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

[BlazeB]

Hi all - I am able to point hash from MiningRigRentals to my FB Apollo but wasn't successful with NiceHash.  Any tips to get it to work?

Thank you

What does NiceHash say when you try to verify your pool? You likely need to increase the starting difficulty from 42 to 500,000 on CK Pool by editing the ckpool.conf on your Apollo.

[TIRMINE]

Hi all - I am able to point hash from MiningRigRentals to my FB Apollo but wasn't successful with NiceHash.  Any tips to get it to work?

Thank you

What does NiceHash say when you try to verify your pool? You likely need to increase the starting difficulty from 42 to 500,000 on CK Pool by editing the ckpool.conf on your Apollo.

It's been a while since I last tried but what you are saying makes sense.  I will figure out how to adjust the diff and give it a shot.  Thank you

[meligo]

has anyone tried different mining software and or pointing Apollo II to a BCH pool instead of Bitcoin?

[eagleye]

has anyone tried different mining software and or pointing Apollo II to a BCH pool instead of Bitcoin?

I was just thinking about that.  You could use a bitcoin cash address and mine in a pool.  But the funny thing is when you look at the difficulty to rewards, I'd rather stay on bitcoin.  The rewards just don't match up to being worthwhile.  THe longer I mine bitcoin the better the odds of hitting a block over time, or never.  But I'll take that chance.  The difficulty in BCH is very high and rewards are low. 

If you started a fresh Apollo II with blank node memory, you could redirect the bitcoind to a BCH node and download the BCH blockchain, then solo mine when it was complete.  That's what I was thinking about.  Would need a new memory card so you don't confuse it with Bitcoin.  Maybe even a new microsd after reprogramming the bitcoind to the BCH blockchain.

[TIRMINE]

Hi all - I am able to point hash from MiningRigRentals to my FB Apollo but wasn't successful with NiceHash.  Any tips to get it to work?

Thank you

What does NiceHash say when you try to verify your pool? You likely need to increase the starting difficulty from 42 to 500,000 on CK Pool by editing the ckpool.conf on your Apollo.

Having trouble figuring out how to change the starting diff.  Can you point me to any directions for this?

[bubbAJoe]

563B from one of my Apollo IIs.....

Anyone hit into the trillions with an Apollo II yet?

[TIRMINE]

563B from one of my Apollo IIs.....

Anyone hit into the trillions with an Apollo II yet?

My highest is 396B

[MakerAZ]

563B from one of my Apollo IIs.....

Anyone hit into the trillions with an Apollo II yet?

Best Share 1,383,813,752,733

[eagleye]

currently at 18 billion on apollo II.  I had a usb futurebit moonlander hit 1.2 trillion but just short of solving the block.  probably took about 2 years.  Anything is possible.  Can't solve it if its not running.  Would love to plug the futurebit moonlander into the usb ports on the apollo II and mine them to the node.  Any Tips?

[atomx2025]

When will we be able to run knots on the Apollo !! full node?

[Hamster123]

When will we be able to run knots on the Apollo !! full node?

+1 for this question. Apollo 2 software update with this capability soon?

[bubbAJoe]

~7.5% drop in difficulty, good luck miners!!!

[Frisco415]

I want to upgrade the original 500gb ssd m.2 from my BTC apollo MC1 version, what SSD drives will work for this. I hear not all work.
Any suggestions are appreciated
Thanks All

[jstefanop]

When will we be able to run knots on the Apollo !! full node?

+1 for this question. Apollo 2 software update with this capability soon?

2.1 will be out shortly, we are working on user selectable node clients for 2.2 in a few months.

Needs lots of testing...our nodes being used as solo mining nodes carries more weight, last thing we want is to rush an update and then have someone fail to submit a valid block because of a badly tested node client.

FYI current client is 25.1 and 2.1 client will be 28.1. The controversial update is for 30 so there is not much functional differences between the clients we use as default and knots.

[jstefanop]

I want to upgrade the original 500gb ssd m.2 from my BTC apollo MC1 version, what SSD drives will work for this. I hear not all work.
Any suggestions are appreciated
Thanks All

All crucial P2/P3/P3+ drives and Kingston NV2 drives will work...Kingston NV3 drives there is a variant that does not work due to some weird controller they use.

Those are the drives we have tested internally.