That's pretty good for a USB stick. Good to see you are back. I'm still holding out for the next Terminus project. Oh, and I put some old computer fans on top of my futurebit miners and dropped the balanced temp to like 55-58 C. Been using them in the basement where I've just been running the HVAC fan to circulate air and have not turned my heat on yet. Kept the house at 68-72 last two weeks.
the heat the futurebit's make is actually kinda wild. i think you can def heat up a room with them in the winter. actually really excited about it haha. the gekkosticks are indeed wild. i actually bought more along with a ton of Pi's. gonna be putting them in families houses. def looking forward to the new pod miner.
Yeah unfortunately it's pretty pricey now. I got them for $90 each at minefarmbuy.com but you had to buy like 9 sticks at once. I actually sold 3 for what i paid for mine so i pretty much got 6 sticks for free. So anything I'm mining now is already profit since i ROI'd on the hardware. I actually posted the link and details in an earlier episode around when it was announced. Each stick does like 200-350 GH/s. Can make about 100-300 satoshis a day or about 5-12¢ a day not including electric (it uses like 8-12W depending on your set up)
the more you underclock it, the more efficient the miner is. so underclocking it is technically "more profitable" but that doesn't take into account the hardware costs. i dont have the numbers but i dont think it would be a big or very noticeable difference. at these hash rates, the energy savings doesn't mean too much unless you had REALLY expensive electricity. i think the consumption on these would range from like 9-14W per stick. discounting the hardware, i think you would need to pay something redic like 40¢ per kWh in order for these to lose money.
Nice, just got one of them the other day, new to all this and seems fun to learn, having a problem though, so I did the zadig driver install, and I know the computer sees it in the settings when I look it up, problem I’m having is cgminer doesn’t see it, says no device and hashing rate is at 0 across the board, please help, thank you!
Sorry bud I can't trouble shoot windows. I couldn't even get it installed. Shit is garbage unfortunately for running miners. I gave up on them hard. I'd say pick up a raspberry pi 3B+ or a 4 asap before they're sold out everywhere. I couldn't even overclock my Newpacs when i had em. Just in general in my opinion you're trynna run open source software on closed source shit so you're always gonna run into issues.
@@danielsilvestro-hernandez9015 same thing happened to me. had the pi laying around for ages, knew it would eventually come in handy. these things finally gave me the motivation to learn how to use em. you can download the OS here: www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-desktop I used: Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software then the imager for windows here to flash the sd card: www.raspberrypi.com/software/ after i did that, i just entered the commands into terminal that were in the video description and after like 10 mins you're mining. there's a couple of tweaks here if the miner is under hashing that i forgot to add to this video but i should put another update soon.
I've tested this on it on a pi 3B+, pi 3B+ model A & a Pi 4. pretty much what i did was: 1 - Use the Raspberry Pi Imager to flash a fresh operating system to the SD card: www.raspberrypi.com/software/ 2 - Insert that SD card into the raspberry Pi 3 - Open the “Terminal” app. Enter the following commands. If you have trouble, enter each command as its own separate line: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev git cd git clone github.com/kanoi/cgminer.git cd cgminer CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fcommon" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus sudo make install - That’s it! Close terminal then re-open it. You should be good to test if the installation was successful. I was only able to get it to work when using "sudo" in front of cgminer. So the command I enter is something like: sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr -p x --suggest-diff 128 if that doesn't work, then I am not too sure what to advise. I recommend going to the bitcointalk.org thread bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.60
@@coolvinwallace9799 awesome to hear! If you need help overclocking, i wrote this up for someone else in the bitcointalk thread: I believe you can only run one frequency per instance of cgminer. so if you want to run different sticks at different frequencies, you can open a new tab in terminal and just enter the new command. should look something like this: sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486" --gekko-compacf-freq 350 if you wanted to run more than one stick at the same frequency, just add commas: sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486,GS-10050489,GS-10050487" --gekko-compacf-freq 350 you should also look into adding these at the end if you're having trouble with under hashing: --gekko-compacf-detect --gekko-start-freq 300 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60 so at the end the command might look like: sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486,GS-10050489,GS-10050487" --gekko-compacf-detect --gekko-compacf-freq 350 --gekko-start-freq 300 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60 good luck hashin'
They are pretty much sold out everywhere. Sticks are going for about $300-400 each at the moment second hand. Keep an eye out on Bitcoinmerch.com 419mining.com or asicpuppy.com if you are in USA
I've personally not been able to run it on my Windows 10. I tried compiling it for fun but gave up cause it was a bit too complicated to set up. I did set it up for one of their older miners, the Newpac but it never ran right and i always ran into stability issues. Generally speaking its better to run stuff like this on open source software and not closed source stuff like windows..i recommend a Raspberry pi 4 or Raspberry pi 3. Super easy and they are pretty cheap if you can find em at sticker price
you can mine with nicehash, just point your pool address to them. you just change the pool URL to theirs. i think you can mine w/ the compac f for other coins but i don't know how
Ngl you seem like a chill ass dude to smoke with 😂💪🏽
Update on my sticks, I got them in the 300-350 range 🤘🏽
That's pretty good for a USB stick. Good to see you are back. I'm still holding out for the next Terminus project. Oh, and I put some old computer fans on top of my futurebit miners and dropped the balanced temp to like 55-58 C. Been using them in the basement where I've just been running the HVAC fan to circulate air and have not turned my heat on yet. Kept the house at 68-72 last two weeks.
the heat the futurebit's make is actually kinda wild. i think you can def heat up a room with them in the winter. actually really excited about it haha.
the gekkosticks are indeed wild. i actually bought more along with a ton of Pi's. gonna be putting them in families houses. def looking forward to the new pod miner.
this is sick! i still got it bookmarked...
your setup looks, no lie, like a science project haha. rad!
Those stick are expensive. You bought them all at 250 something like that? Also whats the profit?
Yeah unfortunately it's pretty pricey now. I got them for $90 each at minefarmbuy.com but you had to buy like 9 sticks at once. I actually sold 3 for what i paid for mine so i pretty much got 6 sticks for free. So anything I'm mining now is already profit since i ROI'd on the hardware. I actually posted the link and details in an earlier episode around when it was announced.
Each stick does like 200-350 GH/s. Can make about 100-300 satoshis a day or about 5-12¢ a day not including electric (it uses like 8-12W depending on your set up)
@@justh0dl thank you for replying my guy
have you taken into account the additional power draw vs extra hash received from overclocking? Curious which is more profitable in the long run.
the more you underclock it, the more efficient the miner is. so underclocking it is technically "more profitable" but that doesn't take into account the hardware costs. i dont have the numbers but i dont think it would be a big or very noticeable difference.
at these hash rates, the energy savings doesn't mean too much unless you had REALLY expensive electricity. i think the consumption on these would range from like 9-14W per stick. discounting the hardware, i think you would need to pay something redic like 40¢ per kWh in order for these to lose money.
nice video my friend, Un saludo amigo.
Nice, just got one of them the other day, new to all this and seems fun to learn, having a problem though, so I did the zadig driver install, and I know the computer sees it in the settings when I look it up, problem I’m having is cgminer doesn’t see it, says no device and hashing rate is at 0 across the board, please help, thank you!
Sorry bud I can't trouble shoot windows. I couldn't even get it installed.
Shit is garbage unfortunately for running miners. I gave up on them hard. I'd say pick up a raspberry pi 3B+ or a 4 asap before they're sold out everywhere. I couldn't even overclock my Newpacs when i had em.
Just in general in my opinion you're trynna run open source software on closed source shit so you're always gonna run into issues.
@@justh0dl ahhh ok yes I picked up a pi 4 not long ago, haven’t used it much yet but will try that first
@@danielsilvestro-hernandez9015 same thing happened to me. had the pi laying around for ages, knew it would eventually come in handy. these things finally gave me the motivation to learn how to use em.
you can download the OS here: www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-desktop
I used: Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software
then the imager for windows here to flash the sd card: www.raspberrypi.com/software/
after i did that, i just entered the commands into terminal that were in the video description and after like 10 mins you're mining.
there's a couple of tweaks here if the miner is under hashing that i forgot to add to this video but i should put another update soon.
How do I get this running on a raspberry pi I have cgminer installed but no luck finding the fs7
I've tested this on it on a pi 3B+, pi 3B+ model A & a Pi 4.
pretty much what i did was:
1 - Use the Raspberry Pi Imager to flash a fresh operating system to the SD card:
www.raspberrypi.com/software/
2 - Insert that SD card into the raspberry Pi
3 - Open the “Terminal” app. Enter the following commands. If you have trouble, enter each command as its own separate line:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev git
cd
git clone github.com/kanoi/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fcommon" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus
sudo make install
- That’s it! Close terminal then re-open it. You should be good to test if the installation was successful.
I was only able to get it to work when using "sudo" in front of cgminer. So the command I enter is something like:
sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr -p x --suggest-diff 128
if that doesn't work, then I am not too sure what to advise. I recommend going to the bitcointalk.org thread bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.60
@@justh0dl omg thank you so much countless hours i have wasted on setting that up. IT WORKS
@@coolvinwallace9799 awesome to hear!
If you need help overclocking, i wrote this up for someone else in the bitcointalk thread:
I believe you can only run one frequency per instance of cgminer. so if you want to run different sticks at different frequencies, you can open a new tab in terminal and just enter the new command.
should look something like this:
sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486" --gekko-compacf-freq 350
if you wanted to run more than one stick at the same frequency, just add commas:
sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486,GS-10050489,GS-10050487" --gekko-compacf-freq 350
you should also look into adding these at the end if you're having trouble with under hashing:
--gekko-compacf-detect --gekko-start-freq 300 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60
so at the end the command might look like:
sudo cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 -u zzz.worker -p x --suggest-diff 442 --gekko-serial "GS-10050486,GS-10050489,GS-10050487" --gekko-compacf-detect --gekko-compacf-freq 350 --gekko-start-freq 300 --gekko-mine2 --gekko-tune2 60
good luck hashin'
Any recommended legitimate place to buy these?
They are pretty much sold out everywhere. Sticks are going for about $300-400 each at the moment second hand. Keep an eye out on Bitcoinmerch.com 419mining.com or asicpuppy.com if you are in USA
Can it work on a Windows OS?
I've personally not been able to run it on my Windows 10. I tried compiling it for fun but gave up cause it was a bit too complicated to set up. I did set it up for one of their older miners, the Newpac but it never ran right and i always ran into stability issues. Generally speaking its better to run stuff like this on open source software and not closed source stuff like windows..i recommend a Raspberry pi 4 or Raspberry pi 3. Super easy and they are pretty cheap if you can find em at sticker price
Can the Compac F mine any other coins or be used on Unmineable/Nicehash? I know you can use it in pools if you don't want to solo mine.
you can mine with nicehash, just point your pool address to them. you just change the pool URL to theirs.
i think you can mine w/ the compac f for other coins but i don't know how