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CPU miner · macOS · Linux · Chromebook

Detects Apple Silicon, Intel macOS, or Linux; downloads the current release; verifies its SHA-256 digest; and installs dinero-miner to ~/.local/bin. Both macOS builds are Developer ID signed by DineroLabs LLC and accepted by Apple’s notarization service. On a Chromebook, enable Linux (Settings → Advanced → Developers → “Linux development environment”), open Terminal, and paste the same command.

CPU miner · Windows PowerShell

Same flow for Windows x64: resolves the latest miner release, verifies the SHA-256 digest, installs dinero-miner.exe under %LOCALAPPDATA%\DineroMiner\bin, and adds it to your PATH. The binary is digitally signed (Authenticode, Microsoft-verified publisher), so Windows recognizes its publisher instead of flagging an unknown download. Open a new terminal after installing.

GPU miner · macOS · Linux

Installs dinero-gpu-miner beside the CPU miner — they do not replace each other. Uses Metal on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and OpenCL on Linux x86_64. There is no GPU build for Linux aarch64; the script says so and points you at the CPU miner instead of failing on a missing download.

GPU miner · Windows PowerShell

Installs dinero-gpu-miner.exe under %LOCALAPPDATA%\DineroMiner\bin, alongside the CPU miner, and adds it to your PATH. Uses OpenCL (or CUDA when an NVIDIA driver and runtime are present). Open a new terminal after installing.

Why host one

You never hold your miners’ coins. Consensus pays them, in the block. Your fee is provable rather than asserted. You stop depending on someone else’s server, and you choose which transactions go into the blocks you find. And you can pool with people who never have to trust you — sharing variance without anyone custodying anyone’s funds.

The trade-off: every paid miner needs an output in every block, so this suits pools of tens of miners rather than thousands.

What you need

A Linux server (x86_64 or aarch64) with a public IP, one open inbound port, a din1p… address for your fee, and a Dinero node on the same host. The node is not optional: the pool gets block templates from it and submits found blocks through it. That is the point — every pool operator is also a node operator.

Fresh installs prefer the fleet’s signed daily snapshot and retain the release snapshot as an automatic fallback. The installer verifies the daily Ed25519 manifest and payload hash; the node then binds its Utreexo state to its own proof-of-work-validated header chain and validates earlier history in the background.

Windows Server installer

NSIS install to C:\Program Files\Dinero-Server\. Registers dinerod as a Windows Service (auto-start, datadir under C:\ProgramData\Dinero, failure-restart policy). No Start Menu shortcuts. Wallets + chain data survive uninstall.

macOS headless daemon

Native operator archives with dinerod and dinero-cli for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Use them for headless nodes or local testing without the Qt wallet bundle.

Linux systemd installer

Ubuntu 24.04+ x86_64 install script. Discovers the current stable release, verifies the core and CLI assets, prefers the signed daily snapshot with the release snapshot as fallback, creates the dinero system user, writes dinero.service, and starts the node under /var/lib/dinero.

Linux server daemon (v8.1.12)

Current v8.1.12 server-safe bundle. It carries the block-100,000 covenant, block-110,000 shielded Auth, and block-111,000 contextual-lock rules, the height-99,677 AssumeUTXO snapshot, and the restart-safe snapshot bootstrap from v8.1.11. Extract, verify the digest, and run under systemd.

Checksums

The v8.1.12 release publishes checksum files for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the AssumeUTXO snapshot. GitHub also exposes a digest for every individual asset.

Release notes

Consensus and reliability releases: CTV/CCV activated at block 100,000 (v8.1.10), the height-99,677 V4 snapshot and restart-safe fast-sync (v8.1.11), and the shielded Auth reset at 110,000, DNRS commitments and transaction locks at 111,000, and the Apple Silicon Metal correction (v8.1.12).

Consensus activations — now live

Operators and miners must run compatible software before validating each height; v8.1.12 carries all three rule sets.

• Block 100,000 (v8.1.10): OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and Dinero's OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY activated atomically under a shared constant. OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK and OP_TXHASH stay dormant.
• Block 110,000 (v8.1.12): shielded Auth and private-covenant epoch reset. It does not preserve spendability of pre-reset shielded notes.
• Block 111,000 (v8.1.12): DNRS state commitments and absolute/relative transaction-lock enforcement across admission, mining, validation, and replay.
• Operator check: dinero-cli getblockchaininfo reports contextual_locks_active: true; verify the consensus checksum from the release readiness evidence with dinero-cli getconsensusinfo.

Snapshot and restart reliability

v8.1.11 bundles the verified mainnet height-99,677 V4 snapshot across Qt, macOS, Linux, and Windows; v8.1.12 adds DNRS-bound v5 snapshot support while the bundled snapshots remain legacy v4.

• Restart-safe fast-sync: the verified snapshot base header is persisted and restored, so a fresh fast-sync datadir restarts without a populated height index.
• Header-first rows: header-first database rows are distinguished from legacy metadata when the full base block arrives; the older lifecycle fallback for interrupted upgrades is retained.
• Authenticated snapshots: the Linux installer prefers the Ed25519-signed daily snapshot and falls back to the release snapshot. Forged v5 snapshots are rejected; publisher signatures remain mandatory for legacy v4 snapshots.
• Publisher pipeline: a candidate is retained until burial, validated with a real node, then published atomically. Automatic publisher discovery is not included.

Wallet, mining, and platforms

Wallet recovery, shielded state, and cross-platform work from v8.1.10 and v8.1.12, plus the Apple Silicon mining correction.

• Apple Silicon Metal (metal-fix1): the original v8.1.12 ARM Qt build omitted the embedded Metal mining backend and displayed "Metal active" while falling back to CPU. The corrected build enables Metal and reports the actual runtime backend, including fallback and stopped states. Every Apple Silicon link on this page points to the corrected build.
• Wallet recovery: persistent shielded anchor history across restart and reorg, stronger mnemonic import/rebinding and zero-watch-script recovery, consolidation single-flight protections, and improved QR URI interoperability.
• Platforms: dedicated macOS 13 Ventura Intel builds on Qt 6.5, Windows installers with CUDA 12.2 support (physical GPU qualification remains open), and Qt covenant navigation, miner/Core version display, and pool accounting presentation.
• Networking: convergence and QUIC fixes with regression coverage; the release notes do not claim every historical intermittent issue is closed.

Ubuntu node quick start

curl -fsSL https://dinerolabs.org/install.sh | sudo bash
sudo systemctl status dinero --no-pager
dinero-cli -datadir=/var/lib/dinero getnetworkinfo

macOS operator quick start

tar -xzf dinero-operator-v8.1.12-macOS-arm64.tar.gz
cd dinero-operator-v8.1.12-macOS-arm64
./bin/dinerod
./bin/dinero-cli getnetworkinfo

Good to know

• The v8.1.12 Windows installers are Authenticode-signed (Microsoft-verified publisher: Mirsad Hajdarevic). SmartScreen may still show a new-publisher prompt until the certificate builds download reputation; verify the SHA256 above and, if prompted, click "More info" → "Run anyway".
• The published v8.1.12 binaries carry the consensus rules for blocks 100,000, 110,000, and 111,000, all of which have activated on mainnet. Verify the runtime consensus checksum with dinero-cli getconsensusinfo against the release readiness evidence before starting the daemon.
• Linux v8.1.12 ships verified graphical AppImage, Debian/Ubuntu, and portable Qt packages alongside the headless operator bundle. The node installer extracts dinerod and dinero-cli from the operator archive, prefers the signed daily snapshot, and falls back to the newest snapshot bundled with the release.
• Dynamic P2P is active in conservative slow-churn mode. It is designed to improve peer diversity gradually, not churn aggressively.
• Relay/NAT traversal is useful infrastructure, but the long-term goal is broader community-run peers and relays, not dependence on Dinero Labs bootstrap nodes.