going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel today we're going to be looking
at the ipollo Ethereum Classic Plus mini Miner so this is pretty much out of the mini Etc miners
this is the biggest one with the most amount of hash rate so in this video we're going to be
looking at what all comes into the box right here we can see we have obviously the miner it has an
antenna which you have to install we got a power cable the Box power supply the power supply itself
does look like it is a 360 watt power adapter for 100 to 265 volts 50 to 60 hertz 4.3 amps uh
12 volt 30 amps so there you go this can run on your standard 110 all the way up to 260 volt need
be depending what you are running at so in this video I will go over some hash rates for you guys
we'll check out how much power consumption this thing actually sucks out of the wall we'll have
a look at the noise through a decibel reader and then we'll also give you an idea on how to
set this thing up let's jump into the website of jingle mining who did send me this Miner and just
take a look on the advertised specs of this Miner so here we are at the jingle mining website and
already I got some sad news as it looks like all their units of the ETC Classic Plus is currently
sold out uh jingle mining did send me this Miner to showcase for you guys this is also what I
believe to be the cheapest price you can find anywhere on the internet for this specific Miner
you can see it is on sale for 999 dollars and it's a 280 Mega hash at 270 Watts I will have links in
the description to this webpage it is a refer URL link so it greatly helps the channel if you do
use it before you purchase also code rapid mining grants a one percent discount on your order and on
top of that stay tuned I will update everyone in my Discord as well as my Twitter feed as well as
join jingle mining's Twitter feed and everything all the links are in the description to stay up
to date on stock levels I'm assuming that we'll be in stock very soon as for payment methods here it
does say we accept coinbase at usdc erc20 format wire transfer and usdt usdc busd-f-dye payments
and I just want to look at the specs here kind of because this is what we're going to compare it to
to see you know if reported specs are line or not when we actually showcase now every website has
the same specs but we're just using digital mining here because that's where we got this from so uh
here we can see a hash rate of 280 Mega hash plus minus of about 10 percent power consumption 270
Watts plus minus 10 we will be looking into all of this obviously uh the memory on this Miner is
3.6 gigabytes so later on I will be going over what this means for ethereum classic miners out
there how long this thing can mine and it looks like this might be a spelling error but it does
say coin supported Etc only now the ipolo official claims the software would support other Etc hash
coins in the future so if you're unfamiliar with algorithms and everything ethereum classic is
the only coin on Etc hash so I'm assuming they mean ethash here which is what ethereum is on
obviously we cannot mine ethereum with this Miner one the firmware doesn't yet support it and two
we're way under the four gigabyte deck actually it's coming up to five gigabytes now so you know
what I'm getting out here where just don't have the memory to mind that but there's lots of other
ethash coins on the ethash L algorithm that may potentially unlock with firmware here which would
be a nice bonus for this Miner on the back side of this Miner we do have an SD card slot if you
do want to flash this thing for firmware upgrades you could also do it throughout the dashboard
it's extremely easy now we have a reset button an IP button we have a fault light as well as
your normal light and then we've got two six pin adapters and your Ethernet plug you know
it's pretty self-explanatory what these are for but I'll show you anyway so if you're scratching
your head wondering what the two six pins are for those go to the power supply it does have two six
pin power connectors that do simply plug into the back once you get them plugged in all you got to
do is simply add the ethernet cable this is your Lan controller so that you can set this up you
will need land to initially start this up and then once you're inside the dashboard you can set up
the Wi-Fi if that's how you choose to run it next up comes into the power operation so we simply
plug our power plug into the power supply which is a C13 and plug it into the c14 on the power supply
final step is simply plug it in bam we now are live there we go it's starting to boot up 43 watts
in the idle process okay so now I'm going to show you guys how to set up this Miner for yourself so
that it mines to yourself now once you have the ethernet plugged in Internet and the power it will
begin booting up and it should be detected on your network I like to just use my router it makes it
nice and easy for me to find stuff connected to it you can use something like IP reporter which
would also detect these Miner as well so once you get your IP figured out Simply go to your browser
plug that IP in and then you're gonna have to log in looks like I'm already logged in here
but default username and password is both root so root username root password and you can see
it's all in Chinese you're going to want to come up to the top right and simply click on English
now it's all in English we're going to go to minor configuration and it has a whole bunch of default
addresses and pool and everything in here this is what they originally used for testing themselves
so you're going to want to get rid of everything so we're getting rid of that getting rid of that
getting rid of everything we see here because we don't need any of that we're not mined to someone
else for free don't forget the passwords there you go passwords everything is gone now you're
going to want to find whatever pool you want to utilize I myself use flex pool here I can see my
fastest stratum is ETC Us East it has my ping and everything so this is the stratum I'm gonna need
and then you can see your ports down here SSL is 5555 and TCP is four four four four if you want
to use secure non-secure it's up to you not my choice to make for you now I'm just going to use
my default settings that I have already set so I'm just copying them over make sure you use whatever
pool you want to use I'm just going to copy this in paste it in there they're going to use my
worker I name and address and everything copy put this into my worker name now I want to adjust this
to being the Apollo plus because this is the plus it has higher hash rate than just a normal mini
does and then password you are going to have to add an X if we don't add that password there it
might not work I had that issue with other miners in the past so I always put that X there to make
sure it works now save that and apply let it do its thing here apply configuration it's going
through a little timer tick down all done that will begin booting up the process once again and
I'll let you know just how long that takes I sat here and spammed the refresh button for about two
minutes and 58 seconds just shy of three minutes and we now have our first accepted share so about
three minutes is how long it takes for this thing to do its little wrap-up process we see about 34
get works here and one accepted share so we are now up and Mining ethereum classic give it a few
more seconds with a pool to recognize this and we'll have a look at that okay so it looks like
the pool did detect The Miner it's been about 5 min minutes or so now obviously we gotta wait 24
hours for this to actually match up with what this new Miner is pulling they don't have any reported
type of hash rates this is set to be about 280 Mega hash or so so we'll see what happens but
you can see the jump up by engaging this Miner and how much it actually went up I was at 132 and now
we shot up to 453. power consumption of this unit looks to be around 245 Watts while mining
ethereum classic and the decibel range of this Miner I will be quiet in a second as you can see
with me talking I'm around the 79 to 80 decibel range I'll just be quiet here for a minute foreign
so we can see we're around 72.3 or so which is quieter than what I am talking at in this video it
is a nice quiet Miner you can't really hear this thing whine whatsoever what could get annoying
is the fans when they are on auto they do ramp up and down ever so often so maybe you want to just
set it at 65 to 80 and just let it run at one consistent airflow so let's have a look at some
hash rates and you can see it has been running for a few days we have the 24 hour average hash rate
so this is the hash we're gonna go buy based on the shares sent to the pool this is a legit hash
rate yes it is reporting zero we don't care about that so we do have a six hour hash rate of 259.3
12 hours of 256.6 and the one that matters is the 24 hours so we're at 257.2 Mega hash
on this little uh Classic Plus so what is that 257 Mega hash we're running 245 5 Watts that is
an efficiency rating of 1.048 Mega hash to Watt ratio so I'm over here at ministat looking at the
dag size calculator on ethereum classic and 3.6 gigabytes of memory which is what this Miner has
looks like ethereum classic will hit this dag size at around April 19th of 2024 so we have just shy
of about two years so we have like one year and I don't know nine ten months or so to keep mining on
this so are you gonna have time to Roi let's take a look at our profitability and see what things
are looking like so as for profitability of this Miner currently 257 Mega hash at 245 Watts we're
using the ethos 4G version here because we're only at 3.6 we're going to calculate here and ethereum
classic is currently at 3.84 cents after power or 4 dollars and 43 cents currently before power and
this is what I kind of mean by maybe there's going to be some firmware that opens up ethash
but there are these other various ethash coins that are minable if this does get some firmware
updates which is a great thing too because we do know ethereum is moving to POS we're going to see
a lot of extra hash rate climb onto ethereum classic as well as all the other coins out
there but we are strictly stuck to only Etc hash currently until firmware comes out then we can at
least mine these other ethos coins but if it does happen like I said look at this we have a variety
of other coins that we could potentially mine now as you can see here uh obviously this thing
is way more efficient than any GPU there's no GPU out there on the market currently and most likely
not in the next 10 years that's gonna have you know more Mega hash than power consumption you do
see that in Nvidia when it comes to Ergo but when it comes to ethereum Classic and ethash algorithms
that just doesn't exist so this is totally way ahead of any type of gpus if ethereum classic sees
a pump in the next Bull Run or something this is going to have a way bigger Head Start in terms of
gpus here but let's kind of compare this right now so right now we're 3.84 cents after power
let's compare that to what a 30 70 is currently making so here is 330 70s at what to Mine you can
see we're at about 3.11 cents after power so one of these miners is more profitable in the current
market than a 330 70s plus look at the power this thing's using 390 where are we're only using 254
Watts or so here 245 so we are way under the power consumption already over 330 70. so we can see the
efficiency coming in we are making more than 3 30 70s and when you kind of wrap the price around it
this is cheaper than 330 70s but we don't have the versatility that we do have with the GPU on
the ability to mine all of these other coins so it really does come down to ethereum Classic and
those other potential ethos coins only but if you want you know something to warm you up a little
bit ethereum classic is the second largest coin underneath ethereum that we can mine that doesn't
need an Asics so it is pretty much the next go-to at this point in time that pays miners the most
but again it doesn't have the versatility if too much hash rate comes in you know Etc profits and
everything is severely gonna tank all right guys so that does wrap up this video here hopefully
it got you some insight into how this Miner does perform let me know your thoughts on this little
mini Asic Miner in the comments I'm curious to see what your guys's opinions are and who is this for
you know this may cater to some people more than others I really think people in small apartments
small houses very power limited stuff like that this could be a nice entry level Miner for all
you guys out there people with huge massive Farms you might not be so hot on these but you know in
the end these are extremely efficient and it does come down to ethereum Classic because ethereum
classic does do great things you know you're definitely going to want a bunch of these in Your
Arsenal anyway let me know your thoughts comments below I will see you on the next one Rabid Out