that was crazy the bottle beating apart that miner!

im curious about the esp32 im not a fan of unknown radios which is what kept me from messing around with the bitaxe stuff can you remove the radios with some snippers or are they in the main chip?

Kano always a crab apple but i guess i do prefer consistency <3

nice work john looks great if this was the first one man oh man what a sight to see. i have considered modifying the 3 v1s using server heatsinks but just cant justify the cost vs hash. im tapped but look forward to watching this progress in this crazy space. i still have futurebit btcs running and an ltc apollo running. i can say these miners just run almost no issues beyond no easy api access perhaps ive overlooked the javascript i dont understand npm and refuse to.

I have finally an apollo btc that started throwing random temps -100 +110 hash on hash off will this be a problem with temp sensing chip or the asics? want to know if i should solder a component on before i rip the heatsink off and man handle this thing with hot air and rubbing alcohol. was running for 2 days sucking 250w an not hashing my fault for not monitoring but haven't needed to really with these they usually just run hard/soft whatever. i still cant get better than 58w/th with a good hash rate if i want in the gh i can get real low like 29w/th @ 900gh

where is everyone?

Nicejob skot im surprised nobody has posted on this. projects like this are what would make blockchain a lot more fun im not sure why someone hasnt made something like this prior. i have been following along with your progress i dont plan to build but i admire the work involved. it is truly amazing the work of giants in tech field you certainly are one of them.

when you have rolling advertising for the same firmware and miners on 1 forum you start to wonder if bitcoin is actually worth anyones time. if braiins is needed bitcoin already has a problem. i already have credit cards who charge merchants 2-5% dont need a free p2p network currency firmware that charges 2% and a pool fee that charges 2% kinda sounds like the same ball of shit

awesome whens your next bitcoin convention id like to shake your hand for all the math you do on the forum so helpful.

blockchain is so dull and boring we have posts about fans again to make mystery out of how cooling works like its some big mystery how air cools hot and how the chips require a certain temperature to operate because the stupid mfg said so. throw your miner in the garbage.

looks like another nonsense post who buys this equipment? everyone hates bitmain according to almost every post so why do people continue to purchase it? no way in hell some rando company makes the best miners. i dont buy it bitmain is ibm, intel, nvidia, amd or all of the above. its so gross the amount of shilling that goes on and this is the forum that is the leading force for bitcoin? looooool

i guess crypto is a dummy check the world does not need bitcoin if this is the standards. this forum is trash.

I don't think most that bought are looking for perks but your development environment is not noob friendly. its not very hard to solo mine to a node is it worth it? who cares the problem is this hardware was sold at a premium which is fine i guess, but getting ghosted with updates like china does is not acceptable. crypto is the only thing that kills crypto.

you sold a device that has multiple points of vulnerability in anyones home network i just wonder why? i mean you could of atleast properly secured the device or explained to people hey you need to isolate this gigantic hole you are about to implement into your network. less teasers on twitter and more real talk if you need help ask the internet is dead.

maybe im the only one tired of being scammed in crypto on all fronts maybe im just bitter who knows. i can see a good vision but i can also see alot of wasted money which i have spent for what good reason beyond fattening the wallets of others. atleast you dont have the excuse of being a china company that has no obligation to make anything right. mine are gonna end up in my firepit this spring ill take a video.

Dead project they could at-least open source it so we can do a little more with these paperweights.

This is pretty crummy i had to buy from 3rd party because they dont sell the boards or atleast not at the time. if this company isnt a scam i dont know what is. all this problem with firmware and miner ID garbage for what? to track for what? canaans tracking cost me 1000s of dollars and over a year of hashing. And their only course of action is yea send me $50+shipping ill send another control board to you................you made a TON of money off these at the time and you want to charge me for a hashbaord and contorl board that originally died under "warranty" (looooooooosley said)

when you waste all your time trying to get expensive gear running again it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth. i cut my losses on this garabage

why would you suggest a miner to anyone that has horrible customer service and equipment that breaks within a month of owning it and they units also will not run with 1 bad hashboard.

canaan is ripping people off plain and simple. i got no support with my unit it sat for a year i messed with it started working again then it stopped working again and now im ready to just beat the hell out of it with a hammer. its bad enough trying to break even as a small miner let alone take a total loss because canaan wants to sell the worst junk miners possible with the worst software and support possible.

also the canaan miners need to call home to china constantly why is that? i paid money for equipment i exepected to work that i did not abuse i replaced the contnrol board at my expense because they would not sell me one so i paid $300 on ebay for one 6 weeks after ownership and the unit still does not work.

TLDR; if you want to lose even more money in mining buy canaan products

i see mass adoption happening because of all the good the industry does for itself. 

Sorry totally missed this post yes i got it going as you described i didnt install the buster version was that a mistake? im noticing the new version debian 11 is basically ubuntu should i redo it with buster? Everytime i make a change i just copy back over the device tree. I'm wondering now if the original futurebit image is fine as it appears to run alpine linux under the good with ubuntu overtop i may be wrong here.

I like the idea of a SBC so can add a battery backup to keep it going on cellular just incase. My futurebit node has 70-80 peers on average shipping off 14-20 gigs a day of served up blocks. whether it helps or not i have no idea i would assume so it seems node should be more important than miners as they are far less of them in residential as i can tell anyways.

ive given up on making any kind of break even on mining im focusing on the software portion and learning C i always neglected it the past 20 years. When i think of arm i think of software based hardware so when i think of bare metal its a full blown pc. maybe not proper terms.

I have had major tech burnout the last 3 years looking back on all the things i should of been aware of and just ignored. trying to get back on the pony its all ive ever loved a hobby.

I just want to start off trying to route transactions i dont have a specific goal in mind to utilize it myself i dont know enough people into bitcoin they all seen me lose my ass. Thanks for all that guides you put up blockchain has a lot of moving parts and the information is a little hard to sift through.

How do you find other peers to link to? Just got all my lightning node up unsure what steps to do next with it. im also running a seperate bitcoind with no outgoing besides tor is that fine for lightning or should i switch it to my main bitcoin node? i setup second one so i could use bitcoincore with wallet enabled.

i have reached out again to canaan support for a firmware that works. I don't think these miners should be advertised here without some firmware that works maybe braiins can make support for it?

Trying to cut power and already have the equipment and just trying to see if. having 88 chips hashing slow is better than 44 hashing at the same speed. i dont really know at this point im just trying things while i can.

Is it ok to daisy chain the apollos power connectors on the back of apollos? example 1 apollo gets 1 pci-e plugged into power and the other power port on that apollo feeds 1 power port on another apollo?

Or can i use usb C with like a 100w wall adapter to power both units? I have these really underclocked and only using 30w per board.

ive done the exact same things and have the exact same problem and 0 answers. im assuming its a firmware problem. i didnt have issues until i lost a hashboard than i flashed new firmware than i used serial to downgrade firmware. im tried every firmware miner has been sitting for 12 months. ive contacted canaan many times with no resolution other than a long process of mailing in a hashboard to them.

my issue is also middle hashboard and when i swap it around the 0 1 0 will change to wherever that hashboard is. there is numbers on the boards 2 are identical and 1 is higher im assuming to balance the hashpower that board must be the highest bin.

I believe batch 1-3 had orangepi-4 (not a version sold outside of futurebit to my knowledge) im not sure whats different on the newest mcu besides it only had 24 pins. The wires should be the same what makes the most difference is header pin count so long as it has 40 pins you should be good, the pi5 comes with 26 pins im not sure if that works or not. I have put armbian-bulleyes cli on mine an it has made the node a lot better in terms of resources used. I may try alpine next for fun after i built a full size node out of a normal x86.

make sure after flash and before you hook it to the internet you change root password and futurebit user password because ssh is wide open on the futurebit image.