samminer

Same here in Italy. Best bet is through some networks in Switzerland. Better prices without customs.

I use Raspberry Pis with GSM modules and 500 GB prepaid IoT cards. It's not perfect, but it works. For small miners, pooling hashes might be an idea. Don’t know if it’d even pay off though.

Weirdly enough, it’s doing fine with its original hashrate. I’ve got mine running a bit differently. I’m using excess solar power to charge batteries and then sending the hash to a small setup.

Good news! All chips are functioning. But yeah, with damaged ASICs, would the hashrate be impacted?

Haha, right? With my old S3, I barely make a cent a day. But hey, my solar power is free, and I use the heat for water which saves me a bit. Kinda fun, but not gonna get rich from it.

I did that test. Other devices show accurate values, so I’m guessing the miner’s fine too. Maybe it’s just one of those unexplained tech miracles.

I used two different volt-meters and they both showed the same result. And yeah, I’m mining at a loss, but hey, the electricity is free since it’s from my solar setup.

That’s definitely strange. Bitmain specs say otherwise. I measured power draw over a few days while comparing the dashboard and pool hashrate. Averaged 65.7W and 410.1GH/s at the pool. Something’s off.

Wait, where do I find the mining logs? Are you saying I need to ssh into the miner for that? I’m on stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.braiins.com:3333, which is Stratum V1, right?

Just cleaned up my old Antminer S3 and plugged it in. It's hashing at 496.1GH/s, but I remember it used to pull about 366W. Now, I’m measuring the power and it’s only using between 68.5 and 70.4W. Am I missing…