The project
Overview
Mining can be a daunting undertaking for anyone new to
cryptocurrencies, especially if you are not a technical person.
My idea with the graphical miner was to make it incredibly easy
for new users on any platform to get started in the project.
Description
The miner is written in Go using
Astilectron , it enables the building of
Electron
desktop apps with Go. These tools and frameworks were chosen to
ensure I can easily create versions for each platform.
The miner was capable of CPU and GPU mining using two of the
most popular mining backends namely
xmr-stak
and
xmrig . It acted as a front-end to the miners and included a wizard
to get you set up with a wallet, learn about mining, pick a
mining pool and even show you your estimated payout. You could
also monitor the network status as well as the current trading
price of the coin.
The miner was unveiled at the
Chainges
blockchain event in Amsterdam in 2018. Before the launch of the
miner, cryptocurrency miners were mostly command-line text apps.
The project has been forked at least 45 times by other
cryptocurrency projects.
