ARIAMINER-QTC v1.6.0 — HiveOS package (GPU) for Quantus (QTC), AriaPool pool
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WHAT IS NEW IN 1.6.0
  - +5.9 % hashrate on RTX 40/50 (measured: RTX 5080 at 360 W, 730.9 -> 774.0 MH/s,
    live-pool A/B, 3 x 90 s, 0 rejected) thanks to a new kernel execution profile:
    rolled rounds (the unrolled kernel exceeded the GPU instruction cache) and
    no more register spills. Bit-exact: 4096 vectors + 20 checks of the real
    mining kernel. Expected gain is larger on RTX 40/50 cards with smaller
    instruction caches. RTX 30 keeps the previous profile (not measured).
  - everything from 1.5d below (grace-window shares, near-zero CPU)

WHAT WAS NEW IN 1.5d
  - no more wasted shares: a share found on a job the pool just replaced is now
    submitted during the pool's grace window and credited (1.5c silently dropped
    them: 7.6 % of all shares on a 2-GPU rig, measured 9 Sept 2026 on AriaPool)
  - near-zero CPU: the miner no longer busy-waits on the GPU (one CPU core at
    100 % per GPU in 1.5c and earlier). Measured: 100 % -> 0.6 % per GPU, same
    hashrate (729 MH/s on an RTX 5080 at 360 W). --cpu-spin restores the old mode
  - same CUDA kernel as 1.4.1/1.5c (machine code verified identical)

WHAT WAS NEW IN 1.5c
  - all miner and HiveOS wrapper messages are English (1.4.1 still printed the
    "no address" screen and the network error line in French)
  - a one-off diagnostic is printed when no job is ever received from the pool

FLIGHT SHEET SETUP
  1. Coin: pick "custom miner"
  2. "Wallet and worker": YOUR QTC ADDRESS in clear (starts with qz)
     — no %WAL%, no suffix: the rig name is appended automatically
  3. "Pool URL": qtc-node.ariabrain.com:9412   (leave empty = same default)
  4. "Extra config arguments": nothing needed by default
     (--gpu-list 0,1 to restrict cards, --hashrate-hint N, etc.)
  5. "Miner name/URL": the .tar.gz link provided by the moderators

REQUIREMENTS: RTX 30xx / 40xx / 50xx. One instance drives all cards.
At startup the 4096-vector oracle is replayed on every card: the miner
refuses to mine if any vector differs (see the miner log).

DEV FEE: 3 % of mining TIME (970 s yours / 30 s dev per 1000 s cycle), shown once at startup and verifiable on the pool page
https://pool.ariabrain.com/qtc.html (worker "dev"). The dev wallet address never appears in the logs.

POOL FEE: 3 % — displayed on the pool stats page.

SUPPORT: PulseMining Discord (Quantus channel)
