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February 18, 2026, 08:59:25 PM
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Well it would not be a proper futurebit launch without a post on here!

Cant believe how much has changed in this space over the course of just 5 years, when we launched the Apollo BTC. I would have never thought our efforts would have ignited a whole ecosystem (I did secretly hope at the time), but what we have been building is slowly step by step coming into reality.

FutureBit found the first modern sovereign block in 2024, and now there is a whole ecosystem of diffrent node and solo mining products with solo block being found at a monthly pace.

Happy to announce the Apollo III is a continuation of this trend, and continues to pioneer the space we brought into the mainstream.

The Apollo III is another round of many firsts for futurebit.

This is the first time we are using a 3nm digital ASIC (switched from the Analog ASICs we were using in the BTC/II, big learning curve but worth it for the way larger dynamic range of operation).

Best part is the first AMERICAN ASIC being integrated into an AMERICAN made miner. Super proud of the team for this and what we have accomplished over the 5 years of brining almost our entire supply chain domestic.

We will finally have enough ASIC supply to really ramp up the Apollo III (we were always ASIC constrained with the Apollo II and could never ramped up to its full potential)

Another first is another major component has been brought directly under our control with our revamped high performance controller.

This same controller debuted in the Solo Node a few months ago, and super proud of what we have achieved with it.

With its 8 ARM cores, and 8GB of ram, it im pretty sure has the record for fastest low power ARM board sync in under 36 ours.

Our Solo mode and stratum solo server has been refined over the years and can now handle 100s of peta hash of hashrate with this tiny compute module.

And of course the miner itself, what we call Hash Core 3, our third generation miner.

It can put out 18TH in a tiny package (crazy to think this 5x5 inch cube can do more has power than an S9 at a fraction of the power)

And can be detuned down to about 12-13 W/TH in super low power mode (under 100 watts) thanks to the digital ASICs (we could never really go below 200 watts on the Apollo II due to the analog asics)

I think we really refined this product down to what it has always meant to be with the Apollo III...really excited for you guys to check it out.

As always check out the site at www.futurebit.io for more info. Pre-orders start next week, but production is already underway. We are waiting for fans and thermal system that is made overseas and hope to have those by end of march and start shipping in April!

Thank you for all the support over the years, the founders members, all our customers. I know who you all are on here and it wont be forgotten.


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February 19, 2026, 04:24:26 AM
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I'm glad to finally see some specifications!

Does the Apollo III Full Node and the Solo Node share the same SBC? Is it true that you used a Radxa ROCK 5B+ for both, and if not, which SBC is it?

Can you tell us which SBC you used for the Apollo III Standard? Based on the port layout, I believe it is the Orange Pi Zero3.

Do you plan to offer an Apollo III controllerless option?

Will there be any additional memory configuration options for either the Full Node or Standard?

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February 19, 2026, 05:08:26 AM
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Well done to the team on the release of the new Apollo III!  Smiley

I am looking forward to it. I would be very interested in a controller-less option. Could you confirm whether that will be available?

I currently run my own temperature control scripts on an Apollo II using an external controller, so I do not need an additional one. My plan is to redeploy the updated apollo-miner executables and connect the controller via USB to the new Apollo III unit. Will this setup work?

Please also confirm that the apollo-miner executable will be included in the Apollo 2.1 OS together with apollo-helper. Would it be possible to make these files available in a GitHub repository for easier access and download?
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February 19, 2026, 06:12:47 AM
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I'm glad to finally see some specifications!

Does the Apollo III Full Node and the Solo Node share the same SBC? Is it true that you used a Radxa ROCK 5B+ for both, and if not, which SBC is it?

Can you tell us which SBC you used for the Apollo III Standard? Based on the port layout, I believe it is the Orange Pi Zero3.

Do you plan to offer an Apollo III controllerless option?

Will there be any additional memory configuration options for either the Full Node or Standard?

Yep solo node/apollo III full node is the same controller, the controller is based on a platform we used that Radxa and other SBC companies use, but we redesigned large parts of it and is custom. 

Standard version is a pi zero variant. We just needed something with enough power to run the firmware/apollo app and wifi. It’s pretty overkill.

These hashboards are a big architectural change for us, they are fully controlled by the SBCs with no on board stm32 so USB/controllers operation is not possible.

This also means almost any GPIO based SBC can control the board though. Firmware will be more open and this might be the first board we open up for others to build stuff with. Might have some exciting stuff around this after we start shipping and scale up production later this year!

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February 19, 2026, 12:46:33 PM
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Congratulations on the release! Can you expand on the digital ASIC vs analog ASIC?
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February 19, 2026, 05:54:22 PM
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Congratulations on the release! Can you expand on the digital ASIC vs analog ASIC?

Most ASIC designs are digital (ie normal CPU gates/discrete boolean clocking). Apollo BTC/II used analog circuit designs for the hash cores. Since compute is based on discrete voltage domains and capacitive steering you could get much lower voltage and power out of the same node, in theory that is.

Since SHA256 mining is not error critical you could get away with this more "fuzzy logic". It was fun times and definitely a whole new way of doing things, but ultimately proved unable to keep up with latest digital IP blocks.

It's also why the Apollo II could never really be "down clocked" under 200 watts, there is a voltage threshold with analog designs where the asic simply wont work at all.

With digital you can down clock as much as you want, ie with the Apollo III ASICs we can finally go under 200 watts and get crazy efficiency.

Hoping this will open up more continuous use for Apollos going forward since you can run an Apollo III at 50 watts during the summer and still get nearly 5TH out of it, and then go full tilt in the winter!

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February 19, 2026, 06:56:29 PM
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Will check out pre orders.

I  have owned most if not all your gear at one time or another.

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February 20, 2026, 01:22:11 AM
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Yep I'll be buying day one!

Is there going to be a deal for previous owners like you've done before? Always appreciated that and it's a nice little perk if you do
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February 20, 2026, 04:32:54 PM
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Yep I'll be buying day one!

Is there going to be a deal for previous owners like you've done before? Always appreciated that and it's a nice little perk if you do

Yeah I got 10 percent last time.

Would be nice to get 10 percent or so off.

A nice simple 10-14th miner for my desktop.

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