# luke-jr/bfgminer

Modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C, featuring overclocking, monitoring, fan speed control and remote interface capabilities.

Repository: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bfgminer
Homepage: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bfgminer/
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-06-18T05:30:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5242, "days_push": 1172, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1951, forks 835 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:58.256586+00:00)

## What it is
BFGMiner is a modular, multi-threaded ASIC/FPGA/GPU/CPU miner for Bitcoin and other blockchains, written in C. It supports dynamic clocking, monitoring, fan speed control, multiple pools and blockchains, and remote interface capabilities.

## Use cases
- mine bitcoin with ASIC or FPGA hardware
- manage multiple mining pools from one miner
- overclock and monitor mining hardware
- control fan speeds for mining rigs
- mine on multiple blockchains simultaneously
- run mining through an HTTP or SOCKS proxy
- remotely monitor and control a miner via RPC

## When to choose
- you need a C-based miner with fine-grained hardware control like clocking and fan speed
- you run heterogeneous ASIC/FPGA/GPU hardware and want one tool
- you need multi-pool and multi-blockchain support with proxy options

## When to avoid
- you want a modern actively developed miner with current ASIC support
- you need plug-and-play GUI mining software
- you mine coins requiring algorithms not supported by BFGMiner

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, cli, configuration-management
- domain: hardware
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: bitcoin-mining, asic, fpga, gpu-mining, overclocking, fan-control, stratum, multi-pool, c, cryptocurrency, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- luke-jr/bfgminer (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.256586+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:06:49.734276+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.256586+00:00, sha d3437ab8a73d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.