Bitmain headhunting TSMC engineers makes no sense. China has no advanced process foundries (under 10nm nodes) and will not for many years. It is impossible for China to produce needed EUV steppers and other critical parts it takes to produce those chips.
Considering that Bitmain and other mining chip vendors already have in-house custom layout designers as part of the 'Secret Sauce' that makes a successful miner chip perform so well vs one that uses standard layout IP libraries I just do not see what knowledge they are trying to gain.
What china does best? Steal/reverse-engineer those critical parts so they CAN make sub 10nm nodes. Bitmain is screwed short term, this next year will change Bitcoin mining quite a bit  |
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I thought that emails would be sent out to let everyone know when more were available?! I missed it again.
Batch 2 is not announced yet, any stock showing up on the site is from people canceling their pre-order. |
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Apologies 100% if this has been asked and answered... I did dig around through quite a few of these pages before posting.
Is there an issue with these units and Nicehash? I've tried unsuccessfully all day today to switch the pool to Nicehash, and it immediately goes to an inactive status. I can put it on any other pool and it immediately begins hashing (Sigmapool, Litecoinpool, etc.) with no issues.
Settings:
Server: stratum+tcp://scrypt.usa-east.nicehash.com:3333
Worker: 3D***********kp.APOLLO
Pass: x
Thanks in advance...
Multipools cause issues based on how they send work data. For nicehash try putting #xnsub at the end of the url, and make sure ALL failover and donation pools are disabled. |
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How's this going guys? Still on target for the shipping window?
Going to send out an update email this week. All components and materials are on order and no major delays currently. Hashboards will probably start production and testing next week. We do have a shortage on the wifi chip for our controller, but trying to resolve ASAP. This might push full node unit shipping into May, but well know better by the end of the month. |
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Hello everyone,
Reaching out here for help. I apologize in advance if this has already been answered, but in all my searching I could not find an answer or instructions or directions addressing this question.
I was wondering if the Apollo LTC miner can mine two or more different pools at the same time? I tried to configure my pools so that one pool is litecoinpool.org (LTC) and the other pool aikapool.com (Dogecoin), and the miner seemed to try to split the hash power evenly between the two, but only accepted shares from one pool. Does the miner have the ability to mine 2 different scrypt pools at the same time? Side note - I do know that litecoinpool.org is merged with Dogecoin already, I am more or less teaching myself about altcoins and crypto as I go and this is my latest project - to mine Dogecoin directly.
Can the Apollo LTC miner can mine two/multiple different scrypt pools at the same time?
stratum+tcp://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333 <--- Active, but No shares accepted, showing hashrate of about 60mhs
stratum+tcp://stratum.aikapool.com:7915 <--- Active and accepting shares, showing hashrate of about 60mhs
stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 <-- Failover Pool - Inactive
Any help would be appreciated and again I apologize if this has already been answered or provided somewhere else. I searched and could not find anything.
Thanks for your help and knowledge!
No you cant, additional pools are there for backup pools (ie one pool goes down, it will default to your backup pool so it never stops mining). |
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This is on a Mac? Open a terminal and type
ls /dev/cu.SLAB*
You should see the port numbers of the moonlanders you have in your system, then you add each with an -S flag in your start file. What you have in there now won't work.
ie -S MLD:/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART1 -S MLD:/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART2 etc.
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Ok new issue. But this seems to be related to the cp210x. In ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux distro, I have successfully got the moonlander mining Verge coin. The problem I am having is when I connect a Gekkoscience newpac miner to the system. I am not Linux tech savy enough to correct the issue. What happens is that when moonlander is running it'll start erroring out with input/output errors. I can't have both of them running at the same time. Even with Moonlander connected to a USB2.0 port and running the newpac on a USB 3.0 port.
When I run the following command: dmesg | grep ttyUSB it appears the cp210x will disconnect from ttyusb0 (moonlander is on) and connect to ttyusb1 (gekko newpac is on) and alternate between the two causing bfgminer to fail on the moonlander.
Any ideas on how to keep it from alternating like this and have both running together? I tested on my windows machine and both are able to work together without issue. Ubuntu on the other hand no so. When I ran the below command 'before' launching the mining software, it showed correctly moonlander device on usb0 and the gekko on usb1. 'After' running the miner, the below is what happens and I believe is the reason for the issue. Soon I will be attaching an Arduino Uno for some electronic projects I am working on and believe this will possibly create issues with it as well. Help is appreciated. Just don't know how to correct. Thanks
You need to figure out which tty each is attached too, and make sure you specify in bfgminer/cgminer to not auto-scan (ie use the -S /dev/ttyUSB0) flag. My driver is pretty good at filtering out the right ASIC before injecting commands to the chip, but im pretty sure gekkosciences driver starts sending commands as soon as it finds a UART chip, which is why it screws up the moonlanders. Make sure auto-scan is not enabled will keep each driver from trying to send commands to the wrong usb miner. Check out the first page, answers are in the FAQ section. Is this possible to do on Terminal? What is the command to turn off auto-scan? I how do I discover the USB bus address? I know you don't manufacture the device, but it seems that the VCP driver used with the MacOS ML2 install causes cgminer to not be able to detect the NewPacs. Do you think rerouting both devices to their specific corresponding USB address would avoid this error? I'm new to this and have really been enjoying learning through this trouble shooting process. My next step is to crib from the Linux process described in the original response to your above post #1894. ALSO, I ordered the BTC full node and 2 standard units to pair with it. I dig your ethos, man. Thanks. Check out the FAQ section on the first page of this thread...answers are in there. |
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Yes you would just download our software and run it like you would a USB miner.
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Unfortunately you will have to wait for Batch 2. We will probably start that at the end of March after we have verified the first Batch boards. We should be able to quickly ramp up and meet demand then.
You can sign up at the form on futurebit.io and get notified when a new batch is released.
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Just fired up my Moonlanders again for giggles!
Got 4 of 6 running real easy. The other 2 show the green LED but cant see them. Any clues?
Sounds like your hub might not have enough power for those two, do they do the startup LED dance when you start bfgminer? Also little thought experiment for you...you started them up just now because LTC is on a tear again...why didn't you have them running this whole time and collecting a little LTC in the background for years during the bear market, and that LTC would have been worth hundreds now? I always tell people, best time to mine is not now, but during bear markets when difficulty is lowest and you mine the most LTC with your devices. |
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Yes thats at 12v. Our power supply is 94% efficient, so depends if your are using ours or 3rd party and how efficient they are. These are preliminary specs based on our prototypes we are testing with, hopefully well squeeze some more efficiency out of them before shipment.
FYI these ASICs are very sensitive to temps. You can easily get another 10% efficiency out of them if you dont care about noise and max out the fan. We chose to go the super quiet route, but you can override almost any options in custom mode.
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That was meant as a sarcastic dig at your product, since you have done nothing but dig at mine. I obviously know your pool is not going to find a block "faster" this way. Im the lead engineer as well as the founder of futurebit, im not some marketing guy thats selling hardware others designed for me.
FYI I dont hold grudges, if you still want to work together for the common good of Bitcoin my DMs are open.
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How do I reset a Batch 2/3 apollo? I was given one, but my friend left it with his credentials. I want to reset to default settings. Thanks!
if you are able to log into it, you can change all that inside the control panel - you can change the PW, you can change the pool settings, if you get a copy of the fw you could wipe the sd card and reinstall it. I’m in the same situation. Is there a way to reset the password? I am not able to login to access the control panel/dashboard to change anything. Would a new sd card offer an opportunity for reset? There is no way to reset the password without reseting the firmware. You dont need a new SD card, just follow the instructions on the first page here to reflash your existing SD card. |
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Its a variant of Armbian, not changing much on the stock kernel other than some boot loader stuff to make our custom nvme drive bay work properly. The board actually exposes two pcie gen2 lanes, thats how we can get M.2 drives to work with it, so technically you could probably connected a GPU to it, but ARM based drivers might be an issue. I'm sure some of the open source stuff could work especially on the AMD side.
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Public network was taken offline, major pools still use a version of it privately. Either way the solution is simple. We have super nodes running, as well as know the nodes of a a few major pools and exchanges. Simple broadcast to these nodes in addition to the gossip network minimizes any chance of propagation delay. |
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Whatever you do, don't use the node as the solo mining source - that's just asking to orphan the block and lose it.
Why? This is not Ethereum. Chances of an orphan block are super slim. Will probably enable a solo mining option for people that want to play the lottery. Obviously would also implement variants of public/private FIBRE protocols to ensure any block broadcast by a FutureBit node is seen by the major nodes first, as well as Stratum V2. You should probably look into those for your own pool...maybe youll find a block for your users faster this way  |
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Ok it was DJ Miner / whatsminer.net.
By the way, if 30 Th/s would be the goal for a home miner with the M30 series ASIC chips, it would need about 166 of them.
166 * 17 = a whopping 2822 US Dollars.
Ref. M30S/88T has 444 of those ASIC chips.
Yea im not really concerned, his opinion does not really matter in the grand scheme of things. He's never manufactured anything or understand how economies of scale work, if he did he would realize that building a 3TH hashboard for $300 is almost a steal considering they build millions and im building thousands. Im barely making any profit of them since im trying to keep the price as low as possible for everyone. Not to mention you cant compare the two since one needs industrial power and sounds like a jet engine, and the other is quieter than your desktop and you can actually run in your house. Only I know the amount of engineering and work that went into this product over the past year, and im proud of what we have built, and thats clearly shown by how we have nearly sold out in our first weekend. Again super thanks to everyone who placed an order, you guys are awesome. FYI looks like we will be sold out in the next day or two, so if you still want to get in Batch 1 now is the time to place an order! |
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Yea most pools offer at least a .0005 min BTC payout, but that would still take nearly a year with one hashboard. Solution to get that down to .0001 or lower is pretty simple and already in some talks to make it happen. But yes the minimum time horizon anyone should expect a payout is at least month, which obviously halves with each hashboard you add.
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Are you doing any more batches this year?
Trying to figure out the fab situation...almost all the fabs are booked so wouldn't be able to order a new set of ASICs for these until at least summer unfortunately. |
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