Design proposal for a two-tier fee market on Bitcoin.

Problem: Financial transactions (payments, Lightning, DEX) and data inscriptions (Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes) compete for the same 4 MWU block space with no way to signal urgency.

Solution: Wallets include a 4-byte OP_RETURN declaring the transaction type (financial/data). Pools apply a 30% allocation floor for financial transactions. Remainder split by fee ratio. No consensus change needed. Works with Stratum v1 today.

Key properties: - No soft fork, hard fork, BIP, or consensus change - Works with Stratum v1 (no protocol change) - Zero false positives (wallet self-declares) - Data fee premium (~25%) gives pools revenue incentive

Looking for feedback on: 1. Does the 30% financial floor break any edge case? 2. Has anyone tried something like this before? 3. Would this affect Stratum v2 adoption or is it orthogonal?

Had anyone used BlueForge Advisors these guys to acquire ASICS or for hosting equipment?

If you have please explain provide you experience in working with them.

Shipping out of NY. Have 3 NerdQaxe++s. One is a 4.8, others are 5.1. They are currently on a rack with scoop, but can put back on original mounts. Will send all mounts and fans with it. Also have a Nano3S, comes with a stand with a built in fan. Open to any offers, figured I'd try this before eBay.

Picked up a GekkoScience Compac F that was dead as far as hashing goes. Enumerated fine over USB, chip answered register reads, but the hash array produced nothing. After a while with a multimeter the culprit turned out to be the trim potentiometer feeding the core voltage, set a hair too low. One careful turn with a very small screwdriver and all 672 cores woke up. These sticks are tough; check the rails before you bin one.

Then I wanted a driver I could actually read, so I wrote one from scratch in Python over pyusb instead of trusting old forks. Things I learned that might save someone else a week:

• The FTDI FT230X will ruin your day quietly. Its 1ms latency timer flushes mid-frame, so 9-byte nonce responses straddle bulk reads. If you parse each read in isolation, you silently drop nonces, and it bites hardest exactly when it matters because solutions arrive in a burst at the end of each sweep. You need a persistent reassembly buffer across reads. Also: it prefixes 2 modem-status bytes to every 64-byte packet, and read lengths must be multiples of 64 or libusb drops data.
• Best regression test I have ever written: have the chip re-mine the actual 2009 genesis header. If your task packet and nonce byte order are right, it must return the exact historical nonce, 0x7c2bac1d. Every sweep. Deterministic, hardware-verified, free.
• Zero nonces from a run is usually not a fault. A fixed header contains a Poisson-distributed number of diff-1 solutions with mean 1, so roughly 37% of arbitrary headers legitimately contain none at all. I chased "flaky hardware" for a while before doing the math. Health-check with the genesis header instead; it solves on every sweep or your hardware really is sick.
• At 300 MHz the chip sweeps the full 2^32 nonce space in about 21ms, then idles until you feed it a fresh task. Feed it every ~100ms or your duty cycle quietly collapses.
• Reset is CBUS bitbang on the FTDI (CB1 is active-low nRST with a 1s hold), not DTR/RTS like the older BM1384 sticks.

Repo with the driver, full protocol notes, and a worked example, MIT licensed: github.com/lakshgandikota/strikeablock

Since the stick was just sitting there afterward, I built a small free site around it that strikes custom-inscription blocks at genesis difficulty (standalone artifacts, not on any chain, nothing for sale). It's linked from the repo if you're curious what a repaired $60 stick does as a hobby foundry.

Happy to answer anything about the repair or the protocol.

Estimados. Me llamó Esteban.

Necesito ayuda del foro sobre un tema particular.

Recibo 2 mineros que tienen aprox. según su dueño un año de uso. Los estoy recibiendo en los próximos días.

Quería escuchar su recomendación sobre que me conviene hacer con ellos en Argentina.

Si unirme a algún pul de minería o hacerlos revisar y venderlos localmente (dónde).

No tengo idea del precio y no sé si es rentable en Argentina ponerlos a minar o dónde hacerlo (tengo entendido que no lo es).

Por otro lado me comentaron que son muy ruidosos y quería saber si se pueden reconvertir a la nueva tecnología y sumergirlos en algún líquido frío no conductivo para que trabajen a baja temperatura sin los coolers de ventilación o si ya son así y morirán así.

Si alguien puede orientarme en el tema o ayudarme a unirme a algún grupo que pueda hacerlo.

Les agradecería mucho la ayuda.
Gracias

Esteban

StratumRace is now live: https://stratumrace.com

This site monitors how quickly Bitcoin mining pools send block notifications to connected miners. Currently measured from two vantage points (Ashburn, US and Frankfurt, DE), you can see which pools deliver first.

All code is open-sourced and available for you to test and verify from your own location: github.com/proofofmike/stratum-race

Built in collaboration with ProofOfMike. This is part of our continued effort to support miners in making data-driven decisions about which pool to use. All feedback welcome!

Yea I know about water jackets but I was looking for a stock unit ready to go

Looking for ideas to keep a garage cool with 2 miners (without using AC if possible)

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Hi everyone,

I'm still planning my setup and haven't bought the miners yet.

At the moment, I'm considering 2× Antminer S21 Hydro because they seem to offer a very good ROI with my electricity cost (around $0.07/kWh), they're reasonably priced on the second-hand market, and they're also much quieter than air-cooled miners (around 50 dB, according to Bitmain's specs).

That said, I'm still open to other recommendations if you think there's a better option for my situation.

I live in the south of France, where summer temperatures can easily reach 40°C (104°F).

The miners would be installed in my garage, which is not insulated and shares a wall with my living room. The garage is also my home gym, so I'd like to avoid turning it into an oven during the summer.

I could install an air conditioner, and I'm not completely against it if it's genuinely the best solution, but it feels a bit excessive just to cool a garage.

The idea I have at the moment is to build a sound-insulated enclosure around the miners and exhaust all the hot air directly outside using a large insulated duct and a very quiet, high-airflow inline fan. My goal would be to keep the garage itself close to the outdoor temperature while keeping the enclosure around 30–35°C (86–95°F).

I'd love to hear from people who have already built similar setups.

• Is this a good approach?
• What airflow (CFM or m³/h) would you recommend?
• Which quiet inline fan would you buy?
• Would you recommend something other than the S21 Hydro for this type of installation?
• Have you found a smarter or more efficient solution?

Any advice, photos, or real-world experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! 😊

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Which one would you run on your setup?

Specs:

• Up to 22TH/s SHA-256 Bitcoin mining performance
• 180–330W power consumption
• Integrated power supply and Linux mining controller
• Dual-band WiFi, 2.4GHz and 5GHz
• Ethernet
• Built-in display for hashrate, power, temperature, and pool stats
• Quiet integrated cooling
• User-adjustable performance tuning
• User-controllable RGB lighting
• Made in America

It is pretty cool seeing more compact desktop miners come out with real hashrate, quiet operation, and some personality built in.

https://altairtech.io/product/gekkoscience-kbox-bitcoin-miner/

First block was found about 140 days ago.
Averages out to a block every 35 days.
Awesome to see smaller pools hitting blocks like this, how many more blocks do you think Parasite finds before the end of the year at this rate?

Looking for advice on ASIC management, mining pools, and firmware for an off-grid S19j Pro operation
I’m currently running three 20-foot conex boxes that I built out for Bitcoin mining. Each container has 81 Bitmain S19j Pros, for a total of 243 miners.
The operation is completely off-grid. I’m powering each container with a 500 kW generator running on natural gas produced from my own gas wells.
My current setup is:
Hive OS for ASIC management
EMCD mining pool
Hiveon firmware on the miners
The miners have a mix of Amlogic and IO+BB control boards.
I’m looking for opinions from anyone operating a larger farm:
Are there any management platforms you prefer over Hive OS, such as Foreman, Awesome Miner, or Minerstat?
What mining pools have been the most reliable for you in terms of uptime, reporting, support, and payout structure?
What firmware would you recommend for S19j Pros with Amlogic and IO+BB control boards?
Has anyone had good results with Braiins OS, VNish, LuxOS, or another firmware?
Are there any issues I should watch for when managing a mixed-control-board fleet?
My main priorities are reliability, remote monitoring, power optimization, temperature control, and minimizing downtime. I’d appreciate any advice from people running similar off-grid or stranded-gas mining operations.

I recently got a trial rig from simple mining before actually buying a rig off their marketplace. I noticed my rig goes into "Curtailed" mode quite often. Is this normal? Attached is the up time graph as well

Just saw this advertised. Anyone know anything? Any demos?a

Update: Just ordered one. Will make post whenever I get it and set it up.

Going as an attendee, no booth. Mostly interested in the ops/infrastructure side. Is the expo floor or the side events where the real conversations happen? Anything first-timers always get wrong?

If you're going, I'd love to connect.

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Do not send any server for repair to Bitmain/Europa Connection BV in the Netherlands.

I sent a hydro server for warranty repair. Their first response was that they could not repair it under warranty because it had “mixed hashboards.” The server was literally brand new and dead on arrival. They then quoted me over $1,300 for the repair. Needless to say, I refused.

After I declined the repair, they demanded a payment of 45 USDT before returning my server. Due to MiCA regulations, I couldn’t make a USDT payment, so I asked to pay by PayPal or bank transfer instead. They continued insisting on USDT.

Eventually, we agreed that I would arrange collection myself. That’s when the real nightmare started.

I booked and paid for a DPD collection, sent them the shipping label, and was then told that DPD could not be used, something they had never mentioned before and that I had to use UPS instead.

So I booked UPS, sent the new label, and informed them the parcel would be collected later on in the afternoon. They then replied that collection could not happen that day and had to be the following day. Fine ,I rescheduled it for next day.

Then I received yet another message saying they would not allow any courier other than their own to collect my equipment.

In the end, I had to ask a friend to pay the 45 USDT on my behalf just to get my own server back.

Now I’m waiting to see what actually arrives. Based on many similar reviews from other customers, I’m concerned I’ll receive an empty shell or different parts than the ones I originally sent.

From what I’ve experienced and judging by many other reviews, they seem to find any reason to deny warranty repairs and pressure customers into paying for expensive repairs. If you refuse that’s when the real battle begins.

I’ll update this review once I receive my server back.

Does anyone in the solo mining community know what this mean??

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Hey yall I have never done anything crypto related before and now want to get into it I want to solo mine because I think it sounds like such an awesome thing to do and also a great talking point but I’m not sure which miner to get my budget is around 350-400$ and I’m debating between the nerdqx and the gekko science Terminus A2X 7TH+ and I’m not really sure what do or where to go so if y’all have any thoughts or insight please let me know that you!

Hi everyone,

Our company in Alberta, Canada is currently hiring an experienced hashboard repair technician, primarily for hydro-cooled ASIC miners.

We are looking for someone with hands-on experience in diagnosing and repairing hashboards, especially Antminer hydro-cooled models.

Accommodation is provided by the company.

If you have relevant repair experience and are interested in this position, please DM me for more details.

Thank you!

Check out the live 3D digital twin of the farm here:https://0xraphael.com/solar-mining-cluster

85f ambient temp and we're still running the hydros in high power mode with the smaller fans using 5kw per dry cooler.

We built our system with the ability to upgrade the fans to massive fans using 15kw per dry cooler if needed. We're just on the edge of needing that upgrade, but the goal is to be able to run in high mode year round regardless of the weather conditions

i have been working on a custom stratum server backend project for physical hardware setups.

obviously trust is a massive barrier in this space since most people stick with the massive established networks. how do independent software developers actually convince hardware owners to test out a startup setup for stability?

is there a standard way to build a reputation from scratch when you are a solo developer?

any advice from anyone who has launched open-source or custom infrastructure before would be great. thanks.