Best Bitcoin mining software to use in 2017
We all know softwares are these user-friendly interfaces which are an intermediary between us and hardware devices of a computer. So are mining softwares the ‘middle-man’ so to speak between the hardware, and we, the users and also the blockchain network.
Importance of Mining Software?
The mining software brings the work to the miners. It also receives the finished work from the minders. What the software does is that it relays the information back to the blockchain and to your mining pool.This is how we get to increase the number in the circulation of cryptocurrencies on daily bases. These softwares are also there to monitor the performance of the hardwares on which they are installed. They monitor activities such as the hash rate, average speed of the miner on which they are installed.
Here I listed 5 best Bitcoin mining softwares:
- Bitcoin miner:
It has an easy to use interface, power saving mode, mining pool support and fast share submission.
One useful feature is the profit reports feature because this feature will help you know if your mining is profitable or not. The latest version of this software is Bitcoin Miner 1.27.0.
- BTC Miner:
BTCMiner is an Open Source Bitcoin Miner for ZTEX USB-FPGA modules 1.5.
BTCMiner comes with the following features:
Dynamic frequency scaling in that BTCMiner automatically chooses the frequency with the highest rate of valid hashes
Ready-to-use Bitstream i.e. no Xilinx software or license required.
- CG Miner:
The CGMiner happens to be the most commonly used among bitcoin miners. It’s widely used because of its super features which include: fan speed control, remote interface capabilities, self-detection of new blocks, multi GPU support, and so on. This miner is available for both the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
- BFG miner:
BFGMiner is more or less the same as CGMiner.
The only major difference is that it doesn’t focus on GPUs like CGMiner but instead it is designed specifically for ASICs.
Some unique features of BFGMiner include: mining with free mesa/LLVM OpenCL, ADL device reordering by PCI bus ID, integrated overclocking and fan control.
5.Easy Miner:
This software supports the getwork mining protocol as well as stratum mining protocol. It can also be used for both solo and pooled mining.
Among its main features is that it configures your miner and provides performance graphs for easy visualization of your mining activity.
Few years back i wanted to start mining but someone told that it needs high configuration hardware and it might crush my computers. So didn't proceed that time.