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

[ejonathonw]

Just got mine in today and it was a very easy setup.  Thanks for bringing this tech home.  Runs beautifully, as well as the 6 MoonLanders and 2 L3+ I've got in my mini setup.  Thanks again, really really nice work.

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[klintay]

I live in NJ so these will  run at a profit and give me heat  that is roi plus

every day I run 1 I make 22 cents in coin profit and I get 100 x 4 = 400 btus an hour of heat

Am I missing something here? If the price point is in the $200-300 range, these will NEVER ROI, like not even close. There is no way you can look at these where they make financial sense. Its literally just throwing money away.

depends on what coin you are mining and the usd exchange rate at any given time, also how long you are willing to HODL

[jstefanop]

Just got mine in today and it was a very easy setup.  Thanks for bringing this tech home.  Runs beautifully, as well as the 6 MoonLanders and 2 L3+ I've got in my mini setup.  Thanks again, really really nice work.

Thanks for coming on here and posting!

[ClaytonBigsby]

Anyone having issues connecting to bsod or ZergPool? Mine states inactive. I can connect to tbdice and ViaBTC just fine.

[VoskCoin]

Anyone having issues connecting to bsod or ZergPool? Mine states inactive. I can connect to tbdice and ViaBTC just fine.

what are you mining on bsod? or trying to? Zergpool was not working for me

[ClaytonBigsby]

I was trying to connect to verge on bsod. To get it working on ZergPool, I had to connect to MiningRigRentals with no failover pools set, then I have it pointed to ZergPool. Read somewhere that the Apollo have connection issues with multi pool algos.

[VoskCoin]

Here is my video review on the FutureBit Apollo miner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR80LbsCrpw

[ejonathonw]

Anyone having issues connecting to bsod or ZergPool? Mine states inactive. I can connect to tbdice and ViaBTC just fine.

what are you mining on bsod? or trying to? Zergpool was not working for me

I finally got zerg working using stratum+tcp://scrypt.mine.zergpool.com:3433#skipcbcheck#xnsub and adding a (.1) worker number.  I don't have to make this specification with my L3+ but i imagine its because the Apollo has the extraonce whereas the Antminers dont.  But i may be talking out of the side of my head too.  Just got it working and its been stable for.......6 minutes. Ha!

[ejonathonw]

and just because.....
Apollo party at zerg!!
set password (m=party.Apollo)
hey who's there already?

[ClaytonBigsby]

Join with your awesome Apollo miners at ZergPool for party mining  

m=party.Apollo

[pancakehero]

Hi guys ! Just placed a order for this miner.

I was wondering what the recommended power supply would be for running 1 apollo !

Also what are you guys mining ? Some people mining DGB

[Filax]

Hi guys ! Just placed a order for this miner.

I was wondering what the recommended power supply would be for running 1 apollo !

Also what are you guys mining ? Some people mining DGB

Hey welcome to futurebit world For me i use a good pc power block 1000 watts, it can deliver 12 volts with 40 amps!

And yes i put my apollo on digibyte mining on multipool With my config i get 3/7 DGB per days.

Here is a screen of my configuration, to the left, my futurebit mooonlander keys And the apollo to the right

And to the back the pc power. In front, it's a box i made with my 3D printer for my newpak keys (sha256)





All this small world is managed by some raspberry pi + touch screens.


Note for your apollo, do not buy shitty SD card, take one with good quality like sandisk or other, no chineese shit... Because with a crappy SD card
i almost destroyed my apollo... (The os read/write crashed and the apollo become crazy and hot during one night)

[philipma1957]

Hi guys ! Just placed a order for this miner.

I was wondering what the recommended power supply would be for running 1 apollo !

Also what are you guys mining ? Some people mining DGB

fsp has one  wait for a link



https://www.amazon.com/FSP-Solution-Certified-Modular-SDA500/dp/B06ZXQRTQD/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?




lower should do 1

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817104132

[ClaytonBigsby]

We cracked a DGB block onZergPool party mode 

https://i.imgur.com/nZrIjPM.png

[ejonathonw]

We cracked a DGB block onZergPool party mode 

https://i.imgur.com/nZrIjPM.png

I was just looking at the details trying to figure out what was hit.  That's awesome.

[jstefanop]

We cracked a DGB block onZergPool party mode 

https://i.imgur.com/nZrIjPM.png

Really cool!

[dsaerpe]

So I just joined the apollo party on zerg - Is there a way to see the stats?

Edit. Found it.


Edit: Join us!! 

[ejonathonw]

So I just joined the apollo party on zerg - Is there a way to see the stats?

Edit. Found it.


Edit: Join us!! 

Nice Verge block there put me right back over the limit.

[ClaytonBigsby]

Yep, we’re cracking blocks with this little asic lol.

https://imgur.com/a/oddlSwG

[tromp]

This looks like a great form factor for home mining!

Do I understand correctly that the PCB houses 3x9 chips underneath that big heatsink?
I wonder how you lay out 27 chips in a square space...

Did you do the ASIC design in-house?

Any plans to branch out to other PoWs in future?
Several other memory oriented PoW have daily issuance comparable to scrypt,
like Equihash and Cuckoo Cycle.