Topic: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner! - page 20. (Read 37767 times)

Hello,

    Thanks for posting the image yesterday.

    I found the /opt/apolloapi inside and the repository with links to GitHub.

    Will the apolloapi repository remain private on GitHub or is it going to be made public?

    Also, with the ARM A7 controller, do you have any machine type recommendations for use with QEMU to evaluate the image and test further development?
    I only see a generic arm32v7 specified in the Dockerfile.

Best Regards,
-Xi

Well thats what we are trying to change here!

I estimate that probably less than 1k people control 80-90% of litecoins hashrate. What happens if we can get 100k or even 1M people using an Apollo running a full node and mining coins on their desk?

It would change everything....that would be the most decentralized coin in existence, mining farms would be put out of business, and coins would be evenly distributed to hundreds of thousands instead of 1k at the top.

People get lost in profits, and ROI...but everyone forgets that the whole point of mining is not to mine and sell for USD, but to distribute the supply of the coin to as many as people as possible, and secure the network with as many people as possible.

Received mine today. Took less than 15 minutes to get up and running. Beautiful dashboard, couldn't be easier!

https://i.postimg.cc/ncZ586Jx/hash.jpg

I have been accessing from different browsers and found the following:
For safari, “futurebit.local” works as typed in the browser
For chrome, type “//futurebit.local”
For edge, type the ip address

Litecoin miners are reachable everywhere. They have been here for years. Take the previous product - Moonlander2. They help to popularize Litecoin, and mining in general. Apollo is no different. Thing is, on this production scale, this product, aimed at home miners or newbies, is just a drop in the ocean.
But, as they say, every little counts!

Excuse my newbie naïveté, but as more Apollos are put into service, and assuming more are used to mine Litecoin, should that increase the popularity and price of Litecoin?

Yes, its also discoverable via bonjour service or whatever thats called these days (i.e. any iOS or Apple device should be able to pick it up as well as most android based phones).

For the time being its probably easiest to just set each one up one by one.

Next image version will have a UID thats broadcast via the built in wifi (so wifi SSID will be something like futurebit-E2FD9 which you'll be able to connect to directly and configure, and hostname will be futurebit-E2FD9.local etc).

Received mine today. There's no instructions in the box or links online (as far as I know) as to where to download the image for the SD card.

Multicast DNS (mDNS) is generally what resolves hostnames with the .local TLD. I suspect that whoever "claims" futurebit.local first will win. You'll probably need to go into the device and change its hostname to something else, so that the fresh device can claim "futurebit.local" when it comes up for the first time.

# 1215 same here...

# 1233 here, didn't get the reminder but replied to the order confirmation with phone nr based on above request.
Though haven't received anything more like a shipping confirmation yet.

You received it already and all we have is an image of a dashboard?! Come on, man Give us some real pictures!
Can't wait to get mine.

jstefanop, I ordered two, both of them will want to communicate on futurebit.local. How I can separate them from each other?
By the way, what is the protocol name used to discover and announce localhost names like futurebit.local in my LAN?

crap only just saw this order numbers in the range, I'll respond to the order update email as I didn't recieve an email reminder

glad I checked the thread

you can sign up for waitlist at www.futurebit.io. Still have about a week of pre-order to ship out so nothing will be started on that front until all pre-orders are shipped out.

Has there been an announcement or a waiting list started for the next batch?

Sorry to everyone that got their miners today, been trying to finalize this image and I think I finally got it. Im pretty exhausted and ill have more details up on the site and a support thread up with more instructions tomorrow, but below is the condensed version that should get you guys up and running.

Download image here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/apolloimage/apollo_final.img.zip

Unzip it

run a sha256 checksum on it should be (not required but should check it in case of corrupted download if your having issues)
906bbdb9b9a195edea5fd3302b258ae28e6049c04a610698d253132f5dee50eb

Use a clone tool like etcher to clone the unzipped image to your SD card (or use dd) it MUST be a bit copy that overwrites the whole SD card and not just a partition so make sure whatever tool you use can do that

stick the SD card into the Apollo (the slot is underneath where the blue controller is)

plug in your ethernet cable and power her up!

you should see ethernet lights flashing, and after a few seconds the front LED should start flashing yellow...wait a min or two until its fully booted up and connected to your local network...it should start mining right away and you'll see lots of green and red blinky lights.

Go to a web browser on a device thats connected to your local network (both computers and phones/tablets should work) and go to futurebit.local (this might not work for everyone)

If futurebit.local does not work your going to manually have to find the IP address of the device on your network...just use any ip scanner that can display a hostname (futurebit is the devices hostname) otherwise just go down the list and enter the address of the active IPs until you see the Apollo UI load.

Thats it! The rest we hopefully made intuitive and easy enough that I don't need to explain it...set up your pool and save and you should be good to go!

DONT do anything stupid with settings until I have a full writeup, and keep the miner in ECO mode for now.

Enjoy!

saw this thread update a little late. I replied with my phone number. Order number: 1213

In most cases you only need to pay the Value Added Tax.

The VAT percentage is country specific.

In here Finland,  the VAT is 24%.


If your courier or the customs take some additional fees, of course those have to be paid as well.

I have emailed my tel no. to futurebit.io

Order #1210

Yay order 1199 shipped! 

Okay I got the email I will give you a phone number.


edit :

I sent you a phone number via email