Hi same situation here, I have 2 Antminer A3 colleting dust since 3 months ago.
Does anyone undestand how without changing the Obelisk machines, the pools ban the Bitmain and Innosilicon miners?
Is is really and mining algorithm algorithm change?
How different are blake2b vs blake2b-sia ?
I have been reading about the Obelisk SC1 ´knife´feature, that apparently switches the asics to an alternative mining algorithm, but it does need of a new software update... suspicious... You can read more here: https://siasetup.info/learn/obelisk
Are the Obelisk chips reprogramable like some kind of FPGA? If they aren´t the change should be small...
How the Obelisk started to mine Blake2b-sia on the 1st November 2018? Did the Obelisk team deployed a software upgrade silently?
Look at the profitability on Obelisk SC1 on the 1st Nov 2018, it spiked to 100$/day. https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/obelisk/sc1
In case of Obelisk has ASIC chips inside, the hashing core chip did not change, an the ´knife´at the end is only a software wrapper change on the controlling board, that could be ported to Bitmain controller boards also... I´m thingking as a simple of an ID or serial number check, or changeing the number of blake2b rounds before the result is sent to the pool.
Does anyone here has an Obelisk SC1 miner? Did you notice any hashrate change after 1st Nov 2018?
Other option is to mine other Blake2b based coins like:
- SiaClassic https://classic.siamining.com/
- SiaPrime (SCP) https://prime.siamining.com/
- Hyperspace (XSC) https://hyperspace.siamining.com/
- BitcoinX (BCX)
https://siamining.com/chains
https://poolexplorer.com/coins?order=height&algo%5BBlake2B%5D=on
Does anyone undestand how without changing the Obelisk machines, the pools ban the Bitmain and Innosilicon miners?
Is is really and mining algorithm algorithm change?
How different are blake2b vs blake2b-sia ?
I have been reading about the Obelisk SC1 ´knife´feature, that apparently switches the asics to an alternative mining algorithm, but it does need of a new software update... suspicious... You can read more here: https://siasetup.info/learn/obelisk
Are the Obelisk chips reprogramable like some kind of FPGA? If they aren´t the change should be small...
How the Obelisk started to mine Blake2b-sia on the 1st November 2018? Did the Obelisk team deployed a software upgrade silently?
Look at the profitability on Obelisk SC1 on the 1st Nov 2018, it spiked to 100$/day. https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/obelisk/sc1
In case of Obelisk has ASIC chips inside, the hashing core chip did not change, an the ´knife´at the end is only a software wrapper change on the controlling board, that could be ported to Bitmain controller boards also... I´m thingking as a simple of an ID or serial number check, or changeing the number of blake2b rounds before the result is sent to the pool.
Does anyone here has an Obelisk SC1 miner? Did you notice any hashrate change after 1st Nov 2018?
Other option is to mine other Blake2b based coins like:
- SiaClassic https://classic.siamining.com/
- SiaPrime (SCP) https://prime.siamining.com/
- Hyperspace (XSC) https://hyperspace.siamining.com/
- BitcoinX (BCX)
https://siamining.com/chains
https://poolexplorer.com/coins?order=height&algo%5BBlake2B%5D=on