Spectre Miner

A Rust binary for mining Spectre with the SpectreX algorithm.

Installation

Install from Binaries

Pre-compiled binaries for Linux x86_64, Windows x64 and macOS x64 and aarch64 can be downloaded from the GitHub release page.

Build from Source

To compile from source you need to have a working Rust and Cargo installation, run the following commands to build spectre-miner:

git clone https://github.com/spectre-project/spectre-miner
cd spectre-miner
cargo build --release

Usage

To start mining you need to run a Spectre full node. It is highly recommended to run the Spectre on Rust version. As a fallback, deprecated and legacy option, the Spectre Golang Node is supported as well. You need to have an address to send the mining rewards to. Running spectre-miner -h will show all available command line options:

A Spectre high performance CPU miner

Usage: spectre-miner [OPTIONS] --mining-address <MINING_ADDRESS>

Options:
  -a, --mining-address <MINING_ADDRESS>
          The Spectre address for the miner reward
  -s, --spectred-address <SPECTRED_ADDRESS>
          The IP of the spectred instance [default: 127.0.0.1]
  -p, --port <PORT>
          Spectred port [default: Mainnet = 18110, Testnet = 18210]
  -d, --debug
          Enable debug logging level
      --testnet
          Use testnet instead of mainnet [default: false]
  -t, --threads <NUM_THREADS>
          Amount of miner threads to launch [default: number of logical cpus]
      --devfund <DEVFUND_ADDRESS>
          Mine a percentage of the blocks to the Spectre devfund [default: Off]
      --devfund-percent <DEVFUND_PERCENT>
          The percentage of blocks to send to the devfund [default: 1]
      --mine-when-not-synced
          Mine even when spectred says it is not synced, only useful when passing `--allow-submit-block-when-not-synced` to spectred  [default: false]
      --throttle <THROTTLE>
          Throttle (milliseconds) between each pow hash generation (used for development testing)
      --altlogs
          Output logs in alternative format (same as spectred)
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

To start mining you just need to run the following:

./spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:XXXXX

This will run the miner on all the available CPU cores.

Hive OS and mmpOS

You can always download the most recent HiveOS flight sheet and mmpOS miner profile from our website.

• HiveOS Flight Sheet
• mmpOS Miner Profile

Development Fund

NOTE: This feature is off by default

The devfund is a fund managed by the Spectre community in order to fund Spectre development.

A miner that wants to mine a percentage into the dev-fund can pass the following flags:

./spectre-miner --mining-address=<spectre:XXXXX> --devfund=spectre:qrxf48dgrdkjxllxczek3uweuldtan9nanzjsavk0ak9ynwn0zsayjjh7upez

Without specifying --devfund-percent it will default to 1%. If you want to change the percentage, you can pass the option --devfund-percent=XX.YY to mine only XX.YY% of the blocks into the devfund.

License

Spectre miner is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 license.