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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
M1 MacBook Air Mining EthereumMining Ethereum on the M1 Macs?In this article, we’ll be showing you how to mine Ethereum on an M1 Mac. Macs aren’t usually the first thing that come to mind when you think of cryptocurrency mining, but with the release of the M1 it’s certainly possible.1. Install a walletFirst, you’ll need a wallet, so that you have somewhere to store the Ethereum coins that you mine.There are many different options for wallets, including those with desktop clients for macOS like Coinomi or Atomic Wallet.There are also many mobile wallets available on the iOS app store, like Tokenary, MEW Wallet, or Trust Wallet so that you can access your crypto from anywhere.2. Download Ethminer-M1To do the actual mining, you’ll need the M1 native version of Ethminer, compiled by Yifan Gu. Go to the Ethminer M1 GitHub page and click on “ethminer-m1” under assets. This will save Ethminer to your downloads folder. Once downloaded, copy the ethminer-m1 file from downloads to your Applications folder.3. Make Ethminer-M1 executableThe ethminer-m1 file doesn’t have the executable flag set, so you will need to set it before it can be run.Open a terminal window and typecd /Applicationsto change to your applications folder.Then, to make the ethminer app executable and allow it to be run from the terminal. typechmod +x ethminer-m1You can then run it by typing./ethminer-m1The first time you try to run it, you’ll find that its blocked by Big Sur’s security settings. To bypass that, click “OK” to close the error message, then open System Preferences. Click “Security and Privacy” and then click “Allow anyway” next to where it says “ethminer-m1 was blocked from use”.Then switch back to the terminal window and run ethminer again by typing./ethminer-m1Again, you’ll get a popup window but this time you’ll have the option to allow it to run by clicking “Open”. Ethminer should then run and immediately quit, because there were no command-line arguments specified, but it means that it can now run freely in future without being blocked by Big Sur’s security.4. Choose a mining poolYou will now need to choose a pool to mine with. There are dozens of Ethereum mining pools to choose from – you can have a look at poolwatch.io for a list. For this article I’ll be using ethermine.org, which at the time of writing is one of the biggest pools with the highest number of active miners.5. Configure Ethminer and start miningNow you need to configure Ethminer to mine to the ethermine.org pool with your Ethereum wallet address.Ethminer’s configuration is passed as command line arguments. The format is”./ethminer-m1 -P stratum://WalletAddress.WorkerName@PoolAddress:PortNumberWalletAddress should be your Ethereum wallet address, WorkerName should be the name you want to use to identify your
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