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

[WoodHawk]

Here's the DGB block I solved. It also appears that someone in our party solved a Gulden block this morning. The reward is 80 Gulden and my reward was 10 NLG so there must have been 8 of us in the party at the time.  Woo Hooo!!!!!!

https://ibb.co/f8YtDzS

[ClaytonBigsby]

I’m pretty sure ZergPool is prop payment. You get paid on how many shares your miner submitted. The last NLG block my miner solved, I got 28%, but I have 2 miners going, one is on turbo mode and the other on eco. Sometimes I see our party cracking blocks and my rewards are like 2-3 percent.

[jstefanop]

At 4 cent power cost my numbers show this will take 65 months just to pay itself off.

I am beyond confused here....for the same price you can buy 3 used L3+ units and make 13x the monthly profit and pay the units off in ~4 months

Is there some secret way of making a profit or are people willing to throw away money just to have a shiny on their desk? Its not like Litecoin is some innovative blockchain thats going to explode in the future, its basically on life support as a coin already...

This is all relative. For some people the L3 will make ZERO profit while the Apollo will be more than profitable. This is because the Apollo is 60% more efficient than the L3.

Same way you can also make zero profit with an L3 because you cant run it in your living room which is the only place millions of people can actually run a miner...with the Apollo you can.

Also L3s were over made then dumped on the market, the only new scrypt miner that is shipping for a comparison to be made is to an innosillicon A4+ which costs 1500 bucks for 620 MH, you can get the same hash power with 5 Apollo's which cost the same amount...if anything im undercharging considering my way smaller economy of scale.

On your last point...people have said the same thing for the last 3 cycles..and they will continue saying the same thing for the next 3

Regardless I hate getting into the discussion of profitability, since thats not the point of this. Its a miner anyone can run on their desk and collect crypto without thinking about it and not worrying about the single light bulbs worth of power cost...the more people on the network that are supporting it and more importantly evenly distributing and decentralizing the mining rewards the better in the long term.

[ejonathonw]

Someone just cracked another DGB! Go team!

[ClaytonBigsby]

Yep 

https://imgur.com/a/gsv0rz7

[cobra2329]

Just join the party a day ago, we are now 15 if my math is right !!! Go, Go, Go,    Apollo is awesome !!!

[Boostoholic]

And yet another DGB???!?! Got some good luck out there.  Woohoo!

This one was me this time! Love this little miner.

[ejonathonw]

And yet another DGB???!?! Got some good luck out there.  Woohoo!

This one was me this time! Love this little miner.

My original post was deleted for some reason but good job.  Yeah I am pretty impressed with the "luck" of the ASIC that were used as well.

[highaltitude]

Not sure what I'm missing, but it took 2 weeks to get .1 LTC Is that what others are seeing? (running on Turbo mode)

[ejonathonw]

Not sure what I'm missing, but it took 2 weeks to get .1 LTC Is that what others are seeing? (running on Turbo mode)

Hard for me to say because I have other miners running but that doesn't sound right.  What's in your pass field?

[philipma1957]

Not sure what I'm missing, but it took 2 weeks to get .1 LTC Is that what others are seeing? (running on Turbo mode)

Hard for me to say because I have other miners running but that doesn't sound right.  What's in your pass field?

that is what it should earn 0.05 ltc a week

Most people mining don't mine at a standard pool I solo mine mine ( funny pun mine mine).

I think mining at a standard pool on turbo is not how to use these.


@ the op  I went to you website to buy one today and I was told the 10OFF-LAST-STOCK Is not valid.

[jstefanop]

Not sure what I'm missing, but it took 2 weeks to get .1 LTC Is that what others are seeing? (running on Turbo mode)

Hard for me to say because I have other miners running but that doesn't sound right.  What's in your pass field?

that is what it should earn 0.05 ltc a week

Most people mining don't mine at a standard pool I solo mine mine ( funny pun mine mine).

I think mining at a standard pool on turbo is not how to use these.


@ the op  I went to you website to buy one today and I was told the 10OFF-LAST-STOCK Is not valid.

That promotion was only valid for a week, turned it back on but only have like half a dozen units left so better be quick

[philipma1957]

Not sure what I'm missing, but it took 2 weeks to get .1 LTC Is that what others are seeing? (running on Turbo mode)

Hard for me to say because I have other miners running but that doesn't sound right.  What's in your pass field?

that is what it should earn 0.05 ltc a week

Most people mining don't mine at a standard pool I solo mine mine ( funny pun mine mine).

I think mining at a standard pool on turbo is not how to use these.


@ the op  I went to you website to buy one today and I was told the 10OFF-LAST-STOCK Is not valid.

That promotion was only valid for a week, turned it back on but only have like half a dozen units left so better be quick

Got busy let me check it.

ordered second one #1811

thanks.

[buckeyeb03]

Just joined the pool:

URL: stratum+tcp://scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433
Username: (Your LTC Wallet Address)
Password: m=party.Apollo

First day mining and excited to give this a shot.

[ejonathonw]

Just joined the pool:

URL: stratum+tcp://scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433
Username: (Your LTC Wallet Address)
Password: m=party.Apollo

First day mining and excited to give this a shot.

Make sure you specify a payout coin in your password.  C=LTC or C=BTC.

[buckeyeb03]

Just joined the pool:

URL: stratum+tcp://scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433
Username: (Your LTC Wallet Address)
Password: m=party.Apollo

First day mining and excited to give this a shot.

Make sure you specify a payout coin in your password.  C=LTC or C=BTC.

Well there we go...first mistake. Just updated password to: c=LTC,m=party.Apollo

Also made sure my LTC address was put in the username field. Now we should be good to go.

[jtregunna]

Silicon lottery aside for the moment, at default frequency, what's the lowest voltage people have been able to maintain? At 710.4mV right now, 598MHz, seems to be stable, HW errors are reasonable

[philipma1957]

Silicon lottery aside for the moment, at default frequency, what's the lowest voltage people have been able to maintain? At 710.4mV right now, 598MHz, seems to be stable, HW errors are reasonable

I had 598 at 740.1 mv errors were 0.6%
I am now testing

598 at 722.85 mv  errors are 0.9%

[jtregunna]

Silicon lottery aside for the moment, at default frequency, what's the lowest voltage people have been able to maintain? At 710.4mV right now, 598MHz, seems to be stable, HW errors are reasonable

I had 598 at 740.1 mv errors were 0.6%
I am now testing

598 at 722.85 mv  errors are 0.9%

Cool good to have a comparison, at 710.4mV, I'm running 1.3% errors. At stock voltages and frequency (eco mode not custom) i'm around 0.9% error to 1.1% error.

[philipma1957]

Silicon lottery aside for the moment, at default frequency, what's the lowest voltage people have been able to maintain? At 710.4mV right now, 598MHz, seems to be stable, HW errors are reasonable

I had 598 at 740.1 mv errors were 0.6%
I am now testing

598 at 722.85 mv  errors are 0.9%

Cool good to have a comparison, at 710.4mV, I'm running 1.3% errors. At stock voltages and frequency (eco mode not custom) i'm around 0.9% error to 1.1% error.

If I go to 697.95 volts
and         559Mhz freq

I get 93.92 hash with 1% errors

and I can set fan to 10%  temps are 54.88/50.22 in a very warm room.
I will run this for a day








I suspect  if you don't mind losing a little hash rate

you can set lower

lowest volts is .644
maybe with 500mhz freq
5% fan