Why easyBTX

Download easyBTX, open it, and press Start. It sets itself up, connects to a mining pool, and puts your GPU to work. There is no account, no sign-up, and no blockchain to sync before you begin. Install steps for your system

easyBTX has a self-custodial wallet built in, on every platform. Create a wallet or restore one you already have, then receive and send BTX from inside the app, with an optional passphrase over the top. BTX addresses start with btx1z and use post-quantum signatures. If you would rather be paid elsewhere, set an external payout address and the pool pays that wallet directly.

On a Mac with Apple silicon, easyBTX mines with Metal on macOS 26.4 or later. Nothing rests on a chip name: the app measures your GPU with a half-second self-qualification check and tells you what it found. On Linux it mines on an NVIDIA GPU, and it tells you if your card cannot run the current engine. Windows runs that same Linux build through WSL2, so there is no separate Windows installer to fall behind. Mac, Windows, Linux

easyBTX mines in a pool, so your machine's work counts as shares alongside everyone else's instead of waiting on a whole block of its own. Byron Bay is the default on every platform, BTX Pool is available on every platform, on macOS from 0.22.1, and Settings, under Mining, lets you point the miner at any other host and port. Current builds are pool only. If you want to run the chain itself, that is a separate app, easyNode.

Open the Mining Tuning and Optimization Lab and Deep Tune will spend 3 to 12 hours looking for faster settings on your machine. It changes one setting per 30-minute window and keeps a change only when a 90% confidence interval says it is genuinely better. It restores your power setting when it finishes, and it never touches the fee. Deep Tune is a Mac feature today.

easyBTX takes a 4.99% tool fee. It is pinned in the source and a test fails the build if anyone moves it. Your pool takes its own on top, currently 2.5% at Byron Bay and 1.5% at BTX Pool, and pools set those themselves. On Linux and Windows the mining engine may add a third: MATADOR takes 1%, BTX-RC takes nothing, and you choose which one runs. What is left is paid to your payout address on the pool's schedule.

BTX has no public market today, so easyBTX promises nothing about earnings, and mining runs your GPU hard, which costs heat and electricity. This is a way to take part in a young quantum-resistant chain because you find it interesting, not an investment, and nothing here is financial advice. What BTX actually is