what's going on everyone welcome to the Rabid Mining YouTube channel and we have another
package to open here so uh this looks like it is tamper-proof so we're definitely gonna have to
come up with some sort of box opening strategy you don't mess around when it comes to unboxing
because this is absolutely insane so i guess first strategy i'm just going to kind of dig in here
and hopefully you know i can get somewhere i do see all oh see right there it says all oh so i'm
assuming this is an ipollo if you're unfamiliar with ipollo they make ethereum classic mini miners
now we looked at the jazz miner yesterday it can currently mine ethereum but i believe the whole
spec on it is geared towards ethereum classic as we all know etc or at least i mean ethereum is
set to move to pos soon so when that moves to pos i find it interesting that a lot of these miners
now are coming in towards ethereum classic so is there something going on in the background that we
don't know about it ethereum classic did wanna previously move to like a shaw three algorithm
to move to asics now with all these mini asics coming out for ethereum classic you know they're
probably getting their wish so i don't know last i heard that eip did fail because it didn't
come into current guidelines of eip so the guy has to rewrite it i don't know if there's any updates
on that yet but you know once ethereum does move to pos we may just see them say staying as is and
these miners they'll get their wish it'll be asic dominated and i don't know why all these companies
are spending so much time and investments in creating these miners for a coin that you know
may not survive so is there something going on in the background that none of us are aware of
and could ethereum see massive price gains in the future so it does look like we are succeeding in
tackling this box so we got you know some open stuff here so nice so yes this is an ipollo
and i believe this is from belay mining i will show you how to get to their website links in
the description all that good stuff later on but let's get this out of here and see what it looks
like so let's pull this out of here and see what we're expecting so it's coming out fairly easy and
okay that is actually a lot smaller than what i thought it said so it does say nano
fpu inside is there anything else in here yes it looks like we got some more things happening
power cable so this is correct for north america c13 to i can't remember the name of this plug but
it's a standard north american three-prong plug and then we got something else in the back here
what do we got oh i'm guessing this is the power supply itself it's fairly heavy big rectangle
probably something we would see on like those uh gold shell mini doge miners kd boxes type of one
and yes so that's exactly what we're seeing here oh but this has two six pins so that's interesting
how much power does this thing actually draw and which model is this so that's cool this is a cool
psu so let's check it out so initial impressions of this box you can see it's kind of dusty and
stuff kind of wipes away so it looks like it's been a used box potentially maybe this miner has
been passed around to various people to do videos on but we'll see the insides actually looking
nicely intact we've got the apollo ordealio here instructions oh looks like we have an antenna so
this is wireless right off the start now let's see oh technical errors guys let's see how we just get
this part out of here oh my gosh um are we gonna drop something okay it's kind of split in two here
all right we're going in here we go do or die oh it's coming apart so we're just gonna take
it nice and slow there we go there's our antenna you can see right there so wireless
functions looks like it's a thing and here's our little box miner awesome got to keep be
careful here we see a reflection happening can't be doing any type of you know doxing
back up a bit so there we are guys it came with the red pill not the blue one but the red one
i'm just kidding let's zoom out a little bit i'm assuming this just fell off where you put
the antenna right here but you know i thought that would be kind of fun to put out there so
let's just take this completely out see we have two fans ethernet cable right there
my unboxing skills are horrible sorry guys sorry sorry all right so let's tip this up and ethernet
for a second you know it says f guys this combine f 100 percent it's confirmed right there no that f
that stands for ethernet this is obviously where we plug in our internet we got our two fans for
cooling down took off the plastic to get rid of that reflection and we can see this is an ipollo
v1 mini classic wi-fi uh there is on their website a plus version this does not say plus so this
is about your 130 mega hash at about 104 watts according their website and obviously we got the
bottom right here at the stands and that's your top so that's how it sits we're not going to know
anything if it combined ethereum or anything at all until we get to the dashboard we're definitely
going to try it but at the very least here we have ourselves another efficient ethereum classic miner
let's plug this thing in and see what exactly what we got going on i'm going to pull the red pill
off here and then we're just going to install the antenna right quick i'm not going to use
the wi-fi i like hard wiring everything but we're just going to install it to make it look cooler um
i'm going to leave it up a little bit okay so i guess we're going to kind of go to the side does
this twist okay never mind cancel that we can just slide this around so there we go antenna
installed now we got to get the power installed i find it interesting they have the power plugs
in the front or at least the side of this thing i guess it's supposed to be sitting like this
to make everything line up but they got the power on this side and then you got
your antenna and your fans and everything on the side here so you know i think it would have been
better in my personal opinion having the power and everything on the back here swap this label around
and then in the front here if this is even the front i don't even know but you got your front
lights and your reset here so i'm assuming this is your front but it has your power
so i don't know that's just interesting to me doesn't really matter we're going
to see how this does so let's plug these power cables actually in get these in here
little clip goes up one
all right we got power we got to get the internet going all right we'll get our
ethernet plugged in here right quick power into our power supply here this is a c13 standard plug
if you were curious this power supply can run 100 up to 240 volts looks like we're all set
up here all we got to do is plug it in and see if anything lights on fire or not so here we go
initiate the plug sequence and it's plugged in oh i hear stuff so we're hanging out at the 21
watt range well this thing fires up we have a red and a green light on i'm gonna jump into the
workstation now and we're gonna have a look to see what the dashboard looks like and what we combine
if you are looking to purchase one of these apollo mini miners for yourself or various other asic
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methods of payment such as american express apple pay diners club discover facebook pay google
pay mastercard paypal shop pay venmo and visa i logged into my router here we can see the ipollo
connected so this is the ip i'm gonna have to use in order to detect this miner i'm all logged in
and everything is in chinese so i have don't see any way to change at this point in time root i'm
assuming this says username this is your password so i'm just going to try root again see if that
works so that did work awesome so we're in so it looks like default username and password is both
root now we've got to find out where to change our language because i have no idea okay english yeah
is it english now english okay we are we yeah we're in english now so now we can actually
read everything and kind of go over this and is this already pointing out hash rate
okay i don't know where it's mining to right now but it's taken off to someone else's address or
something because i didn't set anything up we just logged in so we got to figure out what's happening
so i clicked on miner configuration on the left hand side and we can see there's some add pool
settings and everything in here already so obviously we got to stop this miner and put in
our own settings so how do i just uh let's reset we reset everything engaged is everything gone
reset save and apply there are no changes okay cancel that so we're just gonna kind of get rid
of everything here like so nope don't want any of that don't want any of that i don't use any
of those pools uh save save and apply all right i heard it quit winding down so it looks like
it is applying our settings of getting rid of all those pools and it's already applied nice so now
we have a nice start from scratch setup we have a fan configuration so that's kind of neat we
can actually adjust our fan settings unlike what we saw in the jazz miner we couldn't do that so
there's an auto and a manual we're gonna leave everything at auto for now but i got to set up
my pool here to test out some etc okay so i did input all of my statistics went coming in from
flex pool so here's flexible what you need to mine i don't have the stratum in here usually
with asics like we looked at previous in the past you don't need your stratum it has it in
by default but if something's not working here we will have to add in that stratum and tcp so
we're trying it like this for now and see what happens we've got our wallet address dot apollo
as our worker name and address for our worker and then just our pool so we're gonna save and apply
and hopefully this thing starts taking off and something happens configuration applied accepted
running overview now is it gonna take off okay guys so we do have this thing hashing away finally
it turns out that i did add the stratum and stuff but that still wasn't working the whole issue here
was i had to put the x in the password as soon as i did that this thing wrapped up and took
right off so if you get one of these or something be sure to put that x there or it's not going to
be working very well so that's interesting so this is telling us we're at about 80 mega hash here
and if we actually go to the pool we're at 220 current effective just like we what we saw in the
jazz minor this doesn't have any type of reported hash rates it's all based on shares sent to the
pool so we're not going to get a rough idea of how great this thing is until we hit that 24
hour average hash rate which we will be doing an updated video after a few days and stuff
to see how well this does but currently we are finding 220 mega hash of a current effective so
that's actually not too bad if we look at our power consumption we're about 134 watts at the
wall so nice and efficient for about 220 mega hash remember this is rated for about a hundred and
four or five i just want to run back into their website uh right here so it's supposed to be about
130 mega hash uh based on you know its stats on the website plus minus 10 so we're looking pretty
good actually in my mind but we did have a one valid invalid share already so that's pretty fast
again invalid in theory we should never have an invalid and i just want to touch up on something
too when it comes to this reported this kind of goes back to maybe a couple years ago some of you
guys may be aware about the whole phoenix miner thing now i don't know whatever came to be of it
but there's a lot because it always reported extra hash rate or it reported higher than every other
miner out there usually people were wondering like is it legitly doing that much hash rate so the
only way to really test it would be you know look at your effective and averages and it turned out
uh i haven't used phoenix miner for like over a year so i don't know if anything's changed
but you weren't coming up to what that reported was so you know it was dictating to get more
people to use the program as a hire reported but it wasn't really dishing out the shares to
match it's reported so it's kind of nice that you know that this miner doesn't have a report and we
do have to base it off the current effective and shares being sent because that tells you legitly
how fast you are hashing so we do have to wait over time here it makes a little harder to
understand how well this thing does hash but you know it's just one way to look at things so i want
to attempt to try to mine ethereum on this but i do want to point something out now as we know ever
since the thanos hard fork ethereum classic is now known as etc hash it is no longer ethes which is
what it used to be on as well as ethereum so if it cannot mine ethereum in what i'm about to test
then that means it will not be able to mine any of these other coins as well making it strictly stuck
to ethereum classic or at least etc hash only so let's see if this combined ourselves some ethereum
so it's been about six minutes here in 24 seconds we can see rejected shares is at six
nothing accepted so i am assuming that this cannot mine any ethnic coins only etc hash
which is ethereum classic so this is very limited to single algorithm ethereum classic only and i
swapped it right back into ethereum classic we see two minutes nine seconds we have an accepted
share i'll go to mining overview here and we have hash rates so you know confirmed ethereum classic
is the only coin and algorithm etc hash that this ipollo can mine all right guys so i kind of want
to go over how loud this thing is right now so i got this towards the back where the fans are
and we can see that when i talk it gets quite a bit louder so i'll just be quiet for a second here
you see we're down to 59.60 and then when i talk it comes up to that 70 to 80 range so obviously
this thing is a lot quieter than you know when i'm talking but one thing i do want to point out
i did have to drop this to manual fans because on auto even though it's quiet i could notice
it ramping up and down and honestly it got kind of annoying so again i just throw up this to 80
on manual fans and now i have no issues it's just a nice constant steady noise speaking of
changing settings anytime you do change pretty much anything on this thing it does reset and
have to begin that process all over again but you know that's no issues because it only takes about
two or three minutes for this thing to finally wrap up and begin hashing anyway so we do have
a qr code on the screen i brought up my scanner so we're just gonna do this live to see what exactly
this qr code does and okay so it's just i apollo support so you know i guess that's legit let's
have a quick look at some profitability based on the current numbers now i won't know the mega hash
until a few days go by and i get a nice average but we do know 135 watts and it's advertised
at 130 mega hash two dollars and five cents before power and a dollar 73 after power at 10
cents per kilowatt hour myself personally i'm at about 16.7 cents with all the fees and everything
tacked on so i'm a dollar 50 after power and 205 before power let's compare this to something like
say i guess would be a 30 90 so we're going to put a 30 90 in there get rid of ethereum
calculate that scroll down and at the same power 17 cents 16.7 we are at 57 cents after power
and a dollar 88 so you know in terms of ethereum classic obviously this is a nice efficient miner
but it can only mine ethereum classic with a 30-90 it can move across all these other coins
now with ethereum set to move pos all these coins as well are probably gonna be in the red you know
hard times are definitely coming when it comes to gpus but right now you know take
it any way you want one coin is all combined as it mines that coin it is really efficient
at it but you are very limited while utilizing it all right guys time for the closing argument
i'm just kidding but here is the miner in a nutshell i'll definitely get you know
up-to-date numbers after a week or so has gone by and we get some average hash rates
just to see how well this thing is performing on top of some more up-to-date probabilities but for
now you know this is pretty much what it is it can only mine ethereum classic it's about 894
dollars which is cheaper than a 30-90 a little more hash rate but half the power consumption
which is a plus side but again that being limited to single etc hash only is probably a huge con in
this case so i don't know take it any way you want guys but this is the ipollo etc mini thank you for
watching this video i'll see you on the next one Rabid out thank you for watching my video
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