Here are some features in the first release of Asteroid: The BTC difficulty rate is far too high to make any ROI mining with the GPU in your Mac and BTC mining requires dedicated hardware (ASIC) that's both expensive and constrained. , is a better choice if you're just getting into mining crypto-currencies.
Like Bitcoin itself, the mining hardware and software space moves at the speed of light and shortly after I posted my mining piece I switched to a new OS X mining client called Asteroid.Īlthough the screenshots below show Bitcoin (BTC) mining, Asteroid is also a capable Litecoin (LTC) miner, which, as I blogged over the weekend I recommended MacMiner as my Bitcoin miner of choice. In my previous post on How to mine Bitcoin on your Mac
