New demonstration CPU miner available

Figures: Jeff Garzik

A new CPU miner is now available, making use of the new ‘getwork’ RPC command.

In the beginning, this is intended largely to demonstrate a ‘getwork’ miner. It is written in straight C, with minimal dependencies (libcurl, jansson).

It has successfully generated blocks on testnet, mainnet and almost all pools.

Linux/BSD release tarball: http://yyz.us/bitcoin/cpuminer-1.0.2.tar.gz Windows installer: http://yyz.us/bitcoin/cpuminer-installer-1.0.2.zip git repository: git://github.com/jgarzik/cpuminer.git

Contributions welcomed! (GPL v2 license)

UPDATE: This has largely been superceded by Con Kolivas’s cgminer fork. See cgminer’s official forum thread for updates and details.