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Erik Hersman
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Tech, Africa, Bitcoin mining at Gridless. Kenya Relay: wss://nostr-1.nbo.angani.co

Thanks. It’s fun too!

A decent day. Less crazy than the last few anyway.

Fully load testing all the miners against the forebay water level sensor

It should be noted that a sudden switch of all machines to high efficiency/low power settings on the miners does cause a generator crash… lesson learned! Dummy pool activated.

This is why we test the scenarios while on site.

Anyway. Onto celebration steaks by the Zambezi at our camp!

Good news is we’ve got full connectivity. Now testing all patch cables and PDUs. But a few miners are already hashing!

This bonding service makes a huge difference on dropped packets. https://nostr.build/av/7f0fcc557f99a148bd8214b402ec6abb706dd2314aa8720eeba7e6c49932cc36.mov

We’ve been able to get good signal with LTE, but it has to be about 100m away up on the forebay. The point-to-point WiFi link has had some issues, but we think we know what’s wrong and will fix that today.

Gotta get these miners live.

Give a man a free mosquito net and eat for a lifetime… or something like that. :) https://nostr.build/av/637b864e54780827dcc83fdcc87c909966e983e2a26eabca27b6427ad3fee00b.mov

Some days are long… but we got the container maneuvered into place… after about 6 hours of doing things without all the right equipment.

Next is electrical and miner installation. https://nostr.build/av/4a9c65bb6443e81dd575ba80d57131a50e79882e054c410e72a4ab14a066e09f.mov

Getting closer, not great roads. Tomorrow we will offload and start installation.

Zambia 🇿🇲 https://nostr.build/av/c5279f4d7a3e73f7f5ee3bff2d9e03df7cfb2ca36d738b3296f86713bbee1edc.mov

A final good morning from the beach.

Peaceful, snorkeling, shell-collecting type of day.

Good morning #nostr

Eastern hemisphere checking in for the day.

Marauding gang has been around all day. The little thieves got our trail mix yesterday…

150m wide sand beach at night.

Might be a while before I run into someone here in Kenya who knows what this shirt is about.

The little bandits are out in numbers today. 🐒