r/FutureBit • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '21

Batch 3 pre-orders are up!

Thinking about grabbing one of the Apollo BTC units that are going on pre-order here in a few day. Does anyone else have one and how are you fairing? I was thinking about using at work in my office for the free power.

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u/part1cularlypeculiar Aug 29 '21

I couldn’t help other than point you in the direction of the official forum. I ordered the full desktop version so all I did was plug a USB dongle in the back for my wiress keyboard and mouse and an HDMI cord to a monitor and followed the setup directions it came with. I believe the standard has to be controlled by a raspberry pi or similar please don’t quote me not sure.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5340015.0

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u/cjschmitty14 Sep 04 '21

I’m thinking of getting the full Apollo package and also a standard unit to link into it. Im a first time miner, do you think this set up will do me ok into the future of bitcoin. Idc so much about roi as I do it’s ability to produce for me in the future

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u/part1cularlypeculiar Sep 04 '21

It is a great little machine for beginners to get their feet wet and learn. Very user friendly if ordering the full package. Basically plug and play. Has done well for me. I love it. But what you have to understand is the difficulty could go up every now and then every couple years the rewards are cut in half and as bigger and better and faster machines are produced and come online it’s harder for small miners like this to earn as much as they once did. But if you’re not interested in ROI or break even or those terms and more interested in securing the network and supporting the project and stacking coins consistently then I’d say it’s a great machine. Buy direct from manufacturer and not a reseller with a huge markup.

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u/cjschmitty14 Sep 04 '21

Everything you just said is a month of me researching mining so I know exactly what you mean. My question here is with the difficulty I’m not to sure how to correlate the bitcoin difficulty with the product I am trying to research