Crypto Mining on Mac's: Forum

We installed Honeyminer and MinerGate in Windows Boot Camp on our Intel MacBook Pro 16". We wanted to see if GPU mining was supported or not. It appears Honeyminer is depreciated and would not mine with our firewall off. MinerGate was not supported for GPU mining in Windows Boot Camp as well. m...

Default install of Awesome Miner (Free Edition) in Windows Boot Camp on an Intel MacBook Pro 16" with 5600M GPU. We setup a CPU (Intel) and GPU (AMD) Managed Profit Miners. The CPU miner used cpuminer-opt 3.16.5 for NeoScrypt Mining and Phoenix Minder 5.6d for Ethereum mining. I think the paid ...

NiceHash Crypto Mining CPU & GPU Results in Windows Boot Camp. Running all compatible and latest crypto miner plugin tests with average hashrates, earnings, and power consumption per software test. System: MacBook Pro 16" 2020 MacBookPro16,4 Chip: 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9-9980HK Memory:...

Using MinerGate (Smart Miner) for ARM Apple Mac's to mine Monero (XMR) using CPU. Our hashrate was not good compared to other CPU miners coming in around 700 H/s. The M1 MacBook Air became warm after about 30 minutes of mining and also used higher wattage draw compared to the other software mining t...

Using MoneroCart for ARM Apple Mac's to mine Monero (XMR) using CPU. Our hashrate hovered just under 2000 H/s. The M1 MacBook Air became warm after about 30 minutes of mining. See our guide to install MoneroCart here . m1-macbook-air-monerocart-earnings-results.jpg Software: MoneroCart 1.2.1 (14) Av...

Using ethminer 0.19.0-17+commit.ce52c740.dirty build for ARM Apple Mac's to mine Ethereum (ETH) through Unmineable pool using GPU. This M1 MacBook Air has 8-GPU's (not 7) and only used a stunning 20 Watts on maximum during mining. Hashrates and earnings were not impressive however. We did not notice...

Using XMRig 6.12.2 build for ARM Apple Mac's to mine XMR through Unmineable pool using CPU. XMRig is not compatible with ARM GPU's OPENCL and CUDA at this time. It seems the latest version of Big Sur (11.4) on the MacBook Air M1 draws around 10 more Watts of power compared to Big Sur version 11.3. I...

Keep getting this in XMRIG:

net donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 connect error: "operation canceled"

Good news is XMRig recognizes the M1 Air GPU via OpenCL: OPENCL GPU #0 n/a Apple M1 1000 MHz cu:8 mem:1024/10922 MB No Support from CUDA: disabled (dlopen(libxmrig-cuda.dylib, 1): image not found) xmrig-macbook-air-m1-gpu-mining-opencl.jpg OpenCL Compile fails: [2021-07-05 09:13:11.550] opencl use p...

Using Honeyminer version 0.6.5 for macOS. The miner sees CPU and GPU hardware but the only message in the Expert Logs is:

Started mining process

It just sits there for minutes on end. Waited almost a half hour but no mining starts. No other logs or activity in the Miner Console.