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A S19j-Pro will work fine
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biffa’s post now shows btc and other pow coins can be attacked with some success via large government interference.
not sure how this unfolds but on some level I really do not like it.
Not really, what it does show is the resilience of POW coins, because you can just easily mine to a different pool and everything just keeps going. It shows that you can take out the worlds biggest mining pools and the network still works exactly as intended. The only risk is the risk of losing the coin that you have accumulated on the pool if it goes byebye. But its not a risk to the network itself and no more of a risk than if the pool dissapeared because the operator was inept or crooked. |
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Looks like it might be related to Alibaba Cloud. From CityAMIt seems the major pools of viaBTC, Poolin, F2Pool, Binance and BTCcom suddenly experienced connection interruptions. The only thing they all had in common was their DNS was provided by Alibaba Cloud, a Chinese owned operation. All had stopped resolving. Or its China Telecom trying to block domestic miners reaching chinese pools, but ended up fubar'ing it and blocking the world. From: TheBlockMining pools blocked
According to a recent document made by China Telecom and seen by The Block, the top Chinese internet service provider has come up with a detailed solution to detect domestic miner IPs that have communicated with mining pools' URLs.
Based on its ongoing detection, it can either cut off the internet service to specific IPs or manually blacklist the URLs that mining pools use to connect with individual equipment.
As of writing, the domains of almost all the 10 biggest mining pools by real-time hash rate for both Bitcoin and Ethereum are not accessible from IPs inside China, based on The Block's verification.
Among them, F2Pool, ViaBTC, BinancePool and BTC.com have seen sharp real-time hash rate declines by around 10% for either Bitcoin or Ethereum over the past 24 hours. |
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Completely off the grid: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/viabtc.comNot doing great but slowly improving: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/poolin.comStill a bit shaky: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/f2pool.comNot sure if a network issue in the china firewall or what, but it would be interesting to see the failover data stats. One big pool going down like that could cascade to other pools getting knocked out when all the miners fail over to their secondary pools* Unless they are using bitfury software, as that only allows one pool  Probably by the time you read this it will all be fixed, but its been going on for a while now, not sure how much its affecting mining or just access to the web sites. |
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I guess the true test will be if you find a block, hopefully no-one else finds it at the same time and you can propogate the results out the rest of the network fast enough so that it recognizes your result before anyone elses.
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Did you change the port on your local wallet?
In the first example you are using port 8536
In the second example you are using port 8332
Also if you updated your local wallet to a later version of bitcoin then I think they broke local mining and cgminer code needs to be modified to make it work. Not sure how long it will take for kano to implement the changes necessary, or even if he thinks it is necessary, but if you did update your wallet then if you can roll back you might want to try that. Whether you can roll back or not depends on which version you updated your wallet to I think.
The changes happened starting with version 0.20.0 of bitcoin, something to do with the coinbase flags code I believe, there is a home grown patch that makes the coinbase flags optional in the source code of cgminer that someone did earlier in the year but I'm not sure if its been vetted or put on the task list for the next release yet.
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Any news on when the 32bit version is coming out?
Wrapping up testing on updated binary today, and should have it out by next week! How's it going? A week (and a bit later) Will the new firmware enable multiple or rather backup pools in the GUI? Or is that a limitation of the miner software? Thanks |
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I think if you'd used a more generic name you would be more likely to get people to click on your link.
As it stands it just looks like the sort of link that would give windows users a coronary just thinking about.
Site looks ok though. Might want to add a free letsencrypt cert to allay some web browsers paranoia about non ssl sites.
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Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere in this thread:
How can I tell if my node supports the taproot upgrade?
HI all, question from a non-technical person happily mining from home with this device to try and learn and support the decentralization of the network. Forgive my question if it is an obvious one to most of you, but with all the talk of Taproot finally coming today, what does that mean for our nodes running with Futurebit? Is there anything we are supposed to do? If there is, if you could share the steps I would really appreciate it. Thank you, much appreciated, I am really just in over my head with the software/programming side, but genuinely want to learn and here for it!
Your bitcoin core instance needs to be v22.0 for taproot I think the Apollo has v0.21.1 Taproot support is actually in 21.1, will be upgrading the node to v22 soon though. My bad |
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However if the difficulty increase is linear all miners whether are old new or acquired for free will be useless unless they run on free energy, which doesn't exist unless is stolen.
And with a steady increase of 10% a month is going to be soon.
So the only hope for the industry is a sharp decline in hashrate/price.
The difficulty will only go up Over the long term, yes, but it does go down as well. Heck it almost halved between May and July this year. We wouldn't have had such a good year if it hadn't. |
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On average it seems all the manufacturers base their price on an ROI of about a year.
Yes that time scale can be caught out by diff changes and price changes, but then it also depends on whether you count ROI in $$ or BTC.
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How did your power supply blow?
I just received a new s19J pro and when I plugged it in, nothing happened. no noise, nothing. I purchased it on Amazon and the seller has been communicating with me about what I've done so far but I am super surprised that this unit came - totally new without a working PSU.
-Graham
Silly question, but you do have 220V or more where you are located right? It won't run on 110V |
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Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere in this thread:
How can I tell if my node supports the taproot upgrade?
HI all, question from a non-technical person happily mining from home with this device to try and learn and support the decentralization of the network. Forgive my question if it is an obvious one to most of you, but with all the talk of Taproot finally coming today, what does that mean for our nodes running with Futurebit? Is there anything we are supposed to do? If there is, if you could share the steps I would really appreciate it. Thank you, much appreciated, I am really just in over my head with the software/programming side, but genuinely want to learn and here for it!
Your bitcoin core instance needs to be v21.1 for taproot I think the Apollo has v0.21.1 |
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You know that difficulty has gone up 23% since the beginning of September right?
I checked on Blockchain.com and it went up a 20%, just like the payout drop. Then I guess the calculator on f2pool is inaccurate and BTC miners are not profitable. None is. If the dificulty increases 20% every 2 months all BTC miner existing now will be useless in less than a year unless BTC price catches up, meaning at least 20% every 2 months. Is not a risk, it is sure that the whole insdustry will go bankrupt next year. How is it possible? 23% 17.615t + 23% = 21.66t which is what it is now. And its going to go up another 4%-6% in a few days time. The industry won't go bankrupt. Just people buying overly expensive equipment and using it on overly expensive electric tariffs. BTW for a long time now ROI on most equipment is calculated by the manufacturers to be around a year at least. They raise their prices to keep that ROI figure. Most of the industry is mining on equipment that cost a lot less than it does now, but then bitcoin was worth a lot less then, they took a gamble on that 12 month ROI and it paid off. The hard truth is that around a year ago a 100TH/s S19-Pro cost under $2500.00 and bitcoing was only worth $10-13K but diff was 19.2th ROI was probably around a year. There are people on here who have been mining bitcoin for almost a decade, there have been good and bad times, but people keep on going. Even when you are just breaking even, you keep going on the hope that bitcoin will be worth 10X what its worth today/last year/etc I bet you a year ago no-one really believed that bitcoin would be worth 6x what it was then. But it is. |
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You know that difficulty has gone up 23% since the beginning of September right?
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I'd ask for the difference in price to be refunded.
They aren't exactly the same.
Not sure which model you ordered and what model you got but the 1246 is 38J/TH and the 1166 Pro is 42J/TH so you are going to burn more energy to get the same performance out of the 1166 Pro.
Also isn't the 1246 like 90TH/s and the fastest 1166 Pro is 81TH/s so it doesn't seem they are at all equivalent.
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Bitcoin Difficulty:
20.082.460.130.831
Bestshare:
520.856.610
5.776.981
2.561.156
511.348.740.163
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No mate, a bitcoin miner pulls around 3.5kw continuously while mining, not per day.
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fundamental question: is it better to rent nativ sha256 or asicboost?
I would say its irrelevant to you as a renter, all that matters is the hash rate you can get. It would only be a factor if there was a price difference, and if there was go for the one with the lowest price for the maximum hash rate. |
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Hey Willi,
TBH it sounds like a load of crap
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