Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread

[Opazzno]

what does this error mean?warning

There was an error getting stats for Node: Invalid params, response status code: 503

my node stops and stops synchronizing.

[minecrusher]

#881423 FutureBit block! Looks to be the same one that hit a block before, #867760 also it looks like they are mining with a lot of miners thru it. Hashrate (24h) 5.1 EH/s

So they did kind of a Bitcoin-block telethon where several miners pointed their hash to this guy's Apollo node and that's how they hit a block.  Don't have the details, but it was mentioned on BitsBeTrippin youtube video just released on solo mining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZbOyuLHY0

Theres power in numbers and clearly it works. Ya know, one could suggest we build a telegram team. Donate our hash to one person and when someone hits the next person in line gets the hash... so on and so on. Its probably the only real way to compete with farms who hit every 10 mins.

[slurfius]

I've had my gen1 apollo mining to a pool forever I reflashed it with the latest software and I'm trying to mine to it's own node which is synced. I've waited 10 minutes I'm showing no hashrate on the solo mining page. 18/64 connections so I think I got the static ip correct. no hashrate or workers on solo mining page. 0 hs on miner solo pool info mines to pool what did I do wrong?

[aurel57]

#881423 FutureBit block! Looks to be the same one that hit a block before, #867760 also it looks like they are mining with a lot of miners thru it. Hashrate (24h) 5.1 EH/s

So they did kind of a Bitcoin-block telethon where several miners pointed their hash to this guy's Apollo node and that's how they hit a block.  Don't have the details, but it was mentioned on BitsBeTrippin youtube video just released on solo mining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZbOyuLHY0

Theres power in numbers and clearly it works. Ya know, one could suggest we build a telegram team. Donate our hash to one person and when someone hits the next person in line gets the hash... so on and so on. Its probably the only real way to compete with farms who hit every 10 mins.

Sounds like a good idea, but isn't going to work for many reasons.

[eagleye]

This is proof that the futurebit apollo node can act as a pool and successfully submit solved blocks.  It may have taken a lot of hashpower to prove it but there were some questions if it was possible.  This is the proof.  Any apollo mining has a chance to solve the block and have it submitted successfully by the node.  My best share is proof as to how close I am getting to solving a block and yes it is rather difficult.

[minecrusher]

#881423 FutureBit block! Looks to be the same one that hit a block before, #867760 also it looks like they are mining with a lot of miners thru it. Hashrate (24h) 5.1 EH/s

So they did kind of a Bitcoin-block telethon where several miners pointed their hash to this guy's Apollo node and that's how they hit a block.  Don't have the details, but it was mentioned on BitsBeTrippin youtube video just released on solo mining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZbOyuLHY0

Theres power in numbers and clearly it works. Ya know, one could suggest we build a telegram team. Donate our hash to one person and when someone hits the next person in line gets the hash... so on and so on. Its probably the only real way to compete with farms who hit every 10 mins.

Sounds like a good idea, but isn't going to work for many reasons.

Is there any mathematical or scientific logic that makes you claim such a statement? Hard or difficult yes, however what took place last week proves it can work. Hard none the less. I didnt suggest it was easy or simple. However the theory has been proven to work not once but twice by the same person. 

[PakoTor]

Is there any way to fix this error without reformating the node and restarting from scratch (I am at 94% now):

2025-01-30T10:27:36Z LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: /media/nvme/Bitcoin/chainstate/938066.ldb
2025-01-30T10:27:36Z Fatal LevelDB error: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: /media/nvme/Bitcoin/chainstate/938066.ldb
2025-01-30T10:27:36Z You can use -debug=leveldb to get more complete diagnostic messages
2025-01-30T10:27:36Z Error: Error reading from database, shutting down.
2025-01-30T10:27:36Z Error reading from database: Fatal LevelDB error: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: /media/nvme/Bitcoin/chainstate/938066.ldb

5 Eh/s is obviously not only a few Apollo.
No one has that much power with our Futurebit.
Looks more like a stunt to promote sales.
You might as well connect directly to CKpool and have the same luck.

But like I said before, I'm moving away from overpriced Futurebit to Canaan Avallon.
Better Th for your bucks.
Especially with this issue I have to flash the SD card weekly or biweekly and that's still not fixed with v 2.0.6.

[aurel57]

#881423 FutureBit block! Looks to be the same one that hit a block before, #867760 also it looks like they are mining with a lot of miners thru it. Hashrate (24h) 5.1 EH/s

So they did kind of a Bitcoin-block telethon where several miners pointed their hash to this guy's Apollo node and that's how they hit a block.  Don't have the details, but it was mentioned on BitsBeTrippin youtube video just released on solo mining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZbOyuLHY0

Theres power in numbers and clearly it works. Ya know, one could suggest we build a telegram team. Donate our hash to one person and when someone hits the next person in line gets the hash... so on and so on. Its probably the only real way to compete with farms who hit every 10 mins.

Sounds like a good idea, but isn't going to work for many reasons.

Is there any mathematical or scientific logic that makes you claim such a statement? Hard or difficult yes, however what took place last week proves it can work. Hard none the less. I didnt suggest it was easy or simple. However the theory has been proven to work not once but twice by the same person.  

Simply put, look at how many Apollo's have been sold and how many have hit a block? (zero other than the one that had a lot of outside hash thrown at it) Grouping all the Apollo's together will not change that, and with odds of hundred of years of hitting one block, who gets the first one? Who gets to pick that first person, and how many would stick it out knowing they are mining for someone else for years?  Then what is to keep everyone mining together after 5-10-25 years and not hitting anything? No way would it all stay together as a group. You're trying to structure a pool with it all going to one person, and not enough years for everyone in the group to be that person.

I have hit 2 blocks since 2013 mining on pools, my first was on Slush and then on another pool, both times I only got my % like everyone else mining on the pool. If I wasn't doing so good on my daily pay I would have tried solo and wish I had. Today is so much different than back then. I have also been in small groups of 10 that rented hash and got lucky to hit a couple blocks, about 7-8 years ago, but just did some more a few months back and didn't hit anything.

[eagleye]

The one apollo at 5EH I've seen the photos and it's got over 150 big hitter miners up to over 300 miners on it.  No reason to connect to ckpool web server.  Your apollo is a ckpool.  A node you control, not someone else. One less hand in the pass.  You can connect over 900 miners to it if you want to.

As for pool hashing It's a great idea if you get over 5EH for many weeks.  But once that block is hit only the apollo gets it, its not distributed and the moment one miner doesn't play ball the next group mining will have fewer miners.  There is no guarantee all will participate and when you lose miners you lose hash power.

I had  futurebit moonlanders running 90GH.  It ran for years and it did hit a best share of 1.6 Trillion.  Difficulty was 25 Trillion.  So this is all possible.  Miners have to run to discover a better best share.  This is a lottery.  You may never hit or your could hit the jackpot tomorrow.  You need reliable miners and a reliable node that will successfully submit a block.  I now trust the apollo will do that when it hits.  Imagine if your connected to a pool not in your control and  your miner hits but the pool sight is down and doesn't report the found block.

[ajaxtempest]

HI,

I know this has been answered but i was unable to find any info.

https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries

can i use apollo 2 miner binaries OS image file on raspberry pi 5 and link my own miners ie nano 3?

[jstefanop]

HI,

I know this has been answered but i was unable to find any info.

https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries

can i use apollo 2 miner binaries OS image file on raspberry pi 5 and link my own miners ie nano 3?

You cant use the images on the Raspberry Pi as it's designed for our custom ARM controllers. The OS itself can be installed on any linux system, but requires some modifications on the system.

it expects an nvme drive at /dev/nvme0n1p1, and the Bitcoin database folder at /media/nvme/Bitcoin

You could probably symlink both of these to wherever they exist on your system and it would probably work on any ARM system

[BrokenTractor]

I’d like the ability to shut down the internal miner and still have the pool continue to function with external miners.
I know others have said that yes the pool software does continue but the pool status page is not available if you shut down the internal miner.
I'd like to only use the pool and node features and only run external miners to this pool/node. The box would run so much cooler without the internal miner so the fan activation may have to be changed as well so there is still airflow.
Has anyone heard if this feature will be implemented in a future OS version?

[ajaxtempest]

HI,

I know this has been answered but i was unable to find any info.

https://github.com/jstefanop/Apollo-Miner-Binaries

can i use apollo 2 miner binaries OS image file on raspberry pi 5 and link my own miners ie nano 3?

You cant use the images on the Raspberry Pi as it's designed for our custom ARM controllers. The OS itself can be installed on any linux system, but requires some modifications on the system.

it expects an nvme drive at /dev/nvme0n1p1, and the Bitcoin database folder at /media/nvme/Bitcoin

You could probably symlink both of these to wherever they exist on your system and it would probably work on any ARM system

Thanks for the reply. Can you list the steps and will the OS workj on x86 processor. I have a mini pc with 1tb HDD  windows 11(not ssd).  I will have to format it and upload the Os via pendrive.

[Opazzno]

I’d like the ability to shut down the internal miner and still have the pool continue to function with external miners.
I know others have said that yes the pool software does continue but the pool status page is not available if you shut down the internal miner.
I'd like to only use the pool and node features and only run external miners to this pool/node. The box would run so much cooler without the internal miner so the fan activation may have to be changed as well so there is still airflow.
Has anyone heard if this feature will be implemented in a future OS version?

damn good idea

[heslo]

I’d like the ability to shut down the internal miner and still have the pool continue to function with external miners.
I know others have said that yes the pool software does continue but the pool status page is not available if you shut down the internal miner.
I'd like to only use the pool and node features and only run external miners to this pool/node. The box would run so much cooler without the internal miner so the fan activation may have to be changed as well so there is still airflow.
Has anyone heard if this feature will be implemented in a future OS version?

Yep, this would be great. I think you're talking about me confirming earlier that the solo pool still runs in the background but yes, it would be great to have it always showing its stats instead of just when the unit is mining.

Surely it wouldn't be a huge task have the dash always display this

[Frisco415]

So if i buy a Full Node Apollo II without the SSD because i have one.Do i just plug in the SSD in the slot and the Apollo will automatically do everything, or do i have to do something to teh SSD?

[eagleye]

So if i buy a Full Node Apollo II without the SSD because i have one.Do i just plug in the SSD in the slot and the Apollo will automatically do everything, or do i have to do something to the SSD?

Yup.  you may need to format the nvme after you install it then reboot.

[MakerAZ]

Looks like the Dashboard was not ready for Zettahash speed.
My Node page shows:

1.00 undefined
Network hashrate

About 108 trillion
Difficulty

[bubbAJoe]

Was sitting at 6.7B for best share from my 2 Apollo IIs for the longest time.  Just hit 112B best share from my USB Apollo II.

Only 962x short of network difficulty, LOL.

[minecrusher]

Was sitting at 6.7B for best share from my 2 Apollo IIs for the longest time.  Just hit 112B best share from my USB Apollo II.

Only 962x short of network difficulty, LOL.

Just short of my best share 132,337,685,248