Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread

[Jota_US]

Question: When solo mining, it says  "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

[Sledge0001]

Question: When solo mining, it says  "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any btc address will work.

Apparently this was incorrect so striking this!

[jstefanop]

Question: When solo mining, it says  "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

[TIRMINE]

Question: When solo mining, it says  "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Have mid-April orders started shipping?

[Jota_US]

Question: When solo mining, it says  "Mine directly to your Bitcoin node" does that mean we need an address that comes from the node? Or any address will work?
Also, has any Apollo found a block yet?

Any legacy or non script segwit address will work, the newer longer segwit/taproot addresses wont work for solo mining.

Not yet, but someone found a 42 trillion share so far (highest that I know) which is 1/2 network diff...we are also going wide release and will push an email + UI upgrade soon so if a large majority of all apollo users go solo there should be a block pretty fast.

Of course we have no idea what our users are doing, where they are mining or what % is solo vs pool etc so can be difficult to gauge.

Thanks for the info.

Also, is it possible/doable to upgrade the fan of the Apollo II ? I find it pretty loud, not sure what kind of fan it is. I live in hot weather so the fan spins faster.

[BoostBoss]

Hello,

I have an Apollo 2 that has been running fine for a couple months now. Turbo mode in my garage with on a shelf that has 360 degree air flow. The temps stayed around 74C all the time which, according to the gauge in the software was fine. I upgrade to 2.0.5 and have not been able to to use the Apollo since. It keeps shutting off. I was able to get into for a sec and turn it down to ECO mode but it died again shortly afterwards. I'm not sure what is happening. I can't get it to stay on long enough to troubleshoot. I tried to re-image the SD with 2.0.5 but, I couldn't even get through the start up page. I'm active working on downgrading it back to 2.0.4 right now. Anyone have any ideas??