/xdxminer

XDXMiner is a proof of concept DirectX implementation of Dagger-Hashimoto miner. Currently it can mine Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

Primary LanguageC#GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Overview

XDXMiner is a proof of concept DirectX implementation of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic miner. It can achieve 85% state of the art hashrate on Nivida Tesla T4. It can aslo run on the Xbox Series X/S under developer mode.

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Features

  • Mine Ethereum and Ethereum in any DirectX enabled Device
  • Utililized Shared GPU memory, support DAG size of any size as long as you have enough Dedicated GPU plus Shared GPU Memory
  • Despite poor performance, it supports mining Ethereum Classic in XBox under Developer Mode.
  • Stratum implementation in .NET

Performance

Nvidia Tesla T4 XBox Serires X Nvidia 1080 Ti Nvidia GT 710 Nvidia 2080Ti
17-19 MH/s 1.10 MH/s 14.65 MH/s 0.18MH/s 32 MH/s

Install

XBOX

Ensure your console is in developer mode. You will need to purchase a developer license from Microsoft.
Download the appx file.
Navigate to the device portal for your console (displayed in the home screen).
Install the .msixbundle file by clicking Add in the main page.

From the Xbox screen, Set the app to Game mode instead of App mode: Scroll down to DuckStation in the listinng, press the Change View button, select View Details, and change App to Game.
Launch the app. Alt text

PC

Enable sideloadining in Windows.
Download the .msixbundle file from release and install it.
You may need to download the .cer certificate file and added to Trusted Person before installing to Windows.
Download and install Dependency packages if any dependency package is missing.

Build

It's C# UWP project build using Visual Studio 2019. Open Xdxminer_solition.sln and build solution.

Thanks

Intial HLSL based on https://github.com/gyf304/ethash-hlsl
HLSL is optimized based on https://github.com/chfast/ethash

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.