what's going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel and today I am checking
out courtesy of Bitcoin merch who did send me out the Mars Lander solo Bitcoin miner now let's take
a look at the unboxing process this does come with the power adapter a USB micro to USB adapter this
is what we do need to actually set up this Miner I'll show you how to do that later on this video
and then we have the RGB remote now this is what we do need to change all those fancy lights within
this mini Bitcoin miner so I have had this Miner for about a month maybe a month and a half or
so it's been a little while no I have not hit any Bitcoin blocks yet so if I would have you
would have heard about it but no zero blocks found for me I am solo mining later on again I
will show you how to set this thing up but you may be wondering what the heck do I got going
on here with the ethernet cable and why isn't this top on so that is one of two reasons one
it no longer fits since I did put this in and the reason I moved this over to ethernet from Wi-Fi is
because we do shut our Wi-Fi off at night time so I do have everything hardwired in now that's
the one main reason the second reason is that actually increased my hash rate using this thing
wired over Wi-Fi so if you have one of these are thinking about it it may help you out but at the
same time it may just because I have crappy Wi-Fi my router is fairly old so that may be all it is
but let's take a look at some results since I did do this okay so over on the left here you can see
in the middle there is a spike and that's when I moved from Wi-Fi over to my wired connection
and everything before on the left hand side of that Spike you can see my hash rate is about
50 percent less now I didn't have a screenshot this time I was looking into overclocking and
how you do other things to get the reported hash rate this thing is supposed to do which leads me
to be you know maybe it is my router and it's an issue and you might not have this issue but ever
since I did that we spiked up and I pretty much doubled my hash rate at the pools through shares
being found now over on the right we can see it has been fairly consistent hanging out around that
278.39 gigahash so it has improved my performance by about double utilizing wired internet over
wireless connection so I'm gonna do the setup process last because I'm just going to give you my
Spiel on is this thing worth it should you get it or whatever so the whole purpose behind this Miner
is playing the lottery Bitcoin merch does have this thing listed at about 490 USD it looks like
it is currently on sale I will have links in the description if this is something you are looking
to purchase so I do think you can point this at a pool if you really do want to I don't know
I don't think it's a good idea guys because this thing is not profitable I'm telling you right now
there is no profit in pool mining or anything on this it is 100 geared to solo Mining and the
Bitcoin Lottery now it does make a lot of sense when you really think about it but just looking at
the pure stats it makes zero sense you're probably already saying this thing is not profitable it's
not worth it it's a money scam but seriously hear it out and it may change your mind so your actual
chance of finding a block is probably one in a lifetime one in two lifetimes who knows maybe
it could be a couple months maybe it could be a couple years but regardless this only uses like
16 Watts now if you actually do the math it is less efficient than something like an s19j Pro
or whatever the big Bitcoin miners are but those things use three to five thousand Watts now if
you're using a miner at three to five thousand Watts you better hope you're making some profit
because if you're not you're gonna go broke with your power bill and that's where the 16 Watts
at the Wall comes in handy it's like two LED light bulbs you're not going to notice it so mining away
solo and not really caring about the power because it's not going to affect you at all you know maybe
a couple cents that's about it is not going to be an issue for most of you guys out there now when
I go to the store there's always people and it's usually the same people there all the time buying
lottery tickets you know twenty dollars today twenty dollars tomorrow some people spend 40.
we talked about in live streams some people spend like eighty dollars every couple days
just to play the lottery and the odds of winning the lottery are pretty much zero but the Opium
is there I ran some very quick numbers here and forty dollars every week for an entire month is
160 dollars a month three months that's 480 just alone in lottery tickets this thing can Roi itself
and you don't have to worry about it stop playing the lottery and mine yourself Bitcoin so also on
top of that a Bitcoin average block time is about 10 minutes depending on the network hash rate and
everything you know we have seen times but going to an hour regardless 10 minutes to one hour you
have a chance of winning that lottery for your entire life and currently up until the next having
that block reward is 6.13 Bitcoin or something like that and then in 2024 that will drop to a
little over three Bitcoin but just think about it if Bitcoin does hit you know at least a hundred
thousand some people think it's going to go to a million in x amount of years and that could
very well happen you were playing the lottery right here and it is happening every day you're
getting a draw every 10 minutes you're getting a draw every hour depending on that difficulty but
at the average block time it's supposed to hang out it should be within 10 minutes so keep that in
mind guys quit playing the lottery mind yourself some Bitcoin and you have a lifetime chance at the
lottery every single day so in a nutshell that's all I I pretty much have to say about this thing
like seriously it's not profitable pool mining maybe a couple cents a day it's not a hundred
percent efficient it's not that great doing a hash to what ratio but because it uses such little
power you're not going to notice it and you have that chance of potentially winning the lottery
so if you're a gambler this is for you guys so there we go that's my whole two cents on this
whole thing you know there's nothing amazing about it it's a USB minor that's it nothing special it
does have this cool screen that definitely makes things you know nice and kind of neat and fancy
but you know overall you know this is nothing that's going to make you massive amounts of
money it's a lottery ticket and you could play to win so I really do think this is a chance I
myself I'm not really a gambler a lot of you guys I've been talking to you guys kind of are so you
this might be right up your alley regardless it might make you something it might not it's 100
luck no idea all right guys so if you made it this far we're gonna check out the setup process and I
want to change my Bitcoin coin address anyway so I do have the little USB for focuses USB drive
here that it does come with and the SD card is actually located right in if you're looking at
it I guess from the screen the left hand side right underneath so we're simply just going to
pull this out and insert it into this USB flash drive and then put this inside of your computer
okay so once you do get that USB with the micro SD card within your computer you will come up to
this it's going to ask you to format just hit the cancel button you don't need to do anything all
the files are here if you're a coder you can go into here and change all the front display
graphics we're not going through any of that we're looking at the minor setup now again when
this first comes you don't have that USB thing moving into for ethernet cables I did buy that
separately I'll have a link for that down below if you're looking for something for it but to set up
your Wi-Fi you come down to this WPA supplicant here hit the edit button and simply put in all
of your information for your Wi-Fi AI it's pretty self-explanatory at that point and to set up the
pool and everything all you got to do is come into this CG minor dot config as well as the backup I'm
just going to show you how to set up this but you can set up a backup pool here as well so we're
going to right click here edit this with notepad and this is where all our pool and user address is
so again I want to change my wallet address here so I do want to come into user here user is your
wallet address that you're mining to and I'm just changing it to that and URL is obviously just like
you would a GPU mining any type of mining this is the URL to the server you want to use so pick
yourself a server I am going with lucky monster now I don't know much about any of these BTC pools
but based on mining pool stats itself this was the best ping for me I did do ping test this was the
best ping for me and it's also one of the lowest percentage of solo mining pools there are a couple
here but you can see this one's way in Lithuania I don't know how to say that but I don't have a
good ping there so I had a good good ping and it's a low fee so I'm with lucky monster pool
hash rate does not matter when it comes to solo mining because we're solo mining we know we're
all fighting for that block so that's why I went with that pick the pool you want a lot of people
use CK I do believe by default this did come with CK pool already loaded by default but again upon
ping tests I went with lucky monster because I had the lowest latency and there we go once you
save that insert the SSD back in plug everything in and it will begin its booting process so I just
did that it's still booting up nothing is loaded up or anything yet wait a few minutes once the
screen does turn on it's slowly starting to at this point it's been about 20 seconds or so go
and check out your pool which we'll check out and make sure everything is detected okay so
we are detected at the pool you can see I had a little Gap here my internet actually went right
out as soon as I hooked this thing up so that sucked but we are back online and we're beginning
to wrap up so we're detected at the pool every everything we need to know thank you for watching
this video guys I will see you on the next one the Mars Lander Bitcoin Lottery Miner is here