Blockz-miner
A free miner for Intel Arc GPUs and x86 CPUs — Pearl (PRL), Quantus (QTC) and Tari Cuckaroo29 on the card, Monero, Zephyr and Tari RandomX on the processor. A single self-contained binary that carries its GPU kernels and the Intel runtime inside it, tunes itself to the card, and can mine a GPU coin and a CPU coin at the same time.
Pros:
- Self-contained — the binary unpacks its own kernels and Intel runtime on first start; nothing to install beyond the GPU driver.
- Per-card autotune — the first start times a few kernel settings for a couple of seconds, then reuses the fastest one.
- Real dual mining — --algo prl+rx runs a GPU coin and a CPU coin at full speed, each with its own pool, wallet and hardware.
- Kryptex in one flag — --kryptex picks the nearest server by measured connect time, keeps the other regions as failover and turns TLS on.
- Built-in web dashboard, with JSON and Prometheus endpoints behind an optional password.
Cons:
- Intel GPUs only — the NVIDIA and AMD backends of the old ARC-miner 0.x are gone.
- Pearl needs a Battlemage (B-series) card or newer; on Arc A-series the miner refuses prl.
- Closed source since 1.0.0 — free to use and to pass on unmodified, but the source is no longer published.
- Linux is still a test build and 1.0.0 has no HiveOS package — Windows is the supported platform.
List of Coins and Algorithms:
- Pearl (PRL) — prl, on the GPU
- Quantus (QTC) — qtc (Poseidon2), on the GPU
- Tari (XTM) — c29 (Cuckaroo29), on the GPU; needs a card with about 7.3 GB of free memory
- Monero (XMR) — rx (RandomX), on the CPU
- Zephyr (ZEPH) — rx (RandomX), on the CPU
- Tari (XTM) — rx (RandomX), on the CPU
A card coin and a processor coin run together: --algo prl+rx keeps both at full speed, each with its own pool and wallet.
The build also carries kernels we ship no ready-made launcher for: Compute Substrate (csd), BitcoinIII (sha3t), Raptoreum (gr) and Tari SHA3x (sha3x) — upstream has not yet had a share accepted live at Tari SHA3x's difficulty.
Fees
Free of charge. Upstream's licence and release notes declare no dev fee.
Supported GPUs
- Intel Arc Battlemage — B580, B570, B770, Arc Pro B70: every algorithm, Pearl included.
- Intel Arc Alchemist — A770, A750, A580, A380: everything except Pearl; the Compute Substrate kernel runs on them but is not tuned for them.
- Integrated Intel GPUs — skipped unless you pass --igpu.
- CPU — any x86-64 processor, for RandomX and GhostRider.
