is that it has a dynamic or changing frequency. This means that this mining software on it own chooses the best or ideal frequency with the most hash rates. This mining software does not require any licensing before use and it comes with a USB cable that would help for programming and communication. Also, this mining software has a ready and easy to use Bitstream.
  2. CGMiner; this happens to be one of the best and also most used Bitcoin mining software available. This mining software has so many features, some of them include; support for CPU mining, speed control for cooling fan and also supports the use of multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPU) mining rig. With the assistance of a mini database, this software miner is able to detect new blocks automatically.
  3. Bitcoin Miner; this mining software can be used on Windows operating system. This software miner comes with a fast mining pool support, a power saver mode and it was designed in such a way that beginners would be able to make use of it. The amazing feature this software miner has is that it tracks the profitability of mining. Making use of this software will help you determine if truly your mining is profitable.
  4. BFGMiner; this miner has been described as the same as the CGMiner, but the main difference being that unlike the former it does not focus on GPU miners but on ASIC miners. One of the main feature of this software is that it controls the speed of the fan of the hardware.

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