Topic: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner! - page 4. (Read 37316 times)

I am A real Newbie so i want to get this right.

under the Futurebit POOL dashboard i put in


URL...............................stratum+tcp://scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433
Username.......................ltc wallet address i.e LKEyiGGfp1ZjTQxwAB7CddRv7Nrrc1iQQt(put ure own wallet adresse)
Password........................c=LTC,m=party.Apollo ........(is Apollo the pool we will be joining or is this the password and can be changed
Proxy (Optional)..............Leave Blank

thanks  

I am on the  itecoinpool. Once i get a payout i want to change and try ZergPool

Thanks!  Showed up on my doorstep today, reminds me of the pre-Amazon prime days.  Usps sure took their time.

shoot me a PM or reply to your order email. Everyone should have delivery by now.

Like i said, just my initial thoughts when i saw the price...
However, i guess the reason it gets compared to the L£ it, well becuase they are both "scrypt" miners....erm, its the only competiton for the L3, so is obviously going to be compared.
I absolutely agree...of course you have to make money, how else will you be around to make even more great products. I don't follow Bitman, or who ever they are, so have zero idea that they lose money on their products...seems daft if they do
Don't have an Apollo, so can't comment on noise, my underclocked L3 is okay-ish noise wise, louder, but not as annoying as the moonlander 2's i have, which screech like banshees....
No idea what a Casa node is, so completely irrelevant. (I'm buying a scrypt miner)
Made in the USA, well I'm British, so that means absolutly nothing to me...i know China, whilst making lots of crap, also make world class products, its all down to picking the right suppliers, and managing them. I guess The US of A makes good products too.

Like i say, i absolutely WILL recommend your products to people i think they will suit, and to be honest thats just about every newbie, who wants to dip a toe in, and every "family" guy/gal who wants a beautiful product that can sit in the living room, being a talking point...they look a wierd thing of beauty....i simply think for the more seasoned miner, especially if you want to ramp up the MH, and certainly from a UK perspective, with shipping and taxes, they look a tad expensive ( i never said a complete ripoff, just a tad expensive)
If i ever get offered a 2nd hand one at a decent price, i will happily add it to my collection, and give it a decent test...i actually think, its about as exiting as the original Zeus miners, off which i have about 10, and all thou completely out dated, still make me smile mainly due to their simplicity, and elegance, something i also see in your product. ( like i say i havent seen an Apollo in the flesh, but on YT, etc, they look bloody sexy - for a miner)

The one thing no-one has yet confirmed to me, is can they solo mine directly to a wallet, as the moonlanders do, or not? Thay would actually be the make or break point for me, since i only ever solo mine.
J

Still haven’t received mine yet and the tracking number given is still showing pending pre-shipment.  Is there anyway to check status? 

I think most people look at prices and think of it/compare it on a basis of making ROI or not. And truth be told, most ASICs are hard to make ROI on unless you have decently low electric rates.

I like this miner for the fact that it can sit right here in the same room with me and be more efficient than an L3 - compared to my BW L21 which rum 550 mh/s but uses near 900w to do so - if I had 5 Apollos I could pull 500 mh/s for near 500 watts - very close to twice as efficient.

Thanks for your thoughts but not sure why people keep comparing it to L3s and telling me thats what they "should" be priced at. Its price exactly where it needs to be for me to make it, and pay my bills. This product cant even be compared to an L3 on any metric. Also im not bitmain that is losing 100s of millions of dollars a quarter. I actually operate in the real world where I have to pay my suppliers out of pocket (hence pre-orders), and cant sell something for a loss just because everyone else is.

Your buying a brand new product (not something 3+ years old), thats nearly twice the efficiency, made in the USA, incomparable sound level, and not to mention software updates for this will make it into a full blown casa node, that alone costs 300 USD. Personally I think I am selling this way cheaper than I should be, but im not in the business of unfairly pricing products for pure greed.

Hi,

Just saw the link, got very excited, and had to go look.

First up, i love your product, and would love to buy one....
However, sorry to say, but i think especially in the UK, your pice now seems way out of touch.

I mean fully loaded with psu and sd card, iys over £320 before shipping and taxes.
When you compare that to how ridiculously cheap 2nd hand L3+ now are...well, i don't really know what to say

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-L3-504M-Scrypt-Litecoin-LTC-ASIC-Miner-504-MH-s-Bitmain-PSU/133149577170?hash=item1f00554fd2:g:aTIAAOSwbShdIxob
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-L3-504M-Scrypt-Litecoin-LTC-ASIC-Miner-504-MH-s-Bitmain-PSU/193067388462?hash=item2cf3b68e2e:g:98QAAOSwvdxdEUuH
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-L3-504MH-s/293198858666?hash=item44440389aa:g:SVQAAOSwcmtdIpnV (No PSU)

Look, i sincerely wish you all the best, and will still happily refer newbies to your product (as i say, i am a supporter, and it IS a prpbably the best starter device on the market), but one is bad, but by the time you buy 2 or 3, i mean you could have 1-1.5ghs from elsewhere.

In my mind its no more than a £200 device, fully loaded.

Just my 2p worth....
J

FYI Batch 2 in-stock units are now available to order for people that didn't want to do a pre-order. All new orders ship within 5 days.

shop.futurebit.io

There were about a dozen stragglers left in the last pre-order shipment last week...yours was probably one of them (we ran out of SD cards  ). Those should be in carrier hands by now.

With everything my wife and I have ordered lately in the past several weeks - from numerous different places - tracking hasn't updated till after we received our orders haha..Gotta love USPS..So I would not worry too much, he's a stand up guy.

I ordered mine June 21st and received it August 15th. mine was showing pre-shipment up until about an hour before it was delivered.

Anyone recently receive theirs?  Ordered mine in July before it was sold out.  Was told it would ship out last week.  Never received tracking information.  Inquired about it on Monday, said I would get a tracking number in a few hours, received a tracking number but it's still in pre-shipment, hasn't moved since Monday.

I really want to try a few of these. Little solo mining of NENG perhaps...Maybe I can talk my wife into letting me snag a couple lol...

Somebody found an LTC block in the zergpool party

I'm back in business after the re-image - thanks again for your support!!

I had other miners running on the power strip as well –yea, I was pushing the envelope- and for sure not a sole issue caused by the miner. Okay, this may be beyond my capabilities, but I'll give it a try!

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

What were you running on the breaker that a fan speedup would trip it? Anyway sounds like the power outage caused your SD card to get corrupted, just follow the support thread linked on the main post of this thread on how to re-image your card.

Needing some help please. I've had my miner up and running for a couple weeks now and everything has been near perfect! Unfortunately, last night I went to speed up the fan on balanced mode to 45% and it kicked the breaker on my power strip.

Now, the miner turns on with red light illuminated on front and lower fan spinning. When I go to start the miner the light turns yellow for a moment then back to red and it will not start. I have yellow and green ethernet lights illuminated on the back. I've unplugged / plugged in and tried to start on several modes, but without success. Any help is greatly appreciated –thank you!

Looks like he has a modem / router plugged in also..