Do you like taking chances with large sums of money?
Do you like pushing things that already make money into the red
zone so they will make you even more money???
Well christmas is coming early (no it isnt Christmas is in like three days and
this isnt technically out yet) - but the S19J Pro Overclock exists in beta… AND I HAVE IT.
BEHOLD - a BitMain Antminer S19j Pro 100TH running at 130TH with exit temps in the low 70’s…
This firmware basically turns your miner into a miner and a third,
air-cooled - but if you’ve got an immersion cooling set up, Im told
by one of the developers that you can get into 180% territory.. Shut the front f#$%…
It was super easy to set up, too.. Literally just copying over some files onto a micro-SD
card - you do have to pop the top off the miner; side note, when popping the top off of a miner,
notice these shiny silver bars, these are bus bars and they can make you die if you touch them
JUST right, and they can simply hurt you if you touch them at all, so dont touch them at all.
But under this section of the case is the control board,
and conveniently built into the control board is a secret little microSD slot..
So with nothing more than a spare SD card out of a voice memo recorder and some top
secret hacker guy hacker code - you just power cycle the machine and it comes back online with
a new UI - something the ASIC.to guy said is being repolished. Then theres literally just
a pull down menu where you can choose how fast you want your machine to try to run!
The wattage increases along side the hashrate,
so if you are already up against it because your warehouse only has 100amp service and
you had to call an electrician to put a bigger panel at home so you can run
more machines in the SheShed because what are you supposed to do, NOT run more machines!?
What was I saying? Right, so if youre already using 80% of your power and you
just go ahead and install this on all of your machines, youre going to blow some breakers.
So.. installation is easy - configuration is easy, too - trusting your very expensive and
very valuable equipment to a piece of software which can clearly sidestep a system or two…
well… Youre going to have to assess your own risk tolerance to determine how easy that is.
Like everything else, though, Im IN! And if it helps,
there is this tid-bit of code running in this firmware that actually makes
me feel really good about using it. See this uneditable line in the pools called DevFee?
These guys are going to give this software away. This wont cost you anything once its out in the
world. And thats because while you may choose to run your miners at 20% or maybe 30% faster;
id be comfortable pushing it to 40 or 50% faster under immersion coolant - the developers will be
syphoning off 2% of your pool payouts. Or is it 2% of your hashrate, I dont know how the
world works - I should have recorded that call. Nevertheless, for the pleasure of running 30%
faster, youre going to give 2% away as a tip to the software authors.
Which means they’ve got every incentive to NOT ruin your machine, or to NOT maliciously hack your
wallet or whatever other thing a group of very smart computer dudes can make happen. Because your
machines, thousands and thousands of machines will be dutifully chipping away at the SHA256
and tossing a coin to their Witcher for the adrenaline shot to their Antminers.
If this makes you worried about the difficulty increase it will
inevitably cause; well… If I have my hands on it - its already out there.
Its already running on some of the largest farms there are.
Marc tells me he and his team are trying to get it done by the end of the year. I
talked to him for probably about an hour, while he helped me set it up,
knocked me down a peg for using nicehash, and then just sort of chatted it up about how
this world works, and it sounds like theyre working pretty ferociously to get it done.
So maybe just give the asic.to page a refresh each morning when you wake up to see what it says. One
day, soon, the christmas all of us grinches are really waiting for will be there waiting for you.
If youre looking for a place to buy a new S19J Pro to start your new year,
or any other miners - look no further than Musk Miners! They are a Space Design Warehouse
Trusted Hardware Supplier. They will take on the risk for you - so you dont have to blindly
send 10-15 thousand dollars (depending on when you watch this video) of tether or
ether to China and hope something comes in the mail. I drove up and met these guys in person,
and gave them my money in exchange for Antminers. They have insurance, they have an actual business
in North Dakota where you can feel safe ordering whatever hardware your heart desires.
Email them with a link in the description and make sure to tell them you heard about
them from me! You can also come to my discord server, link in the description,
where they have their own communication channel in which to answer your questions and set up sales.
And again, and I just got done with a long road trip - If were
on the highway and Im passing you on the right, we are both wrong.