The Bitaxe Gamma arrived yesterday, and I spent the evening setting it up during the Tyson event which was rather uneventful 🤷🏻♂

Yeah, the odds aren’t exactly in my favor, but I’m here for the journey: learning more about mining, supporting the network, owning a cool little piece of novelty, and stacking some sats to share with the #nostr fam.

It’s cranking out an average of 1.06 Th/s and pulling in around 65 sats per day.

Wish me luck - and if you’re into this kind of thing, feel free to share it around. If I hit a block, I’ll make sure to spread the love ⚡🚀

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Which pool are using?


:bitcoin:


Using Braiins for now


Hi, PictureRoom!

Good luck!

Those 27 sat are fee free, I suppose. Aren’t they?

Which mining pool are you using?

Best regards.
Amarillo.


Awesome! Happy mining 🫡


Thank you brother!


Hello, and thank you!

Aside from paying for the electricity, they would be free sure. I am using Braiins for the pool right now and having the sats deposit into my Strike lightning wallet for the meantime.


Sounds cool. I’m learning how to run a Node at the minute and it’s a steep learning curve despite countless years in software engineering, seems to count for nothing!


Yes! I set up my start9 unit the other day and have it running. It’s a learning curve for sure, but one step at a time. It’s fun. These would make fun conversations if were to do a lil podcast of the kind or something


🙌 this is awesome and a single chip is equally capable of mining a block than anything else. I forget mine is even running.

If you do hit a block on brains you’re going to get paid 25 cents for it because it’s a collaborative pool (also if you do some research and are anti antpool you’ll find that unfortunately braiins = antpool).

I run mine on ck solo pool which is easy to connect to.


I’m using voltage at the moment but might switch to something that I can run myself. Toying with how to RSS my website to self host some audio. Though I do love RSS Blue but the software engineer in me is screaming out- build your own tools!!


A podcast would be a great idea. I’m working on one for my music but might expand out into indie development, OSS and that sort of thing too. Inspired by so many great podcasts I listen to and throw v4v into the mix and BOOM!!!


That is very good to know, thank you so much. I will look into ck. Are you able to set up payments to a lightning address as well like in Braiins?


If your start 9 is synced I think you can also spin up a “public pool” instance which connects to your own node and lottery mine against that.


Could you explain a bit more on how to set that up? I’m still very much a noob and figuring all this jargon out


What about using ocean?


Not really the two choices you have are:

1. Mine on a collaborative pool like brains or ocean and setup lightning to get micro-rewards. If you hit a block you still only get a micro reward.

2. Mine solo on CK pool or public pool or if you search Nostr you’ll find a Dutch pool where a lot of bitaxes mine. You will get zero rewards (you won’t need lightning) unless you hit a block but if you do you’re getting a monster payout.


Freedom 😻


You can swap between both too - both are fun just be aware you’re not getting anywhere close to a block payout if you’re on a collaborative pool.


Nice! Waiting for mine to arrive


Ocean is good - I had my start9 core lightning setup against ocean for smaller payouts. Again, it’s a collaborative payout pool. You might think you’ll get extra “credit” for hitting a block but not the case.


Great info here. Am I able to mine both simultaneously? Assuming not but just had to ask.

Also, not familiar with the Dutch pool that you mentioned about on nostr. Could you provide a link or note id?


No unfortunately there is no way to do both at the same time. People have talked about a mixed model pool before but it doesn’t exist.

I run against CK because I’m 100% confident I’ll get paid.

Here is the Dutch pools site

https://pool.satoshiradio.nl/


Thank you!

When you say “I run against” are you saying that is what you’re using now? What makes you confident you’ll get paid?


And for clarity, two places to mine that will reward a full block (if hit) are:

1. CK
2. Pool.satoshiradio.nl

A lightning wallet is not needed as they do not pay out sats but blocks (again, if hit)


Yup and maybe “public pool” on your start9 node which I’ve never done.

You don’t need lightning with a solo pool because a solo pool will just send whole coins (!) to the address you’re using. Lightning is only used for smaller payments because the transaction fees on chain for repeated payouts might eat too much of the reward up - hence use lightning instead if you’re mining with a small amount of hash on a collaborative pool.


CK pool has been around since the early days, and the bitaxe that won the reward this year was mining on CK. CK has very well connected nodes that have consistently allowed small solo miners to win. Also the other options are probably fine too.


Or you start to use #Datum and make template with your node ,no need any pool for solo mining.
Can make pooled mining with Ocean and Datun and have fee discount.


That would be cool, I have not looked but datum on start9 would be awesome if you’re mining against ocean.


Datum have failover build in so when you are disconnected from pooled mining from ocean then is switched automatically to solo mining


Start9 packages are great ,you need Knots and Datum


Would love to hear more step by steps for this. I have a start9. Is there any video tutorials on this that you have found?


Oh nice going to check that out


No,but in community forum  search for switch from Bitcoin Core to Knots,after install Datum


Yes,I think this is very important to use your node for mining and that is now possible with Datum


It doesn’t seem that Knots is supported by Start9 yet, but soon


You can activate developer mode and switch from BTC core to knots,in actually version from start9 you cannot run simultaneously both


Pretty sure it’s on there from memory, try connecting to the community App Store instead of the official start9 supported one. I could be wrong 😑


Yes but you can only activating developer mode


Yep! It is. Now when I see it, it says that it is already installed (that being bitcoin core). So how to switch between the two, and what does this do exactly for when one sends a btc transaction to a sparrow wallet using electrum server?


Thank you very much. Will take a read later


And don't forget, connection between #Datum and #Ocean are encrypted.


The Bitaxe Gamma arrived yesterday, and I spent the evening setting it up during the Tyson event which was rather uneventful 🤷🏻♂

Yeah, the odds aren’t exactly in my favor, but I’m here for the journey: learning more about mining, supporting the network, owning a cool little piece of novelty, and stacking some sats to share with the #nostr fam.

It’s cranking out an average of 1.06 Th/s and pulling in around 65 sats per day.

Wish me luck - and if you’re into this kind of thing, feel free to share it around. If I hit a block, I’ll make sure to spread the love ⚡🚀

#bitaxe #grownostr #plebchain #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/c96dffa2b2c0fa9899d957379ff90dbe6485b0d924a23a99e9ecbac178ca51ea.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1ab709c0217e9e56b9debfb08ba0b96f092ba9f53770f1eacff994699c4003e7.jpg


Thanks.