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The Desktop Miner Renaissance – A brief history of desktop & USB miners
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altair_tech
on 18/09/2024, 18:58:35 UTC



  • This post focuses on commercially available USB and Desktop style Bitcoin mining hardware.
  • USB and smaller desktop sized miners are not novel. They were commercially available as early as 2011.
  • A summary of speed & performance from 2011 to present.
  • Exploration on what has driven the revival of owning and operating a USB or desktop device.

The Desktop Miner Renaissance – A brief history of desktop & USB miners
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Re: new GekkoScience 'Mein Coffee' 700 gh/s Miner
by
altair_tech
on 01/08/2024, 04:00:58 UTC
Saw this in person in Nashville last week and have to say that is just plain amazing! Solid metal and wood finish gives it a premium look. This is something many of us could use around the house.

Happy to see mine4heat applications are evolving past space heating & water heating.

Here's a video featuring the product.
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Re: New GekkoScience product, the Compac A1
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altair_tech
on 06/06/2024, 21:03:56 UTC
Is this the only way to use this new stick with windows?

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/windows-build.txt

I tried that procedure, but it may be obsolete now. Kept getting errors for various missing libraries.
I guess we have to wait for kano to release the executables.
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Re: New GekkoScience product, the Compac A1
by
altair_tech
on 02/06/2024, 18:59:41 UTC
Just the stick and IglooPac Cooler in a Fancy box  Grin
Would highly recommend purchasing a smarthub along with Gekkoscience products. It can run 9 miners and makes everything plug and play.
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Re: New GekkoScience product, the Compac A1
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altair_tech
on 01/06/2024, 13:54:27 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (1)
Thanks for releasing the new linux cgminer Kano! We received our first batch of Compac A1s yesterday so looking forward to test.
Will you also be releasing the windows version soon?
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Re: BitAxe $150 solo miner....
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altair_tech
on 17/05/2024, 16:55:32 UTC
I'll second skot.
Nano 3 does looks good on paper. On a purely $/Th perspective its very attractive.
Yet it not easy to buy at the advertised price. The price you can buy one today is much higher.
Also at only 140W max, its not much of a space heater.

Really weird that a publicly listed company with access to capital markets will crowdfund a product. Something doesn't add up.


We're still selling lots of Bitaxes, Urlachers and a new metal BitChimney coming this fall.
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Re: My single Phase 235 volt T21
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altair_tech
on 10/05/2024, 17:14:39 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (1)
I've listed the PSU cover as a variant on the T21 transformer listing
https://altairtech.io/product/bitmain-antminer-t21-transformer/
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Re: My single Phase 235 volt T21
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altair_tech
on 08/05/2024, 02:04:02 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
T21 stock firmware errors out on APW12, so you would need aftermarket firmware to run after swapping PSU from APW11 to APW12. For the fully assembled 'T21 transformer' we just ship with vnish on stock AMLOGIC control board. We have tested this build with both ePIC UMC and MARA UCB and it works with both, but they add some additional cost to the build.

Both these CB options are nice since they have zero dev fees , so will likely pay themselves off over time due to dev fee savings.
But if you're looking to save on upfront cost, you can just flash luxos or vnish on the stock AML CB and it works fine.

Now if your T21 came with a CV1835 control board, that changes the math, since there is very few firmware option available. In this case, best best is to just remove the stock CB and replace with epic or MARA.
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Re: My single Phase 235 volt T21
by
altair_tech
on 07/05/2024, 19:31:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
Just shipped you a couple of complimentary T21 Transformer PSU covers.
The bars aren't a shock risk but still pose short circuit risk.
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Re: My single Phase 235 volt T21
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altair_tech
on 20/04/2024, 02:24:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
Happy to see folks trying to get T21 to work on single phase. We've done this on a couple of test rigs and can't really tell a performance/efficiency difference between T21 and S21.
Yet the T21 is considerably cheaper, and comes with a Bigger PSU.
One issue I've encountered is that after you change the PSU and power bars, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to cover the power bars etc, since T21 does not come with a PSU cover piece.
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Re: New GekkoScience product, the Smart Hub
by
altair_tech
on 06/12/2023, 16:27:17 UTC
Really excited about this product. It makes it much easier to setup and expand, standalone USB mining setups.
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Re: Heatsinks on Antminer S19j Pro+
by
altair_tech
on 04/09/2023, 22:16:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by mikeywith (4)
So, I'd like to post an update on this S19j Pro+ situation.
We were initially skeptical of the soldered heatsinks that are very similar to those on Antminer S17 series.
Call it a case of once bitten twice shy.

We've run many of these S19j Pro+ units in the mine through this summer, including some with substantial overclocking of upto 135T.
The soldered heatsinks seems to be doing a much better job of heat dissipation and S19j Pro+ miners consistently ran about 5-10 deg C cooler than other S19 series miner in the mine.
No, hashboard issues this summer either. While this is with just a few months of testing, I'd say its safe to assume that whatever issues Bitmain had with soldered heatsinks on S17 have now been fixed with S19j Pro+.

Someone mentioned it was improper chip tinning which caused issues with S17 series and not the soldering itself, so it's possible that Bitmain has improved its chip tinning process.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new pod miner, just in time for Christmas
by
altair_tech
on 27/08/2023, 01:30:17 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
I saw the same issue when trying to run 8 Compac f with two R909s.
This wasn't because of CPU overload, since CPU usage was only at 30% (12th gen core i5 with windows 10 PC).
This computer can run 50+ compac f and upto 9 R909 without a problem.

The devices run fine individually but the problem only occurs when running them together in the same cgminer window.

I tried running two seperate cgminer instances on the same computer, one each for R909 and compac f and that seems to fix the unstable hashrate issues.
I used
Code:
--gekko-r909-detect
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--gekko-compacf-detect
to enable only one type of device in each cgminer window.
I'm not sure why this works, but I'd suggest trying this out.
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Re: S19J Pro+ 120TH abnormal in Low Power Mode
by
altair_tech
on 12/08/2023, 19:37:32 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (1)
Just to close the loop on this issue with abnormal hashrate in LPM on JPro+, bitmain released an updated firmware a few days ago that fixes this issue.

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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
altair_tech
on 12/08/2023, 02:29:54 UTC
Well, in your green circle the 01 means one chip and the + means it's using ASIC Boost.

Most of this is explained in this thread and/or in Kano's support page.

Thanks for answering the green circle.

I've looked through both kano's readme files and various gekkoscience threads but couldn't figure out what the other 3 that I've marked are. Would be great if someone can point me in the right direction.
I'm compiling this information to make a neat infographic that explains everything on the gekko cgminer terminal for future users.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
altair_tech
on 09/08/2023, 14:37:22 UTC
Can someone help me understand what the highlighted parts on this cgminer terminal mean?
I read through the cgminer readme file, but I think these are device specific fields, so not listed there.



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Re: BUYING ASIC DEVICES for Small Residential Farm
by
altair_tech
on 18/07/2023, 04:42:08 UTC
We have several new and a few used ASICS here https://altairtech.io/product-category/miners/
We accept PayPal and 14 day DOA warranty on everything in the store.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
altair_tech
on 14/07/2023, 12:54:16 UTC
Should'nt be a problem.
AFAIK BitcoinMerch's MarsLander is using a pi zero 2.
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Re: S19J Pro+ 120TH abnormal in Low Power Mode
by
altair_tech
on 09/07/2023, 19:58:46 UTC
⭐ Merited by mikeywith (4) ,philipma1957 (2) ,BitMaxz (1)
Noticed the same issue on my S19jPro+ 120T with AMLOGIC CB
Runs fine on full power but abnormal hashrate of 82-88T in Low power mode.


Switched to Xilinx CB on the same miner and everything works great. 🎉


Runs well on ePIC UMC as well.

This has to be either a problem with AMLOGIC hardware or Bitmain's AMLOGIC firmware.
Unfortunately, AMLOGIC is the predominant control board on these miners these days, so this affects a lot of people.
Hopefully bitmain can fix this with a firmware update 🤞


PS: 'The Menace' and 'The GOAT' are living up to their nicknames!
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
altair_tech
on 28/06/2023, 14:30:45 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (2) ,iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 (1)
Noctua does not make 40mm fans with a USB connector. We've tried to convince them to do a custom build, but no luck yet.

So if you want to use a Noctua fan with Compac f, you'll have to get the fan and adapter separately, and then mount them on the fan shroud.

https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-Cooling-Blades-Bearing-NF-A4x10/dp/B009NQLT0M/
https://www.amazon.com/CRJ-Voltage-Step-Up-Sleeved-Adapter/dp/B07QFG6LFR/