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xorminer — the miner for a Bitcoin fork
An open-source, experimental Bitcoin-fork miner that builds block headers from a user’s node and grinds the nonce with pluggable hash kernels.
Why it surfacedxorminer is unusually specific: it follows a fork’s scheduled proof-of-work changes, uses getblocktemplate data from the miner’s own node, and supports CPU, native, and GPU kernels through a documented subprocess protocol. The page is commendably explicit about provenance and risk, naming GitHub as the only official source while calling the software “unaudited hobby code” and warning that fork parameters are not final.
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Ice Does Not Count
August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.