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I was referring to the mining hardware knockoffs they sell. ASIC chips can absolutely be knockoffs though... It happens all the time.
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Zeus Mining sells knockoff garbage at extremely high prices. Good SEO though.  |
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Sorry about that! In an attempt to be more organized I’ve been moving these things over to the new GitHub organization called bitaxeorg. https://github.com/bitaxeorgIf you don’t get a response to your question here, you might try the OSMU discord (maybe the pools channel?) https://discord.gg/osmu |
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Is ViaBTC's minumum withdrawal limit still 0.01 BTC? If so, this miner will take 456 years to hit that.. Some serious HODL!
You miss the point of it: Despite the name, it's not mainly sold as a miner. It is an information station that also happens to include a low hash rate solo lottery miner... If only there was a pool for the public that worked well for low hash rate solo lottery miners / information stations… hmmmmmm |
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Hi Skot,
The ViaBTC's minumum withdrawal of BTC is 0.0001 BTC. But I won't suggest to join the BTC sharing pool at ViaBTC pool. It's better to join BCH/XEC sharing pool.
BTW, Beagle will give you more fun than only mining. Ex: host a BD (best difficulty) competition among friends, depending on weather situation to buy BTC (suppose you plan to do DCA for buying BTC)....
Okay, that’s better.. only 4.5 years to make the min payout threshold. |
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Is ViaBTC's minumum withdrawal limit still 0.01 BTC? If so, this miner will take 456 years to hit that.. Some serious HODL!
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v2.4.0 of the software is out, suggest everyone updates if only for the temperature sensor fixes. Updated on my end very easily with zero issues!
Mine is dead so until sidehack contacts me about a return/repair/replace which I am willing to pay for its a brick. To all be very careful with heatsink replacing as I have zero idea how I killed this unit.  Prolly not what killed your Bitaxe, but this fan is on upside down. We see much better results blowing air into the heatsink. |
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I think the Nerdminer is a great place to start (I think you're off by an order of magnitude on that expected hashrate though). The more people understanding Bitcoin mining, the better. Don't just buy it, plug it in and forget about it though -- that would be a waste. Dig in, learn how Bitcoin mining works. It will help you make informed decisions as you fall into this wild rabbit hole of ensuring freedom money. And yeah, check out the Bitaxe too  |
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i didn't want to withhold my two other bitaxe miners from you. on the left you can see a Qaxe+ and on the right a NerdQaxe+. both miners are equipped with 4 1368 chips each, have a hash rate of ~2.5 th/s and consume 50 watts the only difference is that the Qaxe+ miner is controlled via an rpi whereas the NerdQaxe+ is operated via its own axeos and has its own display https://github.com/shufps/qaxe careful with those screw terminal to barrel plug adapter like you have on your NerdQaxe.. they are notoriously low quality. |
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But rock it does. Northbridge heatsinks are designed for chips with large packages and/or integrated heat spreaders, more like 25mm square than 8mm square. With that much area, a 2-point mount is okay because there's no leverage to rock it. A small chip in the middle might as well be a single point fulcrum. It's super easy to upset.
We're already designing an improved heatsink (more dissipative surface area on the fins) with 4-point M3 screw mounting, like what's been working on our stickminers for most of the last decade. Might have samples in the next week.
Phil, I think yours went out before I started lapping the heatsink underside. The ones we got in were not exactly smooth either, and the smoother and flatter the mating surface, the better.
I haven’t experienced this uneven heatsink issue you mentioned. It kinda seems like you got a bad batch. Four point mount custom heatsink with a thicker base will be awesome! There really isn’t any headroom anymore with the current one. |
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the ASIC is less than 1mm high. there isn't really much room to rock.
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Stock heatsink is aluminum. It's actually a repurposed PC northbridge heatsink. If you look around some people have found bigger versions. There is also the Argon THRML cooler if you want to go supercharged.
The stock heatsink and fan is capable of cooling the bitaxeGamma at stock hash frequency and voltage settings. If you aren't stable at the defaults, you should speak with the seller.
Because of the increased power of the BM1370 chip in the Gamma, there isn't much headroom for overclocking with the stock heatsink.
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As has been pointed out in other threads, the ESP32 micro-controller used is an extraordinarily poor choice for miners. It is made for use in very simple IoT devices such as sensors, thermostats, wearables, etc. that do not need good performance. Even the maker of them clearly states that. Even the best one only has 2 cores/threads which means that at best it can process hashes and do I/O without having to interrupt the processes provided the main and I/O threads are programmed to run independently. AFAIK the one used in the BitAxe has only 1 core... All of that out of the way, does it work? Sure - but when there is a change of work and when it talks to the WiFi things slow down a lot. Because Skot is/was an IoT developer it makes some sense that he'd pick the ESP32 just because he is familiar with it. Unfortunately he did not know that you REALLY need a REAL multi-core/threaded CPU to ensure decent performance so the various processes running do not have to interrupt each other. Even the original RasPi-1 used a more capable chip. ref https://www.elprocus.com/difference-between-esp32-vs-raspberry-pi/FYI, while the 1st ones from Sidehack will be using the same micro he is already redesigning it to use the Pi Nano to eliminate the processing bottlenecks and also allow using USB along with hardwired LAN connections.edit: struckout comment on redesign. Nah, the ESP32S3 (indeed dual core) is more than enough for a handful of ASICs. It's your Cortex-A running Linux that is overkill  |
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I am curious is the media blitz over a bitaxe finding a block has resulted in a tidal wave of new orders or not. I’d imagine that’s better advertising than could be bought and there’s a lot of folks dreaming of their own Bitcoin lottery win today. Anyone in the know care to share if this news did result in a tick up in sales?
From what sellers tell me, the uptick in sales has been significant |
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I wonder if you could use bitmain firmware on an SD card
Pretty sure there is no other antminer controlboard compatible firmware that is going to support only four BM1362 ASICs |
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IAmGPIO and I did some playing with it day of and found out some fun facts. He's still parsing the wireshark output to get a sense of how much hashrate goes to dev fees.
Braiins PR claimed multiple times on twitter that there is no dev fee with the mini miner. Still, I think phoning in to report my home IP address and who knows what else is totally unacceptable. What if their license server goes down or the Czech government seizes it? Is the miner just a brick then? |
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Braiins also ported their OS to this mini miner which phones home to a centralized "license server" before it will start mining  |
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I can confirm this will work with the LuckyMiner LV06 units as well but you must be patient and let the upgrade complete. If you try to leave the page while the units say working you very well may brick the units!
If you upgrade esp-miner on your lucky miner it will set the stratum user agent to Bitaxe and nobody will be able to tell you're running a shitty knockoff |
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FWIW this bug only affected the best difficulty being stored to the non-volatile memory. Nothing to do with shares
The display didn't match up with the pool data on best share which is what I was referring to. If you only look at the display for best share or the UI then you really wouldn't have accurate best share info. I am glad to see this fixed! we could use your good luck to test this fix out! |
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