Hi 4all!
Let me introduce my project of some additional mining equipment
What's it? This is a
mining switch for ETH (BTC currently being tested).
If you find a block, it goes to the solo pool. Solo pools operate the same way as usual pools, with the only difference being that block reward is not distributed among all miners. The entire reward in a solo pool goes to the miner who finds the block.
For example,
this guy found a Ethereum block 12211885 using about two video cards (86.7 MH/s). The entire reward was 30.22654 ETH. But he got only 0.0005 ETH of it...
What it's for?During mining you continuously search for blocks (or "
golden nonce"). To reduce payout variance, miners group into pools and share their income proportionally to their hashpower.
To determine each miner's hashpower, pools use a share system: when you are mining and find a block header of high
difficulty but not high enough to be above the current target, you send it to the pool. These difficult-but-not-enough headers are called "shares".
Since finding them is way more frequent than blocks (miners often send several of them per second), no matter how small your hashpower is, it will still be taken in account at payout time even if you're unlucky. The more shares you send, the more hashpower you have, the bigger the share of the pool's income you will get. They are not broadcast to the bitcoin network, since they would be immediately rejected there and are of no value to anyone but the miner that found them and the pool software. But sometimes you find a block!
How does it work?The
ShareSwitch continuously analyzes the traffic between the miner and the pool. To do this, the device creates a clone of the miner and both pools inside itself. This must be done because network traffic sniffing/decryption in real time is too difficult and we have to create endpoints.
As a result, the miner thinks that it is connected directly to the pool, the pool(s) thinks that it is connected directly to the miner. In the middle, the device's core routes the data. If valid hash* is found, it will be forwarded to the solo pool. You can also set the percentage of shares sent to the solo pool and the usual pool. This will avoid being banned for inaction.
*most probably valid hash based on the global difficulty level.
What advantage?Something similar has long been done with a proxy. This device has next advantages:
1. Very small delay. Typically about 1 ms at full load (4 miners connected).
2. High reliability. This works nearby and is controlled by the owner, unlike a proxy somewhere far away.
3. This cannot be identified from the pool side. Nothing changes for the pool.
4. Low power consumption (no more than 5W).
5. Advanced logic based on FPGA and dedicated controller Atheros AR9331.
6. Stylish green heatsink inside.
I posted some photos and diagrams in my
GooglePhotos.
Updates will be soon
UPD. April 26, 2021. WEB control board was added. Optimization of power consumption.
UPD. May 15, 2021. Automatic pool test added. This checks for key vulnerabilities and predicts success.
UPD. May 20, 2021. Website launched:
https://shareswitch.online UPD. June 7, 2021. The production of enclosures has been prepared. Cutting and marking files have been prepared.
UPD. June 28, 2021. The prototype has finished testing. Negotiations are underway to make a batch.
UPD. Aug 02, 2021. We have finally purchased all the components and the devices have gone into production! The order is available on
our website.
I am glad to inform that we have finally purchased all the components and the devices have gone into production!
As promised, 5000 pieces were ordered. This allowed us to significantly reduce the cost of each unit!
The order is available on our website
https://shareswitch.onlineYoutube:
https://youtu.be/SB6VW-VImzQ Questions:
sales@shareswitch.onlineUPD. Aug 20, 2021. The whole batch was shipped!
UPD. Sep 15, 2021. First update is available.
UPD. Feb 14, 2022. Bridge feature added.
