Oddbean

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 Has anyone bought or run the Avalon Nano 3? 

Basically a desktop space heater / Bitcoin miner…

Range from 4 to 70 TH/s and decently priced for the hash rate

I think I’m gonna plug it in under my desk at the office and enjoy the free electricity. Is that bad?

Any experience with the device or with Avalon in general? Thoughts, recommendations, concerns?

#asknostr #homemining #nokyc

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 I think  @ODELL may have one? He was talking about plugging in miners at Air B&Bs during an RHR a while back?

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 That’s an amazing idea 😂 although if I ever find a space heating miner at an Airbnb you best bet I’m pointing that thing at my own address lol

Matt, you familiar with the little Avalon? Also, I just started an old CD rip with the Nodl guys but can’t find the Nodlito anywhere on the web. Found the full nodes and the cloud stuff… Was it only intended for El Salvador?

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 I THINK THEY NEVER LAUNCHED THAT BROADLY UNFORTUNATELY.

THE LITTLE AVALONS ARE GREAT FWIW. HAVE THREE.

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 Ok first off, I love your commitment to caps, even in a reply. It shouldn’t still surprise me but it does. Did you glue the caps button down or something?

Second, thanks for the endorsement. Ordering one to keep my feet warm at the office this winter 🫡

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 I just plugged it in
https://m.primal.net/Mhwh.jpg

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 Ooh she’s a beauty! I love that it’s subtle/generic enough that I can plan to use it as a foot-warming space heater under my desk at work lol

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 Those fans are not very powerful, I have it on my desktop now for that reason, sitting next to a box with three fans, an NVIDIA 1050 and the psu fan 

The nano is at high speed and it barely hums next to the other fans

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 But I’m buying a dust cover for it tomorrow and I’m moving it under the desk too lmao

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 Even better! Thanks for feeding my excitement 😁🤙🤙

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 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

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 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.

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 You should (for the 20TH/s)

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 They don’t do 20THs, they max at 4, but yeah you can always pick up a few

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 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

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 Yeah, Nano 3 only goes up to 4. No lottery miner goes to double digits so far I believe

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 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

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 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/

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 And keep in mind, the original is Canaan.io

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 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

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 Hey, any idea why there doesn’t seem to be a version that includes a USA power supply here? Or am I just totally missing it? Lol

https://www.canaan.io

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 Yeah it’s here 

https://shop.canaan.io/products/avalon-nano-3-dec-future-with-us-adaptor

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 Finally found it (a few hours after my question) lol, thanks friend