Gaelium (GAEL) mining

[FP91G]

Warning: a virus has been found in the project.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5182222.msg66876717#msg66876717

Second addition: Gaelium is a real project!!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5586116.msg66956100#msg66956100


Sound Money in a World
of Digital Control
The decentralized alternative to the digital euro.

Gaelium is a proof-of-work blockchain currency.
Mineable, scarce, and fully decentralized.
Built by the community, for the community.
https://gaelium.io/

Algoritm: KawPoW

✅ Official Gaelium ANN thread on Bitcointalk:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5585639

✅ Official Gaelium channels and sources:

• Website: https://gaelium.io
• Block explorer: https://explorer.gaelium.io
• Whitepaper: https://gaelium.io/whitepaper.html
• Wallet downloads (Windows/Linux/macOS): https://gaelium.io/#downloads
• Source code: https://github.com/gaeliumcore
• Official mining pool: https://pool.gaelium.io
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/FWYEwnwu3p
• Telegram announcements: @gaelium
• Telegram community: @gaeliumcommunity
• Twitter/X: @gaeliumcore

miner
https://github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases

pool
https://pool.gaelium.io/


Major warning when mining new coins!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5483636

[Phil1234]

Hey mate, getting the wallet to run is really a mission - i gave up on it..............

[ChrisInCrypto]

Hey mate, getting the wallet to run is really a mission - i gave up on it..............

Whats thee Problem? on windows it works, but you must disable Defender.

[gaelium]

⚠ Important clarification: This is NOT the official Gaelium ANN thread

Hello everyone. The Gaelium Team was not aware of this thread until recently. This is not the official Gaelium announcement, and several elements posted here are inaccurate or misleading and should not be used by anyone wishing to interact with Gaelium.

⚠ Issues in this thread:

• The wallet link "github.com/del" (now crossed out by the OP) was never a valid Gaelium source
• The Discord invite "discord.gg/gqKfSdhghD" is NOT the official Gaelium Discord
• The "virus warning" reference at the top is not connected to the actual Gaelium project

✅ Official Gaelium ANN thread on Bitcointalk:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5585639

✅ Official Gaelium channels and sources:

• Website: https://gaelium.io
• Block explorer: https://explorer.gaelium.io
• Whitepaper: https://gaelium.io/whitepaper.html
• Wallet downloads (Windows/Linux/macOS): https://gaelium.io/#downloads
• Source code: https://github.com/gaeliumcore
• Official mining pool: https://pool.gaelium.io
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/FWYEwnwu3p
• Telegram announcements: @gaelium
• Telegram community: @gaeliumcommunity
• Twitter/X: @gaeliumcore

ℹ Note about antivirus warnings on Gaelium desktop wallets:

The official Gaelium desktop wallets (Windows/Linux/macOS) are not signed with a commercial code signing certificate. This is common for open-source community-driven projects, as commercial code signing certificates are expensive and typically not prioritized at early stages. As a result, Windows Defender or other antivirus software may flag them as "potentially unwanted" or "unrecognized publisher". This is a false positive and does not mean the wallet is malicious.

However, this only applies if you download the wallet from the OFFICIAL sources listed above (gaelium.io/#downloads or github.com/gaeliumcore). Never install any Gaelium wallet from a third-party link, a random GitHub repository, a Discord DM, or any other unverified source. If in doubt, verify the file hash against the checksums published on gaelium.io.

All official Team communications on Bitcointalk are signed "The Gaelium Team" and posted from the official ANN thread linked above.

The Gaelium Team

[nc50lc]

• The wallet link "github.com/del" (now crossed out by the OP) was never a valid Gaelium source
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• Source code: https://github.com/gaeliumcore

Upon checking the archived version of the OP, it seems to be pointing to the correct repository.
What I can agree on is VT's virus detection isn't really reliable since almost all crypto miners and wallets will have some sort of false positives unless the specific AV brand whitelist it.
However, I'm not vouching for it and not willing to test.

What I'm saying is, OP is most likely felt pressured to remove it and to include a warning due to the linked report.

[gaelium]

Thanks nc50lc for taking the time to check the archived version, that's very helpful context.

Your point on antivirus false positives is spot on: this affects virtually all open-source cryptocurrency wallets and miners, because they trigger heuristic detection patterns (they handle cryptographic keys or perform intensive computations that look similar to malware behavior). This is not specific to Gaelium at all, and it's a well-known issue across the ecosystem.

To clarify a few specific points about this thread:

On the wallet link: The Gaelium Team has never posted any "github.com/del" link. Our only official GitHub organization has always been github.com/gaeliumcore. If the archived version of the OP was showing a different GitHub URL, it wasn't posted by the Team, and the current crossed-out placeholder in the OP is definitely not ours.

On the Discord invite: The link "discord.gg/gqKfSdhghD" was never posted or endorsed by the Team. It may be an outdated invite from an early stage of the project that no longer works, or it may have been added by the OP based on information found elsewhere. The current and only official Discord invite is discord.com/invite/FWYEwnwu3p.

On the "virus warning": The Team is not aware of any legitimate virus report against the actual official Gaelium wallets downloaded from official sources. Anyone can verify file integrity against the SHA-256 hashes that are (or will be) published on gaelium.io. If the OP was pressured into linking that warning due to a report on a non-official binary, that would be a separate issue from the actual official project.

Regardless of how this thread came to be, the goal of the previous post was simply to make sure any newcomers reading it have access to the correct official sources.

Thanks again for the constructive investigation.

The Gaelium Team

[FP91G]

Gaelium, thank you for visiting this thread.
I've added your links to the first post.

After being accused of distributing viruses, I was forced to remove the links, but I've fixed everything now. In this forum thread, we mainly discuss mining.

Why did you choose the KawPoW algorithm for mining? It's one of the hottest algorithms and consumes a lot of electricity.

[gaelium]

Hey FP91G, sorry for the late reply, I don't check this thread very often :-)

Good question. Honestly, KawPoW is heavy on power, no denying that. But this is our first real project that actually made it to the finish line, and we spent weeks testing different algorithms before settling. Ravencoin's KawPoW gave us the best results in the end, stable, ASIC-resistant, and mineable on regular GPUs.

Another reason was accessibility: KawPoW still runs fine on older cards, right now 2GB of VRAM is plenty. That was intentional, we wanted a proven, stable algo that lets people mine on hardware they already have, even older GPUs, so we could bring in as many miners as possible rather than shutting anyone out.

So consider it a starting point. It works well and keeps mining open to the whole community, which was the whole idea 

The Gaelium Team

[FP91G]

Hey FP91G, sorry for the late reply, I don't check this thread very often :-)

Good question. Honestly, KawPoW is heavy on power, no denying that. But this is our first real project that actually made it to the finish line, and we spent weeks testing different algorithms before settling. Ravencoin's KawPoW gave us the best results in the end, stable, ASIC-resistant, and mineable on regular GPUs.

Another reason was accessibility: KawPoW still runs fine on older cards, right now 2GB of VRAM is plenty. That was intentional, we wanted a proven, stable algo that lets people mine on hardware they already have, even older GPUs, so we could bring in as many miners as possible rather than shutting anyone out.

So consider it a starting point. It works well and keeps mining open to the whole community, which was the whole idea 

The Gaelium Team

If you're looking for an experienced miner's opinion, video cards with 2 GB of memory are usually very old and aren't used for mining due to their high power consumption and lack of profitability. Miners typically buy GPUs with at least 8 GB of memory to be able to mine other coins as well.

[gaelium]

You're absolutely right, and I don't disagree at all.
Modern cards with 8 GB or more are the sensible choice for anyone mining seriously, no question.

When I mention 2 GB, it's really shorthand for "a very wide range of cards still works," not a recommendation.
The idea is accessibility at this early stage, someone with an old RX 470 sitting in a drawer, in a region where electricity is cheap, can still put it to use instead of letting it gather dust.
In places where power is expensive that math doesn't work, and we get that, it varies a lot country to country.

And of course it's a starting point.
As difficulty climbs, the older cards naturally drop off, that's just how PoW goes, but early on, keeping the door open to as much hardware as possible was the whole intention, bring in as many people as we can rather than shutting anyone out.

Appreciate the experienced perspective, it's a fair point and worth stating clearly for anyone reading 

[FP91G]

I used to look at these statistics and there were a lot of 4GB video cards there, but everything is changing.
https://hiveon.com/statistics/

It's great that even an old video card can be used to mine coins, but now miners are forced to focus on profit because they have high expenses.

[gaelium]

Good link, and you're right that it's moving fast 

The rest is just true, a card is only worth running while the coin covers the power bill, and that's the market deciding, not us.
Old hardware being welcome is a nice principle, it doesn't pay anyone's electricity.

And yes, we hope the price grows enough over time to pay miners properly 
Anyone building a chain wants that, pretending otherwise would be silly, but hoping is all we get to do there.
We don't control it, we're not going to talk it up, and we're not putting a number or a date on anything.

We know where we stand, we only went live on 15 June, we're on an exchange with a bit of real volume, and the hard part right now is visibility, not code.
No marketing budget, and no interest in buying hype, so we keep shipping instead, wallets, pools, explorer, updates every weeks.

No miracle expected.
We'd rather be judged over a year than talked about for a week