gonna put that in my allergy list in my medical record.

can this be used to our advantage as an early warning system? several people in WO post they are getting a rash at the same time, something big is about to happen?

yup.

on some algos/coins if you run the profit numbers with the low power use and hash rate of the acorns stand alone vs gpu assist and its power savings and hash increase for the gpu, sometimes standalone mode can make more profit. depends on algo and the coin cost.

but pretty sure most all of us bought them with gpu boost in mind. gpuhoarder definitely needs to provide the official gpu assist miner. and let the miner decide standalone vs assist.

we always knew standalone mining was doable on the 215s, that was advertised pretty early on. and now it turns out the 101 can too.

mainly im learning the hardwares limits. fpga is unlike other computer hardware in a lot of ways.

basically messing around now with things like fan direction and flow, adding thermal pads and sinks, finding voltage and temp limits etc. lota mix and match with my gear, 2 systems to test in with various combinations of gpus, nests, and acorns.

naturally, the real gpu assist stuff would sure be nice but in the meantime im not going to just watch them in a box, im going to play with them. once the real miner drops i will be in good shape as far as my understandings of the hardware and its limits.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/explorer.bitcoininterest.io

shows problems there too.

it 1st showed up on my radar mid 2011 when a few computer tech sites started posting about it. i happened to have hardware that met the gpu requirements, so figured why not? i had no idea it would take off as it has, figured it was just a neat experiment on digital money. although in retrospect i should have.


yup, got that book on my end table. a must read for anyone who wants to understand (or at least understand better) btc rather than just use it.

i should clarify that running a full or part time node on your daily driver isnt the ideal way to do so, but as ive shown it can certainly be done. dedicated hardware is better, an off the shelf system from the last decade should be able to handle it. even some netbooks from a while ago should have the chops and those are dirt cheap. 320 gig drive, atom cpu, ubuntu or other flavor of linux.. poof, btc node.

reason mine is still on a daily driver is im lazy, and because back in 2011, when i first installed the btc wallet and started mining, it was to my desktop at that time. this same wallet/node has just been moved to the replacement daily drivers when i build new ones. i was in it more for the tech then, the "magic interetz money" bit was a fun meme that possibly might help pay for my gaming videocards, but hardly one i took seriously until i had leaned a lot more about how banks and fiat worked.

once i understood the whitepaper and its implications.. well thats when the tech took a second seat to the real meaning of btc.. which is be your own bank.

as for keeping btc on a node on a daily driver desktop.. well mine has pocket change. how your main stack of btc should be secured really depends on your comfort and knowledge level of hardware, software, security. if its an amount that you cant risk, paper wallets, hardware wallets, air gapped computer wallets.. all these and more are options, and i would use a combination of them.

need to back it, but with what? number of cases of alcohol poisoning? possibly could be onto something here.

needs to be a guy who is hodling while sleeping peacefully.

see if you can get the rights to babylon 5 and get going. im waiting.

my node is a "part time" full node, and lives on my daily driver desktop. no pruning i want the entire blockchain so i can validate it myself, even off line, right to the genesis block if need be. its only 206 gb, well within even old home computer specs. i just point it to its own dedicated ssd.

but due to VERY slow internet (1.5 megabits/sec) i only run it every few days, or if im sending or expecting to receive something i need to verify at once. after all, MY node is the one i trust. when its running my internet is pretty much useless for anything else but basic browsing. thus the "as needed" thing.

keeping blocks and bandwidth requirements small(ish) to the point where basically anyone, with almost any computer from the last 10 years or so, can run a full on node with mainstream (or below to a point) internet is a main strength of btc imo.

everyone who uses btc should be able validate the blockchain themselves if they want, which would need a full node with a full copy of the blockchain. else why trust it?

i think the future may be along the line of if a new algo comes along it goes like this:

1. most every gpu on the planet jumps in. because easy to code, so quick to make for public miners

2. then, very fast, fpga assisted kick a lot of stand alone gpus out. slightly harder to code vs gpu alone, but could provide decent boost and power savings

3. then, probably fast again, larger more capable fpgas kick most or all gpu/gpu assisted.  because probably harder to find suitable fpga boards and code for them vs gpu assist alone

4. then asic kicks out fpga. but takes a while to design/manufacture.

possibly skip #2 depending on algo

rinse and repeat.

they have boost estimates here (this is 215+ but i believe they have a similar chart for the others)

http://squirrelsresearch.com/acorn-cle-215-plus/ i dunno if they have changed since july.

if they are having problems with these at this point i would think they would have to admit it soon ^tm

that stuff from gpuhoarder is self admitted armchair discussion of where the mining scene is now. basically he is saying (my take, maybe wrong) on some coins/algos acorns may be better stand alone vs gpu assist. lotta variables.   

jack daniels old no 7 was the go to for me back in the day, guess im just a barbarian.

replacement battery packs will everywhere, just look at how many places you can get oem compatible batteries for UPSs cell phones etc. unless telsa has some security chip/thing thing going, havent bothered to find out.

since ive blown so many engines, transmissions, and assorted drive train components the simplicity of an electric motor at each wheel appeals to me. and having 100% torque at zero RPM is killer.

yeah i also think that should do.

no they havent. sqrl is still committed to releasing their gpu accelerated miner, and personally im sure they will fairly soon, my guess is within a couple weeks but again thats purely my guess.

just some drama going on because mineority shut down rather suddenly. sqrl is not mineority.

personally i think yes, im sure the official gpu miner assist miner will come out. the sqrl company seems pretty solid. but thats just my opinion.




good call IMO. at this point i would advise folks to wait until the official miner software is in the wild. just to see real world gpu assist numbers and such. i believe acorns and nests are pretty much an off the shelf item now anyway. so as soon as the software is out and verified by regular folks you could order.




be prepared for a LOT of reading spread over several discords. the various discords seem to have all the raw, unfiltered dirt.

i have my own opinions of course but they are just that, opinions.

huh, guess ill actually have to look at what that is, if only for the fact im mining them on squirrel acorns right now as its the only bitstream available for them atm. just been mining them as a burn in test. be kinda amusing if they were actually useful as ive just been mining them for something to do and shake out bugs..

in a nest4x in an x8 gen3 slot right now. ive also run them in an m2 slot. latest standalone miner alpha_012a has bitstreams for all acorns now.

1st run it will want to flash it. tell it yes, then power down and back up, regular reboots do no do it sometimes.

then just run the miner. there is a json file to set clocks for each acorn now, just edit it.

make a web wallet, get an addy and change the addy to yours in the batch file as well as worker name and email.

for miner
https://thefpgaforum.com/threads/alpha-zen-protocol-215-acorn-miner-solo.57/#post-297
need to make an account to dl it.

look at my posts upthread for drivers.

the gpu acceleration official miner is to be released "soon (tm)"