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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgdhr335 23 Sep \ parent \ on: Is this normal for a bitaxe gamma? bitcoin_Mining
Are you in a particularly warm environment? Ensured the heatsink is seated properly? Otherwise I can't really see why the temps are behaving that way. 5.1V input suggests the power supply is fine. ASIC voltage is correct.
I let mine run for about an hour with the tab left open so it would log a good bit of data. You'll notice the frequency is a lot higher at 600MHz but my power draw is like 10% lower than yours with the commensurate efficiency improvement. You'll also notice the temperature is basically flat with a room temperature of about 25 celsius.
I find it unlikely he/she/they hasn't been involved all along the way. I can't really conceive of a person who, if alive, could sit silently while events occur with their creation.
That said, if they destroyed their keys, I can understand there is no value to revealing their identity. They can just carry on in plain sight with a new one.
Meanwhile...
(I appreciate Ocean for their honesty with "Latest" error because lightning is probably the least reliable network I've ever used)
I suspect the difficulty setting on Ocean is a bit higher than other pools and not really suitable for bitaxes.
Nah it's solo mining either way. Winner gets all. The "web" version just has the advantage of being public which is why you can see some statistics about the users/devices using it.
If you use your own instance on your own hardware it's the exact same interface and such but just private.
Funny seeing a bunch of these clowns who have spent the past months trolling about it now saying "hmm perhaps this is a good idea".
10 sats \ 2 replies \ @dgdhr335 22 Sep \ parent \ on: Bitaxes and similar hashing power bitcoin_Mining
You can use the "public" version @ https://web.public-pool.io/#/
If you have your own hardware (I use Start9 on a mini-PC under my desk) you can run it at home thus the pool URL in my picture showing a local IP address as my bitaxe is connecting my own start9 node.
It's solo mining so no payout unless you hit a block which will likely not happen in my lifetime...but that's the lottery bit.
As people like Mechanic have explained on podcasts Ocean is a pool where you go if you generally agree with their ethos around "spam minimized" or "data free" blocks but it requires you to be able to accept more variable payouts because some days Ocean finds multiple blocks but some days finds none. For miners relying on "cashflow" that can present a challenge if they have bills to pay for hosting or electricity etc. but the pool has a stretch of lower block finds. For someone running some equipment at home or in the garage they might not have a problem stomaching a few weeks of low earnings because it usually averages out in the end before they go bankrupt.
I know when I mined at Braiins it was basically a flat line of earnings per day that only changed when the difficulty was adjusted. You could predict almost to the sat what you'd get. With Ocean it's frankly all over the place but as mentioned, tends to average out when you look at it over say a 30 day timeframe. I find the overall earnings roughly the same but I'm only running some dinky home mining equipment. Perhaps it would be different if I had a warehouse full of S21's or something.
I play the lottery at home with my own node/public-pool instance and it won't show up in any online dashboard or list of pools/hashrate as far as I'm aware. It's not much but it's honest work ;)
He strives for relevancy but unfortunately his takes are often terrible.
Coasting off a reference in the bible is a good way to make a living I suppose.
Not really concerned what companies do. Fiat is fine to use day to day as long as you understand it’s trash. Google coin…whatever. Steam credit from selling items on their marketplace…has its place.
Just store your actual value/wealth in btc. Gold has a place.
Everything else is just gated communities with surveillance all over it but they work fine for buying small stuff.
You are correct that most people have no idea how money works, where it comes from. How when you get a loan it’s just “new” debt is conjured out of thin air. How inflation steals 10% of the value every year (not that 2% scam jerome powell will trot out) etc etc.
I tell people the Matrix wasn’t a scifi movie. It was a documentary.
My concern would be more focused on the real centralization on the mining side. That’s to say you essentially rely on bitmain for your ASIC and most hashrate goes through a handful of pools.
Have a gamma. It's more of a curiosity but good for showing you the basics of mining at a low cost.
If you're anything like me you start off with one of them and think "hmm 1TH/sec is nice but now I want hundreds of TH/sec" and then you realize your home electricity supply or the sockets on your wall are cripplingly limited.
I keep hovering over the buy button on an Avalon Q but I'd never be able to run it at full power without risking tripping breakers lol.
Magicminer BG02 is a nice device too.
Simplest approach I've seen is using a generated border wallet. You can do it inside sparrow wallet or at the BorderWallets.com website.
Is it really "too small" a number though?
You can have millions of people using bitcoin and potentially billions on the various other layers eventually...but does that necessarily require a large percentage of them running nodes?
Is the number really growing slowly or stalled?
Bitnodes.io has the number of nodes online being somewhat flat around 10,000 for several years before 2021 and then the growth has been reasonably steady in the ~4.5 years since. Now over 23,000 in over 100 countries. Seems fine enough from where I'm sitting.