Desktop Crypto Mining App HoneyMiner Comes to MacOS

HoneyMiner, a desktop-based crypto mining application, has released a new version for MacOS users.

HoneyMiner, which launched in July 2018, accesses your CPU or GPU and uses it to mine various cryptos.

The HoneyMiner app takes 2.5% of the proceeds for multi-GPU machines and 8% from single GPU users.

Upon launching the app you get 1,000 free satoshis and I was able to mine the equivalent of six cents in ten minutes.

This writer's estimated 24-hour earnings on a 2016 MacBook Pro running a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 was 113 satoshis or - and don't get jealous - $0.012 USD. The expectation is that users with more powerful computers will speed up the mining pool considerably.

HoneyMiner joins apps like DesktopMining.net and open source solutions like MultiMiner in its aim to make it easy to mine on almost any machine.

"We launched on Windows first because there are so many powerful GPUs sitting under people's desks around the world and lots of folks getting started with mining do so on windows," said Jessop.

"We've now got people in 167 countries on Honeyminer and have had literally hundreds of requests for Mac OS from our community."

Porting the app to MacOS was quite a chore, said Jessop.

"If we let everyone mine with the efficiency of the pros, software know-how becomes less of a barrier."