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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Has anyone tried adding 3 stand alone units to one controller?
https://imgur.com/a/A0KMm1H
Yes no problems
Kudos to you and thanks!
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
For Question #5 What can we do with our Node?
Can we choose to designate our Node into a Lightning Network Node?
This will help us earn extra BTC and Devs can take a fee from it.
Can we choose to designate our Node into a Lightning Network Node?
This will help us earn extra BTC and Devs can take a fee from it.
Hey there, LN node operator here! Don't expect to make any significant amount of money from routing LN payments.
I am quite sure you can install lnd or c-lightning on the Apollo (don't have mine yet), and you should definitely do it, it always helps! But payments are meant to be cheap, so users usually pay 1 satoshi per hop, some node operators even run their nodes fee-less.
A payment takes a max. of 10 hops in my experience, so you're looking at 'locking in' millions of satoshis in channels just to gain a few (single-digit amounts we're talking about) satoshis in fees. So you won't really 'earn BTC' - you'd earn more Bitcoin working 1hr as a waiter and buying BTC with the money you got there
(rough calculation: 10$ ~ 20KSat)Thanks! Was wondering if I get in early and setup a lighting node and then overtime as transaction volume grows for BTC that it would be worth it.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Questions:
1. How many Standard (hashboard only) units can be managed from the Full package (controller) unit? I already have one full package unit which I ordered in Batch 1, and have two standard hashboard-only units on order from Batch 2. I want to know if I could manage a third standard unit from my existing controller unit, or is two the maximum?
2. I am currently using the Futurebit PSU in Turbo mode. Is there a significant advantage to upgrading the PSU to achieve 3.8Th/s or does running the Apollo BTC at this level dramatically reduce their lifespan, and cause them to overheat?
3. On the basis that the answer to question 2 is Yes, can anyone recomend a PSU that can power three Apollo BTC devices (one full package unit and two hashboard-only units)?
4. Is there any news when the Batch 2 Units will reach Europe?
Thanks in advance.
1. How many Standard (hashboard only) units can be managed from the Full package (controller) unit? I already have one full package unit which I ordered in Batch 1, and have two standard hashboard-only units on order from Batch 2. I want to know if I could manage a third standard unit from my existing controller unit, or is two the maximum?
2. I am currently using the Futurebit PSU in Turbo mode. Is there a significant advantage to upgrading the PSU to achieve 3.8Th/s or does running the Apollo BTC at this level dramatically reduce their lifespan, and cause them to overheat?
3. On the basis that the answer to question 2 is Yes, can anyone recomend a PSU that can power three Apollo BTC devices (one full package unit and two hashboard-only units)?
4. Is there any news when the Batch 2 Units will reach Europe?
Thanks in advance.
1. How many Standard (hashboard only) units can be managed from the Full package (controller) unit?
a. Can I add a 3rd standard unit from my existing controller unit? or 2 standard units the maximum?
- Have 1 full package unit which I ordered in Batch 2
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Questions (happy to tip with $NTBC, NoteBlockChain, just post your address:
1. Does BTC version allow for multiple pools to be set up ie for fail over? (exists on the LTC version)
2. Is there a donation option ? (exists on LTC version) or is this being taken automatically on BTC version?
3. Remote controlling the Raspberry pi4 , can we use VNC viewer? seems SSH is supported natively only. Usually VNC is included with debian versions on Linux.
4. When node complete (should take 2-3 days), if I shut down, will Node still be in place (will it update blockchain from where left off).
5. What can we do with Node? Any advantage for newbie or are we just helping the network in the background
Recommendations:
- multiple pools enabled
- allocation of time / hash to different pools
- we can measure performance on pools
- VNC viewer included in FutureBitOS
happy to tip with $NTBC, NoteBlockChain
www.notebc.com
1. Does BTC version allow for multiple pools to be set up ie for fail over? (exists on the LTC version)
2. Is there a donation option ? (exists on LTC version) or is this being taken automatically on BTC version?
3. Remote controlling the Raspberry pi4 , can we use VNC viewer? seems SSH is supported natively only. Usually VNC is included with debian versions on Linux.
4. When node complete (should take 2-3 days), if I shut down, will Node still be in place (will it update blockchain from where left off).
5. What can we do with Node? Any advantage for newbie or are we just helping the network in the background
Recommendations:
- multiple pools enabled
- allocation of time / hash to different pools
- we can measure performance on pools
- VNC viewer included in FutureBitOS
happy to tip with $NTBC, NoteBlockChain
www.notebc.com
1) Multiple pools arent available yet but I think the dev team are working on it.
2) No Donation option.
3) The SBC in the Full Unit is an Orange Pi but not sure what flavour of OS its running but I'm sure you could install it. From what I've seen the Dashboard runs through firefox so if you have a viewer installed it should show you that.
4) Node will store all data upto the point at which it was turned off. Then once powered on again it will update from the last known block. So the longer its off the longer it will take to update.
5) Node is just there to help the network for now. I think jstefanop has said you can use various apps etc to utilise the node but not sure how to do any of that myself.
For Question #5 What can we do with our Node?
Can we choose to designate our Node a Lightning Node?
This will help us earn extra BTC and Devs can take a fee from it.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
I simply popped out the SSD and I have no problems - hashing away, never stopping. The burden of hosting a node does absolutely nothing for me - no benefit at all. Just happily mining SHA-256 crypto, stuffing my wallet!
I removed my ssd too as I already run full BTC and LND wallets/nodes via RASPIBLITZ on an 8 gig Pi 4.
My controller and two slaves have been working like trojans on 'balanced mode' for weeks with no problems.
I was just wondering if I can install RASPIBLITZ on the Full BTC Apollo package? on Ubuntu OS.
I'm trying to figure out how to extract value out of having a BTC full node.
Would like to use the Node as a Lightning Network Node and earn up to 25% of the transactions verified by node\miner.
I have the full version
- 1 Full Apollo package - Desktop Class Controller with 512 GB NVMe Drive and 200W PSU
- 2 USB controlled Hasboards
IN Turbo mode i'm @ 9 Th/s @ 686 watts at the wall.