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

[QuintLeo]

Dont we need much more storage than the recommended microSD card to fit a full node?

MicroSD is capable of at least 512 GB, and potentially up to 2TB in the spec.

Should be plenty to handle a full node for a buncha years.

[ozcointrader]

I got my E Mail notification that the Miner is on the way , orderd on September !
Thanks jstefanop  !

Order 1199 on September 2nd - No email yet

[stef942]

any european buyers here? i'm wondering how much import taxes will we have to pay

[CuteMiner]

Hello man,

Yes, from Czech Republic.
I'm counting approximately with 60 - 70 Euro additional VAT fee...

[wttbs]

any european buyers here? i'm wondering how much import taxes will we have to pay

it is different in every country. Just check the website of your IRS, Douane, Postage website

in the Netherlands, if Customs office picks out your package (if valued over 25 euro), 21 % tax + 1 to 3% import tax + handling fee (differs per post-courier-company that picks up the package for futher transport).

[jstefanop]

Looks like we did a minor screw-up and should have collected phone numbers for everyone at checkout since we are shipping out mostly fedex. If your order number is between 1190-1240 please reply to your order confirmation email with your phone number so we can update and send these out ASAP.

Ill shoot everyone an email reminder as well.

[philipma1957]

Looks like we did a minor screw-up and should have collected phone numbers for everyone at checkout since we are shipping out mostly fedex. If your order number is between 1190-1240 please reply to your order confirmation email with your phone number so we can update and send these out ASAP.

Ill shoot everyone an email reminder as well.

Okay I got the email I will give you a phone number.


edit :

I sent you a phone number via email

[ozcointrader]

Yay order 1199 shipped! 

[Fenboy]

I have emailed my tel no. to futurebit.io

Order #1210

[HagssFIN]

any european buyers here? i'm wondering how much import taxes will we have to pay

In most cases you only need to pay the Value Added Tax.

The VAT percentage is country specific.

In here Finland,  the VAT is 24%.


If your courier or the customs take some additional fees, of course those have to be paid as well.

[CharlieFoxtrot]

saw this thread update a little late. I replied with my phone number. Order number: 1213

[jstefanop]

Sorry to everyone that got their miners today, been trying to finalize this image and I think I finally got it. Im pretty exhausted and ill have more details up on the site and a support thread up with more instructions tomorrow, but below is the condensed version that should get you guys up and running.

Download image here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/apolloimage/apollo_final.img.zip

Unzip it

run a sha256 checksum on it should be (not required but should check it in case of corrupted download if your having issues)
906bbdb9b9a195edea5fd3302b258ae28e6049c04a610698d253132f5dee50eb

Use a clone tool like etcher to clone the unzipped image to your SD card (or use dd) it MUST be a bit copy that overwrites the whole SD card and not just a partition so make sure whatever tool you use can do that

stick the SD card into the Apollo (the slot is underneath where the blue controller is)

plug in your ethernet cable and power her up!

you should see ethernet lights flashing, and after a few seconds the front LED should start flashing yellow...wait a min or two until its fully booted up and connected to your local network...it should start mining right away and you'll see lots of green and red blinky lights.

Go to a web browser on a device thats connected to your local network (both computers and phones/tablets should work) and go to futurebit.local (this might not work for everyone)

If futurebit.local does not work your going to manually have to find the IP address of the device on your network...just use any ip scanner that can display a hostname (futurebit is the devices hostname) otherwise just go down the list and enter the address of the active IPs until you see the Apollo UI load.

Thats it! The rest we hopefully made intuitive and easy enough that I don't need to explain it...set up your pool and save and you should be good to go!

DONT do anything stupid with settings until I have a full writeup, and keep the miner in ECO mode for now.

Enjoy!

[House Xylander]

Has there been an announcement or a waiting list started for the next batch?

[jstefanop]

Has there been an announcement or a waiting list started for the next batch?

you can sign up for waitlist at www.futurebit.io. Still have about a week of pre-order to ship out so nothing will be started on that front until all pre-orders are shipped out.

[AltScope]

Looks like we did a minor screw-up and should have collected phone numbers for everyone at checkout since we are shipping out mostly fedex. If your order number is between 1190-1240 please reply to your order confirmation email with your phone number so we can update and send these out ASAP.

Ill shoot everyone an email reminder as well.

crap only just saw this order numbers in the range, I'll respond to the order update email as I didn't recieve an email reminder

glad I checked the thread

[crypto_curious]

Received mine today. Took less than 15 minutes to get up and running. Beautiful dashboard, couldn't be easier!



I have been accessing from different browsers and found the following:
For safari, “futurebit.local” works as typed in the browser
For chrome, type “//futurebit.local”
For edge, type the ip address

You received it already and all we have is an image of a dashboard?! Come on, man Give us some real pictures!
Can't wait to get mine.

jstefanop, I ordered two, both of them will want to communicate on futurebit.local. How I can separate them from each other?
By the way, what is the protocol name used to discover and announce localhost names like futurebit.local in my LAN?

[psycodad]

Looks like we did a minor screw-up and should have collected phone numbers for everyone at checkout since we are shipping out mostly fedex. If your order number is between 1190-1240 please reply to your order confirmation email with your phone number so we can update and send these out ASAP.

Ill shoot everyone an email reminder as well.

# 1233 here, didn't get the reminder but replied to the order confirmation with phone nr based on above request.
Though haven't received anything more like a shipping confirmation yet.

[CuteMiner]

Looks like we did a minor screw-up and should have collected phone numbers for everyone at checkout since we are shipping out mostly fedex. If your order number is between 1190-1240 please reply to your order confirmation email with your phone number so we can update and send these out ASAP.

Ill shoot everyone an email reminder as well.

# 1233 here, didn't get the reminder but replied to the order confirmation with phone nr based on above request.
Though haven't received anything more like a shipping confirmation yet.

# 1215 same here...

[peetee]

jstefanop, I ordered two, both of them will want to communicate on futurebit.local. How I can separate them from each other?
By the way, what is the protocol name used to discover and announce localhost names like futurebit.local in my LAN?

Multicast DNS (mDNS) is generally what resolves hostnames with the .local TLD. I suspect that whoever "claims" futurebit.local first will win. You'll probably need to go into the device and change its hostname to something else, so that the fresh device can claim "futurebit.local" when it comes up for the first time.

[jstefanop]

jstefanop, I ordered two, both of them will want to communicate on futurebit.local. How I can separate them from each other?
By the way, what is the protocol name used to discover and announce localhost names like futurebit.local in my LAN?

Multicast DNS (mDNS) is generally what resolves hostnames with the .local TLD. I suspect that whoever "claims" futurebit.local first will win. You'll probably need to go into the device and change its hostname to something else, so that the fresh device can claim "futurebit.local" when it comes up for the first time.

Yes, its also discoverable via bonjour service or whatever thats called these days (i.e. any iOS or Apple device should be able to pick it up as well as most android based phones).

For the time being its probably easiest to just set each one up one by one.

Next image version will have a UID thats broadcast via the built in wifi (so wifi SSID will be something like futurebit-E2FD9 which you'll be able to connect to directly and configure, and hostname will be futurebit-E2FD9.local etc).