Oddbean

Aww I absolutely feel you, I was very stoked myself I think it’s a nice lottery miner and along with the work that the #Bitaxe crew is doing, or the work on StratumV2, DATUM and whatever the open source wizards have down the pipeline makes me think that the future for #homemining is lit Also, Canaan stated that they’re going to open source the firmware in December 2024. I expect that people will take advantage and work on that too

That’s awesome to hear! Between the Avalon, BitAxe, and NerdMiner, I guess I’ve gone all-in on the lottery mining 😂 I don’t even care if they never find a block (I mean it would be life-changing, but I have zero expectation of that happening lol). It’s just a great learning experience and a chance to play a tiny part of this movement that so inspires me 🫡 At 20 TH/s I might even point the Avalon at a pool and mine a few sats per day, rather than the one-in-fifty-million chance of finding each block.

Hm, I could have sworn the one I was looking at had a range from 4TH to 70TH (and price from ~$100 to $500) but now I’m not seeing it. I thought I was on the “Avalon” website at the time, but now googling it I’m only finding “Canaan-Avalon” although I thought they were distinct. Gonna have to look a little deeper when I get home 🤷‍♂️ but regardless, still stoked lol

So this was the one I found 🤔 they have options up to 70 TH/s but it seems that Canaan & Avalon are intertwined companies but perhaps not perfectly identical? https://avalonasic.org/product/avalon-nano-3-4th-s

I have never seen that before and I also found this, apparently it’s the same machine, with slightly different wording ? I know for a fact that the real company is called Canaan Creative Inc and it’s Chinese, the miners series with many models is the Avalon series and Nano 3 is the 4ths lottery miner I’m confused and I would be weary of the claim, but I don’t know anything about them canaanavalon.org/product/avalon-nano-3-4th-s/

Yeah I’m wondering if I started with a little too much trust and not quite enough verify 😬 I’m hopeful it’s just like a Japanese branch of the company since they have a few different international offices… and not an impersonator or something… it’s one of those times where one remembers the value of credit card’s ability to run a chargeback, if needed 🤦‍♂️ Gonna cross my fingers and hope for the best, I guess