Gizmo Miner. 5v-9v power efficient solar focused. Bitcoin solo miner.
⭐ Merited by Skot (5)
Gizmo Miner. 5v-9v power efficient solar focused. Bitcoin solo miner.
Have been watching as a guest on this forum for a very long time. Over a decade. Bitcointalk has been great resource for information and many times of entertainment. Always thought is was cool, how you never had to register to get information. My personality is very introverted.
Took a lot to actually create an account and put myself out there. I remember a time in Bitoins past. It was not really safe to say hi I mine bitcoin for fear of being kidnapped for your seed phrase. Silk road was a thing in them days. Bitcoin had a stigma of criminality. At the time a lot of people did not want that stigma Bitcoin came with in their professional lives. Think that has always been my reasons for staying closeted bitcoin enthusiast. People fear what they do not understand. At that time very few actually understood it. Never really got out of that fear intel recently. I was just a huge nerd that loved the concept of Bitcoin. Loved just playing around with computers and gadgets.
Seeing how it has become more mainstream and lost a lot of that stigmas. People wear Bitcoin t-shirts now. It was a huge risk at one time to wear a Bitcoin t-shirt out in public. One of my lifes biggest regrets is. Not getting more involved in bitcoin community in the early days. Bitcoin has been a huge part of my life and would like to finally be an active member of its community . A word to others like myself. I know you are out there. Watching passively . Get evolved. It is never to late. Come out of the Bitcoin closet. It is safe now.
We have all watch the evolution of Bitcoin and thousands of altcoins. After all this time. Finding myself back to the start. As in the start of Bitcoin we tinkered. We tried new things.
Seems like Bitcoin is shifting from seeking the fastest miners to the most power efficient. CK Pool really allows anyone the ability to solve solo blocks with modest hardware. That is huge in my opinion. The future of Bitcoin is somewhere in that direction. Low power usage more solo directional mining.
It is on this forum every day. More people asking about how to go smaller. Go more energy effective. Not even caring so much about hashrate.
After all these years. What has got me off the sidelines and active in this community, is a project that keeps coming up on the forums. Bitaxe https://github.com/skot/bitaxe !!! Would really enjoy contributing to the Bitcoin community through developing these tiny energy effective open source bitcoin miners. Bitaxe reminded me of the excitement of my early days of Bitcoin. The earlier days of rushing to Bestbuy to buy as many GPUs as possible or per-ordering ASIC miners that only half would actually show up in the mailbox. People who have been on this forum for awhile .Remember a time when projects like bitaxe was a dime a dozen. 2011-2013 most notable. Felt like a new mining company popped up every day. Most never ended up having any kind of success. A huge amount never even got built. A lot of talk about building. The ones that did are considered collectibles now.
Everyone back in the day was trying to build their own asics. As time past these project dwindled down to nothing. What was the point really with Bitcoin diff so high. Bitaxe really got me going again. I do have larger Bitcoin miners but what is the point anymore. They can literally break you with electricity cost. As many of you have. My miners are turned off. My excitement for mining has not. As with most of you . Bitcoin mining has been a rewarding hobby and a big part of who you are as a person.
My goal is to build up an organization around tinkering with Bitcoin ASICS. Pooling resources around my ability to work on these designs 6-8 hours a day Monday-Friday. Yes, I plan on making this my 9-5 thing for at least the next 3-5 months . Depending on community engagement . Wanting to turn this into something really special. Something that might evolve into something to do the rest of my days. Something to teach my grandkids one day. People are already working on stuff like this but our biggest strength will be time and dedication. Mentioned before. This will be my 9-5 for the foreseeable future.
The plan is to produce USB and low power consuming asic miners to be added to solo pools like CK Pool.
All our designs will remain open source and free for anyone to use. For contributors that would rather make donations over building from scratch? We will send you first batch working prototypes depending on your donation amount. Yes. These are donations. You are not buying anything. You are supporting a Grassroots initiative. Just so happens this Grassroots initiative says thank you by sending its donors working prototypes to test
for liability purposes the prototypes we send will be 90% complete. With a component the end user must solder to make it functional. This is to protect us from liability in the unlikely event something crazy happens with the miner. We will make it very simple and have some YouTube videos on how to complete the miner.
If you have any advice to make this project better . Would love to hear it . Hoping people already working on this type of thing. Would lend info if they can. All my findings and knowledge gained will go straight to this community to be used however you see fit.
Skot has done amazing work on Bitaxe and seems like a logical place for Gizmo miner to start as a practice prototype. Then craft the USB miner by the trial and error from working with the Bitaxe . Crossing fingers! Hoping to be able to gain invaluable insight from members like Skot, sidehack , developeralgo and n0nce . Plenty of other members looking into the same concepts and sharing knowledge. Once we get this thing going. Have no problem sending out prototypes for your trouble.
Goals:
1.create a working batch of Bitaxes based off BM1398 Chips x2
2.create a working batch of USB miners based off BM1398 Chips x2
3. create a working batch of Bitaxes inspired miners based off 7nm BM1398 Chip number undetermined
4.create a working batch of USB miners based off 7nm BM1398 Chip number undetermined
Overall goals to be focused on in every stage of design and development:
1. Keep designs as simple as possible
2. Keep designs energy efficient and capable of running on small solo powered setups
3. Keep designs easy to build with readily available parts on amazon or eBay
Things we will need
1. PCB Printers. These can be purchased on eBay .The PCB printer will be one of the more expensive items. We will need a PCB printer for rapid prototyping. We want to be able to test more than one design each week. For this we will need a PCB printer onsight.
2. TESTING ASIC chips. This is covered. I have plenty of ASIC chips that can be removed for my miners for testing.
3.Optional-A CNC to machine metal cases for boards.
Later if we would like to try new and faster chips . We will have that conversation at that time
Shipped prototype miners will come with new ASIC chips that will be sourced from eBay or aliexpress
Please no one donate to this effort if your needing an energy efficient miner ASAP. This project will take time and we do not need to be rushing this. Depending on how many donors we get .The faster we can source a PCB printer. After that 3-5 days shipping 1 day for me to get familiar with the PCB printer.
To incentivize generous contribution to the Gizmo Miners project.
Currently 2 designs being planned now
$500 in BTC 1 miner from each design model we produce currently
$1000 in BTC 5 miner from each design model we produce currently
$2000 in BTC 10 miner from each design model we produce currently
Your prototype will be sent by the position you are in the donation pool
If donations get to out of hand.We will post here, that we are not accepting any more donations. Worried about having to make more miners, than we have the infrastructure for at this time.
The only reason we are pushing to get donations is the biggest cost the PCB printer. Once we even have raised the funds for a PCB printer .Might stop collecting donations all together.
ONLY send Gizmo Miner Bitcoin Donations to bitcoin address bc1q2mkn4m3p6mmh2wucua2wxu2d3qtdhq50ttjsns
As many modification and improvements this community can make. It will be done same day. Meaning if someone has an idea that makes sense . Lets prototype it same day. Get things done fast and keep moving forward to better designs together.
Have been watching as a guest on this forum for a very long time. Over a decade. Bitcointalk has been great resource for information and many times of entertainment. Always thought is was cool, how you never had to register to get information. My personality is very introverted.
Took a lot to actually create an account and put myself out there. I remember a time in Bitoins past. It was not really safe to say hi I mine bitcoin for fear of being kidnapped for your seed phrase. Silk road was a thing in them days. Bitcoin had a stigma of criminality. At the time a lot of people did not want that stigma Bitcoin came with in their professional lives. Think that has always been my reasons for staying closeted bitcoin enthusiast. People fear what they do not understand. At that time very few actually understood it. Never really got out of that fear intel recently. I was just a huge nerd that loved the concept of Bitcoin. Loved just playing around with computers and gadgets.
Seeing how it has become more mainstream and lost a lot of that stigmas. People wear Bitcoin t-shirts now. It was a huge risk at one time to wear a Bitcoin t-shirt out in public. One of my lifes biggest regrets is. Not getting more involved in bitcoin community in the early days. Bitcoin has been a huge part of my life and would like to finally be an active member of its community . A word to others like myself. I know you are out there. Watching passively . Get evolved. It is never to late. Come out of the Bitcoin closet. It is safe now.
We have all watch the evolution of Bitcoin and thousands of altcoins. After all this time. Finding myself back to the start. As in the start of Bitcoin we tinkered. We tried new things.
Seems like Bitcoin is shifting from seeking the fastest miners to the most power efficient. CK Pool really allows anyone the ability to solve solo blocks with modest hardware. That is huge in my opinion. The future of Bitcoin is somewhere in that direction. Low power usage more solo directional mining.
It is on this forum every day. More people asking about how to go smaller. Go more energy effective. Not even caring so much about hashrate.
After all these years. What has got me off the sidelines and active in this community, is a project that keeps coming up on the forums. Bitaxe https://github.com/skot/bitaxe !!! Would really enjoy contributing to the Bitcoin community through developing these tiny energy effective open source bitcoin miners. Bitaxe reminded me of the excitement of my early days of Bitcoin. The earlier days of rushing to Bestbuy to buy as many GPUs as possible or per-ordering ASIC miners that only half would actually show up in the mailbox. People who have been on this forum for awhile .Remember a time when projects like bitaxe was a dime a dozen. 2011-2013 most notable. Felt like a new mining company popped up every day. Most never ended up having any kind of success. A huge amount never even got built. A lot of talk about building. The ones that did are considered collectibles now.
Everyone back in the day was trying to build their own asics. As time past these project dwindled down to nothing. What was the point really with Bitcoin diff so high. Bitaxe really got me going again. I do have larger Bitcoin miners but what is the point anymore. They can literally break you with electricity cost. As many of you have. My miners are turned off. My excitement for mining has not. As with most of you . Bitcoin mining has been a rewarding hobby and a big part of who you are as a person.
My goal is to build up an organization around tinkering with Bitcoin ASICS. Pooling resources around my ability to work on these designs 6-8 hours a day Monday-Friday. Yes, I plan on making this my 9-5 thing for at least the next 3-5 months . Depending on community engagement . Wanting to turn this into something really special. Something that might evolve into something to do the rest of my days. Something to teach my grandkids one day. People are already working on stuff like this but our biggest strength will be time and dedication. Mentioned before. This will be my 9-5 for the foreseeable future.
The plan is to produce USB and low power consuming asic miners to be added to solo pools like CK Pool.
All our designs will remain open source and free for anyone to use. For contributors that would rather make donations over building from scratch? We will send you first batch working prototypes depending on your donation amount. Yes. These are donations. You are not buying anything. You are supporting a Grassroots initiative. Just so happens this Grassroots initiative says thank you by sending its donors working prototypes to test
for liability purposes the prototypes we send will be 90% complete. With a component the end user must solder to make it functional. This is to protect us from liability in the unlikely event something crazy happens with the miner. We will make it very simple and have some YouTube videos on how to complete the miner.
If you have any advice to make this project better . Would love to hear it . Hoping people already working on this type of thing. Would lend info if they can. All my findings and knowledge gained will go straight to this community to be used however you see fit.
Skot has done amazing work on Bitaxe and seems like a logical place for Gizmo miner to start as a practice prototype. Then craft the USB miner by the trial and error from working with the Bitaxe . Crossing fingers! Hoping to be able to gain invaluable insight from members like Skot, sidehack , developeralgo and n0nce . Plenty of other members looking into the same concepts and sharing knowledge. Once we get this thing going. Have no problem sending out prototypes for your trouble.
Goals:
1.create a working batch of Bitaxes based off BM1398 Chips x2
2.create a working batch of USB miners based off BM1398 Chips x2
3. create a working batch of Bitaxes inspired miners based off 7nm BM1398 Chip number undetermined
4.create a working batch of USB miners based off 7nm BM1398 Chip number undetermined
Overall goals to be focused on in every stage of design and development:
1. Keep designs as simple as possible
2. Keep designs energy efficient and capable of running on small solo powered setups
3. Keep designs easy to build with readily available parts on amazon or eBay
Things we will need
1. PCB Printers. These can be purchased on eBay .The PCB printer will be one of the more expensive items. We will need a PCB printer for rapid prototyping. We want to be able to test more than one design each week. For this we will need a PCB printer onsight.
2. TESTING ASIC chips. This is covered. I have plenty of ASIC chips that can be removed for my miners for testing.
3.Optional-A CNC to machine metal cases for boards.
Later if we would like to try new and faster chips . We will have that conversation at that time
Shipped prototype miners will come with new ASIC chips that will be sourced from eBay or aliexpress
Please no one donate to this effort if your needing an energy efficient miner ASAP. This project will take time and we do not need to be rushing this. Depending on how many donors we get .The faster we can source a PCB printer. After that 3-5 days shipping 1 day for me to get familiar with the PCB printer.
To incentivize generous contribution to the Gizmo Miners project.
Currently 2 designs being planned now
$500 in BTC 1 miner from each design model we produce currently
$1000 in BTC 5 miner from each design model we produce currently
$2000 in BTC 10 miner from each design model we produce currently
Your prototype will be sent by the position you are in the donation pool
If donations get to out of hand.We will post here, that we are not accepting any more donations. Worried about having to make more miners, than we have the infrastructure for at this time.
The only reason we are pushing to get donations is the biggest cost the PCB printer. Once we even have raised the funds for a PCB printer .Might stop collecting donations all together.
ONLY send Gizmo Miner Bitcoin Donations to bitcoin address bc1q2mkn4m3p6mmh2wucua2wxu2d3qtdhq50ttjsns
As many modification and improvements this community can make. It will be done same day. Meaning if someone has an idea that makes sense . Lets prototype it same day. Get things done fast and keep moving forward to better designs together.