[ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!

[devincrypt]

Excuse my newbie naïveté, but as more Apollos are put into service, and assuming more are used to mine Litecoin, should that increase the popularity and price of Litecoin?

[crypto_curious]

Excuse my newbie naïveté, but as more Apollos are put into service, and assuming more are used to mine Litecoin, should that increase the popularity and price of Litecoin?

Litecoin miners are reachable everywhere. They have been here for years. Take the previous product - Moonlander2. They help to popularize Litecoin, and mining in general. Apollo is no different. Thing is, on this production scale, this product, aimed at home miners or newbies, is just a drop in the ocean.
But, as they say, every little counts!

[jstefanop]

Excuse my newbie naïveté, but as more Apollos are put into service, and assuming more are used to mine Litecoin, should that increase the popularity and price of Litecoin?

Litecoin miners are reachable everywhere. They have been here for years. Take the previous product - Moonlander2. They help to popularize Litecoin, and mining in general. Apollo is no different. Thing is, on this production scale, this product, aimed at home miners or newbies, is just a drop in the ocean.
But, as they say, every little counts!

Well thats what we are trying to change here!

I estimate that probably less than 1k people control 80-90% of litecoins hashrate. What happens if we can get 100k or even 1M people using an Apollo running a full node and mining coins on their desk?

It would change everything....that would be the most decentralized coin in existence, mining farms would be put out of business, and coins would be evenly distributed to hundreds of thousands instead of 1k at the top.

People get lost in profits, and ROI...but everyone forgets that the whole point of mining is not to mine and sell for USD, but to distribute the supply of the coin to as many as people as possible, and secure the network with as many people as possible.

[Xieta]

Hello,

    Thanks for posting the image yesterday.

    I found the /opt/apolloapi inside and the repository with links to GitHub.

Code:

mount -t ext4 -o loop,offset=4194304 apollo_final.img /mnt/apollo

    Will the apolloapi repository remain private on GitHub or is it going to be made public?

    Also, with the ARM A7 controller, do you have any machine type recommendations for use with QEMU to evaluate the image and test further development?
    I only see a generic arm32v7 specified in the Dockerfile.

Best Regards,
-Xi

[jstefanop]

Hello,

    Thanks for posting the image yesterday.

    I found the /opt/apolloapi inside and the repository with links to GitHub.

Code:

mount -t ext4 -o loop,offset=4194304 apollo_final.img /mnt/apollo

    Will the apolloapi repository remain private on GitHub or is it going to be made public?

    Also, with the ARM A7 controller, do you have any machine type recommendations for use with QEMU to evaluate the image and test further development?
    I only see a generic arm32v7 specified in the Dockerfile.

Best Regards,
-Xi

its private for now.

[philipma1957]

Hello,

    Thanks for posting the image yesterday.

    I found the /opt/apolloapi inside and the repository with links to GitHub.

Code:

mount -t ext4 -o loop,offset=4194304 apollo_final.img /mnt/apollo

    Will the apolloapi repository remain private on GitHub or is it going to be made public?

    Also, with the ARM A7 controller, do you have any machine type recommendations for use with QEMU to evaluate the image and test further development?
    I only see a generic arm32v7 specified in the Dockerfile.

Best Regards,
-Xi

its private for now.

keep it that way for a while as you will be cloned quickly once you release it.
I would worry about a 10 chip clone hurting your gear and the network .

Not sure if that can be done  but if it could it would be painful.

[devincrypt]

What happens if we can get 100k or even 1M people using an Apollo...

You make lots of $$$ and create Apollo II?

[jstefanop]

Moved the quick getting started post here until I have time to write it up properly. Please keep all issues/bugs/support related question in that thread from now on.

Thanks!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5081750.msg48523684#msg48523684

[philipma1957]

Moved the quick getting started post here until I have time to write it up properly. Please keep all issues/bugs/support related question in that thread from now on.

Thanks!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5081750.msg48523684#msg48523684

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[CuteMiner]

Hello guys,

may I ask on which pool are you gonna mine with Apollo?
Or will be using any services like ProHashing...

Thanks for sharing!

[crypto_curious]

My first unit arrived.

Mining away now, with 102.65 MH/s, Eco mode, fan on auto. Temperatures 65.5 for miner and 68.0 C for MCU.

PICTURES: https://imgur.com/a/tvMZvj0

Amazing job, jstefanop!

[jstefanop]

My first unit arrived.

Mining away now, with 102.65 MH/s, Eco mode, fan on auto. Temperatures 65.5 for miner and 68.0 C for MCU.

PICTURES: https://imgur.com/a/tvMZvj0

Amazing job, jstefanop!

Thanks!...so cool to finally see these in the wild

[CharlieFoxtrot]

Hello guys,

may I ask on which pool are you gonna mine with Apollo?
Or will be using any services like ProHashing...

Thanks for sharing!

Lots of testing over the past year with Litecoinpool, prohashing, hashtocoins etc. If you want a pool you can set and forget, I have found Litecoinpool.org to be the most stable and profitable if you’re sticking with LTC as final payout. I was really attracted to prohasing, but the constant coin switching delays and high fees make it not worth it. Some testing had prohashing ahead a bit, but overall litecoinpool wins in my book. Unless you have a lot of hash power, the LTC generated is negligible enough to not have to monitor 24/7.

What are your thoughts on multipool.us. I've been using it for a little while. I like the fact that one can merge mine Dogecoin and Viacoin. However, I don't like mining LTC on multipool. It doesn't use PPS for LTC.

[haloolah]

My first unit arrived.

Mining away now, with 102.65 MH/s, Eco mode, fan on auto. Temperatures 65.5 for miner and 68.0 C for MCU.

PICTURES: https://imgur.com/a/tvMZvj0

Amazing job, jstefanop!

what is your wattage at wall and if u have that info what PSU model is powering it thank you

[jbrow8]

Got it today mining at 100M, having some problem with Wi-Fi option and failover seems to be the only option with multiple pools. More to assess though.

[jstefanop]

Got it today mining at 100M, having some problem with Wi-Fi option and failover seems to be the only option with multiple pools. More to assess though.

Which pools are you trying to use?

Wifi is very buggy right now, but should work with most b/g WPA2 networks.

Currently wifi will NOT work on open networks (i.e. needs a password), and you'll have mixed results if your router is in mixed mode etc

[jstefanop]

Got the package. Looking awesome, just like the pictures!
Congrats on doing a really nice job with these, impressive production and great to see improvements to the entire process.
A real step up from the moonlander. Next up Mars?

Thats awesome to hear Im glad you guys are impressed with the final result as much as we are.

Now just collect those coins while the diff has been the lowest its been in over a year

[jstefanop]

The last of the pre-order shipments just went out today!

Well probably start orders for our in stock units soon...so keep an eye out here and email well be sending out.

[crypto_curious]

The last of the pre-order shipments just went out today!

Well probably start orders for our in stock units soon...so keep an eye out here and email well be sending out.

Awesome! Congratulations on successful launch I am one happy customer here. Waiting for my second unit, which should arrive Monday.

[crypto_curious]

My first unit arrived.

Mining away now, with 102.65 MH/s, Eco mode, fan on auto. Temperatures 65.5 for miner and 68.0 C for MCU.

PICTURES: https://imgur.com/a/tvMZvj0

Amazing job, jstefanop!

what is your wattage at wall and if u have that info what PSU model is powering it thank you

I plugged it to my GPU rig, powered by Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W. But for day to day use, any ATX power supply will do really, as long as it have 2x 8pin PCIE connectors. I have many secondary PSU lying around which I will use to power Apollos once I decided where exactly they will live this winter.

Usage jumped up for at least 100W (according to Thermaltake app, which reads it directly from PSU, I even have USB cable which goes from PSU to motherboard USB pinout, to read all stats from it), but I didn't measure it at the wall.