diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 56c44a43c6e..236842ecb0b 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@
   ./services/misc/emby.nix
   ./services/misc/errbot.nix
   ./services/misc/etcd.nix
+  ./services/misc/ethminer.nix
   ./services/misc/exhibitor.nix
   ./services/misc/felix.nix
   ./services/misc/folding-at-home.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/ethminer.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/ethminer.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2958cf21447
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/ethminer.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.ethminer;
+  poolUrl = escapeShellArg "stratum1+tcp://${cfg.wallet}@${cfg.pool}:${toString cfg.stratumPort}/${cfg.rig}/${cfg.registerMail}";
+in
+
+{
+
+  ###### interface
+
+  options = {
+
+    services.ethminer = {
+
+      enable = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = "Enable ethminer ether mining.";
+      };
+
+      recheckInterval = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 2000;
+        description = "Interval in milliseconds between farm rechecks.";
+      };
+
+      toolkit = mkOption {
+        type = types.enum [ "cuda" "opencl" ];
+        default = "cuda";
+        description = "Cuda or opencl toolkit.";
+      };
+
+      apiPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = -3333;
+        description = "Ethminer api port. minus sign puts api in read-only mode.";
+      };
+
+      wallet = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        example = "0x0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567";
+        description = "Ethereum wallet address.";
+      };
+
+      pool = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        example = "eth-us-east1.nanopool.org";
+        description = "Mining pool address.";
+      };
+
+      stratumPort = mkOption {
+        type = types.port;
+        default = 9999;
+        description = "Stratum protocol tcp port.";
+      };
+
+      rig = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "mining-rig-name";
+        description = "Mining rig name.";
+      };
+
+      registerMail = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        example = "email%40example.org";
+        description = "Url encoded email address to register with pool.";
+      };
+
+      maxPower = mkOption {
+        type = types.int;
+        default = 115;
+        description = "Miner max watt usage.";
+      };
+
+    };
+
+  };
+
+
+  ###### implementation
+
+  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
+
+    systemd.services.ethminer = {
+      path = [ pkgs.cudatoolkit ];
+      description = "ethminer ethereum mining service";
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [ "network.target" ];
+
+      serviceConfig = {
+        DynamicUser = true;
+        ExecStartPost = optional (cfg.toolkit == "cuda") "+${getBin config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidia_x11}/bin/nvidia-smi -pl ${toString cfg.maxPower}";
+      };
+
+      environment = {
+        LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidia_x11}/lib";
+      };
+
+      script = ''
+        ${pkgs.ethminer}/bin/.ethminer-wrapped \
+          --farm-recheck ${toString cfg.recheckInterval} \
+          --report-hashrate \
+          --${cfg.toolkit} \
+          --api-port ${toString cfg.apiPort} \
+          --pool ${poolUrl}
+      '';
+
+    };
+
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ethash/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ethash/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..da2fd13465f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ethash/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, boost, cryptopp, opencl-headers, opencl-info,
+  openmpi, ocl-icd, mesa, gbenchmark, gtest }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "ethash";
+  version = "0.4.2";
+
+  src =
+    fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "chfast";
+      repo = "ethash";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = "0qiixvxbpl2gz7jh1qs8lmyk7wzv6ffnl7kckqgrpgm547nnn8zy";
+    };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    boost
+    cryptopp
+    opencl-headers
+    opencl-info
+    openmpi
+    ocl-icd
+    mesa
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    gbenchmark
+    gtest
+  ];
+
+  #preConfigure = ''
+  #  sed -i 's/GTest::main//' test/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+  #  cat test/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+  #  ln -sfv ${gtest.src}/googletest gtest
+  #'';
+
+  # NOTE: disabling tests due to gtest issue
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DHUNTER_ENABLED=OFF"
+    "-DETHASH_BUILD_TESTS=OFF"
+    #"-Dbenchmark_DIR=${gbenchmark}/lib/cmake/benchmark"
+    #"-DGTest_DIR=${gtest.dev}/lib/cmake/GTest"
+    #"-DGTest_DIR=${gtest.src}/googletest"
+    #"-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${gtest.dev}/lib/cmake"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "PoW algorithm for Ethereum 1.0 based on Dagger-Hashimoto";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ethereum/ethash;
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/default.nix
index 1c62d79ed32..b543d47a050 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-{ stdenv
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, cmake
-, python
-}:
+{ stdenv , fetchFromGitHub , cmake , python }:
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "jsoncpp-${version}";
+  pname = "jsoncpp";
   version = "1.8.4";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
@@ -36,13 +33,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   cmakeFlags = [
     "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
     "-DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF"
+    "-DJSONCPP_WITH_CMAKE_PACKAGE=ON"
   ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     inherit version;
     homepage = https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp;
     description = "A C++ library for interacting with JSON.";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ttuegel cpages ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ttuegel cpages nand0p ];
     license = licenses.mit;
     platforms = platforms.all;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cli11/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cli11/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..904119bd6ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cli11/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, gtest, python, boost }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "cli11";
+  version = "1.7.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "CLIUtils";
+    repo = "CLI11";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0wddck970pczk7c201i2g6s85mkv4f2f4zxy6mndh3pfz41wcs2d";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ boost python ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    rm -rfv extern/googletest
+    ln -sfv ${gtest.src} extern/googletest
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11";
+    homepage = https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11;
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
+    license = licenses.unfreeRedistributable;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a270ed0fef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, opencl-headers, cmake, jsoncpp, boost, makeWrapper,
+  cudatoolkit, mesa, ethash, opencl-info, ocl-icd, openssl, pkg-config, cli11 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "ethminer";
+  version = "0.18.0-rc.0";
+
+  src =
+    fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "ethereum-mining";
+      repo = "ethminer";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = "0gwnwxahjfwr4d2aci7y3w206nc5ifssl28ildva98ys0d24wy7z";
+      fetchSubmodules = true;
+    };
+
+  # NOTE: dbus is broken
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DHUNTER_ENABLED=OFF"
+    "-DETHASHCUDA=ON"
+    "-DAPICORE=ON"
+    "-DETHDBUS=OFF"
+    "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+    pkg-config
+    makeWrapper
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    cli11
+    boost
+    opencl-headers
+    mesa
+    cudatoolkit
+    ethash
+    opencl-info
+    ocl-icd
+    openssl
+    jsoncpp
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i 's/_lib_static//' libpoolprotocols/CMakeLists.txt
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/ethminer --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : /run/opengl-driver/lib
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer;
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e8b58e09439..0d0c1d2744e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2103,10 +2103,14 @@ in
 
   colormake = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/colormake { };
 
+  ethash = callPackage ../development/libraries/ethash { };
+
   cpuminer = callPackage ../tools/misc/cpuminer { };
 
   cpuminer-multi = callPackage ../tools/misc/cpuminer-multi { };
 
+  ethminer = callPackage ../tools/misc/ethminer { };
+
   cuetools = callPackage ../tools/cd-dvd/cuetools { };
 
   u3-tool = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/u3-tool { };
@@ -8886,6 +8890,8 @@ in
   libsigrok4dsl = callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/dsview/libsigrok4dsl.nix { };
   libsigrokdecode4dsl = callPackage ../applications/science/electronics/dsview/libsigrokdecode4dsl.nix { };
 
+  cli11 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/cli11 { };
+
   dcadec = callPackage ../development/tools/dcadec { };
 
   dejagnu = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/dejagnu { };