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Topic
Board Hardware
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
PennyBit
on 28/02/2025, 15:27:17 UTC
Was sitting at 6.7B for best share from my 2 Apollo IIs for the longest time.  Just hit 112B best share from my USB Apollo II.

Only 962x short of network difficulty, LOL.

Just short of my best share 132,337,685,248

Has anyone with an Apollo II hit a best share in the trillions yet?

Closest I've come in about five months of hashing = 55,748,041,309


I managed to pop a 335B best share back in Sept or maybe Aug 2024. Nothing better or close to that since. Yet.

Cheers!

my best ever share 256,887,704,896   

looks like the new Avalon Mini 3 is going to be an Apollo II killer...

Although it offers decent hashrate at reasonable wattage, it's not really competing with the Apollo II. For one thing, it's just a miner - it might be a decent miner to point to the Apollo node, though. Secondly, this thing is huge and hot. The obvious placement would be on the floor where all the dirt and dust likes to gather for a friendly get-together. And because the air intake is on the bottom it's gonna work like a vacuum and suck up all that crud. Thirdly, there doesn't appear to be an Ethernet port which forces you to use the included USB WiFi adapter which attaches to the underside of the unit. And I haven't seen many units that get good WiFi connections while sitting on the floor, especially one with a USB WiFi adapter that points to the floor underneath the actual hardware. Aside from the obvious issues, the miner does offer some good hashrate but it's not gonna kill the Apollo II.

Cheers!