I don't want to hurt users and I'm not going to do it in any way; if you think that I do it, I'd like to know more details. Pools won't remove plain connections too, I see no reasons why they must do it, you can ask pool owners if they are going to do it.

Everything is better with bluetooth encryption!

Lags can only create a pool if it spends a lot of time to encrypt/decrypt data, am I correct?
SSL connection is based on same sockets and it takes almost zero time on client side to encrypt/decrypt 1Kb of data.
I'm curious about server load, is it too expensive to use encrypted connections for you?

Nice of you to compare people with sheep.
I'm not going to remove plain connection, so you still can try to remove 2% devfee and become rich.
I never increase devfee, only reduce.


Yes, thank you all for support, also thanks to mods that care about removing cracks from their forums.
I have enough experience in these games. These "hackers" think that all their cracks work.
Readme explains things about cheating clearly.
Of course it's possible to cheat and not to turn protection on, but it's rather difficult to see whether it's working, it's just a few %. So in most cases using cracks is similar to using "-nofee" option.

Ok I will release an update soon.

v9.1:

- additional range checks in code for better stability.
- reduced devfee, it's 2% now (72sec instead of 90sec) if you use secure SSL/TLS connection, currently Flypool and Suprnova pools support encrypted connections, see Readme for samples.
- improved "-di detect" option: now after GPU order detection miner starts mining with the detected order.
- added ability to use environment variables in "epools.txt" and "config.txt" files. For example, define "WORKER" environment varibale and use it as "%WORKER%" in config.txt.

ZEC has complex PoW which consists of many steps, they are different and therefore have different power usage.
If your PSU cannot handle power usage peaks, it's not a problem of the miner.
Also note that I try to achieve maximal speed, it always causes more power usage and more GPU usage, so if you have OCed GPUs or weak PSU it may work for v8 but may fail for v9.
BTW, I added a couple of additional range checks for better stability (these checks are non-critical, just for sure), I will release an update in a few hours. Note this update will not change power usage.

v9.0 is not the last version, further speedup is possible. But don't expect another +30% in a couple of days please

Try to mine on 2-3 cards as a test. Perhaps it's PSU, if you see that GPU takes 120W, it takes it in average. Peak wattage can be higher and if several cards have a peak at same moment, it can cause such problems.

It can be due to drivers, make sure you use 15.12 drivers.

Read OP or Readme and set variables GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT and GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT to 100.

Yeah I can comment this. Don't modify bios and don't overclock cards too much. If you do it - you must know what you are doing and be ready to such problems. GPU does not work properly on complex algorithms and produces pure garbage instead of good results. Validating results will require CPU resources so I don't do it and you see that GPU shows crazy hashrate. But it is garbage.

270x:  +20%
4xx:   +15%

I don't expect much higher speeds like +30-50%.

v9.0:

- improved speed by 3-20% (depends on card model). About 310H/s on stock 390X, 220H/s on stock RX480, 295H/x on stock Nano.
- added "-i 7" and "-i 8" values, about 1% speedup, but can be unstable in some cases.
- added SSL/TLS encryption support for better security, see "-zpool" option description in Readme file for details.
- added "License.txt" file that contains the License Agreement.
- added "-v" option.
- several bug fixes and minor improvements.
- EthMan: improved saving options.

Use "-wd 0". Though you will see messages that there are problems anyway, but you must know about them so it's ok.


I never had any private versions. Noone has new version yet.

I will release new version within 24 hours.

I will release new version in 1-3 days.

If something happened with your system or hardware - it's Claymore! I saw messages that my miners destruct GPUs, PSUs, crash Windows etc. I won't be surprised when someone discovers that the milk always goes bad because of using my miners.
If you think that I write viruses instead of miners and you are the one who finally discovered it, it's a good idea to read OP or Readme:

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- Windows 10 Defender recognizes miner as a virus, some antiviruses do the same. Miner is not a virus, add it to Defender exceptions.
  I write miners since 2014. Most of them are recognized as viruses by some paranoid antiviruses, perhaps because I pack my miners to protect them from disassembling, perhaps because some people include them into their botnets, or perhaps these antiviruses are not good, I don't know. For these years, a lot of people used my miners and nobody confirmed that my miner stole anything or did something bad.
  Note that I can guarantee clean binaries only for official links in my posts on this forum (bitcointalk). If you downloaded miner from some other link - it really can be a virus.
  However, my miners are closed-source so I cannot prove that they are not viruses. If you think that I write viruses instead of good miners - do not use this miner, or at least use it on systems without any valuable data.
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I never said about 2-3 days timeframe for v9.

Currently I check different cards, it takes a lot of time, it seems in next version there will be "-a" option to select best algorithm implementation for your cards.
About speed: for example, 4xx cards will get about 15% speedup. 390 cards will get less.

PS. Please don't PM me about getting pre-release version - I don't have any private versions/builds.