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Interesting. Just checked Whatsminer, M30S++ is $4590 now. That’s a huge discount. Makes you think about the market fluctuations.

I meant the bfgminer log output. Does it show if it realized it hit the difficulty 1 mark or just carry on oblivious?

Did you keep an eye on your CPU miner? I caught it at one point where the last block was ages ago and bfgminer didn’t adjust difficulty.

Rough math suggests if you’re at 300GH/s with diff 1, you’d find a block super fast. Feels like something’s off if I’m at 6MH/s and still getting nowhere.

Hey sidehack, big fan! You’re spot on about the USB power. If I design a miner, maybe barrel connectors could help with power. Impressed you got NDA access, but I totally get wanting to keep plans under wraps.

Thanks for the feedback! I don’t know about that site either. If anyone has info, I’d love to get chips from there too! Donations sound good but I need to figure out a private way to do it.

Thanks for the merit! I’ll look into those threads. Planning to use thick traces on my PCB anyway, didn’t realize cooling was so critical from the backside too. I’ve seen that in stepper drivers before, good to know!

Cool! I can pull some pinouts from manuals and guides. My main worry was the packages, but if there’s some standardization, I should be good.

Sweet, that makes me feel better about sharing my findings. I'm curious though, you mentioned standard sizes but the chips I have have some big pads underneath... is that normal?

Planning to get into modern closed source ASIC chips like BM1387 and BM1397. Got a few in hand already and wanna document their pinouts and sizes. Gonna make some breakout PCBs too, fingers crossed it won’t take too…

15 MB a day sounds manageable! However, my full BTC node at home eats up hundreds of GB monthly.

Really? 50 MB seems low. When you say MB, you're talking megabytes, right?

Quick question, how much data do miners typically use on a 4G plan? I worry about limited download caps.

Oh wow, you’re into the big blocks perspective, huh? In 2022? Why not just switch to BCH then? Plenty of folks talking about it over there in the Altcoin section. This big block debate feels like old news, honestly.

Nah, that's a bit extreme. A company can do some things you might not like but still contribute positively. Who’s actually limiting Bitcoin's capacity? I’d argue SegWit increased it. It’s just about how much data fits…

Just came across this and wonder why Taproot is still being discussed. Then I remembered it's from like two years ago. Turing completeness? Not so sure about that one.

That’s the issue. If you make PoW easier, difficulty adjusts up. Energy use stays the same. This applies to any proposal to enhance mining efficiency.

Saw a report recently about the 'refurbished' ones. They seem more like they were heavily used, repackaged, and shipped instead of actually refurbished... That definitely raises some flags.

Yeah, for real. It's just a bunch of standard miners stuck onto a backpack. Anyone can see that. Why make a new thread about it just because you saw a funny image?

Check out some guides online, they really help! You can get a decent set-up for around 50 bucks. And it’s no biggie if syncing takes a few days. Just make sure your power stays stable while you’re downloading the…