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Solo mining or hashing at a pool?

Solo. Using my own node to make my own block templates as well.

Just got a second bitaxe and was considering mining with spool on one and leaving the other to solo mine. Was curious if had any experience with pool mining. Thank you

Only pool mining I have done is for the blockparties that nostr:npub1t6el40knsq8hmrpr0m6tt3t0tr4pdeyhlt2qelwhgtwawddqx0xsv03scu puts on. Pool mining isn’t really worth it with such low hashrate imho. If you do, I would definitely use a pool that gives payout via lightning.

A friend recommended ocean and I believe they offer lightning payout but I haven’t done all the research to commit to it yet. Have you done any modifications to the bitaxe? I just bought (but haven’t yet received) noctua fans. Not sure if they will better cooling but supposed be be really quiet.

Ya I think ocean does lightning payouts. not sure if you have to have bolt12 recieve or lnurl for it though. no mods on mine. I bought mine with a Noctua fan included. I run it at 100% fan speed and can’t hear it at all where it sits 4 feet away from my desk where I work 8+ hours a day. It does an ok job cooling it. On hot days in the summer I put the bitaxe on the ground in front of my fan. It will overheat sometimes if its >80 degF without the additional circulation.

Oh man. I haven’t had any over heating issues yet. Second bitaxe ASIC was running at +/- 68 but I lowered the ASIC voltage 50mv which got it down to 61 without any noticeable difference in hash rate. Other than that change both are running default settings

ya a but of a bummer but its only really a problem when its a hot day and in that case Im running a big fan in my space anyways. i also dont have any ac or good circulation in my house. I run mine at 1060 mV at 550 MHz

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I should invest the time to chart and make incremental changes to maximize hash rate and efficiency. I’m not sure what the average hash rate is but every time I check axeos they seem to be 1.1 th/s

Thanks for the chat. I’ll keep you posted on any changes. Good luck