Questions first-timers ask.

The download is free. Until 1 December 2026 prldash takes nothing from what you mine. From then on a small 0.5% fee keeps the project going: about 5 cents for every $10 you earn. You mine through a mining pool, which keeps about 1% for running it. Your other cost is the electricity your PC uses; add your rate in the calculator to include it.

Mining keeps your card busy, much like a long gaming session. Keep your PC clean and cool, as you would for games. Many people also set a lower power limit in their GPU software to keep the card cooler and quieter.

Yes. The miner keeps running while you play. Your game uses part of the graphics card, so mining slows down, and it speeds up again when you stop playing. If you want every bit of power for a game, close the miner window and double-click your start file again later.

Security tools flag mining apps by default, even honest ones, because malware sometimes mines in secret. Only download prldash from this site. Each release lists a fingerprint (SHA-256) so you can check the file is exactly ours.

A wallet is the address your Pearl coins arrive at, like an account number. The official Pearl Wallet is free: install it, create a wallet and copy the address that starts with prl1.

Write down the recovery words it shows you and keep them offline. Anyone who has them can take your coins.

Your coins collect at the pool and are sent to your wallet once you pass its minimum payout. To swap PRL for money, send it to an exchange that lists Pearl. The price changes every day, so the value of what you mined does too.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30, 40 and 50 series on 64-bit Windows, with an up-to-date NVIDIA driver. AMD and Intel cards aren't supported yet.

Pearl's developers are discussing an upgrade that would limit mining to RTX 50 series and data-center cards. It has no date yet. If it goes ahead, we'll announce it here and update prldash.