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Quote from: LoyceV on September 23, 2023, 02:57:19 AM

How about this: put one of those chips in other hardware! If that would be possible without raising the price per hash too much, it could have a market.

Yeah, bring back the miner toaster:
https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/is-someone-using-your-toaster-to-mine-bitcoin-it-may-be-possible-in-todays-internet-of-things/

This won't be posisble
- it will raise the price of cheap electronics by too much, you need the chip, the board, and integrate it in the design, not worth
- large companies won't do it because they know consumers won't buy this new thing, and a few influencers doing so for fun is nothing compared to the millions that don't want it
- it adds a lot of possible problems, they need a new branch of customer support/tech/repair/design to deal with those and their gain in this?

No, the combining has failed, not for toasters or tvs or fridges, but even when we talk about heating, I've seen tens of strat-ups that wanted to sell you a bitcoin heater or water heater go bust because it doesn't make sense economically.

But, I have to add this as it's just so funny!
A 8TB SSD is too expensive so god forbid we would increase the block size to 4x times as it would put us in the hands of google and amazon, but of course, having 4 million people hosting a 3000w and $3k machine or 40 million at least a 500W (less efficiency, not all running 24/7) one to achieve decentralization is totally doable!!!!! Grin

Quote from: fillippone on September 22, 2023, 06:22:53 AM

Mining efficiency is the same at chip level. Of course having 300 chip together make the machine more efficient, and for this reason industrial miners are built with so many chips.

As long as any other device is using Bitmain chips you will never! and I say never!!!! be able to compete with them even if you try building your 100+ chp hashboard. Once there is somebody else making those chips and selling them at basically manufacturing cost price, you could have a chance, till then, never!

I can get a BM1398BB for 20$ via trusty sources and for $10 via less trusty ones and basically no guarantee for DOA, how could I compete with my home-built miner when the 342 chips packed in miner with 1 one-year warranty sell for under 3k?

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Interesting thread OP

You maybe could be interested about the topic I made for the begginers, related to Gekkoscience products : My USB SHA256 lottery

However, I would prefer to promote the Bitaxe project or Gekkoscience's products than Nerdminer.
I am a big fan of solo mining, home mining, and of USB mining especially since I know that most fellow Europeans don't have the luck of paying a cheap kw/h. So we know most of them are doing that as a random lottery, or for the beauty of learning something.

My point is, that they could learn the same things with Bitaxe and Gekko products, and they will have a small chance to find a block. For example, someone found a block with a Compac F recently.
With nerdminer, they will learn more or less the same things, but the hashrate doesn't give any chance to find a block.

Ok, a R606 or R909 is not standalone, but will give a very good experience to anybody interested by home mining.

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In my forum wanderings, I just discovered that BITAXE has a thread on the forum:

Open Source Bitcoin ASIC miner project that uses 2x BM1387 (Antminer S9)

Title reference to an old project version that used two chips instead of a single one.

Adding the reference to OP as well.

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Quote from: LoyceV on September 23, 2023, 02:57:19 AM

Quote from: fillippone on September 22, 2023, 06:22:53 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:41:51 AM

It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

Mining efficiency is the same at chip level. Of course having 300 chip together make the machine more efficient, and for this reason industrial miners are built with so many chips.

Bitaxe cost is outrageous, we do agree

How about this: put one of those chips in other hardware! If that would be possible without raising the price per hash too much, it could have a market. Then again, I wouldn't keep my Bitcoin mining hardware wallet connected to a PC 24/7 just for this, and I wouldn't want it to be very hot all the time. I regret missing the days that a home computer could mine Bitcoin.

There is no “other hardware” to connect to that chip.
That is a closed-source, proprietary undocumented chip. The community is trying to squeeze hash rate out if this with open-sourc, custom-built hardware.
The bitaxe is self-sufficient. It doesn’t need to be connected to other devices (we might not be there as of today, but very close): neither PC nor HW.

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Quote from: fillippone on September 22, 2023, 06:22:53 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:41:51 AM

It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

Mining efficiency is the same at chip level. Of course having 300 chip together make the machine more efficient, and for this reason industrial miners are built with so many chips.

Bitaxe cost is outrageous, we do agree

How about this: put one of those chips in other hardware! If that would be possible without raising the price per hash too much, it could have a market. Then again, I wouldn't keep my Bitcoin mining hardware wallet connected to a PC 24/7 just for this, and I wouldn't want it to be very hot all the time. I regret missing the days that a home computer could mine Bitcoin.

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Quote from: fillippone on September 20, 2023, 01:16:18 AM

But also, for the twofold reason I explained in the OP, these are useful gadgetry for at least the couple of reasons I outliner there.

I know for a fact that you can use LILYGO T-Display to create bitcoin wallet, something similar like DIY hardware wallet, and I also seen people are using them to make DIY bitcoin clock showing price and blocks, LNURLPoS, etc.
I wrote about some of thisprojects before, so anyone who don't want to use this device as Nerdminer anymore can easily transition to any other project.

Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:10:56 AM

It really sucks that laws of scale made miners so large, power hungry and loud to be efficient.

There are some near-silent asic miners, but this cases or enclosures are only making asic miners bigger

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Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:41:51 AM

It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

Mining efficiency is the same at chip level. Of course having 300 chip together make the machine more efficient, and for this reason industrial miners are built with so many chips.

Bitaxe cost is outrageous, we do agree (and I guess the final cost could be double of what you mentioned above). Bear in mind that the project is till in the tinkering phase: both software and hardware are continuously updated and optimised. This keeps cost high, because limit the volume production. I guess that once platform stabilise prices will go down sharply.

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Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:41:51 AM

Quote from: fillippone on September 22, 2023, 03:35:26 AM

This is exactely the Bitaxe project I described in the OP.

I didn't check the link before. I did just now: $95 for 1/330th of the power of an ASIC miner. That's 1/41th of the price.
It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

Mining efficiency is the same at chip level. Of course having 300 chip together make the machine more efficient, and for this reason industrial miners are built with so many chips.

Bitaxe cost is outrageous, we do agree (and I guess the final cost could be double of what you mentioned above). Bear in mind that the project is till in the tinkering phase: both software and hardware are continuously updated and optimised. This keeps cost high, because limit the volume production. I guess that once platform stabilise prices will go down sharply.

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Quote from: fillippone on September 22, 2023, 03:35:26 AM

This is exactely the Bitaxe project I described in the OP.

I didn't check the link before. I did just now: $95 for 1/330th of the power of an ASIC miner. That's 1/41th of the price.
It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

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Quote from: LoyceV on September 22, 2023, 03:10:56 AM

Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

This is a non-profit project. That is a no profit for the user. With such a setup, you won't probably mine a single satoshi in your lifetime. This is NOT for economic profit. The total loss of monetary funds invested in this project is almost inevitable.
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The nerdminer is 1,500,000 times less efficient than a miner.

What would it take to add a small ASIC miner into this? Would it be possible to take 1/1000th of the chips of an ASIC miner, and instead of 3500W run at 5W (a bit more per hash but still small enough to run off USB power)? It would be great for decentralization to have millions of people do some mining, but I guess the market isn't big enough to make production economically viable. You'd have to produce many millions of them to get the price low enough to sell them, and still they'd have to compete against millions of ASIC miners that are a thousand times more powerful.
I'd like it though! It would still be not for profit, but at least there would be some chance to find a block.

Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

i find it's a shame ASIC chip isn't used in any way.

It really sucks that laws of scale made miners so large, power hungry and loud to be efficient.

This is exactely the Bitaxe project I described in the OP.
It’s a 300nthish of a S17 or of a S19, depending on the version.
It utilises a single instance of the very same ASICS chip instead of the roughly 300 you can find on an industrial miner.

As you are the second one asking this, I probably didn’t put enough emphasis on this in the OP. I am going to fix it soon.

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Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

This is a non-profit project. That is a no profit for the user. With such a setup, you won't probably mine a single satoshi in your lifetime. This is NOT for economic profit. The total loss of monetary funds invested in this project is almost inevitable.
~
The nerdminer is 1,500,000 times less efficient than a miner.

What would it take to add a small ASIC miner into this? Would it be possible to take 1/1000th of the chips of an ASIC miner, and instead of 3500W run at 5W (a bit more per hash but still small enough to run off USB power)? It would be great for decentralization to have millions of people do some mining, but I guess the market isn't big enough to make production economically viable. You'd have to produce many millions of them to get the price low enough to sell them, and still they'd have to compete against millions of ASIC miners that are a thousand times more powerful.
I'd like it though! It would still be not for profit, but at least there would be some chance to find a block.

Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

i find it's a shame ASIC chip isn't used in any way.

It really sucks that laws of scale made miners so large, power hungry and loud to be efficient.

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Quote from: SFR10 on September 21, 2023, 02:45:23 PM

Refer to "this" part.

I saw the image from HAN solo miner yesterday and see Solo CK pool there. I felt strange but did not read the part you helped me to notice. Thank you.

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Thanks for the articles, although i'm already aware of that. But what i actually asked was technical comparison such as uptime, latency and block propagation speed. Although it's hard to compare block propagation speed between two pool.

Block propagation speed, do you imply about this?

SoloCk pool information. If you click on Backward arrow, you will see a diagram (I don't know what it is called exactly) for blocks found by Solo CK pool in previous years. It looks like coding activities from coders on Github.

Under that diagram, you have a list of all blocks found by Solo CK pool.

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Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/16/6Ij1T.jpeg
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Withe the latest firmware, the total hashpower of this device is 55Kh/s maximum (peak value, not sustained).

Have you tried pairing it with one of those tiny fans to see if the airflow improvement would be good enough to deal with the thermal throttling so it could sustain that hashrate?

Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

The following is the full list of boards capable of running 1.61.

And "1.6.2" as well

Quote from: MusaMohamed on September 20, 2023, 07:49:10 PM

There are 99 mining pools in this list, SoloCK is there but HAN is not.

Refer to "this" part.

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If you are still undecided, this is the definitive comparison chart:

Now you officially have no reason not to buy a nerdminer!
Just for the lols, guys.

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What a great post fillippone, I like the idea of this type of miner. I have seen the USB miners which are very compact and serve the purpose however this miner does two things with one.
I just checked on the website, fully assembled with a default black fan costs 56 € and the best part is it's power consumption. costing you only 2$ a year to have it powered, can give anyone a sense of mining without actually being heavily invested or taking care of big machinery in their small sized apartments.

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Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

I didn't know there are other Bitcoin solo pool besides solo ckpool. Do you know how reliable is it compared with solo ckpool?

Some articles with reported found blocks by Solo mining pool ckpool.

Yet another solo Bitcoin miner solved a valid block, earning a reward worth over $220,000
Solo Bitcoin miner defies odds to mine valid BTC block, gets $150K block reward
Another Lucky Solo Miner Nabs $160,000 Bitcoin Block Reward

Solo CK pool's miners found 3 blocks according to three articles since 2022, maybe more I don't know but I see this information is very confusing.

Quote from: fillippone on September 20, 2023, 05:02:46 AM

Sincerely, I have no idea. I guess the pool hasn’t mined a single bitcoin so far.

Likely that pool has yet mined any Bitcoin block so far. There are 99 mining pools in this list, SoloCK is there but HAN is not.

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Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

While it's fun project, i find it's a shame ASIC chip isn't used in any way. By ASIC chip, i mean something like BM1387 (which used on Antminer S17 and GekkoScience Compac F).

For this, you can go to the Bitaxe project, who uses exactly that chip, or the S19’s chip in the Ultra version.
All the references are in OP.

Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

I didn't know there are other Bitcoin solo pool besides solo ckpool. Do you know how reliable is it compared with solo ckpool?

Sincerely, I have no idea. I guess the pool hasn’t mined a single bitcoin so far.
But I think you can join other pools as well.

Quote from: ABCbits on September 20, 2023, 04:45:06 AM

You forget to include actual link for Han Solo Mining.

That has been fixed, thanks.

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While it's fun project, i find it's a shame ASIC chip isn't used in any way. By ASIC chip, i mean something like BM1387 (which used on Antminer S17 and GekkoScience Compac F). Although on bright side, they can promote their device to altcoin (which can be mined with CPU) community such as Monero.

Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

Once online, this is the Pool where the Nerdminers connect to:
https://web.public-pool.io/#/

I didn't know there are other Bitcoin solo pool besides solo ckpool. Do you know how reliable is it compared with solo ckpool?

Quote from: fillippone on September 15, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

Han Solo Mining

Where all this started. Valerio Vaccaro is still developing HanSolo miners. He is adding support to new boards and improving the current software. All this work might eventually be merged in the nerdminer code.

You forget to include actual link for Han Solo Mining.

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Quote from: dkbit98 on September 18, 2023, 10:31:26 AM

Interesting little project that it's relative easy to make it, I know LILYGO T-Display is dirt cheap to buy and it's widely available on internet.
Code for nerdminer is open source and that is great, but I think this would be useful only if I had time machine to get back in past and actually mine some BTC Wink

Mixed feelings about this.
Of course, going back to 2010, when these devices could have been used to mine some bitcoin would be extremely useful, with or without a nerdminer.
But also, for the twofold reason I explained in the OP, these are useful gadgetry for at least the couple of reasons I outliner there.

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Interesting little project that it's relative easy to make it, I know LILYGO T-Display is dirt cheap to buy and it's widely available on internet.
Code for nerdminer is open source and that is great, but I think this would be useful only if I had time machine to get back in past and actually mine some BTC Wink

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