rust monero miner (pure Rust is the goal, but the project is not there yet, see help wanted section)

TODOs:

• implement cryptonight hashing function
• implement stratum protocol (for pooled mining support)
• use a naive parallelisation scheme
• measure hash performance
• implement software AES (current work)
• optimise cryptonight hashing function
• ARM support (Raspberry, Pine64)

Middle-Term TODOs:

• auto-optimisation via bandit algorithms
• integrate gpu mining (ATI, Nvidia)

You need the Rust nightly version to compile Mithril, since it uses inline assembler which is only available in the nightly version of Rust. The nightly version is best installed with rustup. Once you have the nightly version installed, type cargo build --release for an optimised binary. The binary can be found in the target/release/ folder.

Mithril expects a config.toml in the working directory. Copy the default_config.toml as config.toml to the Mithril working directory. You need at least configure your Monero address in the [pool] section for the reward and the num_threads depending on your machine (a good start is to use 2x number of your cores on your machine).

If you get a wrong instruction set kind of error you can try to disable hardware AES with the has_aes flag in the [hardware] section.

If you find any issues, please report them here: Mithril Issues

Mithril was tested on this Platform/architecture combinations so far:

• macOS 10.13/x64
• Windows/x64

Please notify me, if you tested mithril on one other platform (Linux would be intersting, since I'm on macOS only) and it is running stable.

ARM support (Raspberry, Pine64) is a short term goal I am working on.

The error with wrong submitted shares has been resolved. Mithril is now actually ready to mine Monero! Performance is probably not yet comparable to other miners, but this will be the next step.

The goal of this project is to build a pure Rust monero miner implementation. Currently the Skein and JH hash functions are used as FFI C-Bindings, because there is not Rust implementation available (or I have not found any). A pure Skein or JH Rust implentation would be very welcomed. Notify me if you did implement one of these hashing functions and I will gladly use them in mithril!