Build 11 · By Jeffry Zander
Idle Miner uses spare CPU time for RandomX mining with XMRig. unMineable handles the pool and conversion into Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, or Ethereum payouts. Your selected coin is the payout currency; this is not direct Bitcoin ASIC mining. Earnings vary and may be lower than electricity costs.
Ethereum uses proof of stake and cannot be mined directly. Idle Miner mines CPU RandomX work; unMineable converts the credited rewards into ETH. Use a native ETH Receive address: 0x followed by 40 hexadecimal characters. Lowercase or uppercase hex is accepted; mixed-case addresses must pass EIP-55 checksum validation.
The provider defaults to Ethereum for ETH payouts. Before mining, use Pool Payouts to confirm that the provider payout network matches the ETH Receive network in your wallet or exchange. An address alone cannot identify its network. Provider network settings are managed outside Idle Miner. Check current fees, thresholds and deposit requirements there.
Automatic mode uses one thread while active, increasing after five minutes idle. Settings can instead pause completely while active. Boost allows more CPU for 15/30 minutes or 1/6/12/24 hours, then returns to automatic mode. End Boost returns early. Stop ends the session.
Battery, heat, sleep, memory pressure, and sustained CPU load can pause or reduce mining. Ordinary thread changes update the running engine and reuse its dataset; full stops and safety pauses release it. Idle Miner does not change sleep settings or keep the computer awake. Display sleep allows mining while the system remains awake.
Settings saves all four wallets. Switch Currency stops the old engine before starting the saved target when the session was running. A missing wallet opens Settings and leaves mining stopped. Open Another Currency opens a separate stopped instance; check its wallet and start it explicitly. One engine may mine each currency.
All instances share the total configured idle/Boost thread limit. Another currency does not double that limit. Each engine needs its own roughly 2 GB RandomX dataset and extra available memory. Two CPU cores are reserved where possible.
| Item | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Hashrate / graph | Recent local work speed. Gaps can reflect pauses or missing readings. |
| Accepted shares | Work accepted by the pool, not payments or guaranteed rewards. |
| Pool balance / rewards | Provider reporting for this address and currency, potentially including other miners and earlier sessions. |
| Coin price | A Coinbase USD quote, without electricity costs deducted. |
| Session began / elapsed | Start date/time and elapsed time, including automatic pauses. Elapsed freezes on Stop; the next Start begins a new session. |
| Hashing time / app uptime | Sampled fresh positive work time / time this app instance remains open. |
Stats can be resized. Reopening during the same app session retains your chosen size. Smaller screens retain scrolling.
Green means fresh confirmed work; gray means stopped, paused, or starting; red means an engine, connection, or reporting issue. A working Offline Test is labeled as earning nothing. Green does not promise a payout.
Use Pool Payouts to see the provider dashboard and current threshold, fees, and automatic payout settings. The provider sends funds when its rules and settings allow it. Idle Miner does not transfer funds or change those settings. Check your wallet separately to confirm a deposit. Failed reporting is not evidence of a zero balance.
Settings offers a Dock icon, menu bar icon, or both. Currency instances share one ₿ menu bar icon. Click it, then hover over a colored currency row for its summary and controls. Mining Stats in that submenu opens the full window. Keep at least one visibility option enabled. Start at Login alone opens the default instance stopped. The checkbox directly below it, Start at Login and Start Mining configured currencies, is off by default. Enabling both starts a profile for every valid saved BTC, LTC, DOGE, and ETH address on actual login launches. It skips currencies without a saved address and never creates wallets or copies addresses between currencies. Invalid or unreadable settings require attention before automatic startup. These profiles share the configured CPU limit and safety checks; each engine needs its own roughly 2 GB dataset, with electricity and heat use after login. Manual openings remain stopped. Turning off Start at Login clears and disables the mining checkbox. Offline Test performs one-thread local work for up to 70 seconds with no pool connection and no earnings.
The Mac reads unMineable statistics using your saved public address automatically while the app is open, even when stopped. Mining sends that address as part of the pool login. Price queries go to Coinbase. XMRig retains its 1% donation and can use an unencrypted donation fallback. Read the privacy and connection details.
Choose Check for Updates… to check idleminer.app for a newer release. You can review the release notes and download the installer. Checks are manual and do not send wallet addresses. The app does not install updates automatically.
Quit every currency instance before reinstalling or replacing the app. User settings remain outside the app in ~/Library/Application Support/Idle Miner. Logs and engine configs can contain public addresses; redact them before sharing.
This Mac release is locally ad-hoc signed and not Apple-notarized. Follow Apple’s documented opening instructions only if you trust the download; do not disable Gatekeeper.
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Original Idle Miner application source is GPL-3.0. The matching XMRig 6.26.0 source is included with its upstream GPL-3.0-or-later license and other component notices. See third-party notices.