Topic: Best bit coin miner? (Read 661 times)

CGMiner together with CGWatcher works pretty well for me. Better than any other miner software.

My vote to cgminer also. Takes a bit more work to start using than the GUI miners for example, but is steadily maintained and developed by an excellent coder (Con Kolivas).  Rock solid in best occasions (my best uptime with it was almost an year, had to boot for operating system updates).

The official thread for support and development of cgminer is here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402

Good source for information concerning new versions and so on.

My favourite is KNC Miner.

A lot of companies have great products, however the main issue (once you've accounted for credit risk, of course) is delivery time. You have to make sure that your order gets to you at the date you've planned for.

If your order arrives too late, the network difficulty (hash rate required to gather returns > than input energy + principal expense) will jump and your miner will retain some smaller salvage value in the best case scenario.

I had bought from Butterfly Labs and Avalon beforehand, those guys were mining with the miners they'd agreed to ship.They didn't send me my miners until it was too late. I hope they never get a dime of business furthermore, and I hope all their bitcoins get hacked or lost. No one should ever take advantage of their customers.

KNC Miner backlogged their orders. That was the only reason I bought from any mining company ever again. KNC delivered. That being said, a couple of KNC's miners did explode (mine didn't), so you have to be aware of that. However, if you aren't aware that mining is the riskiest venture in the btc space then you shouldn't be buying from anyone. KNC told me the date and time of my delivery, and then they delivered. That was that. I'm going to be buying from them over the short-term at least.

CoinTerra is a new prospect that looks promising however. I would suggest you look up both extensively. The time invested into studying the infrastructure is the most valuable asset at the moment. Time > btc > $.

Good luck.

Depends on your hardware I guess.

No problem! Heres a link listing all the mining software available, hope it helps! https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_software

If you have an nvidia card and you're mining litecoin, cudaminer (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-cudaminer-ccminer-cuda-based-mining-applications-windowslinuxmacosx-167229) is the way to go!

Are there a couple more to think about maybe or is CGMiner a safe way to go? I think I will be ok with the installation of the software but thanks for the heads up!

Ahhh I misread the question, yes CGMiner is the best but as he said slightly difficult to set up at first.

Thank you both for the information . I am new to this so any good info will help .

CGMiner is the best, it might be complicated to set if your not much computer savvy

Hello welcome to the forum! It depends how much you are willing to spend, most mining equipment available are costly pre-orders.

Any suggestions for websites that offer good mining software? Thanks in advance for any information!