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Re: KanoPool since 2014 🐈 - PPLNS and Solo 0.5% fee - Worldwide - 2436 blocks
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brain brain
on 05/05/2024, 12:15:17 UTC
Finally got our first solo block on the pool - well done to the winner of the block.
I'll leave it up to him to say he got it Smiley
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[2024-05-05 05:54:26.170+10] _bloks_add(): BLOCK! Status: New, Block: 842103/S/...0000160e17baf382 Diff 3.27P UTC:2024-05-04 19:54:26.166885+00
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.720+10] _bloks_add(): BLOCK! Status: 1-Confirm, Block: 842103//...0000160e17baf382 Diff 3.27P Reward: 3.423625, Worker: ***.rental, ShareEst: 66188560342227.0 66.2T 146.95% UTC:2024-05-04 19:54:26.703864+00
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.975+10] btc_blocksubmit(1) SUBMIT: OK duplicate
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.975+10] btc_blocksubmit(1) submit (at 54:26.821348) returned '{"result":"duplicate","error":null,"id":5}0x0a'
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.975+10] btc_block() BLOCK 842103/...000000160e sdiff 3267120040465738.000 ndiff 88104191118793.156 nonce=1bcd8291
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.975+10] _bloks_add(): New Status: (1)1-Confirm requires Status: n. Ignored: Status: (1)1-Confirm, Block: 842103/S/...0000160e17baf382/2024-05-04 19:54:26.166829+00
[2024-05-05 05:54:26.975+10] BLOCK! (842103) ok CurrDiff 3708.2% (3267120040465738/88104191118793.2) ***.rental Solo 0.0 0.00%

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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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brain brain
on 05/12/2022, 23:34:15 UTC
⭐ Merited by NotFuzzyWarm (1)
I thought this was a tech thread? 1s and 0s have no place for emotion and vitriol. True/false, Boolean, off/on. Let's get back to mining 😆

Can't wait for my r909...
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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brain brain
on 04/11/2022, 13:16:12 UTC
⭐ Merited by NotATether (1)
Hey i have a few futurebit moonlander2s and just put them on dogecoin solo mining on zsolo.bid..
Im asking a question what and how do i find the Registry of the futurebit in regedit the registry editor in windows 11? is the futurebit moonlander 2 represented in the REGEDIT system?
I just want to see if i can make a adjustment to the registry (REGEDIT) to the futurebit moonlander2 if represented in the regedit system!

Let me look into the REGEDIT issue -- have you resolved it on your own yet?

Also, is zsolo.bid a legit site? There hasn't been activity on their thread in over 4 years (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2196306.0).
I asked their support a question the other day and did get an answer, but it was a short reply by "Support Specialist Laura P"
Old thread/post indicates the email address for zsolo.bid is zsolobid at protonmail.com
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
by
brain brain
on 07/10/2022, 13:10:34 UTC
Any one of us motivated to take a second seat ?  Grin  Could be nice to start a run before more difficulty adjustements  Smiley

Sure I'll take a second seat! I agree, let's get TWO blocks before the next diff adjustment XD

@Willi, want to put me in for a second spot? I think that would count as my last seat from my initial deposit.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
brain brain
on 27/09/2022, 13:23:59 UTC
You would be shocked how often a bad cable is the culprit - but even the most sophisticated technical people overlook this basic obvious tech 101 - here is an edit from someone with a problem just a few days ago "***2nd EDIT: I decided to employ a VERY hi-tech solution (read: sarcasm)...I just plugged another USB cable in [...] Grin Cheesy Guess what? Worked" ... yet people self-admit sarcasm when they do it after wasting countless hours of their own time and other people's time - simply because they didn't troubleshoot the basics first ...

So what is troubleshooting tip #1? Check your cables - even if you think they are ok, swap them out with a cable you know is good ... if you are getting a "solid red light" - guess what, we expect you to do the basics and when you ask a question - provide useful information ...  or most of us will be too polite to tell you that your question lacked any useful information and was "NO HELP AT ALL" ... so who was no help at all?

What is troubleshooting tip #2? Provide detail about what you have tried, done, are observing at each step - someone else will catch the "been there done that" captain obvious thing that is usually occurring - but you will have asked a useful question with useful information rather than being the "no help at all" person ending up in the wrong forum ... and when you provide useful information, there are a lot of people who enjoy helping troubleshoot - and you will get useful helpful replies - rather than offers to purchase you rig ...

That was definitely me  Grin, palm to face for not using my continuity tester first thing -- tunnel vision is real, though, when one suspects it being a software issue. Miners (2x Standard and 1x Full) mining away solidly on Turbo Mode for over 36 straight hours now, no more faults after I fixed the wiring harness with its 1 faulty wire.

Ave power draw: 599w on Turbo
Ave w per Th/s: 66
15min hashrate: 9.05 Th/s
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
brain brain
on 25/09/2022, 21:08:54 UTC
I've scoured this thread but I'm sure I missed the answer to my problem, so sorry in advance!

I received my FULL and my STANDARD yesterday, and when hooked up to power, only the STANDARD mines. The FULL module is correctly syncing to the chain (it's at 69% after 12 hours) but does not mine.

I've re-seated the SD card, tried a different PSU, and have restarted and rebooted and re-everything'd a bunch of times. I've tried different pools, too.

Ideas for next steps?

I suggest to first concentrate on full unit. Do not connect anything to it, just make sure it works all right. Reinstall SD card if need be, check all connections etc, full miner must work. Only when you achieve it, try and experiment with connecting secondary standard unit to it via USB cable.

Well, after 6 hours of mining as a working Full model, it is back to not mining again XD

Now I think I have two choices...run the SBC separately with power and hook up miners via USB, or scrap the Node and just run the Standard units off a RasPi. What do you think?

FutureBit won't take it back as I've messed with it too much in trying to troubleshoot. I have no problem running it as a controller+3 standards. Just curious what everyone thinks is a good next-step.
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
by
brain brain
on 25/09/2022, 14:52:12 UTC
Seems no luck this time as well.
yes our bestshare was to low

"bestshare": 1.549.107.728.802 from 32.045.359.565.304

Next run Smiley
These are hard to get blocks.
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
by
brain brain
on 24/09/2022, 16:04:51 UTC
Thanks, all. Took 4x reflashes with lots of reboots between, but all mining now. I'm keeping it on ECO mode just to see how long they'll mine without any big issues. So far 18 hours without any issues.

Great, all is clear now what has happened. As n0nce said, please be careful not do damage anything else so you don't lose any warranty.
So you have both standard miners mining OK via USB cable, one perfect one and one with some HW errors. But HW errors themselves are not such a worry.
But you determined your Orange Pi from Full Unit is not mining, with whatever miner board connected to its back, you tried two miners. That's not good. Board is online, bitcoind syncing, but not mining with the board connected by GPIO. Right?
I know there are two SD card images to download, for old batch boards and new ones. Which SD card image did you try? What batch is your miner, a new one?

I used the new SD card image as mine was batch 4 (build sometime in July 2022).
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
by
brain brain
on 23/09/2022, 11:16:06 UTC
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What is SBC? You swapped or modified some hardware and forgot to mention? I don't follow, stop mixing full and standard unit again, you were working on full unit issue which is now fixed, its mining and syncing blockchains, yes/no? If yes, then problem solved, move to next problem, but do not mix everything together.
SBC, single board computer (what makes the FULL model a FULL model). To test the miner, as suggested by others in this thread, I moved the SBC to the working STANDARD unit and now that unit does not mine also. The original one which had not been mining now does, except at a very high HW error rate.

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I am not a seller. To my understanding, your miner is working again, and standard unit is also working, so you have 2/2 working units. yes/no? Please explain in detail what was broken and what you fixed, because your post lack details needed before I address what you wrote.
I understand you are not the seller. That comment was not directed at you. I am not trying to dialogue with you--I am interested in someone who had a similar experience helping, or someone who knows a possible solution. The issue clearly lies within the SBC.

I have contacted FutureBit via my order email and will await their reply.
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
by
brain brain
on 23/09/2022, 00:42:06 UTC
Maybe wait till it stops synching and see if it starts mining, CPU might be overloaded

Thanks! I'll also inspect the wiring harness for any wires that may have disconnected or snapped during shipment--another user suggested that.

Weeeeeell...same issue. I stopped the node (thus removing the load on CPU) and restarted the miner(s). No change--solid red light on FULL but STANDARD hashes away in Eco fine.

Will wait for blockchain to fully sync (90% currently) and retry all the rebooting steps.

I can't see any loose wires or anything, so if there's no progress after full sync, I guess it'll have to be returned and swapped out for a new FULL?

You did not follow my advice.
I suggested leaving the full unit alone, do not connect anything to it.
Just put full unit on the table, freshly flashed SD card, connect power and Internet, configure pool, wait for node to start syncing and miner to start mining. Its not mining? Its damaged and you must RMA, or investigate this unit until you find the fault. Leave standard unit out if this troubleshooting procedure, your standard USB miner is fully operational.

Well of course not, since I posted at "September 21, 2022, 12:52:46 PM" and replies to my post do not include yours.
I've investigated the unit. What my troubleshooting HAS shown might be helpful to others--as I stated in my post moving the SBC from one miner to the other did two things...

1) caused the miner it is installed in to also NOT mine
2) show a significant HW error rate of the miner that it had been installed in

So, if I were a dev or working on the HW side, I'd be VERY VERY curious why my product was disintegrating itself.
Miner 1 (original FULL) did not hash and originally held the SBC
Miner 2 (original STANDARD) did hash but now when hosting the SBC does not hash, all the while Miner 1 is now hashing but averaging a HUGE hardware error rate

This might be an example of what happens when QC is extended to your buyers and not fully done in house?
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
by
brain brain
on 22/09/2022, 22:25:00 UTC
Maybe wait till it stops synching and see if it starts mining, CPU might be overloaded

Thanks! I'll also inspect the wiring harness for any wires that may have disconnected or snapped during shipment--another user suggested that.

Weeeeeell...same issue. I stopped the node (thus removing the load on CPU) and restarted the miner(s). No change--solid red light on FULL but STANDARD hashes away in Eco fine.

Will wait for blockchain to fully sync (90% currently) and retry all the rebooting steps.

I can't see any loose wires or anything, so if there's no progress after full sync, I guess it'll have to be returned and swapped out for a new FULL?

I stopped the node, and shutdown the full and stand. miners. I then swapped the SBC from the FULL to the working STANDARD, fired it up and the exact same issue. Now it seems whatever brick the SBC is in becomes a non-working miner.

Any thoughts of what next? I'll reply to my order email with what's going on.
This sucks.
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
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brain brain
on 22/09/2022, 11:50:13 UTC
Hi willi, please put me in for a second spot in Blockparty 26 Smiley
Now my btc will have covered blockparties 25, 26, 26, 27, and 28

Thanks!
Anyone else want a second spot (or get on the list for the first time) so we can get #26 going?




Back from vacation and can go further

Some seats free for the next group run to find a new block...

Currently we have 12 participants and 0.105 BTC collected.
Voting is on 25PHs, but we need a little more budget for that. For 20PHs it would be almost enough to create a one day / 24h mining run.


In this solo pool topic --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5237323.msg60762205#msg60762205
German / Englisch main topic --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5410047.0
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
by
brain brain
on 22/09/2022, 11:43:39 UTC
Maybe wait till it stops synching and see if it starts mining, CPU might be overloaded

Thanks! I'll also inspect the wiring harness for any wires that may have disconnected or snapped during shipment--another user suggested that.

Weeeeeell...same issue. I stopped the node (thus removing the load on CPU) and restarted the miner(s). No change--solid red light on FULL but STANDARD hashes away in Eco fine.

Will wait for blockchain to fully sync (90% currently) and retry all the rebooting steps.

I can't see any loose wires or anything, so if there's no progress after full sync, I guess it'll have to be returned and swapped out for a new FULL?
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
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brain brain
on 21/09/2022, 18:02:56 UTC
Maybe wait till it stops synching and see if it starts mining, CPU might be overloaded

Thanks! I'll also inspect the wiring harness for any wires that may have disconnected or snapped during shipment--another user suggested that.
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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
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brain brain
on 21/09/2022, 12:56:15 UTC
I've scoured this thread but I'm sure I missed the answer to my problem, so sorry in advance!

I received my FULL and my STANDARD yesterday, and when hooked up to power, only the STANDARD mines. The FULL module is correctly syncing to the chain (it's at 69% after 12 hours) but does not mine.

I've re-seated the SD card, tried a different PSU, and have restarted and rebooted and re-everything'd a bunch of times. I've tried different pools, too.

Ideas for next steps?
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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
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brain brain
on 21/09/2022, 12:52:46 UTC
My Full Node is not working out of the box.  Plugged it in as normal and it starting generating the blocks but there is no hashing and the status is INACTIVE.  I've changed pools, passwords and usernames and still nothing.  Would like some assistance as I just got this one delivered no more than 3 days ago. 

Exact same issue. I have a FULL and one STANDARD, and when I hook them up to power, only the STANDARD hashes and the FULL does not hash.
It is syncing to the blockchain on the FULL, but the mining capability is inactive.

Thoughts?
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
by
brain brain
on 15/09/2022, 21:59:52 UTC
Back from vacation and can go further

Some seats free for the next group run to find a new block...

Currently we have 12 participants and 0.105 BTC collected.
Voting is on 25PHs, but we need a little more budget for that. For 20PHs it would be almost enough to create a one day / 24h mining run.

Welcome back! I'm excited for the next run Smiley
Anyone want to pick up the remaining space?
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
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brain brain
on 11/09/2022, 03:37:05 UTC
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You said diff ÷ shares × 100 = luck
So by your logic I'm at 6,743% luck which seems pretty damn excessive but on par with my shit luck in anything else in life.

All ratios are PART / WHOLE so in mining PART = shares and WHOLE = network difficulty

(SHARES/NETWORKdiff)*100 is your diff rating

(456,170,867,212/30,977,000,000,000)=1.4%
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
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brain brain
on 10/09/2022, 22:32:54 UTC
Totally agree!And it could be hit in several minutes of mining as well as years.

Like Block #721575 mined with only 3.9% diff (1038303277333 shares)
https://explorer.btc.com/btc/block/721575

Congratulations to yet another small miner with 13TH!

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[2022-02-03 01:17:47.959] Possible block solve diff 49404145846653.273438 !
[2022-02-03 01:17:47.981] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2022-02-03 01:17:47.981] Solved and confirmed block 721575 by 1ADwc721c1KuqhHy2vuL8b96G6DEDAhSUX
[2022-02-03 01:17:47.981] User 1ADwc721c1KuqhHy2vuL8b96G6DEDAhSUX:{"hashrate1m": "13T", "hashrate5m": "14.4T", "hashrate1hr": "15.2T", "hashrate1d": "10.2T", "hashrate7d": "2.21T"}
[2022-02-03 01:17:47.982] Worker 1ADwc721c1KuqhHy2vuL8b96G6DEDAhSUX:{"hashrate1m": "13T", "hashrate5m": "14.4T", "hashrate1hr": "15.2T", "hashrate1d": "10.2T", "hashrate7d": "2.21T"}
[2022-02-03 01:17:48.019] Block solved after 1038303277333 shares at 3.9% diff

https://btc.com/btc/block/721575
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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 267 blocks solved!
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brain brain
on 08/09/2022, 04:40:42 UTC
Unfortunately the word "luck" is so so fitting in mining!

A few weeks ago I hit my best ever when firing up a 12Ph/s rental, and the "best share" came in the first few seconds, so probably got hashed with less than 1Ph/s...

{
 "hashrate1m": "834G",
 "hashrate5m": "5.76T",
 "hashrate1hr": "14.5T",
 "hashrate1d": "98.7T",
 "hashrate7d": "4.84P",
 "lastshare": 1662611459,
 "workers": 0,
 "shares": 19928263779548,
 "bestshare": 2673944195.547071,
 "bestever": 11185602691689,
 "worker": [
  {
   "workername": XXX
   "hashrate1m": "834G",
   "hashrate5m": "5.76T",
   "hashrate1hr": "14.5T",
   "hashrate1d": "98.7T",
   "hashrate7d": "4.84P",
   "lastshare": 1662611459,
   "shares": 19611352780368,
   "bestshare": 2673944195.547071,
   "bestever": 11185602691689
  }

I'm over 50% luck so still hopeful that it'll come soon Smiley Didn't the last block get solved with over 200% luck? Did I read that correctly?