diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index fbeed6cdcd25..e6a89f93acc5 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -587,6 +587,11 @@
     github = "bergey";
     name = "Daniel Bergey";
   };
+  bfortz = {
+    email = "bernard.fortz@gmail.com";
+    github = "bfortz";
+    name = "Bernard Fortz";
+  };
   bgamari = {
     email = "ben@smart-cactus.org";
     github = "bgamari";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/minergate/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/minergate/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..acf0731f0aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/minergate/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, dpkg, makeWrapper, fontconfig, freetype, openssl, xorg, xkeyboard_config }:
+
+assert stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "8.1";
+  name = "minergate-${version}";
+  src = fetchurl {
+  	url = "https://minergate.com/download/ubuntu";
+    sha256 = "1dbbbb8e0735cde239fca9e82c096dcc882f6cecda20bba7c14720a614c16e13";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ dpkg makeWrapper ];
+
+  phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    dpkg-deb -x $src $out    
+    pgm=$out/opt/minergate/minergate
+
+    interpreter=${stdenv.glibc}/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
+    patchelf --set-interpreter "$interpreter" $pgm
+   
+    wrapProgram $pgm --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath [ fontconfig freetype openssl stdenv.cc.cc xorg.libX11 xorg.libxcb ]} --prefix "QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT" ":" "${xkeyboard_config}/share/X11/xkb"
+
+    rm $out/usr/bin/minergate
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    ln -s $out/opt/minergate/minergate $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Minergate CPU/GPU mining software";
+    homepage = https://www.minergate.com/;
+    license = licenses.unfree;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ bfortz ];
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+};
+}	
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0f7f33a6804d..b575c9c4a974 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3285,6 +3285,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   memtester = callPackage ../tools/system/memtester { };
 
+  minergate = callPackage ../applications/misc/minergate { };
+
   minidlna = callPackage ../tools/networking/minidlna { };
 
   minisign = callPackage ../tools/security/minisign { };