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There are many different types of Bitcoin mining software available. These tables should help you find what will work best for your mining.
| information | ||||||||||||||
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| Info | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| language | C | Scala | Java | C | Java | Python | Python | Tcl | Twisted | Python | C++ | Scala | ||
| license | GPL-3 | All rights reserved | GPL-3 | GPL-3 | GPL-3 | PD | GPL-2+ | GPL-3 | MIT | PD | GPL-3 | GPL-3 | ||
| website | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | ||
| forum | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | link | |||
| related pool | Eligius | BitMinter | Ckpool | |||||||||||
| operating systems | ||||||||||||||
| OS | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| Arch | pkg | src,ARM bin | Java | |||||||||||
| Debian | pkg | Java | jar | pkg | jar | No | py | py | ? | py | py | src | Java | |
| Fedora | pkg | Java | jar | bin | jar | No | py | py | ? | py | py | src | Java | |
| Gentoo | pkg | Java | jar | pkg | jar | No | py | py | ? | py | py | src | Java | |
| Mac OS X | hmbrw | Java | jar | src | jar | No | py | py | ? | py | py | src | Java | |
| OpenWrt | pkg | bin | No | |||||||||||
| Raspbian | pkg | Java | jar | bin | No | No | py | py | py | py | Java | |||
| Ubuntu | pkg | Java | jar | pkg | jar | No | py | py | ? | py | py | src | Java | |
| Windows (32-bit) | zip | Java | jar | zip | jar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java | |||
| Windows (64-bit)[1] | zip | Java | jar | W32[1] | jar | Java | ||||||||
| mining devices (virtual) | ||||||||||||||
| Virtual device | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| getwork server | 3.2.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| stratum server | 3.3.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| mining devices (asic) | ||||||||||||||
| Device | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| AntMiner S1 | 5.4.0 | No | No | 4.1.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| AntMiner S2 | 5.4.0 | No | No | 4.3.5 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| AntMiner S3/S3+ | 5.4.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| AntMiner S4 | 5.4.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| AntMiner S5 | 5.4.0 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| AntMiner S5+ | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| AntMiner S7 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| AntMiner U1/U2 | 3.10.0 | Yes | No | 3.12.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 0.2 | |
| AntMiner U3 | 5.2.0 | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 0.2 | ||
| Avalon | 3.0.0 | No | No | 2.10.4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Avalon Gen2/Gen3 | 3.6.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Avalon Nano | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| BFx2 Bitfury USB | 4.0.0 | No | No | 4.1.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Bi*Fury | 3.7.0 | No | 3.8.2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
| BitBurner | No | No | No | 3.3.2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| BitForce SC 5 Gh/s | 3.0.0 | Yes | No | 3.1.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
| BitForce SC 25 Gh/s | 3.1.1 | Yes | No | 3.3.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
| BitForce SC 50 Gh/s | 3.1.0 | Yes | No | 3.3.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
| BitFury GPIO | 3.3.0 | No | No | 3.8.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Bitfury S.B. | 3.3.0 | No | No | 3.11.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| BitMine A1 | No | No | No | 4.0.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| BlackArrow Prospero X1 | 5.0.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| BlackArrow Prospero X3 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Block Erupter Blade | 3.2.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Block Erupter USB | 2.6.4 | Yes | No | 2.6.4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 0.2 | |
| CoinTerra | 3.8.0 | No | No | 3.12.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Compac | 5.3.0 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Drillbit | 3.10.0 | No | No | 3.9.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| DualMiner | 4.0.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| HashBuster Alpha | 4.0.0 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| HashBuster Micro | 3.8.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| HashBuster Nano | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| HashFast | 3.10.0 | No | No | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Hex•Fury | 4.0.0 | No | No | 4.2.3 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| JingTian | 4.4.0 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Klondike | 3.6.0 | No | No | 3.6.0 | No | No | No | No | ||||||
| KnCMiner 28nm | 3.4.0 | No | No | 3.7.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| KnCMiner Neptune | 5.0.0 | No | No | Patch | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| LittleFury | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Metabank BitFury | 3.3.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Monarch PCI-e/Linux | 4.3.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Monarch PCI-e/Win | 4.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Monarch USB | 4.3.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| NanoFury / IceFury | 3.4.0 | No | 3.10.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
| NanoFury NF2 | 4.0.0 | No | 4.3.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
| NanoFury NF6 | 4.0.0 | No | 4.3.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
| OneStringMiner | 4.0.0 | No | No | 3.8.2 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Red/BlueFury | 3.3.0 | Yes | No | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Rockminer R-Box | 4.2.0 | No | No | 4.3.5 | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Spondoolies SP10 | 4.7.0 | No | No | 4.2.3 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Spondoolies SP30 | 4.10.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| T1/Tube | 3.3.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Twinfury | 3.7.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||
| mining devices (fpga) | ||||||||||||||
| Device | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| Avnet LX150T Devkit | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| BitForce Single | 2.2.0 | 1.2.0 | No | 2.2.0 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | git | Yes | No | ||
| BFL MiniRig | 2.4.3 | 1.2.0 | No | 2.5.0 | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |||
| Cairnsmore1 | 2.6.4 | No | No | 2.6.4 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| Digilent Nexys 2 500K | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| Icarus | 2.2.7 | 1.3.0 | No | 2.2.7 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| Lancelot | 2.6.4 | No | No | 2.6.4 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| ModMiner | 2.4.3 | No | No | 2.4.3 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| Terasic DE2-115 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| X5000 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| X6500 | 2.9.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| ZTEX 1.15b | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| ZTEX 1.15x | 2.3.4 | No | Yes | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| ZTEX 1.15y | 2.4.1 | No | Yes | 3.5.0 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||
| mining devices (gpu) | ||||||||||||||
| Device | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| OpenCL (Mesa AMD) | 3.0.1 | No | No | No | No | No | No | |||||||
| OpenCL (Mesa NV) | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||
| OpenCL (AMD APP) | Yes | Yes | No | 3.7.2 | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| OpenCL (nvidia) | Yes | Yes | No | 3.7.2 | No | No | No | No | ||||||
| CUDA (nvidia) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| mining devices (cpu) | ||||||||||||||
| Device | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| Intel SHA256 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| SSE4 (x86_64) | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| SSE2 (x86_32) | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| SSE2 (x86_64) | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Altivec (PPC) | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| VIA PadLock | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| Assembly (x86_32) | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| High-level CPU | Yes | No | No | 2.x | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||||
| NEON (ARM) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| miner protocols | ||||||||||||||
| Protocol | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| getblocktemplate | 2.8.0 | No | No | 2.10.5 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |||
| Stratum | 2.9.0 | Yes | No | 2.8.0 | No | No | No | testing | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| getwork | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| BlkPrep | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| UBBP | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| getwork extensions | ||||||||||||||
| Extension | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| hostlist | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| longpoll | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 0.1 | Yes[2] | No[3] | Yes[2] | Yes | No | ||
| midstate | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes[2] | 0.1 | No | Yes[2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| noncerange | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| reject-reason | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | 0.0 | No | Yes | Patch | Yes | No | ||
| rollntime | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | 0.1 | No | No | Yes | No[3] | Yes | ||
| expire=N | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | 0.1 | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| submitold | Yes | Yes[2][4] | Yes | No | No | No | 0.0[2][4] | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| switchto | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| getblocktemplate/BlkPrep functionality | ||||||||||||||
| Function | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| longpoll | Yes | n/a | n/a | Yes | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Yes | n/a | |||
| noncerange | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| proposal | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| serverlist | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| getblocktemplate/BlkPrep variations | ||||||||||||||
| Variation | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| (fixed coinbase) | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| coinbase/append | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | 2.8.7 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Required | n/a | |||
| coinbase (set) | 2.10.4[5] | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| generation | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| (full submit) | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| share/coinbase | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | 2.8.7 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| share/merkle | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| share/truncate | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| time/increment | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| time/decrement | 2.9.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| txns/add | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| txns/remove | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| prevblock | No | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | |||
| solo to bitcoind | Yes | n/a | n/a | Yes | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| Stratum functionality | ||||||||||||||
| Function | BFG | BitMinter | BTCMiner | cgminer | Diablo | EasyMiner | gMinor | MPBM | OSFPGABM | Phoenix | poclbm | Ufasoft | ScalaMiner | |
| resume | 3.0.0 | No | n/a | 2.11.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | ||
| reconnect | 2.9.0 | Yes | n/a | 2.8.2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Yes | No | No | ||
| add peers | No | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| set diff | 2.9.0 | Yes | n/a | 2.8.0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | testing | n/a | n/a | 20121020 | Yes | No | |
| suggest target | 3.2.0[6] | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| suggest difficulty | 5.4.0 | No | n/a | Yes[7] | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| transparency | partial | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | ||
| get ver | 2.9.0 | Yes | n/a | 2.8.2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Yes | No | No | ||
| show msg | 3.0.0 | Yes | n/a | 2.11.1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | ||
| get hashrate | No | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| get temp | No | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| roll ntime | 3.1.4 | Yes | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | Yes | ||||
| extranonce subscribe | 4.7.0 | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | No | |
| block unsafe reconnect | 4.0.0 | No | n/a | 4.3.1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | ||
| unauth TLS | 4.0.0 | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | ||
| mining goals | 5.0.0 | No | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | No | No | ||
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Windows includes (usually installed by default) the WoW64 subsystem which enables running 32-bit Windows applications, with low performance impact.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Supported, but not advertised
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Supported, but has bugs.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Not advertised, but generally doesn't discard shares.
- ↑ Older versions have serious bugs.
- ↑ Uses precise string target, implemented Aug 12, 2013 commit 4a12eae
- ↑ Uses difficulty integer, implemented Oct 20, 2014 commit 4a83f2c as per the stratum designers suggested implementation Feb 20, 2013