Security and downloads

Always get easyBTX from this website, using the download button, or from our GitHub releases page. Do not trust a copy sent to you in a chat, a forum, or any site that is not ours. A miner is exactly the kind of app a bad actor likes to fake, so where you got the file matters more than anything else. If you are ever unsure, come back here and download a fresh copy.

Every build publishes the SHA-256 of the exact file we released. Hash the file you downloaded, compare the two strings, and you know you have our build rather than somebody's edit of it. It is one command.

• Mac. Run shasum -a 256 easyBTX.dmg and compare it with f87fc56a3bccdb9c53c131926f5fd2af195e3f2e0890ac177e8b30274e2fab22, the hash for easyBTX 0.26.0.
• Linux. Run sha256sum easyBTX_amd64.AppImage and compare it with 6b2d04ddf2bf4d9b4681e353029ad08d0bc360a5110869f96a6f803a0eb48245, the hash for easyBTX 0.27.2.
• Windows. Windows runs the Linux build through WSL2, so it is the same file and the same hash as Linux. If the Ubuntu one-liner fetched it for you, run sha256sum ~/easyBTX.AppImage in the Ubuntu window. If you downloaded it with a Windows browser instead, run Get-FileHash .\easyBTX_amd64.AppImage -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell.

If the strings match character for character, the file is intact. If they do not match, delete it and download again from this site. Those same hashes are what the public scans point at: Mac scan, Linux and Windows scan.

Some antivirus tools flag easyBTX as a trojan, a miner, a PUP, or a RiskTool. As far as we can tell, that is a false positive. easyBTX is a GPU miner that is not yet code-signed, and unsigned mining software very commonly trips heuristic scanners that treat "a miner" plus "not signed by a big company" as suspicious by default. It happens on all three platforms. On Mac it is Gatekeeper and the "cannot verify the developer" warning. On Windows there is no installer to flag, because the app runs inside WSL2, but Microsoft Defender or another scanner can still object to the file. On Linux the AppImage is unsigned like any other indie AppImage, and a scanner may say so. Kaspersky's own label for this class is "not-a-virus", which is nearer the truth: it really is a cryptocurrency miner, and it mines only to an address you control.

We will be honest about the limit. A matching hash tells you the file is the one we published. A clean scan tells you that a set of scanners found nothing today. Neither one proves the code inside is perfect, and no scan can. Code signing is the proper fix for these warnings, Apple notarization on Mac and a signing certificate on Windows, and it is not done yet.

There is no account to create and no deposit to make. easyBTX generates its wallet on your machine, the keys stay on that machine, and we never see your keys, your recovery file, or your coins. Mining is paid to an address you hold: the built-in wallet by default, or an external payout address you set yourself if you would rather the coins land in a wallet somewhere else. The project never takes custody of anyone's funds, and no server is holding anything for you. One thing follows from that. The app asks you to save a wallet recovery file before you start mining, and if you lose both that file and your machine, nobody can restore the wallet for you. Keep a copy offline before you mine anything you would mind losing.

easyBTX is a personal, for-fun project, shared as-is with no warranty. BTX has no public market today, so treat anything you mine as uncertain, never as income. Mining also runs your GPU hard, on a Mac or a PC, which means more heat and more electricity. Back up your wallet, keep your recovery file somewhere safe and offline, and only run this if you are comfortable with all of that. Nothing here is financial advice.

There is no company behind easyBTX and no pitch. We built it because we think BTX, a quantum-resistant take on Bitcoin, is genuinely interesting, and because mining it from an ordinary computer should be simple. People who were early to Bitcoin watched it grow over many years. BTX is very early, and that is the part we find interesting. That is honest curiosity, not a prediction, and not a plan for anyone else.

The technology is part of the fun too. BTX's consensus is built on matmul, matrix multiplication, the same kind of math behind modern AI, rather than plain hashing. Securing a chain that way is an unusual and genuinely clever idea, and it is a big reason we enjoy working on this. We made easyBTX for fun, and we share it in case you want it too.