Peace of mind
Some algorithms in mining equipment are much smarter than humans. It is impossible to mine on a faulty cooling system on the equipment.
The newer one, yes, but for the S9, by using different firmware, you can disable the fan check and be able to run it without a fan. But the problem is, how can you get rid of overheating if you don't have a cooling system?
In the past, their way to bypass that issue was to have a DIY immersion cooling (Brains have this feature) aquarium as a sample with full of mineral oil. This one also helps to get rid of noisy fans.
I agree with you that it is possible to upgrade the firmware, but without knowing the basic temperatures of the chips and monitoring them, you could burn out the ASIC. ASIC S9 gives very little prof even with free electricity, and additional investments in immersion cooling make this idea unprofitable.
even if you have free power it makes 14 x .05=0.7
that is in usd so 70 cents with free power.
for me I am making slightly more then 70 cents well was when S9 was running For me in Canadian dollars I was mining 97 cents a day sometimes got lucky and mined $1.01-$1.03 a Day and had it running for 3 months and made roughly over a little 94$
BTC my family was shocked "I made money appear out of nowhere" lmao I was just happy I actually mined a decent little amount off a S9 pretty much made my money back!
eyeing out perfect S19 home miners that have the middle board taken out for heat diversion linked here---
https://d-central.tech/product/antminer-loki-edition/planning on just buying 25 of these miners for nearly 14.85K CAD (Not all at once starting with 2-3 possibly 3-5) 1 at my mothers 1 at my grams and other family members and family stores for 1050 TH/s (1.05 PH/s) in solo mining
The expected time to mine one block is the inverse of the probability:
$$\text{Expected Time (in 10-minute periods)} = \frac{1}{P(\text{block})} = \frac{1}{0.000001105} \approx 905,000 \text{ periods}$$
Converting to days ($ 905,000 \times 10 \div 60 \div 24 $):
$$\text{Expected Time} \approx \frac{905,000 \times 10}{60 \times 24} \approx 6,284 \text{ days}$$
t would take approximately 6,284 days (or about 17.2 years) to mine a block solo with 1050 TH/s. (will stack as many as these miners and more newer ones etc as i can to lower the time to hit a solo block)
$$\text{Daily Revenue} = \left( \frac{\text{Your Hash Rate}}{\text{Network Hash Rate}} \right) \times \text{Block Reward} \times \text{Blocks per Day} \times (1 - \text{Pool Fee})$$
Using:
Your hash rate: 1050 TH/s
Network hash rate: 950,000,000 TH/s
Block reward: ~3.2 BTC (including fees)
Blocks per day: 144
Braiins Pool fee: 2% (0.02)
This translates to approximately 0.000499 BTC per day (or about $45–$60 per day at a Bitcoin price of $90,000–$120,000, as prices fluctuate).
-Loshi
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