What's stopping you from buying a Bitaxe?
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Are you running a Bitaxe??
Solo mine brah!
You're looking for the block on your own!
That's the point win big & fuck the pools.
Supporting open source mining development as well.
If enough of us solo mine blocks will be found ๐ช๐๐
Paying cash via mail
Actually??
Money to buy one
Bro 2024 is the power of the AXE???!!!!!
I understand your sentiment, but:
Bitaxe has an asymmetric lottery ticket bet.
The idea is to be able to solo mine, which you wouldn't do with an S9 unless you got the monies to blow on electric.
If enough of us solo mine we will find blocks & that is decentralization at it's finest.
Most importantly, you would be aiding in the development of Open Source mining hardware, instead of living in defeat to Chinese centralized hardware manufacturing.
I think all this together proves its worth, thanks for your honesty!
Meme harder Harry!
You solo mine with those bad boys?
economically irrational
Zap my memes harder ๐คฃ
Nah, I've got a Bitaxe Supra and I just stacked some sats on Friday.
Just wanted to join the conversation ๐
What's your electric cost?
How much did you save in the winter considering btc price of 100k?
What was the increase on your electric bill you reckon?
This has nothing to do with stacking though so that doesn't make sense really.
Bitaxe ~1.2TH @ 15watts it says.
Also braiins mini miners are not pushing Open Source forward I don't think?
Bitaxe.org
Support OS development so we can break the Chinese manufctr cartel & pool cartels all at once!
Brah so you have one! ๐๐ค๐
Fuggin Harry bro..๐คฃ
Supporting Open Source mining development meanwhile playing the Bitcoin lottery is irrational?
If enough of us do it blocks will be found.
Savings = reduction.
What do you estimate that to be?
Was it worth the noise?
the lottery part is irrational. yes, blocks would be found, but the expected value of playing the game is negative
#procrastination
nothing really, except maybe the power consumption, but I hear that is pretty low.
You're not solo mining with those!
& Not supporting Open Source!
You're fucking awesome though! Keep up the good work!
As long as you're doing this meanwhile #procrastinating
Yeah man that's my point!
It's not providing you an economic benefit & you have no 3.25btc upside!
I'm doing it to learn and earn some non-kyc sats.
Not in decentralization terms, and not in developing Open Source mining hardware/software through grassroots crowd sourced volunteers.
Satoshi even predicted as such.
But yes your economic benefit is expected to be negative, like all lottery games - except this one isn't rigged.
Exactly & awesome ๐.
Why not add a solo miner or two for the decentralization effect & supporting Open Source mining development?
Commendable & awesome ๐ ๐
Donโt see it like that
You make the effort to help the most important thing of our time to save 200$ by skipping some dinners out and 3$ a month in electricity bills by being careful with your lights and then you have free lottery on top of that with some actual chances to win ( 1 in 12k in a year)
We should all do it
Soon Harry, very soon ๐
i'm being conservative and aiming to pay my hosting fees by routing lightning payments but i suspect that i will be able to make nokyc sats running a lightning routing node too, i'm just staying conservative and not aiming too high to start, i'm new to this but i am almost certain that you can make back your routing costs on lighting node running
What's your expected Sat accrual over the next 12-24months?
If you boost I'm also happy ๐
I'm not all about sats
just to be above zero is fine thanks
Btw Bitaxe takes 15watts ๐
Nokyc sats don't matter if you can't buy anything!
Routing is still commendable but to actually accrue a good stack you have to go to greater lengths.
By greater I also mean easier.
BTC ATM.
Robosats.
P2P w cash.
Any chance you can answer the OP as well? ๐๐ซฃ
Are you trying to deny this isn't you?
It's my twin ๐
i have a fairly deep understanding of the protocol and if i have routeable inbound this means i can share a key and people can initiate payments to me without my interaction, and their payments are anonymous
so, i'm interested if only for the sake of getting a better practical understanding of how to do fully anonymous lightning poyments
doing it without a lot of capital is not practical, and i can think of no better thing to apply my surplus capital to right now, but learning how to do this thing right, so i can also share this knowledge and help more people establish their lightning citadels
that's the thing... if you understood the protocol right, you would understand that it's litreally better than monero+tor
that's why i was building a tor-like network transport built on the principles of lightning in 2023
I need motte heat than that. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Ofc I'm just saying it's a nominal addition to play the lottery :)
It does to me. Almost all my stack is kyc-ed to death. Having some without KYC I'd a win.
I think you read my reply incorrectly, I was saying you're doing something good because you'll earn enough to at least spend eventually if you needed it.
I agree with your sentiment!
Hopefully one day you'll also be playing the Bitcoin lottery by helping to decentralize hashpower & promote open source mining!
Confused on who the best venders are and then the different models and options are making my head spin.
Very cool product just struggling to justify the cost when I can just buy.
This seems to be the place to go, add the stand and power supply bc it's free.
Solo Satoshi
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Living on a BTC standard Iโm using the decentralized network with all aspects of my life ๐ซก๐งก๐ฝ
Other acquisitions that I have to make first to keep my significant other happyโฆ but it is on the list
Make her happy faster ๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ช
Only so many hours in the day ๐คฃ
Oh now I see your problem.
I thought about just ordering one and asking for forgiveness, but maybe when I get my stolen money pittance from the govt this year, Iโll just do it
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If I donโt make it, know that it was probably a slow and painful death ๐คฃ
Mathematical competence.
False, asymmetry is there & are you not a supporter of Open Source?
I actually have one. With a seedsigner. To broadcast singed messages too.
I have no illusion of winning a block
Defeatist mindset, but do you man.
I think supporting Open Source mining hardware meanwhile hashing in the open ocean is awesome & you never know how luck breaks in life.
You can play the only verifiably non-rigged lottery in the world meanwhile supporting Open Source development.
Don't be complacent, do something.
Iโll concede the first two points, but playing around to learn a bit and teach my kids about miningโฆ and we used the heat this winter to supplement the rocket mass heater!
I am interested in getting a Bitaxe though, and printing out a cool 3d stand for it. :)
BitAxe so the next generation doesn't have to cuck to China ๐๐ช๐
Bitaxe.org
It's 180$, supporting Open Source mining development for a miner like yourself should be chump change ๐.
Electricity prices in the UK.
Tarifs ๐คฃ
just kidding
That will still cost billions to run here lol.
England is a virus get out of there ๐ฅฒ
@BitcoinSandy do you know how much it costs to run for you?
So you're ordering one? ๐ค
Nothing
Ser, you have to plug it in ๐ฅฒ๐๐ค๐ฝ
Lack of money, increasing energy cost, and nobody saying what is the the average mining income.
Nothing
Lack of monies is a good reason.
15watts so not much NRG use.
It's a binary game we're playing with solo mining.
We either find the block & take the entire reward or we get nothing.
3.25 BTC is the current block reward.
The balance of my bank account ๐
But i will definitely at some point. Have the greatest support someone can imagine: my wife and #nostr ๐ช๐
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You don't leave in Romania
One day you will get it done!
Amazing wife love it!
Its plug now, but not in my home.
I was wondering why I meet so few Romanians, you guys can't leave, ffs.
Currently we don't have president, he resigned, ...we are ...fucked
May I suggest a Nerdminer?
You can also more easily build it yourself.
I can leave it, but it's a thing maybe you will not understand... Let me explain...
Still in the process of getting an EU Passport, got Irish family. On my to do list!
I donโt sorry , Iโm just in it for the love.
โฆand we contribute decentralization..
Giving me Bitaxe fomo ๐ญ
Not enough heat generated to be useful
It's an asymmetric bet to win 3.25BTC & more importantly to support Open Source mining development & decentralization.
I love that. I run my miner using DATUM all for open source.
I actually might buy a bitaxe, but the only reason Iโd do it is because Iโm going to buy a hydro kit so I can learn about hydro cooling before scaling that up.
There should be 10x the number of bitaxe like projects, I love the open source hardware aspect with Kicad files. Bitmain is the problem here and until @Block Open Source releases a chip we will be stuck wasting effort reverse engineering their chips when we could be doing better things.
I didn't even think of that tinkering aspect with liquid or immersion cooling.
Cheers brotha!
Bitaxe gang ๐
My retarded highly uninformed take is that buying sats is a better financial investment for me personally. I guess distribution of hash benefits the network and further secures my sats even if just marginally. Idk. I always pretend Iโm gonna run a node and buy a miner and then I never do.
Running a pruned node is just too easy, idk why you wouldn't do it.
Maybe 5 total clicks.
The Bitaxe is an assymetric bet meanwhile supporting Open Source mining development & decentralization - no brainer if you got the funds!
Iโm being a bad pleb ok!
In all seriousness Iโve been here for far too many years to not contribute in some capacity.
LFG!
Common sense ๐
CAPEX price/Th is like pissing in the wind.
Supporting Open Source & home mining
= Common sense.
Give me a break.
The person who liked your comment btw is notorious for not giving a shit about Open Source btw.
My node running adventures have led me down some really interesting rabbit holes. Interesting for me anyway, since I don't have any computer/programming/linux background at all. I've learned a lot on the journey. Running a Bitaxe (or 3 ๐) is fun and supporting open source development while enjoying another hobby is enough incentive for me to justify the expense to myself, lol.
But as @ShiShi21m said, setting a node up is super easy now. My DIY Start9 just works without me having to think about it. Not like one I had going on bare metal a few years back that i kept on tinkering with.
Yep! Quality stuff and a well run shop over there.
Doing the Lord's work fighting the good fight here!
Iโd rather just stack sats. The bitaxe isnโt contributing much
That is your right & I won't hate on you for stacking instead, but your statement is wholly untrue.
So untrue, that it hurts ๐ค.
time + effort vs other things
I ran a lightning node before. Was interesting but I do not have the mental space to keep up with it. I imagine the same would happen with a miner.
Oh dude mining with a Bitaxe is the complete opposite of running an LN node.
Set it up and let it rip.
Passive AF ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค.
good luck!!
did someone say ROCKET MASS HEATER !!??!!! ๐ฅณ๐คฉ๐
Want pictures and lovely stories about it โบ๏ธ
Nothing! got onecas soon as i discovered they exist. Great project.
I am off grid with little solar, so i run my nerdminer 24/7 and bitace from sunup to sundown, will improve that setting.
Learning not only about #bitcoin and #mining but also about power usage, solar and batteries.
Big win!
I almost accidentally unplugged it the other day moving my power bar, the barrel connector was half out. My uptime ๐
On the road until Saturday night as a trucker, but will look for a pic or two on my phone. I built it about two years ago and is our primary heat source in winter.
We do have a propane wall heater that we supplement with a bit when really cold for long periods of timeโฆ and I got 2 Antminer S9โs and configured them as space heaters this winterโฆ but, even buying hardwood sawmill trimmings from a local Amish sawmill, the RMH costs about $8-10/ year to run all winter! ๐๐ฅฐ
#permies #rocketmassheater Maybe not the neatest pics, but one shows the brick bell and wood feed. The other shows a rack I threw together to hold maybe 7-10 days worth of wood if burning 1-2x daily, and the brick bench.
If/when I redo it, will rebuild it as an 8โ system instead of 6โ, and make the bench a little longer but a fair amount wider, to capture and hold more heat. So efficient though! ๐ My wife even says it is really easy to light and after not being too sure about it in the beginning, now she just loves it!
run two
Thanks, very much appreciated!
Yeah the cost of running it is so low, I intend to build one and would be able to run it on olive prunings.
#homesteading #rocketmassheater
Cool! Looks nice and tiny, I like the design. I have a tiny house but I would also choose 8" I hear Paul Wheaton repeating how much better it runs, and, am hoping for the added mass to help cool in summer. But we'll see, still sokewhat further in the future...
#permies #rocketmassheater #homesteading #offgrid
Paulโs 8โ system in the Fischer Price house IS very nice! I spent two weeks at Wheaton Labs in 2019โฆ both 6โ and 8โ work well. J-tubes are more efficient and (I think) easier to light than batch boxes.
Below 4-5โ systems are MUCH finickierโฆ too much laminar flow/resistance along the edges of the path of gas flow. 10โ or larger gets TOO hotโฆ
Waiting on a HeatBitโฆ
cool! ๐ฎ I wish to visit Wheaton labs someday, it is a bit harder coming from the EU. Else I would hve been an ant for many years...
Yeah, I was initially thinking about a 4" system but I dont need that extea finiky whatsha-ma-call-it. 8" is proven and just works, so I will go with that. My next steo in this is to build an outside J-tube #RMH but need to get the riser materials first...
So many wonderfull projects, quite addictive, and each steps makes me pollute less and increases my happyness.
#permies #rocketmassheater #homestead
I am saving to finally get a #bitaxe and make my dream of starting home mining come true ๐คฉ
Should i aim for the bitaxe gamma or wait for the gamma turbo to be released? ๐ค
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