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In extreme cases like with faulty cooling it’s not possible to run at all. In these cases we need to shutoff ASAP to save the Bitaxe from damage.
In less severe cases like when the thermal paste is bad, fan is wearing out, or the room is too warm, I think the user should make some small adjustments and get back to hashing at full speed.

2025-06-02 14:24:28 UTC

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Satoshi? Maybe.

2025-06-02 14:19:45 UTC

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The missing piece, IMO is an open source server so someone can spin up a new version when they get co-opted by the state. Or even better; prevent it.

2025-05-31 13:31:20 UTC

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Maybe 0.1% of the way?

2025-05-31 13:27:59 UTC

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In many cases if the bitaxe has overheated something is wrong and needs to be manually addressed…

2025-03-01 18:13:32 UTC

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I’m not sure privacy is that important on a public forum? I’m mostly interested in being free of centralized shitshow Discord and utilizing FOSS

2025-03-01 18:11:23 UTC

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Let’s do it!

2025-03-01 18:10:39 UTC

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6000 users?

2025-03-01 18:02:00 UTC

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And amazing late 90s German acid trance

2025-02-15 17:04:18 UTC

Discord sucks. Whats the best decentralized solution? Matrix? IRC? I need super easy onboarding for potentially 6000 users.

2024-12-19 20:50:19 UTC

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new best meme!

2024-12-19 14:02:18 UTC

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what can I say, feeling ungovernable this morning 🤷‍♂️

2024-12-19 13:51:06 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/6198f6d2006c7f24f48c0f4251117d767376c8c61ac316a0fd60f522a581f3ed.jpg

2024-12-19 13:46:21 UTC

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2024-12-15 20:27:33 UTC

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Where is this place where you can’t get a legit Bitaxe, and how do we fix that?

2024-12-13 20:06:22 UTC

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It is VERY important to have a good low resistance 5V power connection for the Bitaxe… and this doesn’t look like it.

2024-11-29 02:51:21 UTC

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That temp looks suspiciously low.. are you running firmware v2.4.0?

2024-11-29 02:31:00 UTC

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Such a shitshow over there. Pretty happy to be done with them.

2024-11-25 05:43:41 UTC

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Bitcoin / lightning works pretty well!

2024-11-23 18:56:09 UTC

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I think there is a public-pool app in the start9 AppStore. If it’s not there yet, it will soon be. You can just install this and point your Bitaxe at the Start9 IP address.
I don’t have any guides handy yet.. this would be great to have someday.

2024-11-23 18:54:22 UTC

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Give it a try, it’s the best IMO

2024-11-23 18:48:52 UTC

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I’ve tried 3 times to zap you with Damus and it’s not working 😭
Nice work!!

2024-11-23 18:39:50 UTC

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Braiins is a proxy pool to AntPool, the biggest most centralized Bitcoin mining pool there is. You are obvs free to do whatever you want, but IMO solo mining (lottery style) to something like ckpool or public-pool is better. Even better yet is to host those services on your own node and mine directly to that, completely cutting out the middle man!

2024-11-23 18:36:29 UTC

Stacking sats is cool, but have you tried _building_ on/with/for Bitcoin??

2024-11-23 18:32:40 UTC

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It looks like you didn’t fully update to v2.4.0. Did you load both images esp-miner.bin AND www.bin?

2024-11-23 18:27:56 UTC

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Give solo mining a try!

2024-11-23 18:27:36 UTC

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Is this a Google WiFi setup? I’ve heard from a few folks having trouble there.

2024-09-20 16:03:11 UTC

Some miners travel easier than others… https://image.nostr.build/a61c74730d1d89aae6e1e8d9b30c4d6af55219c634ba901ea43442c77c3088b9.jpg

2024-09-16 01:44:54 UTC

It’s Kate, Grand Central, let’s hit it! https://image.nostr.build/e4d1729134103723ca65b06cdac7058891832c0205090800f30a99f77c70e862.jpg

2024-09-14 01:57:04 UTC

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Solo mining into a multisig is an interesting idea. I suppose you don’t need any special pool software to do this.. any solo pool will do. If you want to host this yourself, the easiest way is public-pool on Umbrel.

2024-09-13 15:42:54 UTC

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We have a pretty break neck release schedule, so there is always a “next generation” around the corner! Hopefully they are cheap enough to dive in whenever you’re ready.

2024-09-13 15:40:37 UTC

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Cheapest by far is to manufacture them yourself. Details at bitaxe.org

2024-09-13 15:39:21 UTC

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The Bitcrane is a Antminer controlboard replacement hack/tool. It has USB, but is not a higher-power device like a Bitaxe.

2024-09-13 15:38:17 UTC

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This is the issue exactly. Even USB-C PD with the chip you mention can’t provide enough power at 5V. I’m working on this for larger multi-chip Bitaxe though.

2024-09-13 15:36:21 UTC

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Standard USB-C PD does not provide enough current at 5V for the Bitaxe 😭 so it’s a little more involved change. But we’re working on integrating this into a future model!

2024-09-13 15:34:20 UTC

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Yo!

2024-09-13 15:33:21 UTC

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I heard for every 1000 Bitaxe sold @npub1qny…95gx will smash a closed source miner live on RHR!

2024-09-13 15:29:03 UTC

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@npub1vwf…lxtw and I did a teardown. It’s well built. ASICs are a bit dated, but noone really cares in home mining. The only thing I can’t figure out is how they made it so crazy cheap.