Changelog

BTX changes its proof of work at block 185,000. This is the Mac side of that change.

• The built-in easyBTX engine stops at the fork, and says so. It solves the old algorithm only, and BTX has no replacement build of it. Rather than run your GPU flat out on work the network will reject, easyBTX stops at block 185,000 and tells you what happened. Before the switch it shows a live countdown read from the pool's own jobs, so the timing comes from the chain rather than from a date we guessed.
• There is no Mac mining engine for the new algorithm yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. MATADOR is not the answer on a Mac: we checked its macOS build directly, and its solver for the new algorithm runs on the processor rather than the graphics card. On an M2 Pro a single attempt ran for over five minutes without finishing, where a graphics card takes about thirty seconds. Pointing you at it would heat your Mac up for nothing, so easyBTX does not.
• The good news: your Mac can do this work. We put BTX's own v0.33.2 software on an M2 Pro and it completed a full-size attempt of the new algorithm on the GPU, at the real production settings, with no fall back to the processor, and it qualified against BTX's own reference list. So the hardware is capable. What is missing is an engine that drives it, and that is what we are building next. No date promised until it works.
• Honest reporting when mining stops paying. A live scan rate with no credited shares is now reported as the problem it is. Engine failures stay on screen instead of being erased by the next status line, and stale numbers are cleared when the engine restarts rather than left frozen.
• Automatic pool failover. If your pool stops answering, mining rolls onto the other vetted pool by itself within seconds. Your chosen pool is always tried first.
• Delivered over the self-updating channel — nothing to reinstall.

BTX changes its proof of work at block 185,000. This release keeps you mining through it.

• MatMul v4.7 ready. BTX v0.33.2 replaces the mining algorithm outright at block 185,000 — no signalling, no grace period, no fallback to the old one. easyBTX now ships the MATADOR engine build that implements the new work (v0.9.2+), so mining carries on across the switch. The pool decides when the new work starts; easyBTX follows it.
• A live fork countdown, and proof you're on the new algorithm. The MATADOR card shows how many blocks remain before the switch, and afterwards confirms that the engine is genuinely solving the new proof of work — read from the pool's own job, not from anything the app assumes.
• The engine is now downloaded on first use instead of bundled. The new engine build is ~600 MB, which would have quadrupled the app download for everyone. Instead easyBTX fetches it once, when you first switch MATADOR on, shows the progress, and verifies its SHA-256 against the publisher's checksum before it is ever allowed to run. The app download stays small, and you always get the current engine.
• It will now tell you when you're mining for nothing. Previously, if the engine kept running but stopped earning, the dashboard carried on showing a healthy hashrate and a share counter that quietly stopped moving. easyBTX now watches for exactly that — a live scan rate with no credited shares — and says so. Genuine engine failures (a pool refusing the connection, a fall back to CPU) now raise a warning that stays up instead of being erased by the next telemetry line, and stale numbers are cleared when the engine restarts rather than left frozen on screen.
• Automatic pool failover. If your pool stops answering, mining rolls onto the other vetted pool by itself within seconds instead of simply stopping. Your chosen pool is always tried first. This was not hypothetical: while this release was being prepared one pool began refusing our engine while staying perfectly healthy for its own miners, and anyone on it earned nothing until they changed a setting by hand.
• The built-in easyBTX engine stops at the fork, honestly. It solves the old algorithm only, and there is no replacement for it. Rather than burn your GPU on work the network will reject, it now stops at block 185,000 and explains that MATADOR is the way to keep mining.
• Older NVIDIA cards: please read. The MATADOR engine has retired its Pascal, Volta and Turing builds — its notes state the new proof of work needs Ampere-or-newer tensor cores. So cards like the GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series and RTX 2070 can mine right up to block 185,000, and we expect them to stop there. easyBTX now says so plainly and stops, instead of silently restarting an engine that cannot work. If that changes — the engine authors ship a new build, or these cards turn out to work after all — we will update and say so.
• Delivered over the self-updating channel — nothing to reinstall.

Macs can now choose their mining pool — and the default is the cheaper one.

• Mining-pool switcher, now on Mac. In Settings you can choose which pool your Mac mines to — Byron Bay (the new default) or minebtx — or enter a custom host:port. Only pools verified to actually earn are listed; your payout address carries over, and the dashboard shows the pool you're on. Custom pools are advanced — most BTX pools speak a different stratum protocol and will silently mine nothing, so if shares stay at zero, switch back.
• Byron Bay is the default for new installs on Mac. Its pool fee is 1.5% instead of minebtx's 2.5%, so a little more of every share stays with you. If you're already mining on minebtx, an update keeps you there — nothing switches under you — and you can move to Byron Bay, or back, anytime in Settings.
• The block explorer is now btxscan.io — easyBTX's own BTX explorer — everywhere the app opens a transaction or address.
• Solo mode bundles the latest BTX node (v0.33.1). No consensus change; it brings the newest wallet-interop fixes from the BTX team.
• Fresh links. The Links panel now points to the BTX portal (btx.best), exchanges live at btx.best/exchanges, and community chat is the easyBTX Telegram (t.me/easyBTX).
• Stats follow your pool. The dashboard and the Community panel now say which pool you're on and show that pool's own numbers — miners online, pool dominance, and the "Open pool dashboard" button all follow your selection (Byron Bay's dashboard for Byron Bay, minebtx's for minebtx). The old "pool blocks found (24 h)" tile is gone, and quiet stretches read as "quiet now" instead of a scary "~0.0/min".
• Two speeds, side by side. Pool mining now shows the big two-row readout: what your GPU is actually trying (e.g. 15.01 MN/s, HARDWARE) stacked over what the pool credits you (e.g. 218 N/s, POOL · COUNTS). They differ by roughly a thousand times — that's normal, not a bug — and the credited figure is the one your pool's dashboard shows, so the two finally agree. (Those numbers were previously missing from the pool screen entirely.)
• Clearer fees. Now that pools differ, the app says it straight everywhere: easyBTX takes its 4.99% tool fee, and your pool takes its own on top (Byron Bay 1.5%, minebtx 2.5%). Payout terms are no longer described as if every pool paid on minebtx's schedule.
• Quieter in the background. The animated starburst now pauses whenever the window isn't the one you're looking at (minimized, or just behind another app), and resumes when you come back. On a Mac the animation shares the GPU with mining, so leaving it running in the background cost a little speed and a lot of extra fan and battery — starting mining and switching to other work is now the efficient path.
• Honest GPU readout on Mac. A Mac can't accurately measure its own GPU from inside the app while mining, so the old "GPU load / watts" figures were a low, wrong guess. Rather than show a misleading number (to you or on the pool dashboard), the app now shows "—" on Mac. Your GPU is still fully at work; we just won't pretend to a precision we don't have.

The dashboard now heals itself, and pool switching says what it means.

• Self-healing dashboard. On some Linux setups — WSL2 especially — the system's WebKit render process can die after minutes or hours of running. Until now the window silently froze on its last frame (or eventually went white), even though mining kept running untouched in its own process the whole time. easyBTX now detects the moment that render process dies and reloads the dashboard automatically — it's back live within a couple of seconds, and the app logs why the render process died. To be clear: mining, shares, and payouts were never affected by this; the window just looked dead.
• Clearer pool switching. After switching pools, the status line used to say "Switched MATADOR to Byron Bay" — which read as if the engine changed. MATADOR is the engine, and it mines on whichever pool you pick. It now says: "Pool switched to Byron Bay — MATADOR is mining on it now."
• Delivered over the self-updating channel — nothing to reinstall.

Choose your mining pool, and a new home for the block explorer.

• Mining-pool switcher (MATADOR). In Settings you can now choose which pool MATADOR mines to — minebtx (the default) or Byron Bay — or enter a custom host:port. Only pools verified to actually earn with the MATADOR engine are listed; your payout address and fees carry over, and the dashboard shows the pool you're on. Custom pools are advanced — most BTX pools speak a different stratum protocol and will silently mine nothing, so if shares stay at zero, switch back. The built-in engine stays on minebtx.
• The block explorer is now btxscan.io — easyBTX's own BTX explorer — everywhere the app opens a transaction or address, plus the explorer links on this site.

The MATADOR engine gets faster, and older NVIDIA cards (Turing / RTX 2070) are now supported.

• MATADOR engine updated to v0.8.53 (from v0.8.28) — it adds a hybrid CPU+GPU solve path and tracks the latest pool protocol, so a card mines harder in MATADOR mode. Your dashboard readout, wallet, payout address and settings are unchanged.
• "Classic" build for older GPUs. MATADOR now ships a dedicated build for pre-Ampere cards — Turing (RTX 2070, GTX 16-series), Volta and Pascal (GTX 10-series). easyBTX bundles both and picks the right one automatically from your GPU, so those cards can finally run MATADOR mode properly instead of stumbling on a build meant for newer hardware. On a real RTX 2070 this nearly tripled the pool rate (measured ≈2.7×, and the card runs fully saturated instead of stuttering).
• Delivered over the self-updating channel — nothing to reinstall.

The main miner's bundled node moves to the latest BTX core, matching easyBTX Node.

• Bundled node → BTX v0.33.1 for the miner's faststart path (was v0.32.11). The pinned snapshot is now btx_core::snapshot::v0_33_1_spec() (height 155,700, v9 format, verified SHA-256 e0fb6d34…5fc69e), the same asset easyBTX Node already uses. New installs bootstrap on the current node with the corrected external-miner getblocktemplate context and the v0.33.0 mainnet-hardening refresh; existing installs already update the node in-app. Only the (disabled) Mac Solo path uses the bundled node, so this is a maintenance refresh that keeps miner and Node on one pin.

Polish: the "POOL · COUNTS" readout no longer shows a stray — N/s.

• Fixed the "POOL · COUNTS" rate on the main screen showing a blank — N/s. Two things fed it: a CSS rule kept that row visible even when it had no value to show, and in MATADOR mode the app couldn't resolve its pool-side rate from the pool's public API. Now the row hides cleanly when there's genuinely no rate, and in MATADOR mode it shows matador's own credited rate (the same number the pool counts) instead of a dash.
• Pool-worker lookup now also tolerates the pool's (client) name suffix (e.g. 3060-ECHO-1-eBTX (GANGBANG-eBTX)), so the built-in engine resolves its rate too.
• Your mining and share crediting were always correct — this was only a cosmetic secondary readout.

MATADOR is now an unmistakable, one-tap engine right on the dashboard.

• The MATADOR button is now a real engine ON/OFF toggle. Tapping it arms the closed ~2.3× engine (after the one-time fee disclosure) and it lights up to read "MATADOR ENGINE · ON"; tapping again switches back to the free easyBTX engine. It stays in sync with the switcher in Settings and the Lab.
• A bold MATADOR sticker ignites on the left of the dashboard while the engine is running, showing the live scan rate (MN/s) — so there is zero doubt the fast engine is engaged.
• Carries forward the live readout: the mode chip reads "MATADOR" and the big speed number leads with MATADOR's scan rate while it runs.
• Adds a startup safety net so a rare bootstrap error surfaces a visible notice instead of a silent, inert screen.

Supersedes v0.10.6 (which was reverted before it shipped to the fleet). The Linux launch white-screen guards — the GL-stripped AppImage and the WebKit software-render env (DMABUF/compositing off, llvmpipe) — remain in place.

MATADOR is now unmistakable on the main screen.

• The mode chip now reads "MATADOR" (instead of "POOL") whenever the MATADOR engine is running, so you can tell at a glance which engine is active.
• The big speed number now leads with MATADOR's scan rate in MN/s — its true headline throughput — instead of the smaller credited rate. The share count and credited rate are still shown alongside.

MATADOR now shows its real numbers on the dashboard.

• Fixed the "0" readout in MATADOR mode. The dashboard could show 0 hashrate and 0 shares while MATADOR was actually mining at full speed — so it looked broken when it wasn't. Root cause: the app was reading MATADOR's live stats from the wrong output stream, so the numbers never reached the screen. Fixed — hashrate, shares, and GPU stats now update live everywhere on the dashboard.
• MATADOR's live rate and share count are now also written to the app log, so if anything looks off you can send a log that actually contains the numbers.

MATADOR connection stability.

• Fixed MATADOR dropping shares. A safety check in the app could restart the MATADOR engine during normal pool reconnects and difficulty changes, which interrupted mining and dropped accepted shares. Removed it — MATADOR has its own reconnect handling, so it now holds a steady connection and keeps submitting shares.
• General stability improvements.

Stability and reliability fixes, focused on Linux and MATADOR mode.

• Fixed a Linux launch issue. After updating, some Linux setups could crash on start or open to a blank white window. Fixed — the app now starts reliably across different GPUs, desktops, and WSL. If an older build is stuck and won't open, reinstall from easybtx.com and it's sorted.
• MATADOR shows its status on the dashboard. With MATADOR on, the main screen now shows it actively mining (rate + shares) instead of sitting on "starting", and your balance displays correctly while it runs.
• MATADOR stays on. If the engine ever hits a hiccup it now retries and keeps running, instead of quietly falling back to the built-in engine.
• General bug fixes and stability improvements.

No change to fees or how mining works — same engine, same shares.

A new opt-in high-performance engine. Most people should stay on the built-in easyBTX engine: it's free, open, and mines only to your own wallet. But if you want maximum speed and don't mind a small extra fee, you can now switch the whole mining engine to MATADOR in one tap.

• MATADOR mode, an engine switch. A closed, third-party mining engine measured ~2.3× faster on NVIDIA cards. It's opt-in and clearly disclosed. Fees while it runs: MATADOR's own 1% plus easyBTX's standard 4.99%; everything else mines to your own wallet. MATADOR replaces the easyBTX engine while it's on.
• One-tap MATADOR TURBO. A new button on the dashboard arms MATADOR: it opens the Lab, shows you the engine card and a plain-language disclosure, and switches the moment you confirm, with a live "ULTRA POWER" readout of speed, shares and GPU while it runs.
• Where to find it. Dashboard → MATADOR TURBO, or Settings → Mining, or the top of the Lab. Turn it off any time to return to the free easyBTX engine.
• Honest by design. The switch spells out the trade-off up front: the closed engine, the 1% fee, and that it replaces the easyBTX engine, so it's always your informed choice.

No change to the built-in easyBTX engine: same shares, same speed, same fee as before. MATADOR is purely an extra option.

The Windows/Linux (WSL) interface release. Brings back the small "Mini" window, adds a Codename label so identical rigs are easy to tell apart on the pool, and gives you a clear (and clearly-marked-risky) path to overclocking for a few extra percent. No change to the mining engine — same shares, same speed out of the box.

• Mini mode is back. Toggle between the standard Wide dashboard and the small, compact Mini orb with the layout button or the Space bar. Mini stays out of the way while you work; any menu, info or settings panel automatically opens in Wide so nothing is ever cramped, then drops back to Mini when you close it.
• Worker Codename line. Under "This machine's worker" there is now a "Codename:" label showing your own miner name. Because identical hardware gets the same auto-assigned pool name, this makes your rig easy to spot on the dashboard. Editing the name in Settings updates the line right away.
• Power & Overclock (advanced). A new fire-marked card in the Optimization Lab links straight to MSI Afterburner — the one tool that can actually raise the GPU core clock on Windows/WSL — with an info button warning that overclocking adds heat and needs good cooling. The WSL cheat sheet gains a copy-paste "Power & overclock" section (check clocks, raise the power limit, lock a higher clock, undo), noting that the example values are per-card and that the clock-lock is ignored under WSL/WDDM (use Afterburner there). Optional — the miner already runs at the optimal solver settings without it.
• Same mining engine, same shares, no consensus change. The dev fee is unchanged. macOS is unaffected by this release.

Your Mac now keeps mining at full speed even when you lock the screen or step away.

Two things were quietly costing some Macs their hashrate, with no sign anything was wrong. macOS "App Nap" throttles background apps, so whenever the screen locked or the app sat behind other windows, the miner slowed to a fraction of its speed. A Mac left mining overnight could earn a fraction of what it should. And a Mac left idle would simply go to sleep and stop. This release fixes both, and adds a warning if your charger is too small to run the chip at full speed.

• Keeps mining when the screen is locked or the app is in the background. macOS no longer throttles the miner while you are away, so a Mac left mining overnight earns at full speed the whole time.
• Stays awake while mining. If your Mac is set to sleep when idle, it now stays awake as long as the miner is running, so it does not quietly stop earning. It sleeps normally again the moment you stop mining.
• Warns about an underpowered charger. A small USB-C charger power-caps the chip and can cut mining speed by 3 to 4 times. The app now tells you if your charger is too small. Use the 67W or higher charger that came with your Mac for full speed.
• Exact same mining engine and shares. These are reliability fixes only, no consensus change. Windows and Linux are unchanged.

The Apple Silicon speed + connectivity release. Faster mining, and it now works on locked-down networks without a VPN. Auto-updates, so most Macs pick it up on their own within ~30 minutes, nothing to do.

• Faster Apple Silicon mining. A new optimized Metal solver from the pool (embedded GPU kernel, Opt#1/#3/#5) scans more nonces per second on the very same Mac. Verified bit-for-bit identical results to the previous solver before shipping, so every share the pool credited before it still credits, just more of them.
• Mines through blocked networks, no VPN needed. On hotel, office, or firewalled Wi-Fi where the plain mining port is blocked, easyBTX now automatically falls back to a secure TLS connection on port 443 that looks like ordinary HTTPS. It just keeps mining where it used to stall.
• Still runs on macOS Ventura 13 and up (Sonoma and Sequoia included), same as 0.8.10.
• Windows and Linux are unchanged in this release.

The Linux & WSL release. easyBTX now updates itself, mines through blocked networks, and is far easier to run on a Windows PC through WSL.

On Windows? The fast path is WSL. 🔥 Native Windows still works, but the Linux build, running inside WSL on your Windows machine, uses the modern V3 mining engine and earns substantially more on the very same NVIDIA card. Same one-click feel, far more hashrate, and it keeps itself up to date.

• Auto-update comes to Linux & WSL. Once you're on this build, easyBTX keeps itself current on its own. New versions download, verify, and install automatically, exactly like the Mac. No more re-downloading, no commands. Every update is cryptographically signed and verified end-to-end, so a bad or tampered update can't install. This is the big one: set it up once, and it stays current forever.
• Mines through blocked networks, no VPN needed. On hotel, office, or firewalled Wi-Fi where the plain mining port is blocked, easyBTX now automatically falls back to a secure TLS connection that looks like ordinary HTTPS traffic. It just keeps mining where it used to stall.
• A built-in WSL command cheat sheet. A new in-app page with copy-paste commands for Windows/WSL users (start the miner, check the GPU, restart, update), each with a one-click Copy button and a colored badge telling you exactly which terminal to run it in (PowerShell, Ubuntu/WSL, or CMD). No command-line experience required.
• A wider, more readable window on Windows and Linux that opens in the roomy desktop layout and stays put.
• Experimental updates channel (opt-in). In Settings you can turn on early test builds and receive them in-app, one click, before they go public, for users who want the bleeding edge.
• Mac is unchanged in this release.

Apple Silicon Macs on older macOS can mine again, including Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia.

The bundled Metal solver had been built for the newest macOS only, so on macOS Ventura (13), Sonoma (14), and Sequoia (15) the app opened but the miner quit the instant it tried to start, leaving it stuck on "Starting…". This release ships a solver built to run on those older systems, so those Macs mine normally again. If you're already on the latest macOS nothing changes for you, and it updates automatically.

• Runs on macOS 13 (Ventura) and up. The previous build needed the very latest macOS; this one supports Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia too. Affected Macs go straight from "Starting…" to finding shares.
• Exact same mining engine, verified bit-for-bit. The consensus seeds and per-share digests are byte-identical to the pool's official build, so every share you find stays valid. This is purely a compatibility rebuild, not an engine change, and the speed is unchanged.
• Windows and Linux are unchanged in this release.

Apple Silicon Macs mine about 4–5× faster.

The Mac build had a bug that quietly held the Metal miner far below what the chip can actually do, so every Apple Silicon Mac was running at a fraction of its real speed. This release fixes it. Nothing to change on your end — it updates automatically.

• About 4–5× more hashrate on Apple Silicon (M1 through M5). On an M2 Pro we measured a jump from roughly 50 to around 190–275 N/s. Just keep the app open and you'll watch it climb.
• Same canonical mining engine as the pool's official build, verified bit-for-bit identical to the reference, so every share you find stays valid.
• Windows and Linux are unchanged in this release.

Apple Silicon Macs mine noticeably faster — same engine, better tuned.

• Macs now use all their GPU cores by default. The old default held the Metal solver back to a fraction of the chip. On an M2 Pro we measured roughly 1.4–1.8× more sustained throughput from this change alone, and in the live pool a tuned M2 Pro now out-earns stock M4 and M5 machines. Every Apple Silicon Mac benefits automatically — there's nothing to change.
• Better Metal GPU buffer sizing. easyBTX now sizes the GPU's work pool to the GPU rather than letting it default low. This especially helps the smaller fanless Macs (Air-class), which were quietly running at about half speed.
• Windows and Linux are unchanged.

Mac switches to the new V3 engine — now the whole fleet is on V3.

• Mac now runs the new V3 engine. We confirmed the Apple Silicon (Metal) build of the new engine runs well on Mac, so easyBTX now mines with it. After the recent BTX network upgrade, V3 is the engine the pool credits, so this keeps your Mac earning valid shares.
• Linux and WSL2 — already on the V3 engine since 0.8.3, unchanged.
• Windows — native Windows keeps the proven engine; the in-app banner still points you to the free WSL2 build, which runs the fast V3 engine (there's no native-Windows V3 build yet).
• Quieter updates, behind the scenes. easyBTX now watches the pool's engine channel and can pick up a newer mining engine on its own — but only after it has verified the download and confirmed the engine actually runs, so you never end up on an untested one. A brand-new engine we haven't vetted is just flagged for review, never auto-installed.

Linux and Windows-via-WSL2 get the fast new engine.

• Big speed jump on Linux and WSL2. The BTX team's pool update plus the new v0.32.11 engine unlocked a large throughput gain on NVIDIA cards. easyBTX on Linux, and on Windows through WSL2, now runs that engine and mines much harder than before.
• Windows: switch to WSL2 for the fast engine. Native Windows keeps the proven, stable engine (it still earns), and the in-app banner points you to the free WSL2 build, which runs the faster new engine.
• Mac keeps the proven fast engine for now. The matching Mac (Metal) version of the new engine isn't out yet, so Apple Silicon stays on the engine it already runs (which is faster on Mac today). Your Mac mines at full speed the whole time; we'll switch it over the moment the Mac engine is ready.

New app features — on the engine you already have, so nothing slows down.

• All the new conveniences, none of the speed cost. This update adds the new app features below while keeping the proven, fast mining engine you're already running. The newer engine from the BTX team is still being sped up, so we held it back rather than ship anything slower — your hashrate and earnings are unchanged.
• First-run payout helper — new here? A simple popup asks for your BTX payout address (or helps you grab a wallet) so you never sit on "starting…" without earning.
• Auto-heals a stuck connection — if the pool ever connects but sends no work, easyBTX now notices and reconnects on its own.
• New "Mono" color theme and a clearer Deep-Tune readout when an overnight tune finds no improvement (was an unreadable box).
• Under the hood: the bundled node and tidy-up were refreshed. When the BTX team's faster new engine is ready, a later update will switch to it automatically.

The Linux/WSL2 speed fix — a big first step.

• Linux and WSL2: a big speed recovery. The BTX core team's v0.32.11 solver gets your GPU working properly again after the network upgrade (the previous build left it mostly idle). It's a major jump over that build — and the BTX team is still working on further speed gains for the new engine, so expect more to come.
• Bundled node updated to v0.32.11 and its newer snapshot, ready for BTX's next network step at block 132,000.
• Mac stays on the current engine for now. The matching Mac (Metal) build from the BTX team is still on its way. Your Mac mines valid the whole time.
• Windows (native) continues on the proven engine; the in-app banner points you to the WSL2 build, which runs the new engine.

A required mining upgrade — and Mac joins the newest engine.

• Required upgrade for everyone (BTX block 130,500). BTX is changing how mining works ("MatMul-V3") at block 130,500. From that block on, older versions stop earning until they update. easyBTX 0.8.0 has the new engine built in, so updating now keeps you earning right through the change. Mac and Linux update automatically.
• Mac runs the newest engine. Apple Silicon Macs move to the freshly rebuilt v0.32.10 Metal solver — the first Mac engine update since the last fork.
• Windows: one step to keep earning. The new engine can't run natively on Windows yet, so easyBTX shows you how to switch to the free WSL2 (Linux) build, which runs it fully. Your current Windows version keeps earning right up to the upgrade.
• First-run payout helper. New here? A simple popup now asks for your BTX payout address (or helps you grab a wallet) so you never sit on "starting…" without earning.
• Auto-heals a stuck connection. If the pool ever connects but sends no work, easyBTX now notices within seconds and reconnects on its own.
• Clearer tuning results. When a tuning run finds nothing faster, it now says so plainly in a clearly marked box and invites you to try again — instead of a hard-to-read panel.
• Faster out-of-the-box tuning. Default solver settings now follow the latest pool-wide measurements for NVIDIA cards.

With the built-in wallet, easyBTX no longer starts a local node on Mac — it's pool-only everywhere now, which keeps things simple and light.

easyBTX comes to LINUX — and the whole fleet moves to the v0.32.8 solver.

• Linux is here (pool mining). easyBTX now runs on Linux as a one-click AppImage or .deb, pool-only like Windows — no node, no terminal. It ships the modern CUDA solver (BTX v0.32.8 + the GPU-saturation kernels + continuous feeding) that Windows can't run yet, so a single NVIDIA card on Linux mines far harder than the same card on the older Windows engine. Works on NVIDIA GTX 10-series and newer; runs natively or under WSL2 on Windows 11.
• v0.32.8 solver. Linux ships the fleet-blessed v0.32.8 build (a faster CPU-side pipeline; same shares, same rewards). Mac keeps its proven Metal engine (the BTX developer confirmed it's already the best Mac build). Windows stays on its proven engine for now while the modern stack is hardened for it.
• Tuning. The auto-tuner now follows the BTX developer's latest large-scale pool study: it holds the batch size at the validated sweet spot and tunes the CPU feed instead, where the real gains are.
• Bundled node updated to BTX v0.32.9 (the network's latest, with the reorg-hardening fix) plus a fresher startup snapshot. Used only by optional Mac Solo mode; pool mining is unaffected on every platform.

The MINING TUNING & OPTIMIZATION LAB — and your tuned settings now survive updates.

• The LAB. "Pro tuning" grew up: the flask button on the mining card now opens the MINING TUNING & OPTIMIZATION LAB, with a clearer hardware header and a friendlier face. The flask pulses green while a tuning session is running, and gives a tiny blink now and then if you have never tried tuning — that's your invitation.
• Tuned settings survive updates. Updates used to reset everyone's tuning to Standard as a safety measure. Now easyBTX resets only when the mining engine itself changes between versions — a proven Deep Tune win (the first fleet reports measured +23% to +157%) stays applied across normal app updates.
• Saved results, managed. Every saved Deep Tune result now shows the app version it was found on, can be deleted with its ✕ (after a confirm), and switching settings always shows exactly what would change — threads, slice, extra knobs, the proven win — before anything is applied.
• Find the Lab from Settings. A new "Mining Optimization" section in Settings explains tuning in three lines and takes you straight to the LAB.
• Wallet downloads where you need them. The Post-Quantum BTX Wallet and bonuz wallet buttons moved next to the wallet manager, right above the payout options — exactly where you decide where rewards go.
• Solo node updated to BTX v0.32.7 (the network's latest), with a much fresher startup snapshot — new Solo setups now start almost at the chain tip instead of thousands of blocks behind. Pool mining is unaffected.

The mining engine learns to never stop: continuous feeding on Mac and Windows.

• Fresh shares, full credit. The continuous-feed engine batches its shares per work slice — and the pool pays less for shares that arrive late against its fast job rotation. Batches are now capped at the pool's own cadence (~5s) so every share lands fresh, keeping the engine's full output AND the pool's full credit.
• Continuous-feed mining engine (Mac: ~2.2× measured live). The solver now keeps scanning through its whole work slice and hands back every share it found in one batch, instead of stopping at the first one and waiting to be restarted. At real pool speeds the old engine restarted ~38 times a minute, paying a GPU spin-up each time; the new one keeps the GPU saturated. On an M2 Pro this measured ~2.2× more difficulty-weighted shares in a live 45-minute side-by-side (zero rejected shares). easyBTX submits every share from each batch — credit to shib (dexbtx) for the C4 continuous-feed design.
• Windows: the full GPU-saturation stack — the same continuous-feed engine plus the byte-exact PR#58 kernel optimizations (windowed SHA-256, SHA midstates, factored compression; by vanities, via shib's btx-prebuilds-v0.32.5). Measured 3-5× on NVIDIA cards in the dexbtx fleet; ships after on-device validation.
• Tuning resets to Standard after every update. Each release can change the mining engine itself, so settings tuned on the old engine may not fit the new one. On the first launch after an update the app returns to Standard; your saved Deep Tune finds stay in the dropdown and you can re-apply or re-tune any time.
• Mac Auto threads follow the pool's formula — same speed, much cooler. On the new engine, Auto now splits your CPU (~40% solving, ~80% feeding the GPU) instead of all-cores solving. Live-measured on an M2 Pro: equal or slightly better mining output from far fewer busy cores — a cooler, quieter machine, matching the pool's own recommendation for Apple rigs. Your own thread/knob settings always override it.
• The tuning knobs are real now. Every GPU knob in Pro tuning (and the settings Deep Tune tests) was writing names the mining engine never read — silent no-ops since they shipped. They now use the engine's real setting names, old saved profiles and shared files migrate automatically, and the "Threads per block" knob is gone (no such setting exists in the engine). Deep Tune's GPU-setting test windows measure the real thing from now on.
• Smarter engine defaults per generation. The app pinned a Windows setting that was right for the old engine but starved the new one (a 3060 dropped to a tenth of its speed in field testing — caught before release). The app now detects which engine generation it ships and applies the right profile automatically.
• Pool mode hides node chores. If a leftover Solo node lives on your Mac, pool mining neither needs nor waits for it — the app no longer shows "waiting for the blockchain", the node-update button, or a scary recovery banner in pool mode (a background node now says it doesn't affect your mining speed).
• Upstream panel, simplified. Four plain tiles naming the open-source projects easyBTX builds on — tap one to visit it. No version numbers, no badges, nothing to check: updates install themselves.

The disclosed 4.99% tool fee is unchanged.

A much faster Mac mining engine, and a friendlier Deep Tune.

• ~6× faster Mac mining engine (BTX v0.32.5). The bundled Metal solver is upgraded from BTX v0.32.2 to v0.32.5, which fixes the Apple GPU digest path upstream and keeps the whole mining pipeline on the GPU instead of falling back to the CPU. On an M2 Pro the new engine found shares about 6× faster in side-by-side testing (same machine, same settings, measured on real share-class work). Verified bit-exact against the network's reference vector on both CPU and Metal before shipping — same proofs, just faster. Windows keeps its proven CUDA engine unchanged (the newer upstream CUDA path is still being validated on real cards; it ships only when it passes the same on-device gates).
• Your Deep Tune wins, in a dropdown. The "Active settings" row in Pro tuning is now a dropdown menu of every setting Deep Tune ever proved on your machine — each saved as a sentence like "Deep Tune fastest +30% — found 6/11/2026" — plus "Use Standard". Switch any time; share your finds in @easyBTX.
• A little celebration when Deep Tune wins. When a session ends with a proven winner the panel now says "New fastest settings applied — nothing to do" with a small sparkle, instead of asking you to keep something that was already applied automatically. OK just dismisses; Share is the main action; Revert stays available.
• Fixed: the done-screen could caption the wrong settings. After a session, the "Applied:" line could show the last tested window's settings (often the old baseline) instead of the actual winner. The engine always applied the right settings — the label now matches them.
• Big hints are now popups. The "your GPU isn't fully used" hint (and its Deep Tune shortcut) now appears as a centered popup in the same style as the settings and info dialogs — no more one-word-per-line column when the window switches between tall and wide layouts.
• Honest upstream panel. In Settings, the BTX node / MineBTX / Tauri rows no longer show "Update available" and are no longer clickable at all (that's maintainer telemetry, not something you can act on — people thought they had to update something). Only the easyBTX releases row answers the one question that matters: "am I on the latest easyBTX?" — and updates install themselves anyway.
• Clearer wallet buttons. "Get the BTX Wallet" is now "Get the Post-Quantum BTX Wallet (Mac & Windows)", and the Payout screen adds a "Get bonuz Wallet for BTX (Android & iOS)" button wearing the bonuz signature gradient ring. The "Get bonuz" button in the About page now carries the full animated bonuz gradient on every color theme. All bonuz buttons open bonuz.xyz, where the official store links live.
• Mac cooling tip (macOS only). A cooler Mac holds its mining speed better. Settings → Links now recommends the free Macs Fan Control app (by CrystalIDEA, not affiliated), with a matching note in Pro tuning.

Deep Tune: easyBTX now tunes itself on your real mining, over hours, proves what actually made it faster — and remembers it.

• Deep Tune — long, honest tuning sessions. Open the new lab button (the little flask next to the ℹ️), pick 3–12 hours and press Start. easyBTX keeps mining the whole time while it changes one setting at a time in ~30-minute windows, measures difficulty-weighted share production (so the pool's automatic difficulty changes can't fake or hide a result), and applies a new setting only when the statistics genuinely separate it from your baseline — shown as a real number, like "+23% vs your baseline". No winner? It says so honestly and changes nothing. When a session ends, a green "Deep Tune results arrived" pill appears right on the mining animation so you can't miss it, even a day later.
• Your fastest settings, remembered and switchable. The panel now always shows which settings your miner is running right now (Standard, Deep Tune fastest, Manual, or Loaded), and a proven winner is kept as a durable "fastest found" profile — Reset to Standard never deletes it, and switching between Standard and your fastest is one click each way.
• A report file you can actually share. When a session ends (finished or stopped), the report saves to your Desktop automatically as a small .txt — hardware, every window's settings and results with confidence intervals, and your public worker + payout address so results can be checked against the pool. Never any keys. One click opens the @easyBTX Telegram channel to drop it in; shared reports are how defaults improve for every miner.
• Save, load and share tuning settings. Your knob setup exports as a readable text file (with your hardware and fastest-found result in the header), loads back with one click, and travels through @easyBTX so miners can swap proven setups.
• Finer manual knobs. Solve slice in 1-second steps (5–60 s), solver threads as a real slider sized to your machine's cores, type-a-number boxes next to every slider, and platform GPU knobs (NVIDIA: threads per block, GPU inputs, batch size · Apple: batch size, prepare workers) with plain-English hints. The panel opens in wide layout and shows your chip, cores, RAM and GPU at the top.
• Quick tune measures the real thing now. The fast sweep benches against your live pool job instead of an easy synthetic one that was ~22× lighter than real mining.
• "How mining works", rewritten. The info page is now a small sectioned guide: pool mining needs no node and starts in seconds (perfect for a MacBook on the go), what your earnings look like and how to verify them on the explorer, when solo + the node make sense, the fees side by side (pool ~7.5% total · solo just the 4.99% tool fee), and an honest note on the built-in wallet.
• Looks and fixes. Section headings in Settings and About are twice the size; hardware stats got gauge bars; color themes and mining animations are now truly independent (picking an animation no longer resets your color); the hardware line no longer clips and shows your RAM the way Apple does; and the bonuz box wears its signature flowing orange→pink neon frame.

The disclosed 4.99% tool fee is unchanged, and Deep Tune never touches it.

Updates now take care of themselves, and your rig always has a name on the pool dashboard. Mac and Windows ship together again.

• Automatic updates that actually update. easyBTX now installs new versions on its own: it checks every 30 minutes and updates automatically, so fixes like 0.6.8's Mac speed-up reach every machine without anyone clicking. You can turn this off in Settings — the app then still checks hourly and shows the familiar update cue so you can install yourself. A failed download now retries on the next check instead of silently giving up on that version.
• Your machine can no longer be nameless in the pool. If a hardware probe failed at launch, a rig could register with an empty GPU name and become a hidden "-ALPHA-1" entry on the pool dashboard — mining and earning, but invisible in the charts. easyBTX now always reports a proper GPU name, on every platform, even when the probe fails.
• Windows rejoins the Mac version. The Windows build catches up to the same release as the Mac, carrying the proven CUDA mining engine plus the 0.6.8 correctness guards (share timing pinned to its job, older NVIDIA GTX 10/16 and RTX 20-series cards enabled on every mining path).

The disclosed 4.99% tool fee is unchanged.

Apple Silicon Macs mine pool shares at full speed again.

• Macs land shares again. Apple Silicon Macs now run the GPU solver as a single warm, always-on engine using every core, instead of restarting it each mining cycle. Restarting kept the Metal pipeline cold, so the Mac was scanning but finding almost nothing; with the warm engine it finds and submits shares like the rest of the fleet. If you mine on a Mac, this is the update that makes it actually earn.
• Every found share is timed to match its job. Locked the mining engine so it can never re-stamp a share with a time the pool didn't expect (which the pool would reject). easyBTX already behaved this way after the block-125,000 upgrade; this pins it so future engine updates keep it that way.
• Consistent older-NVIDIA support across Windows mining paths. GTX 10/16 and RTX 20-series (Pascal/Turing) cards are now opted in on every Windows mining path, so they keep mining on the GPU instead of being refused on future builds.

Makes shares actually land by letting the pool settle on the right difficulty.

• Steady connection so the pool can tune your difficulty. easyBTX was reconnecting roughly once a minute (to rotate the disclosed dev-fee window), which never gave the pool the few minutes it needs to set your mining difficulty correctly — so it ran away to an impossible level and your shares stopped landing. easyBTX now holds one connection for hours at a time, so difficulty settles and shares land steadily. The disclosed 4.99% fee is unchanged (just applied in longer, less frequent slices).

Gets easyBTX miners landing shares again after the block-125,000 upgrade.

• Reverted to the proven mining engine. A newer solver build regressed GPU mining after the upgrade: some NVIDIA cards would connect but sit near 0% GPU and find nothing. easyBTX uses the proven engine, which mines normally across GTX 10/16 and RTX 20/30/40/50 cards.
• The work your GPU finds now gets submitted. Post-upgrade each attempt is heavier, so a long search could be cut off before it finished and reported. Mining now runs in short slices that always complete, so found shares get sent and counted instead of being thrown away.
• Live mining speed is reported to the pool (continued from 0.6.4), scaled by your power slider so it reflects what you're actually contributing.

Faster mining after the block-125,000 upgrade, plus fixes so the pool sees your real hashrate again.

• Faster mining after the upgrade. The block-125,000 change made each mining attempt more work, which briefly slowed the whole network. easyBTX now runs the BTX v0.32.3 mining engine (and the v0.32.3 node for solo mining on Mac), so your GPU works at full speed again while the network's difficulty settles back down.
• Your hashrate shows up at the pool again. After the upgrade the miner could report zero speed to the pool even while the GPU was busy. Mining now runs in short slices that always finish and get counted, so your live speed is reported.
• Reported speed follows your power slider. The speed sent to the pool now reflects how high you've set mining power, so it matches what you're actually contributing instead of your peak.
• Windows: smoother start on more NVIDIA cards. Some cards could stall right after the upgrade while the GPU warmed up for the first job. easyBTX now gives that first step more time, so those cards start mining instead of retrying.

A required BTX network upgrade that keeps your miner producing valid work through block 125,000, plus wider NVIDIA GPU support on Windows.

• Required update for block 125,000. BTX changes how mining work is generated at block 125,000. easyBTX updates its mining engine to match, so your miner keeps producing valid work through the change on both pool and solo mining, on Mac and Windows. Existing installs update themselves; keeping easyBTX current means no interruption at the upgrade.
• easyBTX now runs the BTX v0.32.2 node, so solo mining on Mac keeps following the network through the required upgrade. Pool mining doesn't use the node (the pool runs it for you), so pool miners are covered by the mining-engine update above.
• Wider NVIDIA GPU support on Windows. GeForce GTX 10-series (Pascal) and GTX 16 / RTX 20-series (Turing) cards now mine on the GPU directly instead of falling back to slow CPU mining. If you have a 10-, 16-, or 20-series card, your GPU now does the work.

A required BTX network upgrade for solo mining, lighter animations, and quicker access to live stats and the community.

• easyBTX now runs the BTX v0.32.1 node, so solo mining keeps following the network through the required upgrade at block 125,000. Pool mining is unaffected (the pool runs the node for you), and existing Mac installs update themselves.
• Mining animations are lighter on your machine — they render more efficiently, so more of your GPU and CPU go to mining (a real help on smaller Macs).
• The mining animation is one picker — Power Core, Surfer, or None — independent of your color theme, so any animation pairs with any color.
• New Stats dashboard link opens the live easyBTX + BTX network page (uptime, hashrate, blocks), and a BTX Community link makes it easy to share your diagnostics file and get help.
• The big mining view now shows two speeds side by side: your hardware speed (what your GPU is doing) and the pool-counted speed (what the pool credits), with your share of the network alongside.

New blue theme + mining optimizations.

• New Blue color theme (Appearance → Theme).
• New Silver Surf mining-animation skin — a chrome surfer that reacts to your live share pace, mining intensity, and every accepted share. Pick it in Appearance → Animation skin; it works with any color theme.
• Dev-fee capture fix: the ledger is now persisted, so it survives restarts and reconnect churn; the first capture window lands in ~16 minutes (was ~1 hour) and targets ~5.05%.
• DNS-resilient pool connect: caches the last-good IP, fixing the ~30s Windows reconnect churn.
• Live share-rate: per-minute and per-hour rows in the big view.

A required BTX network upgrade, a richer info page, and a few wallet niceties.

• easyBTX now runs the BTX v0.31.0 node, so solo mining keeps following the network through the required upgrade at block 123,000. Pool mining is unaffected, and existing Mac installs update themselves.
• A reworked info page: a section nav that jumps you straight to each part, your live block height and the pool's network dominance, your last and longest mining sessions, a single Safety section, and a Builder section that credits bonuz (the maker's self-custodial wallet — BTC, SOL and ETH today, with BTX coming soon).
• You can turn the mining-core animation off (Settings → Appearance) for a calm, still background. It is purely visual and every number still shows.
• Transactions now show the selected wallet's balance and have a Refresh button, since pool payouts can take a minute or two to appear.
• There is now a third-party OTC market at btx.trade. We are not affiliated with it, it is use-at-your-own-risk, and nothing here is financial advice.

Wallet balances and activity, fixed everywhere.

The built-in wallet is node-less: it reads your balance and history straight from the BTX explorer. BTX wallets spread funds across many derived addresses, so an earlier build could show 0 on a wallet that actually held coins. Now every screen reads the right addresses:

• Your balance shows correctly on the wallet card, the Send screen, and the dashboard. While a number is still loading it shows "—", never a bare 0.
• Balances refresh on their own from the explorer, so they stay current.
• A "View in Explorer" button opens your address on the BTX explorer in your browser.
• Transactions now reads your history from the explorer (no more "node not ready"), with a switcher to pick which wallet to view and export.
• The wallet window has a cleaner header.
• The BTX node version shown in Settings reads 0.30.2.

When a new easyBTX version is out, a clear "UPDATE AVAILABLE" signal now blinks over the miner, and the app re-checks every few hours (not just at launch) so a long-running install notices it. On Mac, updates still install automatically if you have that turned on; on Windows, click the signal to go to Settings and update.

Mining is unchanged on both Mac and Windows.

Windows mining works, and the built-in wallet comes to Windows.

The big one for Windows: pool mining now uses a persistent daemon-mode solver, which ends the GPU-context hang that left earlier Windows builds finding zero shares. Your NVIDIA card now mines and credits shares the way the Mac already did. And the full node-less built-in wallet (create, receive, send, and restore from a node wallet.txt or wallet.dat) is now available on Windows too, matching the Mac build.

Also fixed: pausing no longer resets your lifetime accepted-share count, and a restored HD wallet now shows its balance. Those funds live across many derived addresses, so the card couldn't total them without your passphrase. Enter it once via the new "Load balance" prompt (or review any send) and the balance loads and stays current.

The macOS Metal mining path is byte-for-byte unchanged.

A built-in wallet, with real Send and node-wallet Restore.

A self-custodial wallet now lives inside the miner. You can create a new wallet or import an existing one, check your balance, and receive your mined BTX directly, without a separate app. A WALLET button sits in the top bar next to the settings gear.

Pool mining on the Mac is now instant, with no node to download and no syncing.

The headline is speed. In pool mode, easyBTX no longer downloads or runs the full BTX node. Pool mining never needed it, and it added a multi-gigabyte download, long "catching up" syncs, and the occasional crash. Now you open the app, your payout address is already filled in, and your Mac starts mining right away. If you already had easyBTX, your existing payout address carries over automatically, so there is nothing to set up again.

Mac pool mining works again, plus a live GPU stats panel.

The headline is a fix. Pool mining on the Mac, which broke in 0.4.5, works again. A change made while bringing easyBTX to Windows pointed the Mac at the wrong mining helper, so mining would not start. This restores it. If you updated to 0.4.5 and could not start mining, this fixes it, and the Mac behaves exactly as it did in 0.4.4.

easyBTX comes to Windows.

This is the first Windows release. easyBTX now mines BTX on Windows PCs with an NVIDIA RTX 30-series GPU or newer, using the same one-app, one-click, self-custodial approach as the Mac version: you bring an NVIDIA card, pick a payout address, and your GPU joins the pool. The Mac version (Apple Silicon, Metal, solo or pooled) is unchanged, and picks up a couple of shared improvements in this release.

Sending works again, your own private mining stats, and bigger, calmer windows.

A focused follow-up to 0.4.3. The headline is a fix: sending BTX from the app works again after a recent build could fail a send with a misleading message. Alongside that, the About screen now shows your own mining stats, the pop-up windows all open in the same roomy shape, and copying a transaction's explorer link is one tap.

Pause and resume, a calmer restart, more privacy, and your Mac on the pool dashboard.

This release builds on the 0.4.0 redesign with a batch of quality-of-life work. Stopping now keeps your node warm and offers a green Resume, the long "getting ready" wait after a restart explains itself instead of looking stuck, and you can hide your balance with one tap. Pooled miners can now show their Mac's live GPU numbers and chosen name on the minebtx dashboard.

A fresh look, and pool mining now pays your external wallet.

easyBTX has a new design. The default is a wider "control room" window that spreads everything across three calm columns, so nothing runs off the bottom of the screen once your node fills with live information. There's a new theme switch too — Dark stays the default, with Light if you prefer it and a System option that follows your Mac and switches on its own. And pool mining now honors your external payout address, the same way solo mining already did, so you can mine on a laptop that never holds the keys to your coins.

Your node never looks broken while it is catching up. After easyBTX has been closed for a while, or shut down the hard way (a crash, a force quit, or replacing the app while it was running), your node sometimes needs a few minutes to catch back up the next time you open the app. Before, easyBTX could mistake that catching-up time for a real problem and show an error. Now it waits calmly, tells you what is happening, and keeps your wallet and coins untouched. It will never offer a repair while the node is simply catching up. There is nothing you need to do.

The "pool compliance + transparency" release. shib's dexbtx pool went v5 on 2026-05-27 with a mandatory pre_hash_block_tier_v18 capability gate and a new mining.subscribe extension dict carrying session_id + per-rig hardware fingerprint. easyBTX v0.2.0 sent only two of the three required fields, which meant Mac workers connected to the pool but never appeared in the worker dashboard. v0.3.0 ships the full v0.3.x handshake, adds the worker.report_metrics heartbeat that unlocks live per-rig dashboard rows, and surfaces the canonical name the pool assigns each rig so users can match their Mac to its row in /stats. On top of that, the first opt-in self-custody feature — solo-mined rewards can now be paid to an external BTX address that has no key on this Mac — and a heap of UX work the v0.2.0 user base asked for in Telegram. cargo test: 195/195 ✅. tsc --noEmit: clean. cargo build --release + npm run build: both green.

The "mega audit" polish release. A /cso security audit + a 3-agent functional bug audit found 4 CRITICAL, 10 HIGH, 13 MEDIUM, and a handful of LOW issues in v0.1.13. This release closes all of them in one pass. cargo test: 149/149 ✅. tsc --noEmit: clean. No public IPC was removed, but send_btx gained an explicit subtract_fee: bool parameter (the frontend's Max button passes it); EasyBtxState gained three #[serde(default)] fields (legacy state files still load).

Added

• Incoming balance line. A received payment that hasn't confirmed yet (untrusted_pending) now shows as a clear "Incoming … confirming" line instead of looking lost until it confirms. Spendable balance stays trusted-only, so Send can never overdraw.
• Block explorer links. Transaction IDs and addresses across Send, Receive, and the Audit/Overview open on explorer.minebtx.com (truncated + copy + open). The Send confirm screen shows the full recipient address so you can verify it.
• Send: "Max" button + safe full-send. A Max button fills your full spendable balance, and a full-balance send now deducts the network fee from the amount instead of failing with "insufficient funds". The recipient address is also sanity-checked before the confirm step.
• Reclaim space. A Settings → Storage button (and an automatic pass on launch) frees disk by dropping the unused blockfilterindex/coinstatsindex, the post-load assumeutxo snapshot, and an oversized debug.log. The blockchain and your wallet are never touched.