Pasiv

Turn an idle graphics card into crypto. One button, no account — the pool
pays your wallet directly. Open-source core. macOS · Windows · Linux.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Pasiv turns an idle graphics card into crypto.

One button. No account. The mining pool pays your wallet directly — Pasiv never holds your coins.

Measured on our own hardware: an RTX 4070 SUPER does about $49/month, gross. A laptop earns pocket change, and we say so.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Does mining shorten a graphics card's life? It is a sustained load, like a long gaming session or a render. Heat and fan wear are the real factors, not some special mining damage.

Keep the case cool. Pasiv eases off under thermal pressure, and you can stop it any time.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Shipped in 0.4.48: the feedback box now tells you your message went through.

It used to clear the form and leave a thank-you so faint it read as disabled text, so it looked like nothing had happened. Sending now closes the form and shows the confirmation properly.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

On Linux, take the .deb, not the AppImage.

The AppImage self-updates, but it bundles libraries that can shadow your system's and break the app's networking, which stops sign-in. We hit it on real hardware. The .deb you update by hand.
https://t.co/rBB9I5k2te

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Can you mine and game at the same time? You can, and you shouldn't want to — the miner and the game fight over the same card and both stutter.

The idle hours are the whole point. Stop it from the tray before you launch, or pause it. Paused time is charged nothing.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

XMRig is excellent and it is command-line only. If you have ever hand-edited config.json or guessed at thread counts, that friction is why Pasiv exists.

Not a fork, not a reimplementation: the official binary, checksum-verified, behind one button.
https://t.co/NAGGENOV34

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Windows treats miners as suspicious, and you should hear that from us, not mid-install.

SmartScreen may prompt while a new signature builds reputation. Smart App Control can block the GPU miner outright — so the app detects it and says so, rather than doing nothing quietly.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Mac owners ask us the most and get the least flattering answer.

Apple Silicon mines Monero at $2.70 to $8.50 a month, gross, M1 to M4 Max. It is the hardware where mining pays least, so the app says so before you start. Per-chip hashrates, measured:
https://t.co/yunyPGKBmI

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Auto mode picks the best-paying CPU coin and switches when the ranking changes.

It only ranks RandomX coins — Monero, Zephyr, Salvium — because hashrates on different algorithms aren't the same quantity and can't be compared. GPU coins are a choice, not a guess.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Why our earnings numbers are lower than the calculators:

A calculator multiplies a published hashrate by today's price. We read what the card produced off the rig — after the pool's luck, its fee, and its real clocks.

Both are gross. Ours are measured, not modelled.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Our 4% fee mines to a public address, and the pool publishes what that address earns.

So you can check what Pasiv makes, on the pool, whenever you like. It sits on the teams page beside the live network stats:
https://t.co/msAhOJ3FLD

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Pasiv will never mine on a phone.

The Companion app is a remote: it shows your rigs, their hashrate and earnings, and lets you start or stop them from the sofa. The mining happens on a desktop or a headless box.

If a phone is all you have, we're honestly not for you yet.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

The code that touches money is public.

Fee engine, coin roster, payout-address validators, mining state machine, headless daemon: GPL-3.0. The app pins that core by git revision, so a release can't quietly change the fee address.

https://t.co/ofRr2dIm3U

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

NiceHash is a marketplace: you sell hashpower, get paid in Bitcoin at a price with a spread, and they hold the balance until you withdraw.

Pasiv is the non-custodial version: the pool pays your wallet. An honest comparison, where NiceHash is ahead too:
https://t.co/nk3x75wwdt

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Shipped in 0.4.44: a rig now reports what it earns with its window closed.

The desktop computed $/day in the UI and handed it to the uplink, so a machine mining with no window open published everything except the money. Now computed in the core, as the headless node always has.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Headless box in a cupboard? One line installs pasivd — no desktop, no browser, no wallet on it.

It runs at Nice=19 with low CPU and IO weight, so anything else on the machine wins. Nothing mines until you approve a six-character code from your phone.

https://t.co/FfzxP0GxPt

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

The question we get most: "will my laptop earn anything?"

Cents a day, not dollars. A CPU-only laptop grosses a few dollars a month. If the machine is on anyway, that's found money. If you'd leave it on to mine, don't.

We'd rather lose the install than have you find out later.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

What Pasiv will never do, in a public, binding document:

No ads. No partner coins you didn't pick. Never switch your pool or payout address. Never hold your funds. Never charge fee time while paused. Never overclock your card.

Break one and it's a bug, not a business model.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

RTX 4070 SUPER, measured on our own rig, mining Pearl: about $1.62 a day, roughly $49 a month, gross.

That's ~2.3x an RTX 4060, which is about the compute gap between the two cards. Coin prices move every day; the ratio between two cards doesn't.

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

43 seconds of the real app, no mock-ups.

Press once — that's the setup. An idle machine starts earning. Pick a coin, or let Pasiv pick. Nobody holds your coins but you.

Every number a caption speaks is on the screen beside it. That was the rule.

https://t.co/O6kMRuBRpn

[Pasiv @PasivNetwork]

Same RTX 4060, three coins, on our own rig:

Pearl — about $20/month
Ergo — about $3/month
Ravencoin — about $1/month

Gross, measured 31 August. The coin you point the card at matters more than the card. Per-card numbers, read off the rigs:
https://t.co/CXjYJGiTmX