Install
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Pasiv is non-custodial: the pool pays your own wallet directly, and Pasiv never holds funds or asks for your keys. Mining is one button, and nothing starts until you press it.
Already on Pasiv 0.7.1? It says it is up to date, but it cannot see newer versions. Download below once and install over the top — your settings and payout address stay, and it updates itself from then on.
Windows: your browser may say the file “isn’t commonly downloaded” — choose Keep. Windows may then show SmartScreen naming the publisher, DRAGON HEDGE PTY LTD: More info → Run anyway.
Pasiv runs on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer. Send it to your computer →
For terminal users
Direct downloads and one-line installers. They update the same way.
macOS Apple Silicon
Signed and notarized by Apple, with a signed auto-updater. Open the .dmg, drag Pasiv to Applications, and open it from there (an app run from the .dmg or Downloads can't update itself). Apple Silicon (M1 or later) only.
Windows x64
If Windows Defender quarantines something. Pasiv's installer, app and both miners are code-signed (DRAGON HEDGE PTY LTD) and scan clean. Nothing miner-shaped is in the installer: the CPU miner (pasiv-rx, Pasiv's own RandomX miner) is downloaded on the first Start, and the GPU engine (Pasiv's own build of an open-source Pearl miner) only when you turn GPU mining on, each checksum-verified into an ordinary folder, with no permission prompt and no antivirus exclusion. Since 0.7.2 there is no third-party miner left to ask about. If Defender still blocks a miner, Pasiv fetches a fresh copy once; if that is blocked too, it shows the fix — Windows Security → Protection history → Allow on device — with a button that opens it. The detail →
Linux desktop · x64
One line installs Pasiv as a native package — a .deb on Debian/Ubuntu, an .rpm on Fedora/openSUSE — after checking it carries Pasiv's signature (the same key every Pasiv update is signed with, pinned in the script). From then on it updates itself: a daily check, and the app's Update button hands off to it. Prefer to do it by hand? Download the .deb or .rpm, then:
Don't use the .AppImage — its bundled libraries can break wallet sign-in. If you have it, run the line above to switch; your settings carry over.
Headless node servers · homelab
No desktop, no browser, no wallet on the box. Installs pasivd plus a hardened systemd unit that yields to real work (Nice=19), verifies its own checksum, and mines nothing until you claim it from the Pasiv app. Then:
sudo systemctl enable --now pasivd
Phone companion iOS · Android
Monitor and control every rig from your phone: live hashrate and earnings, start/stop, one-tap updates, and approving headless nodes. Signs in with the same wallet as the desktop app — non-custodial, never your keys.
iPhone — TestFlight beta. Free, no invite needed.
- Install Apple’s free TestFlight app.
- On the phone, open testflight.apple.com/join/CxAf4K5h — or scan the code.
- Tap Install. Sign in with the same wallet as your desktop, or tap See a demo.
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What you should check before installing a miner
You should be suspicious of software like this — most of the category deserves it. So:
- Payouts are non-custodial: the pool pays the address you enter (in USDT, once a day from 1.5 USDT, by default since 0.5.0). Pasiv can't hold or move your funds.
- The 4% fee address is published and auditable on the pool — see the home page. It accrues only while you're actually mining, on every coin — whatever you're paid in.
- macOS builds are signed and notarized by Apple, Windows builds are Authenticode-signed, and updates are signature-verified on the device; the headless installer verifies a SHA-256 before it installs anything.
- Cloud monitoring is opt-in and off by default. Product analytics are anonymous unless you sign in, never include a wallet or payout address, and switch off in Settings (privacy policy).
Coming from the command line? Pasiv as an XMRig GUI alternative. Running servers? Mine on a homelab.