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CGMiner

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3.9 out of 5 stars

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CGMiner Reviews (20)

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Dan S.
DS
Owner / Photographer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good for cross platform mining"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Available for multiple devices and platforms. I'm able to get it setup on most of my devices. Works well and has a lot of information available online to help you get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

Command line only. May be difficult for beginners to setup. Doesnt offer as many features as some other miners out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
UO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"S.A.R"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Career opportunity knocks as the need for project talent continues to grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

Research indicates that employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 million new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rafael H.
RH
Consultant Marketing
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple Mining Software"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

it is very simple and you can start mining in a matter of minutes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

Not easy to install and use in Windows for the average user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Evan C.
EC
SAP Technical Consultant Associate
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Free Lightweight Miner for Bitcoin"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Very simple and lightweight miner in mining world, and can combine the technology of ASIC,FPGA, even with GPU and CPU. It can be used in many os from linux, mac, and windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

CGMiner need to be configured properly and sometimes it is kinda complicated. Having said that ,it is usually only for the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities
UU
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome option for cross-platform cryptocurrency mining"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

CGMiner is a ASIC, GPU, and FPGA miner that is maintained as an open-source product and works on platforms including Windows, Linux, and macOS. CGMiner is extremely flexible platform-wise, and can work with a variety of hardware miners, and GPUs, including the CUDA and NVIDIA platforms. There is, however, a lot to improve. It is also very easy to debug algorithms and miners at the very beginning through CGMiners very helpful logging and debugging tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

CGMiner is a purely command-line tool. When there are a lot of features and settings to control, the purely command-line interface can make it very hard to control the behavior of CGMiner. There are a variety of GUI tools (also maintained as open-source), that help with this, but many of them do not interface well with the actual binaries of CGMiner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
EI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Gcminers seems to be the optimal solution right now"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Highly customizable, supports multiple mining pools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

Pretty satisfied with the product, my engineers say so Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jim M.
JM
ERJ 175 Captain
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CGMiner review"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Very simple to use miner. I liked that it can be used in multiple operating systems such as mac and windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

Can be complicated to use at first and has a variety of functions that you will need to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark N.
MN
Chief Digital Officer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Solid open source mining softeware"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

This open source miner is actively maintained when compiled from the nightly release repository. There are multiple forks available that provide various support for your miner. I find that this is provides stable performance with decent hash rates. There are miners that have higher hash output but that is largely closed source and offset by developer fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

They could provide more regular releases, as is it has an official release about twice a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"You need to have a Deathstar to mine some"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Easy to compile , configuration information is easy to be found on the web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

I let it run for 2 weeks and I did not make a dime on bitcoin mining. Sometimes it also just crashes by itself. restart of the computer is then the only way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great interface and nice variety in the mining system"
What do you like best about CGMiner?

Compare to other mining system, this one being an open source make it more easy to configure with our own preference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CGMiner?

The only downside is the experience required to use this system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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