Running Hydra Pool :) On an Umbrel, on mainnet. Much delight. Smooth sailing - great instructions on hydrapool.org. This is running :latest via docker compose. Also built locally from Rust source earlier - breezed right through it 👌

GitHub

GitHub - 256foundation/hydrapool: Open Source Bitcoin Mining Pool

Open Source Bitcoin Mining Pool. Contribute to 256foundation/hydrapool development by creating an account on GitHub.

Awesome job guys, amazing! Thank you @256Foundation @jungly @econoalchemist et al

Integrated a particulate matter (PM) sensor - Sensirion SPS30 - into my envbox build. This should hopefully give me some insight into the dust buildup / particulates in the air around where my miners are running. Ran out of available GPIOs on the original ESP32 “CYD” board, so spun this up as a separate “dustbox“ unit for now. Will be getting a different ESP32 board with more available GPIOs next most likely - to bring this all back onto a single MCU board, and reduce the overall footprint.

Thank you @D++ for the work of ❤️ on the @256FOUNDATION’s Telehash dashboard! Loving it - functionally, and in terms of aesthetics! 🤩 Did I catch that right on the live steam - it’s getting contributed as the browser frontend to Hydra Pool next?

Integrated a sound pressure level sensor into my envbox / sensor array build. This now will allow me to cap the max dB(A) / noise level generated by the miners as I auto-tune / overclock them - in the same way you’d normally cap max ASIC and VR temperatures, and max power.

Love the idea of a Telehash fundraiser - what a beautiful and easy and native way to participate! @256foundation - love what you guys are doing supporting open-source mining stack development and education, good luck winning a block this year! ⛏️ @Tyler Stevens ⚡️ @jungly @skot9000 @Rod @econoalchemist @Schnitzel @npub1snpg...ume8 et al

Show your miner a little love today and de-dust the heatsink / fan 🧹 This guy went from laboring at 100% fan -> ~60%, all else being equal. 

The fan acoustics were starting to sound peculiar, which is what drew my attention. Hopefully no lasting damage to the fan, but I’m not so sure. Wish there was a better way to get alerted earlier.

Choppin' air much?

This keeps getting more and more delightful - fresh iteration of my miners Grafana dashboard

Good times

Grateful to all the hardworking people upstream of this - a small mountain of components and tools shows up at my doorstep in no time flat, and for not much money at all

Detailed time-series data across my fleet of NerdQAxe++ miners. Miners pushing data -> InfluxDB 2 -> Grafana, both running on an Umbrel Home. This is while running Bitaxe-Hashrate-Benchmark. You can also spot clearly where I switched over to my own instance of Public Pool and my own Bitcoin node, both also running on the Umbrel

Half a kilo of copper should shave off a few dB

NerdMiner running on a new device with a 1.47” screen

New addition to the silent miner family. Got NerdMiner_v2 1.8.3 to work on these USB dongles - LILYGO T-Dongle S3. Hashrate consistently at ~240 kH/s, compared to ~70 kH/s on 1.6.3. Beautiful little devices 😍

One of the highlights for me at this year’s Maker Faire Shenzhen - a punched tape reader smartphone peripheral, by SZDIY folks. Something about bridging the analogue / physical and digital realms pulls just on the right heart strings for me