erga — specification

What the application must do, and the invariants it may not break. The docs explain how it does it.

1. purpose

Mine Autolykos v2 on Apple Silicon and pay the proceeds to a wallet the user controls, with one visible action and no configuration required.

2. correctness invariants

These are not features; violating any of them is a defect.

3. the mining loop

• The table is a function of block height alone. It must be rebuilt when the height changes and must not be reused across heights.
• The previous table is released before the next is allocated. Holding both doubles peak memory (14 GB against 7 GB) and is the difference between running on a 16 GB machine and not.
• The nonce space searched is masked to the pool's extranonce prefix, so two connections never duplicate work.
• A dropped connection reconnects with backoff. Only an explicit stop ends the session.

4. pools

A pool is listed only after this client has held a real conversation with it: a job parsed, and where possible a share accepted. An endpoint published in documentation is not evidence — most Ergo pools' published endpoints no longer resolve at all. See the survey in the README.

Per-pool differences that must stay behind the interface:

• solo routing — an address prefix (herominers) or a separate host (2miners)
• ledger units — nanoERG for most, plain ERG for k1pool
• payout floor — read from the pool's own API where it publishes one

Network difficulty and the ERG price are chain facts, not pool facts, and are read from a single source regardless of where the user mines.

5. resources

8 GB machines cannot run this and must not be told otherwise.

6. the interface

• One primary action: the crystal starts and stops mining.
• Colour carries meaning and nothing else: mint is gain, amber is cost, coral is failure, blue is a chain fact.
• Every number shown must be traceable to something measured. Projections are labelled as such and derive from live difficulty, never from a constant.
• The application never claims to have earned what the pool has not credited.

7. out of scope

Sending funds (import the seed into a wallet), running an Ergo node, true solo mining against your own node, Intel Macs, and any platform that is not macOS on Apple Silicon.