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 a BTX mining pool. That is the whole setup, on Mac, Windows, and Linux. 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 cryptocurrency miner, and it is expected for any unsigned miner, not malware. Kaspersky even labels it "not-a-virus." Code signing, on Mac via Apple notarization, clears these warnings and is on the roadmap.

BTX is a quantum-resistant fork of Bitcoin. You can explore the chain at btxscan.io, the block explorer also linked in the footer.

The app is free. You pay for the electricity your computer uses while mining. easyBTX takes a fixed 4.99% tool fee on mining time, shown to you inside the app. Your pool takes its own fee on top (Byron Bay 2.5%, BTX Pool 1.5%). On Linux and Windows the mining engine may take one as well, and that one is your choice: MATADOR takes 1%, BTX-RC takes nothing. All of it is disclosed in the app before you start.

An episode is one full attempt at the mining puzzle: your GPU runs the network's inference workload from end to end and checks whether the result wins. Since the MatMul v4.7 fork at block 185,000, a single episode takes real time, roughly 30 to 40 seconds on a fast machine and longer on older hardware, so speeds read in episodes per minute rather than attempts per second.

A share is a piece of pool-verified work, and accepted shares are what turn into payouts. Every number the miner shows is explained in plain language in the easyBTX Guide.

Because the puzzle itself changed. Before block 185,000, one attempt was one cheap nonce and the app counted millions of them per second, in MN/s. After the fork, one attempt is a single heavy inference episode lasting tens of seconds, so those old units stopped meaning anything: a healthy, earning Mac displayed a flat 0 under the old arithmetic. easyBTX 0.21.1 switched the readout to episodes per minute so the number matches reality again. A small-looking figure like one or two episodes per minute is a normal machine, not a broken one. Any screenshot or video still quoting MN/s is from before the fork.

Because each attempt now takes tens of seconds instead of microseconds, so far fewer attempts happen per hour, and a share is still a rare winner among them. On a Mac, expect roughly one accepted share per 40 episodes while the pool has you on its beginner difficulty, then roughly one per 212 once the pool has measured your machine and set your difficulty properly. That second figure can mean a couple of hours between shares. It is the normal shape of mining now, not a fault, and each share at the higher difficulty is worth correspondingly more. Those two figures were measured on one Apple silicon Mac against Byron Bay in August 2026 and have not been reproduced since, so read them as that machine on that pool rather than as a rate your own will hit.

Both are real. The big one (HARDWARE) is what your machine physically finishes, in episodes per minute, measured by easyBTX itself. The smaller one (POOL) is what the pool credits you after checking your work, and it is the number payouts follow. The full story, with a labeled screenshot, is in the easyBTX Guide.

No. easyBTX mines in a pool, always. It does not sync a blockchain and there is nothing to catch up. Running a full BTX node is a separate, optional thing with its own app, easyNode, which strengthens the network rather than mining. If you do run easyNode and leave it closed for a while, it has to catch back up when you reopen it, and that takes longer than most people expect. A node closed overnight is around a thousand blocks behind, which is several hours of catching up. Closed for a week it is days. That is normal and it finishes on its own, and the speed depends on how fast other nodes send it blocks rather than on how fast your computer is. Leaving easyNode running is the easiest way to never wait for it.

In a wallet only you control. easyBTX has a built-in self-custodial wallet on every platform, and the pool pays your rewards straight to it. You can also set any other BTX address as your payout address, such as a wallet on your phone. There is no custodian in the middle, ever.

Mac, Windows, and Linux all work today, and all of them mine in a pool. There is no solo mode in easyBTX on any platform.

Mac needs Apple Silicon and macOS 26.4 or later, and mines on the built-in GPU. There is no chip allowlist: the app runs a half-second self-qualification check against your GPU at startup and tells you whether it can mine. Older qualifying Macs mine correctly, just more slowly.

Windows and Linux need an NVIDIA GPU, and the app tells you if your card cannot run the current engine. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported.

Yes. There is a native Linux build for an NVIDIA PC, Ubuntu included. It ships the newer, faster mining engine, so a single card mines noticeably harder than the old native Windows build ever did. It is also the build Windows users run (through WSL2). The install page has a copy-paste, one-line command for Linux and Ubuntu, and the build keeps itself up to date after that.

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. There is no separate native Windows build any more: the Windows download is the Linux build. It is all copy-paste, you set up Ubuntu once and then everything happens in one window. The install page walks through every step and has a short video.