# ethereum-mining/ethminer

Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support

Repository: https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ethminer
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-11-01T16:38:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3420, "days_push": 1036, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5918, forks 2242 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:32.272123+00:00)

## What it is
Ethminer is a command-line GPU mining application for Ethash Proof of Work coins such as Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. It supports OpenCL and CUDA backends, on-GPU DAG generation, and direct stratum pool connections.

## Use cases
- mine ethereum with a gpu
- mine ethereum classic with nvidia cuda
- connect to a mining pool via stratum
- benchmark gpu hashrate at a given epoch
- run a failover mining setup across pools

## When to choose
- you need a free, open-source Ethash GPU miner for Linux, macOS, or Windows
- you want native stratum support without a proxy
- you mine with both AMD (OpenCL) and NVIDIA (CUDA) cards

## When to avoid
- you want to mine coins not based on Ethash Proof of Work
- you need a GUI-based miner
- you need actively developed software, as Ethereum's move to Proof of Stake has ended Ethash mining

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gpu-computing, cli
- domain: blockchain
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: ethereum, ethash, mining, opencl, cuda, stratum, cryptocurrency, linux, macos, gpu

## Member repositories
- ethereum-mining/ethminer (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.272123+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 2026-08-29T17:51:14.710068+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.272123+00:00, sha cc2f7328d7f8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.