GM. First night running a miner. Anyone have any tips on solo or pools, etc.? Brand new to this but it’s time to learn.
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I have 5 pointed to solo.ckpool. that case makes it hard to cool the voltage regulator. Make sure your wallet addy is correct. Mining a block only to have it lost forever would be devastating.
Are you running Sparrow with your miners(if you didn’t lose your wallet in a fire last year)? Also, what temps are you trying to keep your miners at so you don’t over clock/ overheat them?
No I have them set to deposit to a ledger wallet. I've never done anything with sparrow despite hearing about it everywhere.
I have mine set to 62°c but upgraded to El mirage heatsinks from nostr:npub12qeuylug4nu0y7q5svp3x4ut5pjxwju9ru0k87yydv56yhhewheqzk8e8x and I have smaller heatsinks all over to keep the voltage regulator cool. Mine are mostly overclocked to 710/720 freq and 1200 voltage
What is your hashrate with those settings?
Super helpful. Thank you. I’ll check out nostr:npub12qeuylug4nu0y7q5svp3x4ut5pjxwju9ru0k87yydv56yhhewheqzk8e8x as well. Thanks man.
BTC Sessions has some good tutorials on this.
That’s who I used to get my WiFi set up correctly. Had no idea I needed to configure to 2.4 GHz. I didn’t even know what that meant until 12 hours ago.
First get it up iff the floor because its going to suck up a bunch of dust into the cooler fins.
That’s on a desk. You clearly don’t have an eye for high end ikea clearance furniture.
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Public Pool is probably the easiest to setup. There's also Datum (Ocean) and CK Pool
I tried this last night with Public pool but could not get in. I’m assuming I need a new OS. I have an Umbrel coming in, will this allow me access into public pool or can I do it on any OS like Mac? Again, I type with one finger so this is like helping a toddler learn calculus.
CK pool is extremely easy. Maybe not optimal but a 15min setup.
Thanks, I need easy and it’s probably a good start point.
Have you noticed strange daily outages every hour or so on Public Pool? I've noticed better uptime on CK Pool.
If you want steady but small rewars try braiins
I’ve never heard of this but I’ll take a look. Thanks. Tried zapping you but it denied me. Let me zap you Sam!
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Here's some articles I wrote that might help:
https://mikehardcastle.com/2024/09/09/bitaxe-and-mining-pools/
https://mikehardcastle.com/2025/09/22/why-mine-bitcoin-at-home/
https://mikehardcastle.com/2025/09/07/my-reasons-for-running-bitcoin-knots/
Thank you. I’ll read through them.
Alright, I read them. Regarding oceans and decentralization-I like it. Am I able to run that with Umbrel? I have that node coming in next week. If so, if you had an Umbrel and a bitaxe; how would you configure and run that first set up?
Yes I run my BitAxe on Ocean, you don’t need a node to do that, unless you want to define your own template in case you find a block.
If you want to get started quickly and easily with Ocean, then here are the instructions:
Your Umbrel will allow you to mine with Ocean using your own block template using their DATUM protocol, discussed here:
Or if you want to solo mine with your own credentials, then @npub1wtgd9ccg76awlp29zl3h466l89wr7hsut0n3ucmtr95h4t29jc6srlsxp2 comes as an option with your Umbrel
I'm hopefully not too far behind you 🤞
Good Luck! 🍀
