50Miner

50Miner was a Windows graphical frontend for Bitcoin mining software, developed in cooperation with the 50BTC mining pool. It was intended to make early GPU and FPGA mining easier for users who did not want to configure miners from the command line.

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Features

50Miner had the following capabilities:

• Connecting to the 50BTC pool with only a username and password.
• Detecting installed video cards and OpenCL platforms.
• Providing a download link when a required OpenCL platform was missing.
• Starting mining automatically with selected hardware settings.
• An advanced mode for configuring mining settings manually.
• Displaying speed and accepted or rejected shares.
• Instant payments from 50BTC to:
  • Bitcoin addresses
  • Mobile telephone numbers
  • Yandex.Money
  • QIWI
  • WebMoney (RUB)
  • Visa
• Displaying balances for:
  • 50BTC
  • ABCPool
  • Bitclockers
  • BTC Guild
  • BTCMine
  • DeepBit
  • Eclipse Mining Consortium
  • Pool.itzod.ru
  • Pool.mkalinin.ru
  • Mt.Red
  • Ozco.in
  • Bitcoin Pooled Mining
  • Triplemining

Supported miners

• Poclbm
• Phoenix miner
• DiabloMiner
• CGMiner

Supported languages

• English
• Russian
• German

Version history

Version	Release date	Changes
0.5.3	12 July 2013	Updated interaction with the 50BTC pool. Updated cgminer to version 3.3.1.
0.5.2	5 April 2013	Displayed the Bitcoin exchange rate using the new Mt. Gox API.
0.5.1	22 February 2013	Added detailed connection-error information in simple mode. Ran cgminer when an FPGA was detected, including on systems without a GPU.
0.5.0	21 February 2013	Fixed a Windows Server bug. Positioned the compact-information window according to the taskbar location. Restored the window size used when the application was last closed. Fixed a zero payout-destination count. Added email notification when the primary pool failed. Added support for new and modified language files. Corrected display of the graphics-card voltage. Fixed a Windows 8 issue following update KB2795944.
0.4.2	14 December 2012	Corrected FPGA operation.
0.4.1	21 December 2012	Added mining-aggression controls. Allowed selection of the CPU used by the miner. Allowed cgminer settings to be specified for Litecoin mining. Allowed tabs to be moved and workers to be renamed.
0.4.0	14 December 2012	Added flexible miner scheduling through Windows Task Scheduler.
0.3.0	12 November 2012	Fixed an error in the payout-destinations list.
0.2.9	9 November 2012	Corrected speed and share display for video cards with identical names. Expanded the list of basic settings.
0.2.8	29 October 2012	Fixed a cgminer launch error.
0.2.7	26 October 2012	Added cgminer support with limited basic settings.
0.2.6	24 October 2012	Corrected poclbm.exe behavior for aggression values 0–12. Fixed layout problems on Windows XP. Saved the position of the Overclocking tab. Improved operating-system bitness detection.
0.2.5	2 October 2012	Improved DiabloMiner logging.
0.2.4	1 October 2012	Added minor fixes related to payout destinations.
0.2.3	26 September 2012	Fixed errors when reducing ATI/AMD graphics-card core and memory frequencies. Improved error logging.
0.2.2	25 September 2012	Fixed fan and PowerControl handling. Fixed the start/stop-all-miners control in simple mode.
0.2.1	24 September 2012	Fixed termination of java.exe. Fixed saved DiabloMiner settings. Fixed selection of video cards with identical names. Fixed overclocking of ATI/AMD cards with identical names.
0.2	21 September 2012	Added overclocking controls for ATI/AMD graphics cards.
0.1	14 September 2012	First release.

External links

• Archived 50Miner website (4 June 2013)
• Archived 50BTC mining pool (19 June 2013)
• Bitcoin Mining Software