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RE: Another Steem Hardfork in a Day and Still No Windows Support...
@steem-id does have a MinGW binary up - https://steemit.com/steem/@steem-id/steem-v0-15-0-mingw-binary-for-windows-x64
However, I'm not sure if that works for mining as previously only VS compiled binaries have worked.
I hope @alphabeta has something up soon. Their releases have been reliable. (https://github.com/alphab3ta/steem/releases)
I agree that having official Windows binaries should be a must for attracting miners to Steem. They have done the right thing by planning a move to Equihash and increasing miner's fee, this needs to be the next step to increase demand.
On the other hand, perhaps someone from the community can see this as an opportunity...
MinGW cross-compiled releases for Windows are not working very well based on my experience so far, so a native Windows binary is much better - not only regarding mining support, but in general.
Yes, I haven't had much luck with the MinGW binaries either.