FAQ

It mines to a wallet only you control and never asks you to send funds anywhere. Press Start and it connects your computer to the BTX mining pool - that's the whole setup, on Mac and Windows. It is currently unsigned, so trust rests on the published SHA-256 and a VirusTotal scan, both linked from the home page.

A few engines flag any unsigned miner as a miner, PUP, or RiskTool. That is accurate (it really is a Bitcoin miner) and expected for any unsigned miner, not malware. This happens on both Mac and Windows. Kaspersky even labels it "not-a-virus." Code signing, on Mac via Apple notarization and on Windows via a signing certificate, clears these warnings and is on the roadmap.

BTX is a quantum-resistant fork of Bitcoin. You can explore the chain on the block explorer linked in the footer.

The app is free. You pay for the electricity your computer uses while mining. easyBTX takes a small, openly disclosed developer fee on mined rewards, shown to you inside the app.

Most people never see this. easyBTX mines in the pool by default, on Mac and Windows - no node, nothing to sync, nothing to catch up. The message only appears if you switched your Mac to Solo mode, where easyBTX runs your own BTX node: after the app was closed for a while, that node needs a few minutes to catch back up. That is normal, your wallet and coins are safe the whole time, and it finishes on its own.

In a wallet only you control. easyBTX has a built-in wallet on Mac and Windows, and the pool pays your rewards straight to it - or to any other BTX address you set, like a phone wallet. There is no custodian in the middle, ever.

Mac, Windows, and Linux all work today. Mac runs on Apple Silicon and mines on its built-in GPU. Windows and Linux need an NVIDIA GPU. All of them mine in the pool out of the box; on Mac you can optionally run Solo mode with your own node. AMD GPUs are still on the roadmap, with no fixed date.

Yes. There is a native Linux build (a .deb package) for any NVIDIA PC, Ubuntu included. It ships the newer, faster mining engine, so a single card mines noticeably harder than on the native Windows build. The install page has a copy-paste, one-line command for Linux and Ubuntu, plus a one-line command to update later.

WSL2 is a built-in Windows feature that runs Linux quietly inside Windows. easyBTX uses it so Windows owners can run the faster Linux engine on the same PC, with their existing NVIDIA driver. It is the most powerful way to run easyBTX on a Windows machine, and it is all copy-paste: you set up Ubuntu once, then everything happens in one window. The install page walks through every step and has a short video.