Yeah, the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is important. I got an ear full from the wife and the kids about the Antminers when I fired just one up.

Had to move them from the workshop, where our hangout spot is, to the garage. Nice thing is, the garage is warm now when you're letting the dogs out in the middle of the night. 
I still have to build a "cabinet" for them now that cuts down on the noise, filters the air, and keeps it cool in the summer....

I figured that part would be either an oscillator or a voltage regulator. At this point I'd give them a nice sendoff and pick up either 2 more of those, or another Apollo. 

That works.

How do you like the Apollo? I almost got one of those but it just didn't have the H/s I was looking for.

I can't quite make out the lettering on the U2 part. If you can read it, do a search at Digikey.com and it might come up with the part or one that's very similar so you'll at least know what it is.

While you're mining with the Moonlanders, do you get a lot of messages like,


I get those a lot...

Are they actually making money for you, or is this just for fun?

I ask because I have 2 and have been less than impressed with their stability and function. While I can mine for days at about 2.6 MH/s on each, that's not earning me more than a few pennies worth of coins a month.

I picked up a couple of Antminer L3+ for $99 each and since I'm running an oversized solar panel system I don't have to worry to much about electric costs. At an average of 570 MH/s they're on track to make between $60-90 a month each.

I'm just curious why you want to invest more in them if they aren't really making anything.

It seems that the "errors" I'm seeing about "Pool 0 is sending mismatched....." is BFGMiner not being able to handle
a pool that switches coins. If I mine just one coin I don't see those errors, however, mining just one coin is much less
profitable than allowing the profit switching pool to do it's thing, so I'm just going to ignore those errors.

I just spent the last few hours fine tuning the memory and core clock voltages and am now getting fewer hardware errors
and I can set a higher clock rate now. Currently getting an average 4.6MH/s from each of them.

I do wish that Futurebit had used different pots for voltage adjustment. Not having a stop at the ends is a bit hazardous
and using pots that are all metal causes the unit to lock up any time you touch the memory voltage pot. That being said, at
least with the memory voltage, once you have it set around 0.75-0.80 volts you don't have to touch it again.

It would be very nice to get the BFGMiner software updated and optimized. I would dive in and give it a shot but after looking
at some of the code there are many aspects of it that are definitely outside my skill set.

I was wondering about that. I have 2 of them and with them performing differently from each other I suspected the units weren't "tuned" at the factory for a baseline setting.

Is there other mining software besides BFGMiner?

This software seems unstable and finicky. It always has lots of errors at the start and sometimes it will stabilize and sometimes not..

I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but I was expecting a little better than this.

Running 2 ML2s on a Siport Well Work 20, so I know they have plenty of power.

Current startup line is:

Log generally looks like this:

I'd really like to get these screaming along generating shares, but if it doesn't happen soon I'll have to return them and the giant USB Hub so I can just buy some bitcoin and sit on it until I'm 90.  

I followed the setup tutorial to get a Windows wallet and Linux Masternode server running.

You're supposed to click on Tools -> Masternode Configuration File so you can link the wallet app to the masternode, but clicking on the button doesn't do anything.
What's the name supposed to be for the Windows wallet masternode config file?


While I'm here, a couple of things...

- Each time I have to restart the Windows wallet it takes a minimum of 20 minutes before I can access it.
- Getting the 50K GLT into the Masternode wallet was no small task. It took me 3 hours to:
   1. Find an exchange that had GLT and served customers in the USA.
   2. Get signed up and authenticated (KYC) so I could use the exchange.
   3. Move BTC from my main wallet to the exchange.
   4. Make the trade from BTC to GLT.
   5. and finally move the 50K GLT to my masternode wallet.

If the hope is to eventually get the general population to start using crypto as their everyday currency, things are going to have to improve A LOT. Dealing with any crypto at this point is an exercise in hoop jumping and just a general pain in the ....  Until it becomes seamlessly easy to move from Fiat to Crypto and back no matter what coin, it's only going to remain useful to those of us that mine and trade it.

At this point, just to keep up with the number of coins I deal with, I have 7 wallet apps and have signed up on 8 exchanges. This can't be what was originally intended for digital currency...

</rant>

Sorry, needed to get that out of my system. It's been a rough week.

[UPDATE]
I managed to get the Linux masternode and Windows wallet synched by editing the conf files by hand and restarting them both. Even with the conf files created, the wallet app still can't seem to open the config file. It can't even open it's own config file.

@philipma1957

What's your setup where you're making $400 a month?

Is that before or after electricity costs?

I actually just built a new rig.

- MSI H310-F Pro Motherboard
- 1,350 Watt PSU
- Intel Core i5 9400
- 16GB RAM
- 120 GB SSD

- 2 x Radeon RX 570 8GB
- 4 x Geforce 1660 Super 6GB

I'm probably going to return the RX 570s. The 1660 Super performs much better.

I installed AwesomeMiner on my desktop and initially installed Ubuntu 18.04 on the mining rig with the *nix version of the AwesomeMiner Agent. That really became more of a pain than it was worth. After installing Windows 10 and the Windows AwesomeMiner Agent on the rig and running the benchmark testing, I can probably make about $25 a month after paying electric costs of $0.13 / kW.

If I return the RX 570s and get 2 more 1660 Super, that should go up to about $35 a month. Which means it will be about 3 years before I recoup the costs of the hardware....

I wish I had been paying more attention to crypto 5 years ago.

Now I'm looking for decent pool software to start my own pool.
I have Yiimp running with no coins installed yet.

If you're just interested in checking it out and playing around, just download AwesomeMiner on your desktop and give it a shot. If you're looking for serious profits you'll need at least $2k so you can invest in an ASIC and hopefully recoup that cost before mining Bitcoin becomes a moot point, if it isn't already.