GM. First night running a miner. Anyone have any tips on solo or pools, etc.? Brand new to this but it’s time to learn.
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I have 5 pointed to solo.ckpool. that case makes it hard to cool the voltage regulator. Make sure your wallet addy is correct. Mining a block only to have it lost forever would be devastating.
BTC Sessions has some good tutorials on this.
First get it up iff the floor because its going to suck up a bunch of dust into the cooler fins.
GM 🫂☕
Public Pool is probably the easiest to setup. There's also Datum (Ocean) and CK Pool
If you want steady but small rewars try braiins
That’s on a desk. You clearly don’t have an eye for high end ikea clearance furniture.
I’ve never heard of this but I’ll take a look. Thanks. Tried zapping you but it denied me. Let me zap you Sam!
I tried this last night with Public pool but could not get in. I’m assuming I need a new OS. I have an Umbrel coming in, will this allow me access into public pool or can I do it on any OS like Mac? Again, I type with one finger so this is like helping a toddler learn calculus.
CK pool is extremely easy. Maybe not optimal but a 15min setup.
That’s who I used to get my WiFi set up correctly. Had no idea I needed to configure to 2.4 GHz. I didn’t even know what that meant until 12 hours ago.
Also, I can’t zap you. Why won’t you just take my money?
Are you running Sparrow with your miners(if you didn’t lose your wallet in a fire last year)? Also, what temps are you trying to keep your miners at so you don’t over clock/ overheat them?
Thanks, I need easy and it’s probably a good start point.
No I have them set to deposit to a ledger wallet. I've never done anything with sparrow despite hearing about it everywhere.
I have mine set to 62°c but upgraded to El mirage heatsinks from @IxTech and I have smaller heatsinks all over to keep the voltage regulator cool. Mine are mostly overclocked to 710/720 freq and 1200 voltage
Is that a Bitaxe? Can you access the Axe OS webpage?
Input: public-pool.io and the port 21496
Then the bitcoin address you want to receive the block reward to. Just leave the password as it is.
What is your hashrate with those settings?
Super helpful. Thank you. I’ll check out @IxTech as well. Thanks man.
You mean me?
Yes and yes. Awesome, thank you.
Now it worked. Good to go.
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Thanks for the heads up.
GM
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Here's some articles I wrote that might help:
Mike Hardcastle
Bitaxe and mining pools
The difference between a solo (lottery) miner and a pool. If you’re thinking of buying a Bitaxe, here is some information about pools vs solo m...
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Why Mine Bitcoin at Home?
I attended a home mining workshop at the Bury St. Edmonds conference recently. At the workshop the panel struggled to explain why you would want to...
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My Reasons for running Bitcoin Knots
While the ever increasingly juvenile battle rages between Core and Knots, I wanted to explain why I choose to run Knots on my 2 production nodes. I...
Thank you. I’ll read through them.
Have you noticed strange daily outages every hour or so on Public Pool? I've noticed better uptime on CK Pool.
I'm hopefully not too far behind you 🤞
Good Luck! 🍀
Alright, I read them. Regarding oceans and decentralization-I like it. Am I able to run that with Umbrel? I have that node coming in next week. If so, if you had an Umbrel and a bitaxe; how would you configure and run that first set up?
Yes I run my BitAxe on Ocean, you don’t need a node to do that, unless you want to define your own template in case you find a block.
If you want to get started quickly and easily with Ocean, then here are the instructions:
Your Umbrel will allow you to mine with Ocean using your own block template using their DATUM protocol, discussed here:
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Or if you want to solo mine with your own credentials, then @npub1wtgd9ccg76awlp29zl3h466l89wr7hsut0n3ucmtr95h4t29jc6srlsxp2 comes as an option with your Umbrel
OCEAN - Get Started
You’re the man, Mike. Really appreciate it.
Your welcome.
Mining is a fun and rewarding journey, enjoy.
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I think ya'll should try gomining it's one of the best so far and it's very versatile 👌.
Thank you. Never heard of this but looked it up. Looks like it’s a centralized version.
