Quote from: Porfirii on Today at 09:07:21 PM

Back on the nerdminer thing, as long as it seems to be non-profit, can you elaborate on your reasons for not translate it paid2? I've only skimmed the topic but it seems (at first glance) that it is a small community project.

Yeah I have nothing against the project itself, but it is totally useless to make people buy / run a nerdminer. I solo mine with all kind of ASICs, from 3kwh Whastminer to Bitaxe, so I understand the goal of the project and don't talk about "profit". But even from a mining perspective, they are useless, almost no pool will accept them as they will use a lot of ressources for producing almost no work. I am not the only one saying this. You can read what ck (which is the co-dev of cgminer and who runs solo.ckpool, probably the most legit guy when we talk of solo mining imo) said about them:

Quote from: -ck on November 27, 2023, 11:50:45 AM

Nerdminers are toys and not meaningful miners, and their hashrate is so ridiculously low that the pool will never register a hashrate for them.

I think that we could ask to kano, mikey, philipma, or any miner other here, all of them would agree with the above statement.

People will learn the same things (so basically how to run cgminer and use a BTC pool/solo pool) with a Bitaxe, or a Gekkoscience product. But at least, you will have a chance so submit a share able to find a block, at least you will have a "BTC solo loterie". Why would we use a x kh/s miner not able to submit shares to most of the pools? It is like mining BTC with a CPU, no one would do that in 2024. Nerdminers aren't cheap if we compare with Bitaxe. I prefer to spend some sats to buy a product from sidehack (gekkoscience) or to skot (bitaxe), at least they are working on something useful for home miners and hobby miners, useful for the BTC community.