Topic: Baikal Giant X10 - page 32. (Read 132901 times)

agree, all those resellers just ruining everything again. Always buy directly from the manufacturer and don't waste money on resellers.

Actually I have just bought 2 X10 from Baikal. All was fast and ok. And they are new units.

I would buy from Europe but for 2400 euro. Not more. More is simply dumb.

Can anyone tell where all the hashrates of Verge and Shield are? For 1 day half of the hash performance has been counting him network.

Could it be that Baikal is already switching to the 2 new Algos?

"directly from baikal"  - you say it like it would be an advantage, rather than hindrance... Don't mix the things. I would immediately buy your X10 for 2200 EUR ($2699) with all taxes and customs payed in Germany and resell it the same day on ebay for at least 3300EUR.
And by the way for sure it is some gold inside, cause I've just sold one already - looking forward to sell one more

Yes wait for an idiot to come to buy it ... $2699 straight from baikal and no one is buying why someone buys yours ? Is it from gold made ?

Nethash for myriad-groestl algos nearly doubled in 24 hours, you should not buy a Giant X10 anymore.

ROI is unreachable in a few days, rip.

the price might seem not so overpriced if you consider that you don't need to wait endless for the delivery from China, deal with Customs, CE mark, etc. And again, I think we all pretty sure that nobody of us got "new" device =)

By the way I would sell my X10 for 3800EUR, location Germany. PM me

You can use json for rotate pools/algorithms. I used on bash:
echo '{"command":"switchpool","parameter":"0"}' | nc -v ip_baikal_x10 4028
where "0" is number in the list of pools. To select the fourth:
echo '{"command":"switchpool","parameter":"3"}' | nc -v ip_baikal_x10 4028

I don't think the rotate option works. Someone in another thread said the miner has to be restarted to change pools/algorithms.

Why such a thing may be required? DGB pool is usually calculated PPLNS.

I found a sgminer option for rotate. Under Miner > SGMINER Options you click Add Options. Then, in the first box you put 'rotate' and in the second box you put how many seconds you want it to rotate. It's kind of hard to tell if it's actually working because in the dashboard, it doesn't show the pool switching. I'm going to set it to rotate every four hours, and see if it's actually working. Anyone know how to view the sgminer output in the terminal or a way to check from within the terminal?

A couple random thoughts I've had about this miner:

1. Once we crack the sgminer and do more algorithims, I'm sure Baikal will release their version to the public.

2. I was thinking about how you could multimine with just one Baikal X10. If you get your hands on another Orange Pi Zero, with the extra pin headers, and an extra control board, than what is to say you couldn't take one or two hash boards out, and put them in another case?

3. Also another thought about multimining is, what if you could setup a cron job on the Orange Pi Zero to switch pools every few hours. I know there are auto-switching pools, but it would be nice to say, mine DGB / Qubit on one pool, then four hours later, switch to Verge / Myriad-Groestl on another pool. I think this could be done simply by making a cron job to update the miner.conf and miner.pools.json. I don't know. Then again, maybe it's just easier to use some autoswitching pool or software for this.

Maybe you should overthink your price. You geht 'new' ones with 45days warranty for 2699$.

Why the heck someone should buy yours? 

funny

Hi guys, Im selling Baikal Giant x10 4800USD. Shipping from Europe-Czech --> to Europe.
PM me and We can discuss about safe delivery.

Hi,

Where are you minning? I’m minning in minninpoolhub   myriad groestl and set auto change to siacoin, but I’m not sure if I’m even makin 10 USD per day I would say no …

you are perfect. I can not even imagine someone with a Giant X10 will have ever heat problems.
Mine work with 10% fan and are only 10C warm, or better said, cold, lol.

I think perfectly is everything from 10 to 30C in my opinion.

i have the fun at 40 % , and the operating temperature its 22 °C, its enough right? it doesnt make much noise

I'm too busy working on my own FPGA rig but if someone wants to crack the X10 this is how I would do it:
- The ASIC is in a QFN-48 package
- The ASIC must have at least 14 different hash functions (for X11, MG, Quark, Qubit) and these are probably enabled/disabled (maybe even individually), either by level sensitive GPIO pins, or by a UART/SPI/I2C command
- Since the X10 must be rebooted to switch algorithms, then it means the ASIC only polls the level sensitive pins on POR-Init and/or only receives the SPI/UART/I2C algorithm selection command on POR-Init
- Therefore the obvious way to crack the machine is to use a logic probe, logic analyzer or multimeter and probe the 48 pins of the ASIC during the period of reboot
- First, the easiest possibility is the pins are level sensitive. In which case you will find some pins level (high/low) are different when you mine different algorithms
- More difficult, you'll find a burst of pin changes upon reboot (SPI/UART/I2C algorithm command, or brief polling of level sensitive pins)
- Either way, you can now trace the algorithm selection pins back to the controlling MCU.  To do this, power down the machine, and use your multimeter in audible beep mode and probe the pin on the 48-QFN and also pins on the various controller MCU's until you find a hit
- At that point you have identified the source(s) of the algorithm selection signals
- There are different paths forward now.  The gutsy way (with the unit off) is to use a soldering iron and lift the pin at the MCU controller end and hardwire the pad on the PCB it a high/low voltage (forcing the algorithm you want)
- Then, you need to make the Raspberry controller run compatibly with your forced algorithm selection.  How hard this will be depends on the how baikal did it.  You can try to connect to a NIST5 pool for example (ignoring the algorithm selection in the Baikal control panel), and see what happens
- Otherwise you would need to modify the sgminer settings

Actually it does. This is the source code of the sgminer that has been customized by Baikal. Unfortunately even if you could compile your very own sgminer it wouldn't be enough without modifying the firmware of the microcontroller.


That's right. Otherwise it would be too easy. But at least you have a chance if you know what you are editing in the firmware's binary file.