UnminerMac
Native unMineable client for Apple Silicon. Auto-tuned for M1–M5 P-cores. No hidden referrals.
Native unMineable client for Apple Silicon. Auto-tuned for M1–M5 P-cores. No hidden referrals.
VerusHash 2.2, RandomX, auto P-core detection, and live payout intelligence — all in a native Apple Silicon app.
Native arm64 miner with hardware AES via sse2neon and CL hash via vmull_p64. 7.3 MH/s on M5 (4 P-cores) — 7× the Rosetta-emulated reference. Mines VRSC directly on LuckPool, no middleman. Phase 4 Metal GPU acceleration in development — bit-sliced AES at 87.7G rounds/sec.
Latest ARM64-assembly RandomX miner. Replaces the 2021 binary that no longer connects to the pool.
No hidden referral codes, no telemetry, no remote ad banners. Every line auditable on GitHub.
Detects your Apple Silicon performance-core count and defaults the CPU slider to that exact value. E-cores hurt RandomX averages — we keep them out by default.
Picks coins by their actual payment threshold and your hashrate. Skip the ones where you'd wait 3 years for a payout.
Upstream left xmrig as a 100%-CPU orphan when you closed the window. Fixed: process group is killed cleanly on quit.
Tooltip explains exactly what to do if your ISP is filtering crypto pools (install Cloudflare WARP or 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS).
On unMineable's RandomX pool you're really mining XMR — the pool converts to your chosen coin. So picking a coin doesn't change your hashrate. What it changes is how long until your first payout. Pick the coin with the lowest USD-equivalent threshold.
| Coin | Threshold | USD value | Est. days to payout |
|---|
Daily yield assumption: ~$0.01 USD per kH/s per day, after the 1% pool fee. Real yield varies with XMR price and network difficulty. ⚠ ETH / SHIB payouts are on Ethereum L1, where chain gas can eat $5–20 of your payout. XMR has no conversion spread — you get the most actual XMR by picking XMR.
If you pick VerusHash 2.2 in the app you mine VRSC straight to LuckPool — no unMineable middleman, paid in VRSC. The math is totally different from RandomX. This calculator uses LIVE pool data (network hashrate + last block reward + current VRSC/USD) from luckpool.net/verus/stats.
| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|
Daily yield: (your_MH/s × 1e6) ÷ network_sols × (86400 ÷ block_time) × block_reward.
On M5 with all P+E cores, expect 3-5 MH/s CPU; once Metal GPU mining ships, 12-20 MH/s.
Pool fee is ~0% on LuckPool (PPLNS solo-style), so you get gross yield minus the tiny block-finding luck variance.
Drag-to-Applications DMG. Apple-Silicon-native. Ad-hoc signed so Gatekeeper only complains once.
Grab the latest .dmg from Releases.
curl -L -o ~/Downloads/UnminerMac.dmg \
https://github.com/helloworldxdwastaken/UnminerMac/releases/latest/download/UnminerMac-0.17.0.dmg
open ~/Downloads/UnminerMac.dmgDrag UnminerMac onto the Applications shortcut, eject the DMG, launch from /Applications. If Gatekeeper blocks: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Pick a coin with a low USD threshold (see ranking above). Paste your address. Click Start.
Your ISP is DNS-filtering crypto pools. Install Cloudflare WARP or any encrypted-DNS profile and the dot turns green.
Source is on GitHub, ELv2. No telemetry, no analytics, no remote-controlled ad banner. xmrig binary is the official 6.26.0 release from xmrig.com, ad-hoc codesigned. We strip macOS quarantine on the .app for you. You can read every line on the repo.
On an M5 with proper P-core tuning, expect 3–6 kH/s. At current XMR price that's roughly $0.04–$0.10 per day gross, before electricity. Don't quit your job. This is a "warm the room while leaving the laptop plugged in" project — useful for learning crypto mining, marginal for actual income.
Because it's the only viable one. RandomX was specifically designed to defeat GPU/Neural-Engine acceleration (256MB random scratchpad + branchy code + AES + integer-only math). No GPU or ML-accelerator miner can beat xmrig's hand-tuned ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon. We checked.
UnminerMac was initially based on 2nthony/macmineable, which was abandoned in 2022. We've since replaced every binary, rewrote the broken parts, added VerusHash 2.2 mining (first-ever arm64 native implementation), Metal GPU acceleration, and removed all monetization hooks from the original codebase. The two projects share almost no code today beyond the Go+webview skeleton.
RandomX prefers large L3 cache + many fast cores + huge pages. Apple Silicon optimizes for unified memory and AI accelerators instead, and macOS doesn't expose huge pages the way Linux does. Result: a 2-year-old AMD desktop on Linux beats an M5 at RandomX. Not a software problem you can fix — it's the algorithm meeting the wrong silicon.
Yes — paste it in the "Referral Code (Optional)" field on the coin-picker page. If you leave it blank, we use the maintainer's code so the 0.75% fee discount still applies (no kickback comes back to you, but at least you get the discount instead of paying full pool fee).
Same app inside. The .dmg is the standard macOS install ritual (drag-to-Applications), the .zip unpacks to a raw .app bundle. Use the DMG unless you know why you don't want it.
The code paths exist for Intel Macs but we haven't tested on them. The bundled xmrig binary is arm64-only. If you need Intel support, build from source with the Intel xmrig binary in assets/miner/xmrig — the Go side already routes via CPU detection.