Guide · Apple Silicon

Connect a Mac to Linkrra Pool

3 steps · about 10 minutes

  1. Check what you are installing

    The Apple Silicon miner is an independent, Apache-2.0 project — not written by Linkrra or Pearl Research Labs. Read it before you run it; it is short and the source is public.

    You will need macOS 14 or newer, Xcode Command Line Tools, Rust (via rustup), and Python 3.12 with uv. The installer names anything that is missing rather than failing quietly.

    Source, issues and licence on GitHub →

  2. Install it

    Clone and run the installer. The build is the slow part — a few minutes on most machines.

    git clone https://github.com/Augustas11/pearl-apple-miner.git
cd pearl-apple-miner
scripts/install.sh
    The installer ends with a GPU correctness check on your exact chip and OS build, and mining only starts once that check passes. If it fails, the miner refuses to mine rather than submit bad shares — that is the tool working as intended, not a fault at this pool. It has failed on some chip and OS combinations. If yours is one of them, the honest answer is that this miner cannot mine on your Mac today; raise it on the project's GitHub issues, where the people who can fix it are.

  3. Point it at the pool

    Replace the address with yours. --worker is any label you like.

    scripts/mine.sh --wallet 'prl1your-address-here' --worker mac1 \
  --pool stratum+tcp://stratum.linkrra.com:5567

    Mining a desktop Mac you also use? --intensity 10..100 dials the load down, and --on-battery pause stops it when you unplug.

Notes

Mining only. A Mac mines here; it cannot register as a serving node. Those run CUDA.

No NVIDIA hardware involved. The miner uses the Mac's own GPU through Metal, on M1 through M5.

We publish no hashrate figure for Apple Silicon because we have not measured one. Everything on the NVIDIA guide's table is a run we did ourselves; we are not going to guess at a number for a chip we have not tested.

Expectations. An integrated GPU is not a mining rig, and the self-test caveat above is real. Treat a Mac as a way to join the pool with hardware you already own and leave on, not as a route to meaningful income.

Pool details: stratum.linkrra.com:5567, no extra fee over the upstream pool's own (currently 0%), PPLNS, 1 PRL minimum.

Commands, requirements and the GPU-check behaviour are quoted from that project's own README, read 2026-11-03; repository, Apache-2.0 licence and last commit confirmed the same day at github.com/Augustas11/pearl-apple-miner. Stratum endpoint checked 2026-11-03 18:02 UTC.