Asteroid 0.9.7 is now outDownload here or run "Check for updates..." from the in-app Asteroid menu
Among the biggest changes is the addition of live coin balances! Enter the API key from your pool's webpage and you'll see live balances in Asteroid of what you have currently mined. Also changed is the switch to
sgminer for all scrypt mining. sgminer seems to be the spiritual successor to cgminer 3.7.2 insofar as scrypt mining, and it has already seen a number of bug fixes and improvements -- one of which is the ability to choose between 5 different kernels. The Asteroid website will track these kernels for you, and as always, recommend the best kernel and other settings for you to use based on the contributions of other users (16,000 scrypt setting submissions to date).
Redesigned pool setup sheet:
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Change log is as follows:
- Live coin balance monitoring
- Added new mining engine, sgminer, for scrypt mining
- Can now pick which kernel to use for scrypt mining
- Improvements and bugfixes to community scrypt settings
- Full support for multiple GPUs
- Mac OS X Notification Center support
- Updated mining engine to cgminer 3.12.3
- Devices remember on/off state between launches
- Redesigned pool editing sheet
- Added a command-line options window
- Added international support for non-US number formats
- Reduced CPU usage when Asteroid window is closed
- Added checkbox to turn off autostarting mining
- Added Asteroid log to console window
- Fixes for "Initializing miner..." and more
- Countless bugfixes and tweaks
Please remember that Asteroid does not need any extra drivers or installs of any kind, nor any knowledge of the command-line! True plug-and-play. And one of my favourite new features?
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Asteroid is one of the few pieces of bitcoin software written in an interpreted language, meaning the code you read on your screen is the code that your computer executes -- there are no fully compiled intermediaries apart from the mining engines themselves (cgminer, sgminer, etc) which are also open-source. So if you wonder how Asteroid does something, just go to "View source code" from the Asteroid menu and it will pop up. Feel free to edit it, save it, and re-run Asteroid to see your coding changes.
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