IMHO the best miner is the one that preserves the very basis on which whole community & industry is dependent.
A miner should thus have following parts/functionality:
2. A miner that allows user simple options to set it at different power consumption levels e.g. 100W, 125W, 150W instead of dealing in GH/s. This will allow novoice miners to make a choice based on their ability to spend on power. Also, for seasoned miners most important stat for making decision is power consumption. So instead of seeing hash rate, if we can see power consumption & ROI in $/day on a LCD display, then it will be much better.
4. Miner software should allow to configure miner/full node to run until certain conditions are met, e.g. run until power bill for today is $X or Bandwidth usage is X MB. This will allow customers to make decisions w/o monitoring things all day.
5. You can create a line of miners with each one targeting specific group.
i) For Home miners & bitcoin believers - 50 to 200GH/s or 25 to 100W miners
ii) For individual investor - 300 to 1500 GH/s or 150W to 1000W miners
iii) For industrial miners above 2TH/s
Sam
I agree with 2) as it is very important for deciding mine or not to mine
It takes a lot of calculations and measurements when adjusting by yourself. But I still it is just unnecessary addon.
I also agree with 4). It can also switch energy consumption profiles based on time (night time - quiet mode) or temperature, or whatever. This is also usefull, but unnecessary addon.
For point 5) there can be different targets based on current diff and GH/W, but generally 100W for baginner is good choice - it can ROI. Individual investors can accept machines from 1kW to 3.5kW, industrial needs easy stackable (rackmount) with as low components as possible. One controller for one rack, three PSU per rack. No wires mess, low set-up cost.
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