For what is going on we need to see the cgminer status GUI page like I posted https://imgur.com/jcTE6fRThat in itself will show the main status of all miners connected to the RiPi controller. Avoid the A921 & 950. In Canaan's rush to be 1st-to-market with a 10nm chip they rather blew it. Running full speed for just over 20Ths they are very hot and pull just over 2kw, Normal mode is a bit cooler, ~1.9kw & ~18Ths. 2x A841's do better... That said, as I posted in that setting link the A9xx are just as tweakable as the A8's. |
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Regarding the firmware: If the miner FW and software versions are different the miner GUI will still work fine but the miners either do not show up on the LuCl cgminer status tab or if they do show they have zero stats. You can use the upgrade miner button (I think located on the System tab?) to apply a different firmware .mcs files you have downloaded and saved on your PC. Use the openWrT software image from April 2018 and the April 2018 MM firmware (or the March 2018 ones if you want). This is cgminer status from my 841's but the 821's should look the same https://imgur.com/jcTE6fRIn that pic, under Avalon Device status the MM column is miner firmware version. All miners attached to the controller MUST be running the same version. |
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not impressed with bitmain tbh, shame there are not more brands to choose from.
There are: Canaan and the Whatsminers from MicroBt. For one thing both are generally far more reliable... |
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Did you follow that link to Hagg's setup & use guide?
Start at section 4)2. which where you start by burning a disk image to the micro SD card. It then takes you through al of the remaining config steps.
The links in his guide for software are shut down so use the files you get from the link DaveF gave.
As for you choice in More Options: Lose the auto tune for one. The miner does it already. For the rest of the commands, use the ones in the forum link I gave earlier where I gives many different settings to use.
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You use an imaging tool such as RasPi's own or Win32Diskimager to burn the img files onto the sd card. It creates the bootable disk image on the card and auto runs the LuCi interface to cgminer & everything else.
Its default address is 192.168.0.100 Initially, change is the IP address to what you want, either a static one or use DHCP and let your router figure it out. Save & apply. If you used DHCP look for what address the router assigned to it and go there. Enter your user info, save & apply again and you should be in business.
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That's ^^ one of the pages I was looking for! Now bookmarked. From that page you can click on ../ to get to the firmware .mcs files. Keep clicking it to go higher up for their other miners. The most recent version of the .mcs and OpenWrT.img files I have are March and April 2018. edit: Link to my post for Avalon settings I've used |
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A8xx 'custom firmware'  ? SCREW THAT! $400!! Even more screw that! Sounds like a typical Telegram scam... The Avalon A6xx-A9xx firmware/software already allows you to tweak a myriad of things using the Cgminer API and the More Options box. I poked around the bookmarked links I have for the Avalon's firmware/software and it seems that Canaan has taken down their pages. I still have my old 821's so let me find my backup images for them and I can mail you a sdcard with them. Free. One thing to keep in mind is that the miner firmware (.mcs file) version MUST match the OpenWrT software version. If I can find them I'll DM you for mailing address. |
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Um, since you mine at -ck's solo pool you should ask in his pool thread here Hopefully it was from losing an orphan race and is not another case of his pool losing another block... Since its start the pool has lost 6 blocks (all documented in the thread) due to various issues... One does have to ask, if you mine on his pool, how could you be unaware of its thread here on the Forum?... How did you find his pool? |
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I hope that the Patent Examiners are aware of this prior work https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00839-6 oh, the 1st post about it is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5490005.0That proper and well published research sounds an awful lot like what QBT claims: Methods to reduce the probable ranges of results when analyzing processes that were previously considered to be highly if not entirely random. The beginnings of the mathematicians research certainly predates the QBT Patent applications... That said, the techniques he won the Award for (so far) can only be applied to unique problems where the datasets being analyzed does not change every 10 minutes... |
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No. The amount of energy used and heat produced is the same no matter what sha256 coin is mined.
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As others have already said: It's BTC value is whatever the address (and private key) that are inscribed on it is loaded with when the coin is bought. Value of the physical material it's made of be it paper, plastic, or metal is what the material itself is worth. Beyond that there may or may not be a 'collectable premium' as well that some idjits may be willing to pay for.
Physical coins and yes also paper/plastic bills loaded with x amount of crypto and of course also inscribed with the private key needed to access the crypto have been sold for many many years. Yes, If you bought one in say 2014 that was loaded with 1BTC it probably would have cost just a few hundred dollars. Today that 1BTC is of course worth a helluva lot more.
HOWEVER:
The main problem with these physical crypto currency is of course the fact the buyer has NO assurance that the maker of said physical coins/bills has not also kept a copy of the private key. It is far too easy for someone to play the long game of issuing them for several months/years then later check the preloaded addresses and using their copies of the keys to empty the addresses that still hold something.
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When it comes to blockchain-based NFTs, I'm trying to answer one question: why?
What is the actual added value of an NFT versus a plain old contract between two known entities as is done in traditional digital content marketplaces?
..... Why? becasue it is a easy way to scam money from the idjits that buy into them. What is their added value? Only thing I like about them is the massive fees they generate for us miners. If fools want to spend their BTC on high fees to give to us miners, works for me... |
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Excellent and Merit given for that. Just one thing: it is better to use the Code tag # vs the quote tag. As you see below the code tag makes things much neater. 1. Working mode query
ascset|0,workmode,255 Query the current mode
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,workmode,255"}]
2. Set the fixed speed of the miner fan
ascset|0,fan-spd,<SPEED>
eg:ascset|0,fan-spd,100
ps:SPEED represent the expected fan rotate precentage,range:0-100
Parameter Description :
-The value of < speed > represents the expected percentage of fan speed, range: 0-100. If
speed is - 1, it means that automatic speed control is restored (version after 2020-02-12
only)
Give an example:ascset|0,fan-spd,100
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,fan-spd,100"}]
3.Set working voltage of miner
ascset|0,voltage-level,<VOLT>-<0>-<0>
Parameter Description :
The value of < volt > represents the voltage level, the first level represents 40mv (the same
for subsequent voltage levels), and the voltage (MV) = volt × 40 + 11000, the last two
parameters are 0 by default
Give an example:ascset|0,voltage-level,65-0-0
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,voltage-level,65-0-0"}]
4.Set the hashboard PLL
ascset|0,frequency,<PLL0>:<PLL1>:<PLL2>:<PLL3>-<0>-<MINER_ID>-<ASIC_ID>
Parameter Description :
-<PLL0>:<PLL1>:<PLL2>:<PLL3> The values represent four frequency points respectively -<MINER_ID> represent hashboard Number -<ASIC_ID> represent the chip number
MINER_ ID and ASIC_ ID set to 0 represents all chips in the current range
For example:ascset|0,frequency,0:0:525:575-0-2-1 represent set hash 2 No 1 IC PLL to 0,0,
525,572
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,frequency,0:0:525:575-0-2-1"}]
5.Comprehensive version query
version
Response example:echo -n "version" | socat -t 300 stdio tcp:10.100.227.152:4028,shut-none
&& echo
Return:STATUS=S,When=10047,Code=22,Msg=CGMiner
versions,Description=cgminer4.11.1|VERSION,CGMiner=4.11.1,API=3.7,STM8=20.08.01,PRO
D=AvalonMiner1246Nxx,MODEL=1246Nxx,HWTYPE=MM3v2_X3,SWTYPE=MM315,VERSIO
N=21092801_4ec6bb0t_59ba312t,LOADER=d0d779de.00,DNA=020100004f55fa20,MAC=b
4a2eb3767a7,UPAPI=2|
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"version"}]
6.Restore factory settings
ascset|0,restore
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,restore"}]
7.Query the reason for the last reboot
ascset|0,bootby
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,bootby"}]
8.Reboot miner
ascset|0,reboot,<n>
Parameter Description :
-<n> n It can be any integer greater than 0. When the miner's when is less than this n, it will
not restart and return an error (used to realize lax idempotence, allowing repeated calls to
reboot without repeated restart); When when is greater than N, it will restart. When n value is 0, it means forced unconditional restart. For example:ascset|0,reboot,0
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,reboot,0"}]
9,Control LED
ascset|0,led,<n>
Parameter Description : -<n> can be 0 or a positive integer to flip the LED light
ascset|0,led,n-0 # n is Non-negative integer,it used to turn off LED
ascset|0,led,n-1 # n is Non-negative integer,it used to turn on LED
For example:ascset|0,led,0
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,led,0"}]
10.Change network setting
ascset|0,ip,static,<ip>,<mask>,<gw> #allocate static ip
ascset|0,ip,dhcp #dynamic obtain ip
ascset|0,dns,<dns1>,<dns2> #set DNS
Parameter Description : -<ip> ip address -<mask>subnetwork mask -<gw>gateway -<dns1>-<dns2>set backup dns
[{"command":"ascset","0,ip,static,<ip>,<mask>,<gw>"}]
[{"command":"ascset","0,ip,dhcp "}]
[{"command":"ascset","0,dns,<dns1>,<dns2> "}]
FMS Diagnose :
11. Configure pool information
ascset|0,setpool,<username>,<password>,<poolnum>,<pooladdr>,<worker>,<workerpass
wd>
Parameter Description : -<username>web login username default:root -<password>web login password default:root -<poolnum>Scope 0-2 to set pool number -<pooladdr>pool address -<worker>Worker name
-<workerpasswd>Worker password
For example :ascset|0,setpool,root,root,2,stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.com:443,cctrix.001,123
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,softoff"}]
12.Set miner soft shutdown
ascset|0,softoff
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,softoff"}]
13.Restore the current user and password to the default values
ascset|0,password,default
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,password,default"}]
14.Change password
ascset|0,password,<num1>,<num2>
Parameter Description:
-<num1> original password
-<num2> new password
For example:ascset|0,password,root,123
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"ascset","parameter":"0,password,root,123"}]
15.Read pool information
Pools
Response example:echo -n "pools" | socat -t 300 stdio tcp:10.100.232.117:4028,shut-none
&& echo
Return :
STATUS=S,When=121,Code=7,Msg=3Pool(s),Description=cgminer4.11.1|POOL=0,URL=stra
tum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.com:443,Status=Alive,Priority=0,Quota=1,Long
Poll=N,Getworks=5,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Works=0,Discarded=0,Stale=0,Get
Failures=0,Remote Failures=0,User=cctrix.001,Last Share Time=0,Diff1 Shares=0,Proxy
Type=,Proxy=,Difficulty Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty
Stale=0.00000000,Last Share Difficulty=0.00000000,Work Difficulty=65536.00000000,Has
Stratum=true,Stratum Active=true,Stratum URL=btc.ss.poolin.com,Stratum
Difficulty=16384.00000000,Has Vmask=true,Has GBT=false,Best Share=0,Pool
Rejected%=0.0000,Pool Stale%=0.0000,Bad Work=0,Current Block Height=653809,Current
BlockVersion=536870912|POOL=1,URL=stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.com:25,Status=Alive,Pri
ority=1,Quota=1,LongPoll=N,Getworks=1,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Works=0,Discarded=0,St
ale=0,Get Failures=0,Remote Failures=0,User=cctrix.001,Last Share Time=0,Diff1
Shares=0,Proxy Type=,Proxy=,Difficulty Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty
Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty Stale=0.00000000,Last Share Difficulty=0.00000000,Work
Difficulty=65536.00000000,Has Stratum=true,Stratum Active=false,Stratum URL=,Stratum
Difficulty=0.00000000,Has Vmask=true,Has GBT=false,Best Share=0,Pool
Rejected%=0.0000,Pool Stale%=0.0000,Bad Work=0,Current Block Height=653809,Current
BlockVersion=536870912|POOL=2,URL=stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.com:1883,Status=Alive, Priority=2,Quota=1,LongPoll=N,Getworks=1,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Works=0,Discarded=0, Stale=0,Get Failures=0,Remote Failures=0,User=cctrix.001,Last Share Time=0,Diff1
Shares=0,Proxy Type=,Proxy=,Difficulty Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty
Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty Stale=0.00000000,Last Share Difficulty=0.00000000,Work
Difficulty=65536.00000000,Has Stratum=true,Stratum Active=false,Stratum URL=,Stratum
Difficulty=0.00000000,Has Vmask=true,Has GBT=false,Best Share=0,Pool
Rejected%=0.0000,Pool Stale%=0.0000,Bad Work=0,Current Block Height=653809,Current
Block Version=536870912|
FMS Diagnose :
[{"command":"Pools"}]
16.Read summary information
Summry
Response example : echo -n "summary" | socat -t 300 stdio
tcp:10.100.232.117:4028,shut-none && echo
Return :
STATUS=S,When=173,Code=11,Msg=Summary,Description=cgminer
4.11.1|SUMMARY,Elapsed=134,MHS av=0.00,MHS 30s=0.00,MHS 1m=0.00,MHS
5m=0.00,MHS 15m=0.00,Found Blocks=0,Getworks=9,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Hardware
Errors=0,Utility=0.00,Discarded=2501222,Stale=0,Get Failures=0,Local Work=3,Remote
Failures=0,Network Blocks=1,Total MH=0.0000,Work Utility=0.00,Difficulty
Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty Stale=0.00000000,Best
Share=0,Device Hardware%=0.0000,Device Rejected%=0.0000,Pool Rejected%=0.0000,Pool
Stale%=0.0000,Last getwork=0|
FMS Diagnose:
[{"command":"Summary"}]
17.Read log Information
Estats
For example:echo -n "estats" | socat -t 300 stdio tcp:10.100.232.117:4028,shut-none &&
echo
FMS Diagnose:
[{"command":"Estats"}]
18.Read Fan Information
ascset|0,setpool, fan-global
Return information:
success: {'session': 1632395154, 'success': [{'ip': '10.100.231.239'}], 'error': [], 'results': [{'node':
{'ip': '10.100.231.239'}, 'result': [{'result': "{'STATUS': [{'STATUS': 'I', 'When': 30, 'Code': 118, 'Msg': 'ASC 0 set info: Fan0[0] Fan1[0] Fan2[0] Fan3[0] ', 'Description': 'cgminer 4.11.1'}], 'id':
1}"}], 'error': False}]} |
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This isn't the case, you are completely anonymous when you coinjoin. Participants in a group transaction can't be distinguished from each other since there's multiple clones created with the exact same value -
You don't understand what this ban is about, it's not about stopping you from sending a tx! It's a about any company not allowed to receive a payment of over 3000 euros from an anonymous source! So your bravado is...empty slogan! You are free to enter a store and, buy a 5000 euro tv and try to pay with crypto, but the store will simply refuse your payment unless you id yourself! So? What does any mixing, conjoin or anything else solve here? As for the all caps breaking news... The new AML legislation applies certain limits for cash transactions and anonymous cryptocurrency payments. Under the new rules, anonymous cash payments over 3,000 euros will be banned in commercial transactions, and cash payments over 10,000 euros will be completely banned in business transactions.
The new legislation is expected to be fully operational within three years from its entry into force. I doubt more than 5% of the forum does more than 2 payments over 3000 euros for goods a year that can be split into two or three. Exactly. Personally I have zero use for a cojoin service and cannot think of a single reason to use them. Aside from a minuscule amount from the contributions address in my sig, every Satoshi I have are from mining at Kanopool over the past decade and are new, fully traceable coins that have never left my ownership. When needed I have no problem paying the taxes due on them and if questions arise regarding their source, I can easily prove their history. Worse, coins from known cojoin services quite rightly often raise red flags with exchanges. The thing about purchasing durable goods is that the creation and at least 1st-tier distribution of said goods requires <drumroll please> fiat so the companies can pay their suppliers and lenders. That means it behooves the final seller accepting BTC or other crypto as payment to have confidence there is no legal questions about the coins because without doubt that final seller has to pay their suppliers in fiat gained from exchanging the crypto they receive into fiat. Receiving the coins from a registered exchange or crypto bank makes them good as gold or any fiat-based credit card because source of the funds is known. If you insist on paying cash where do you get it from? For most folks - from an ATM & their bank accounts. How does the money get into the accounts? From your job or otherwise traceable means. So, even fiat is traceable unless it comes from um, questionable means. |
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Have cryptocurrency payments ever been anonymous?....
Good question: I read that years ago there was many people calling BTC anonymous when it really isn't. Sounds like the early users pulled off a huge scam on the world? I still love crypto for small payments, but you need to be careful going forward. Wrong. BTC has never been totally anonymous. What part of it being an open public ledger does not make that clear? Only people who truly have no idea of what a public blockchain ledger is think that it is anonymous. The only anonymous bit about it is that finding who owns any given wallet/address is very hard to do until it is either used to buy physical items or is converted to fiat. That said, every single Tx in & out is a fully traceable open record. Getting back on topic, several months ago the EU passed laws restricting fiat transactions. All the new EU regulations do is treat all crypto Tx's the same as fiat Tx's. In either case -- THEY SUCK! If I have the cash on hand to say, buy a car or high end TV I damn well should be able to do it |
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I want to ask how to mine the test coins, SBTC, on the Bitcoin Signet network.
That is an altcoin and ALL altcoin topics belong in the Altcoin areas - Not here. This area is strictly for Bitcoin - not crapcoins. Asking mods to move this there. |
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As BizMax said, it takes more than just a soldering iron to do it. The power planes the terminal was attached to is very thick copper that sucks away heat very very quickly. A hot air station to assist the iron in heating the board itself a must and the iron must be good for at least 60W, preferably 100W.
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I see the reward is very low but I think the testnet coins should be worth at least 1% of the mainnet price And I think I should be able to fly, fart rainbows and spit diamonds. Don't see that happening either. There is no reason for tBTC to have any value at all. It's available for FREE from faucets. Yes they usually have a low & slow payout but so what? Ones does not need whole coins to test with. Just as with BTC, small fractions of a tBTC are processed and work the same as whole coins. |
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Glad you found the right area for this (or close enough)  One thing that must be pointed out is if they have found a weakness in sha256 the effect of it goes far beyond Bitcoin. SHA256 is used as the basis of most commercial financial and document encryption because (to date) it is uncrackable when a long enough key is used - finding a way to hack it would have major repercussions across many markets and industries. The weakness they claim to have found is based on them stating that AI-driven pattern analysis can narrow down the data ranges that still must be guessed by established brute-force miner chips. As I said in the other thread I do not think it can be done because there are no patterns in proper sha256 encryption. If any patterns DO exist in a hash or series of hashes it is the result of a problem with the PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) that created the hash in the 1st place. Most - but not all - PRNG's do not have issues and generate truly random numbers that are used as an encryption seed. Knowing the bias that any given PRNG can introduce would certainly allow for making more accurate guesses to possible decryption values provided that you know which specific PRNG was used and what (if any) flaws it has. If a different PRNG is used that advantage is gone. Regarding Bitmain, Canaan, Bitfury, et al - all of those miner companies also make pattern recognition AI chips. You really think they have not investigated this? A worrisome bit from the Financial Time article: Quantum Blockchain told FTAV it has not published any papers on technology or methodology “in order to protect their research”. Its patent applications are “as far as they have dared to go with making the developments public,” said a spokesman which to me raises a huge red flag. That is NOT how research works! Publishing papers is the ONLY way to have ideas properly examined and critiqued by ones peers. Not publishing and using the excuse that it is 'to protect their research' screams scamming Marketing Speak. A Patent does NOT have to describe how to create a workable process, device, or idea. It only must describe how you say it will work. The numerous patents for perpetual motion machines, free-energy devices and their ilk prove that. Pursuing and even being granted a patent for something does not mean it works or ever can work. |
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