All bitcoin miners as of today come with their own software pre-installed with a web access and a simple GUI, you just need to enter your pool and worker details and start mining right away.

If you have any device that needs some sort of software then it certainly can't mine bitcoin in the first place.

I did conduct long research on this problem a year ago, more details can be found here, long story short, the temp sensor error is very rarely the result of a bad temp sensor, which makes perfect sense because what are the odds of 4 temp sensors falling at the same time? slim to nothing if you ask me.

Your problem is a bad chip (or a few of them), we do not "yet" know why some chip failure causes the miner to report a dead temp sensor but we are certain that is the case, if the fixture tool did not help with identifying the exact chip, you will need to manually measure the volage/resistance across all chips.

If the temp-sensor error shows on all three boards (you get a total of 12 temp sensor errors) then that is just a bad PSU.

If it was this simple, nobody would mine bitcoin in the U.S, China, or any other region, everyone would move to a country where power is dirt cheap and we all will become millionaires, unfortunately, the world does not function this way.

Most places that have cheap electricity have other major issues which most people rather not go through, the majority of those countries are pretty corrupted, so just because the power is cheap it does not mean the mining operation itself is cheap, you will still need to bribe some cops, mafias or a militia to be able to mine safely, and even if you were okay with that route then your operation needs to be either so huge that you can afford to keep those folks happy or too small to stay under the radar, in other words, you need a lot more than just 60-70k.

On top of that, you will need someone to get you there, a partner who will ask for a huge cut without sharing any risk or investment with you, there is so much to be said about this, but in short, those cheap rates are not for everyone and the average joe should not even think about it.

What's more important than that is the fact that mining isn't a no-loss business that will secure your financial life at no risk, I have almost free power, and yet I have encountered some serious losses in my mining investments, there is a lot that can go wrong, the power bill is just one of so many other things you need to worry about, add to that the fact that by next halving or the following if bitcoin price fails to reach super high prices the profitability of mining will just keep going down.

It might be okay for some people to consider mining bitcoin (despite the fact that most folks lose money and are better off just buying the coin) but moving to a new country just to mine bitcoin is one of the worst ideas I have heard this year.

Care to explain how is your mining pool going to be decentralized? I don't think anyone has issues with centralized pools since 99% of pools are centralized anyway, I just don't like seeing the word "decentralized" used for marketing purposes like that unless your pool is something like p2pool then please refrain from using that term.

The way these PSUs and the miner itself works makes it hard to clone the PSU, it's a "smart-psu" that interacts with the control board, it's a bit more complex than just a rectifier and a transformer, I don't think it's pretty difficult to do but nobody cloned it probably because 1 it will cost a lot 2 the demand isn't high enough to justify the investment.

I don't think there is any conspiracy theory behind the lack of PSUs, they probably are limited to a certain capacity, I also think they did not expect the failure rate to be this high, most large scale miners I know who bought a dozen of the 19 series said the miner itself is solid but the PSU is trash, so probably bitmain had to replace a dozen of those PSUs and thus they have little to nothing to sell on their website.

Other companies like MicroBT are also short of PSUs, this has been kind of common for years now, it is why one must try to stick to buying the same miner model and get a few extra PSUs for backup, and because most miners die before the PSU does, having the same miner model has a huge advantage over having different models, every miner that dies on you gives you a spare PSU and a control board, I have more PSUs and control boards for my S9s than I'll ever need.

اخي لايوجد اجابة مطلقة لسؤالك, فالامر يعتمد على عدة اشياء, اهما هوا مدى تبات اتصالك بالانترنت والشبكة الكهربائية في بلدك, وتانيها هوا مدى "الخطورة" التي تريد ان تأخدها.

احواض التعدين تنقسم الى 3 اقسام رئسية.

النوع الاول:

 Solo مثل حوض https://solo.ckpool.org/ , في هدا النوع من الاحواض اما ان تجد بلوك ووتحصل على المكفاءة كاملة لوحدك او لا تحصل على شي ابدا.


النوع التاني: PPS

هدا النوع هوا الاكتر عمولتا, واقل حوض معروف يأخد نسبة 2% واغلبهم 4%, هنا كل عملية حسابية تقوم بارسالها للحوض يقوم الحوض بالدفع لك سواء الحوض وجد بلوك او لم يجد, ويتم الدفع لك بناء على ان حظ الحوض 100% , يعني لو كسب الحوض اكثر فسوم يحتفط بالزيادة وان كسب اقل فسوف يتحمل الخسارة وانت معفي من الزيادة والخسارة وتضمن حقك في 100% من الارباح - عمولة الحوض وهدا النوع هوا الافضل في حالة عدم تأكدك من ان جهاز سيكون متصل بالحوض طوال الوقت نظرا لانقطا الكهرباء او الانترنت.

النوع الثالث : PPLNS

هدا النوع تكون عمولته اقل, احيانا اقل من 1% , الفرق بينهم وبين النوع التاني هوا انك لن تتحصل على شي حتى يقوم الحوض بايجاد بلوك, يعني انك تشارك في الخسارة والربح, المشكلة في هدا النوع من الاحواض ان كل حوض لديه زمن معين يستخدمه لقياس المكفاءة, فمثلا لو كان الزمن 3 ساعات, يعني ان اخر 3 ساعات قبل ايجاد البلوك تمتل كل شي, في حال كنت غير متصل بالحوض لفترة ساعة ونص مثلا والحوض وجد بلوك واحد لذلك اليوم فسوف تتحصل على فقط مايعادل نصف يوم من التعدين, ميزة هده الاحواض انه عمولتها اقل وانها تتيح لك التمتع بالمكسب الاضافي التي قد يأتي مع الحظ , عيبها طبعا ان الانقطاعات المتكررة تؤدي بكل للخسارة.


اشهر احواض PPS هي Viabtc وهدا استخدمه شخصيا وعمولته 4% , ويوجد ايضا حوض Binance بعمولة 2.5% ان لم تخني الذاكرة, والكتير من الناس يسخدمونها ولكن انا لا افضله للعديد من الاسباب, يوجد حوض Poolin و F2pool و Sigmapool, انا اجد افضلهم هوا Viabtc نظرا لان برنامج الموبايل لمتابعة الهاش ريت ممتاز, لايوجد مشاكل او تقطعات, وايضا لديهم ميزة Smart Mining حيت يمكننك تعدين العملة الاكثر ربحا وتحويلها للبتكوين.

ولكن تذكر ان الامر له علاقة "بالعامل النفسي" فأنا ارتاح ل Viabtc ولكن معظم اصدقائي يستخدمون F2pool و Binance يعني يمكن ان يكون خيار الحوض مبني على اشياء بسيطة مثل شكل الموقع او اي عامل اخر قد يعتبره الاخرون غير مهم.


بالنسبة ل PPLNS فاشهر الاحواض هوا Slushpool استخدمته فترة طويلة عندما كنت امتلك انترنت تابت لا ينقطع وكانت الكهرباء لا تعاني اي انقطاع, اما الان فلم استخدمه مند فترة طويلة.

هل تقصد P2Pool؟ بالنسبة ل f2pool فاستعماله بسيط جدا, تقوم بالتسجيل في الموقع, وتقوم بانشاء worker وتم تنسخ ال worker ورابط التعدين (موجود في الموقع عند التسجيل يمكنك ان تراه) وتضع في الباسورد x وعندها سيقوم جهاز التعدين بالربط مع الحوض ويبدا في محاولة حل المعادلات ويقوم العوض بالدفع لك عبر التحويل الى العنوان الموجود في اعدادات حسابك عند وصولك للحد الادنى.

اما ان كنت تصقد p2pool فالامر اكثر تعقيدا قليلا ويتوجب عليك امتلاك عقدة بتكوين واتباع بعض الخطوات للبدء, الامر ليس سهل للمستخدم العادي ولكنه "بسيط" والخطوات موضحة بشكل كامل هنا http://p2pool.in/ ان واجهتك اي مشكلة اتناء اتباع الخطوات يمكنكك السؤال هنا وسوف اقوم بمساعدتك.

I think they sent emails a few months ago stating that accounts that were inactive for a year will be closed, if that applies to you, then you that's your answer, if not, then they probably suspect your account for being hacked or something, either ways, you should contact them first, if they refuse to grand out access and/or pay your fund, post the proof in scam accusation.

Scroll back a few pages and you will find a few trusted folks who managed a few solo-runs, Phill might also be interested, most folks have not been so active here recently so you might PM them and get them to post here, by all means, both the funds and the address to which the potential block would go to must be owned by one of those folks.

اخي مع احترامي لك فهده حجة الضعفاء, الشخص الواثق من نفسه يجب ان يناقش بالمنطق وليس بالدعاء بالسوء, عالم الانترنت والكريبتو خصوصا مخالف للعالم الحقيقي, فهنى, البريء متهم حتى تتم تبرئته وليس العكس, نظرا لانه جرت العادة ان كل هده المواقع هي مواقع نصب او فيروسات او غيرها, ربما يكون هناك شخص او موقع صادق من اصل 100 لاشك في ذلك ولكن ايضا من الطبيعي ان يعتقد الجميع ان هده المواقع مضيعة للوقت او طرق للاحتيال.

ان كانت عكس ذلك يجب عليك ان توضح تلك النقاط, ماهو الدخل المتوقع من مشاهدة هده الاعلانات, كيف يتم الدفع, من الذي يقوم بالدفع و و و.

Sorry but nobody here knows you, if you try to collect funds for a solo run without getting someone trusted to hold the funds then everyone can come here to scam, this isn't personal but I am sure you understand.

LOL.

There are a dozen members who sell mining gears here, and another dozen that offer escrow, you need to be insane to think that I have some sort of a secret deal with thousands of people.

I did not claim that you are a scammer despite the fact that I am seriously leaning towards that fact, what I said, is that since you are a newbie here and have no reputation you should accept forum escrow (a service which I don't provide FYI), but you insist on selling your gears without the use of escrow and expecting people to send you money first. if someone is stupid enough to do so, be my guest, I am trying to help YOU sell your gears if you are legit, nobody in their right mind would send money to a random newbie.

If you want to sell your gears, offer the use of escrow, this isn't a command, I don't own the place, I am giving you free advice and you are free to accept/reject it.

This and the fact that his sockpuppet accounts also signed in after 5 years of inactivity makes me think that he is 100% legit.


Nobody will escrow a gift card deal for a scammer, these gift cards might work instantly but then cause you other issues, your account can be suspended and whatnot, I would just stay away.

The problem with solar isn't that you can't calculate the consumption, this is false. also, the "old fashion" isn't more reliable, it all depends on your plans and the regulation of where you live, one exception, however, is that off-grid solar system is terrible for mining regardless of where do you live, the life-snap of all batteries is relatively short, and most folks don't understand that just because the sun shines at 8 am and sets at 8 pm you don't really get 12 hours of solar power, it's a LOT less than that, so the amount of backup you are going to need is HUGE.

And given the fact that all batteries have a limited cycle-life (depending on the DOD) you will have two major issues

1- You will pay a HUGE amount of batteries to cover up for the 16-22 hours on which your solar panels are not generating any power
2- The batteries will most likely die before you get to your ROI

Doing this on-grid however, and with the right "program" is a whole different story, the lifespan of the solar panels is way too long (decades-long) and you will have enough time to ROI, of course, you will be hit by a large initial payment which in some cases is better spent on more gears, but again, it's all about the incentives.

It's not up to Whatsminer to accept or deny the access, if you can locally access the miner on port 80 then you should be able to do so remotely, I believe your router could be blocking you because Whatsminer GUI has an issue with CA root cerficiate, most firewalls will flag it so this could be the reason why, you do to need to play with your router security settings which isn't something I would recommend, port forwarding to your miners is risky and things could go wrong.

You really need an extra PC on-site to be somehow on the safer side, it doesn't need to be a fancy one, get the cheapest one you can, I am sure you can find something for $100 or so, if you can't afford it, wait until you can.

Most of us here agree that "some" 3rd-party firmware out perform the stock firmware, however, I believe Kano's argument here is that these firmware versions violate the GNU General Public License, in fact, the stock firmware itself does the same since Bitmain refuses to publish the source code to "their" firmware, but since Kano allows them to use his pool he must have some weird theory behind why Bitmain is allowed to do that but not the others.

Not for a weird reason, the reason is you likely plugged both cables, right?


You are using a different firmware which refers to the kernel log as something else, whatever you posted here is not the "kernel log" we need even if it says so on the custom firmware, look for sys/system logs and post those.

The above is correct, but it's worth mentioning that it's the most reliable because it's compared against other shit-gears, the S17 pro "as is", is really bad when compared to anything outside of the 17 series, I would avoid the 17 series gears altogether, the failure rate is so high and you will likely start facing issues in the not too distant future since the miner has been online for 14 months already.

If you can find Avalon or MicroBT even at a slightly higher price, go for it.

This only because the miner is in a good condition, it would run just fine with the stock firmware, in other words, I don't think that nicehash firmware aka HiveOs is the reason why that miner is running stable.




Not that it matters to me at least I take all opinions equally regardless of the rank, in fact, many folks here who have legendary status and have been in this space for many years still don't understand the basics of bitcoin, but if for whatever reason you want to prove ownership of that addy you should at least sign a message.

Gave you 2 merit points for the efforts, it's great to see more video content in the forum.

Can you re-do the same test but with the TWO power cords plugged in?