[Music] what's going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel and thanks to Osprey
Electronics I got the opportunity to gain remote access into their E300 14 gigahash Caspa Miner now
initially looking at this thing I never physically got to look at it or anything or judging by these
pictures yes it does look like your L3 plus type of Asic Miner but this is not an Asic this
is actually an fpga now it's three fpgas if you really want to get technical so the specifications
are three of these zilnex Ultra scale Vu 35p fpga so there are three of these within like
your typical Asic L3 plus type of frame here it's got the loud fan sounds like an Asic looks like an
A6 but this is in fact an fpga Miner so fpga okay actually stands for field programmable gate array
which means it's pretty much manufactured and then you as the owner have to program it for various
types of tasks there's no bios or programming already said on it you got to do that manually
this comes in the form of bit streams now I'm very new to fpga so I don't really know much about them
but you do have to know some technical know-how in order to program these or purchase bit streams
from various devs in order to mine certain things so before I went into this I did ask in my Discord
section if anyone had any questions they wanted me to ask Osprey and here's the first question will
Osprey be providing customer support for the fpga in reprogramming for different algorithms or will
they just provide hardware and you have to figure out the rest so that is a great question and their
response was yes they fully support everything so as we look on their website here uh here summer so
here it says support future other mining algorithms Ergo and rxd so that's radiant so when
these bit streams do become available then yes it'll be listed on their website and some type of
directory you can simply download it and install it onto your fpga Miner and they do it so they do
fully support everything with future algorithms within their Osprey Electronics E300 so nice and
simple quick download you don't have to purchase it from any other devs you can get it straight
from Osprey themselves so that's a nice thing to know so here we have another question will
it be sold by other resellers or only exclusively through their website what is their expected stock
supposed to be like I'd like to order one but only ever seen it listed out of stock now this
is a great question because it will determine how long do gpus actually have left in mining Casper
because once too many of these do hit the network then I'll obviously gpus aren't efficient enough
unless you have free Power and Casper mining will end on gpus eventually but the good thing
is there is not much stock available it does sound like it's only going to be listed through
Osprey Electronics themselves now it doesn't mean third-party sellers won't buy some and then up the
price and try and get a little bit of profit out of there but as far as it sounds right now it's
strictly only from Osprey Electronics also there isn't much stock there's only a couple hundred
of these sold they're trying to get a lot more Supply but it's very difficult to get these fpgas
manufactured and out the door at reasonable rates so it does sound like it's going to be a while and
there isn't that much stock available another question we have is how long is the warranty
period and where can it be serviced during warranty period it's out of stock currently
according to their website when can we expect more stocks so the warranty period is only 30 days so
so it is not very long so I know some of you probably don't want to hear that and for service
I'm not really sure I'm assuming you're just gonna have to send it back to Osprey themselves
depending what the issues may be and as for stock you know it's very hard to tell there's not much
out there production is very slow right now but they are trying to get more and more made as fast
as they can and then for the final question here we have how does adjusting power scale performance
and there's another amazing question because we want to know efficiency is the whole marketing
with this thing it doesn't use much power and gets a massive amount of hash rate now I do see things
are changed from when we did gain remote access so here it also says the supporting mining algorithm
that's only used to say Ergo but now they have rxd or radiant within this as well so that's been
added in also this was listed at 14 gigahash at 250 Watts now now it does look like it says from
250 up to 500 watts now when we did test this I did get screenshots and we were hitting that
14 gigahash Mark at around the 400 watt Mark here so that gives you an idea kind of how the scaling
does work so let's jump into the setup process and how this whole thing works it is pretty much
a plug and play machine now to set this Miner up like I said it is pretty Plug and Play So within
the minor dashboard itself you can see right here it's simply using team red Miner as itself so it's
defaulted to wooly pulley so I'm assuming all these 300s for testing purposes was on really
pulley so that's where a lot of that hash rate is coming from but I did switch this over into
uh hero minus for that zero percent fee coming in through December here so I'm just going to copy my
Casper address just like setting up any typical Miner you go in here and change the parameters
under everything if you're familiar with Team Redmond minor now if you actually look down and
you see the core clocks right here you can see the fpga core lock here equals 550 550 550. so this is
each individual fpga chip so there's three of them and you're locking the core at 550. now this is
the setting that I think was probably around that 250 Mark Watts but it doesn't hit the 14 gigahertz
now once you have all that set you simply hit the start button and once you hit start it will Engage
The fpga Miner kind of like hitting the go command in Hive Os or whatever so now the fpga has begun
running we're going to go into the minor logs and you can start to see uh this thing slowly
wrap up so if you're familiar with the Jazz mine or anything it will take a little bit of time to
start doing this thing you won't have initial hash rate right off the get-go but it's nowhere near
as long as something like a jazz Miner here's the system law you can see it's slowly loading
everything the pool getting its jobs we're at zero hash rates so far but you can see fpga zero one
and two the three individual fpgas that are within the single box making that Total Miner up for you
so you can see here with our 550 set on each core clock we're doing about 4.37 per fpga chip so a
total of 13.14 gigahertz now I think this is where we're hanging out at around 250 to the
300 watt Mark and now we're gonna kind of go over where we asked to crank it up a little bit yeah
uh sure we can do that we can crank it up a little bit if that's okay with you guys
so we're gonna crank it up here so let's show you how they actually change these settings so you do
got to make sure you hit the stop button before you actually start doing that and you can see
they're changing the 550s up to 650 650 and then 580 and then you hit that start button
now I'm not sure why they didn't put the Third fpga on to 650 only 580. I couldn't really get
an answer for that but this is how we round it out but we did hit that 14 Giga hash mark moving
forward now with these settings this is where I did get the pictures in from the fpga and
this was using a little over 400 watts at these settings and here's the minor log with the new
settings you can see uh 650 650 580 and then the fpga chips are doing chip zero is 5.17 gigahertz
chip one is 5.17 gigahash and Chip two which is the little bit lower one is 4.61 so it looks like
if they were all running we would get a bit more but their total hash rate is sitting
around the 14.97 gigahash Mark at a little over 400 watts so that is pretty insane as some people
are saying you know I'm getting 15 gigahash 16 17 gigahash on gpus but you're using like 1800
watts or something so this thing is a massive efficient monster all right so let's take a look
at the current profitability of the E300 so if we come into what to Mine and we're looking at
the default specs that it's being marketed as it's 14 gigahash at 250 Watts what to Mine at
11 Cent power current prices is saying 5.29 before power that's if you had free Power something solar
whatever and after power if you're paying for your power with 11 Cent per kilowatt hour that
is 4.63 for a total hash straight here we have 439.81 terios currently on the network and we're
getting around 763 to 767 coins per day now this is all default specs we're going to fast forward
and look at what this Miner has actually been doing so here we are in hero Miner zero percent
fees all the coins that we do mine is ours unlike other ones it's a December promotion
going on right now so we're going to get more Casper here so for the past 24 hours and it has
been mining for about I don't know I guess a day and a half or so but past 24 hours we are getting
790.83 coins now we can see our hash right here it has spiked upwards of times based on shares
of 15.46 and I believe some actually hit the 16 gigahash Mark 15.75 there was one here I don't
know what it is but regardless our average hash rate for 24 hours is 13 0.48 so not quite that
14 gigahash but we are pretty close 13 and a half gigahash here and unlike the 250 Watts
which is it's being reported as we're actually using 400 watts at the wall so almost twice the
power but this is still a very profitable Miner so let's do all the numbers and see what these
new specs do look like today so based on 791 coins in the past 24 hours that works out to a
price or I guess before power costs of profits five dollars and 53 cents per 24 hours that's
looking pretty good now at 11 Cent per kilowatt hour that does work out to be about a dollar five
worth of power subtract that we're making about four dollars and 48 cents after power at 11 Cent
per kilowatt hour which is what I'm actually on so so you know this is looking fairly good it's
pretty profitable it's a three or four thousand dollar minor I know you're thinking oh Roi is way
too long but some people think you know Casper could hit 15 16 maybe 17 cents in the next Bull
Run if this was to hit 16 cents in the next Bull Run and it's hitting about 791 coins a day that
is a hundred and twenty six dollars every single day that profitability is absolutely insane all
right guys so that pretty much does wrap up this video so we got some Hands-On kind of experience
with the E300 14 gigahash fpga minor courtesy of osprey electronics and I guess final summed up is
you know this thing will ultimately destroy gpus on Casper Casper GPU mining is coming to an end
but it's not going to be anytime soon due to the levels of stock and everything that's been going
on with fpgas manufacturing errors and all sorts of other things things so we have some time maybe
a year maybe a little bit longer I don't know but I think this if you really do plan on mining
Casper and Casper see has a bright future ahead of it you're gonna have to transition away from those
gpus and move on to something like fpgas and these E300 so thank you for watching this video guys
hopefully it clears the air on this Casper Miner I'll see you on the next one Rabid Out [Music]
thank you foreign
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