Hi! Thanks for taking the time to help beginners! It's truly appreciated
I have been mining for ~2 months now with a S19j Pro 104TH and a Z15 (sorry I know this is a Bitcoin Forum so I will leave that one alone).
I have tried many pools/stratum servers/controllers but have yet to find what I'm looking for. I basically have 2 seperate questions or areas of interest:
1. Overclocking or Tweaking my hashboards to get the most optimal performance for my miner. I was super hyped to see the BrainsOS+ features for tweaking individual hash chips (3 x 126 for my miner) but the software is not compatible with my board (AMLogic).... but is compatible with Xilinx or Beaglebone. If necessary, I will just buy the 80$ control board, but would like to hear what you guys have to say about this.
2. Controlling my miner's real-time pool/coin to maximize the real-time value of my hashrate. On this subject I've gotten as far as any non-code proficient individual can... by I am not that individual. With 10 yrs coding experience, CS/Physics Degree, and amateur electronics enthusiast; I should be able to do better that to let Minerstat profit switch stupidly try to control my machine or create a stratum server that needs to be manually switched -> Stratu.ms (what's the use of having a stratum server if not to profit switch in real-time automatically... it's kind of useless if I have to be at the helm all day all night).
It's also noteable that to use profit-switching, one MUST understand what metrics are being used to evaluate switching coins. From what I can gather, most profit-switching algos (Minerstat's for sure) use the Difficulty, Network hashrate AND the real-time coin value which means that unless you are selling your mined coin in real-time this metric can be dangerously deceiving! On this note I have found Dutch Mining to at least solve that problem using the auto-convert function (at a price of 1.5%).
Soooooo, not to be tooooo gready, but here's what I would LOVE!
1. A stratum server with an API so I can write as little or as much into my own profit switching algo as I choose to. I think coupling the stratum server with the profit switcher is the most logical choice but I'd like to know if I am on the right track here.
2. An exchange service that will allow me to sell/swap/trade in real-time programatically so that the profit switching algo can use the coin value metric more precisely. And as an aside could allow me to develop a trading bot that could hedge/leverage my available margins to profit during bear/bull market fluctuations.
3. On my first question: the ability to maximize my machine's hashrate; and please don't refer me to Awsome Miner because it just isn't... awesome.
Thanks in advance for anyone that could help me along the way. I love to learn new things, and I know all the info I want is out there, but I am 45 years old with 2 children so re-inventing the wheel is really out of the question!
Thanks people!
PS: I noticed that there is a 4th com port on my Control Board... can I add a 4th Hashboard?