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AI Pro Energy & CoinHeated

In this #PlebMinerMonth Episode we speak with Anton from AIPro Energy and CoinHeated. They have partnered on production of Coin Heated’s HotBox Liu, an innovative pump-free immersion tank built exclusively for Bitmain Antminer S19s.

Coin Heated tells of the development of the HotBox and its unique features. The HotBox Liu hold 6 S19s (3 on each side). The machines are placed exhaust side down into the tank and rest upon stands that keeps the bottom elevated. The stock axial fans remain on the machines while the rear fans are removed. The oil flow is pulled through the machines as opposed to traditional immersion designs which allow fluid to simply rise through the machines or make use of external pumps that push the oil through. The oil is pulled through the cards and across the ASIC chips, the oil is the forced to the center where it meets the force of oil from the opposing machines. The oil is forced through the heat exchangers located in the center of the tank and cooled. The dielectric coolant in the tank comes to a soft rolling bubble, keeping the oil and therefore the ASIC chips at a steady temperature. The heat exchangers are the head of a water cooled or water/glycol mix secondary loop. The operator of a HotBox Liu has several options from there on how to cool that secondary loop. A dry cooler, chiller, and geothermal loop are a few of the options. An operator is not limited to how they cool that secondary loop, and the system lends itself better than most immersion system to engage in heat capture rather than purely cleansing the system of waste heat.

The HotBox Liu can be used as a peripheral within AI Pro Energy’s suite of containers. Hotboxes can be stacked or rather racked within an open system or in a container. AIPro Energy manufactures a wide array of mining services from off-grid miners including genset procurement to home miners and they provide data center services and automation as well.

Website - https://aiproenergy.com/

Show guests

twitter - https://twitter.com/coinheated?s=21&t=bbgSIxpwt_wjjH2kYorxLw

twitter - https://twitter.com/aiproenergy?s=21&t=bbgSIxpwt_wjjH2kYorxLw

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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Hello ungovernable misfits. TensaiBankai here bringing you another Bitsized bitcoin. Today I am going to be talking a little about mining here in south africa with unreliable power.

South Africa has had a load shedding crisis for almost a decade now. A problem that has been getting worse over time as the state decays. This means that for multiple hours or time-slots during the day we have our power cut for up to 8 hours a day where our power cuts last between 2 to 4 hours at a time.

This has made things somewhat “complicated” when it comes to mining. When I have not been paying attention, the constant power interruptions have been somewhat destructive to my computing components. Losing multiple graphic, cards, motherboards and power supply units, a washing machine.

When I first got my miners I decided to become a little bit more cautious with what I was doing around the home. Not only are these machines quite expensive, our import duties are extremely high. Not to mention the difficulty of acquiring replacement parts locally. Specific attention needs to be put in place to ensure that you get the most out of your machines for as long as possible.

This means that the first thing that happens when a miner is connected here, is that all the plugs get replaced with surge protection plugs. I also ensure that none of the miners are sharing circuits with other electronics or appliances. I have had multiple issues in my office area, that when the power turns back on, circuits end up tripping because of the high current draw as certain things turn on.

Many people would look at this difficulty that I experience doing this, the high electricity costs and ask why would anyone want to mine in these conditions. I will say that I am a bit of a zealot when it comes to bitcoin. I like that I have some KYC Free sats that I earned by exchanging electricity for SATS. I also like that mining, even at a loss, can have certain… tax advantages. Not to mention, that this entire winter, bitcoin kept me warm.

There is also the issue that I see, with so many South Africans going off the grid, our only state owned power provider is really losing many of its highest power consuming customers. This means that they make less money, which in turn means that they either make up the shortfall by borrowing more, increasing electricity rates or failing in other areas.

Selfishly, I can see myself helping them to limp along as long as possible until it can no longer go on.

Fortunately, this has been going on for long enough that the power cuts adhere somewhat loosely to a schedule. The schedules are designed in a way that different suburb groups are targeted at different times every day ensuring that not the same group of suburbs have their power turned off when it’s time to make dinner. This is further complicated by the stage of load shedding which increases the amount of times you get loadshedded in a day.

So, I find myself spending a bit of time looking at schedules. Some Industrious South Africans have made an app called Eskom Se Push which alerts you when your suburb is going to be load shedded as well as letting you know any changes to the load shedding schedule.

Since I work from home this allows me to know when I should stop mining and turn off my asics. Stopping the ASIC allows the ASIC fans to cool the hashboards down instead of letting them get cooled by passive ambient radiation, which is the case when the power is suddenly turned off. It’s even worse when your miner is in an enclosed space.

Recently, however, I started leaving the home quite frequently for a few hours at a time and this means that if I am scheduled to go down, say in 6 hours from now, I would miss out on 6 hours possible luck if I were to preemptively power down before i leave. It's not something that I enjoy doing.

So, what did I do? I wrote some software which allows me to use the whatsminer API to remotely connect to my whatsminer and turn off the mining remotely as I have VPN access to my home network. Hopefully, when I find some more time in the future, I will be able to connect this up to a telegram bot, which will allow me some finer control and not necessarily rely on using my VPN.

What would I do if I didn’t have a schedule? Well, I most probably wouldn’t be running any of the newer generation miners at all. Because even when throttled, they still use quite a bit of power and the boards heat up quite a bit. It’s an undesirable situation for me if they heat up quite a bit and get their power cut repeatedly. S9s are way more suited for this purpose. Not only are the machines robust as hell, when braiins (with two Is) firmware is loaded, you can throttle the machines down all the way to 100 watts. I would also probably be running multiple S9s to try and make up for the shortfall in overall hash.

This would allow me to set a temperature of the asic to a level that I would be happy with should an immediate disconnect of power occur.

Failing that, the other way one can mitigate a situation like that is to have a battery backup, that you link into that you can use to trigger shutdown conditions once the battery state gets reduced below a certain threshold.

Thats all all for now. If you need me, you can find me on twitter @tensaibankai and drop me a DM.

If you want to hear more from Tensai and missed our full episode check it out bellow.

https://bit-buy-bit.libsyn.com/tensai-bankai-on-bitcoin-freedom-and-farming

Show guest

twitter - @tensaibankai

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

Show guest

twitter - @tensaibankai

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I speak to the man the myth the legend @coinheated about stuff and things.

No more show notes so just listen to the episode.

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

Show guest

twitter - @coinheated

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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PSA

#Plebminermonth

......More to come. 

BingBong Bitesize Bitcoin

Mining KYC Free Sats

Acquiring ASICs and pointing them at a pool is the initial step to acquire KYC Free sats through mining. There are pools that require KYC information, but many that do not, DYOR. Lincoin Pool and Braiins Pool only require an email address. It has been said that buying Bitcoin on an exchange is like going to the bathroom and leaving the stall door open. Anybody that comes in the bathroom can see you. Mining Bitcoin with a KYC free pool is like going to the bathroom but closing the stall door, chain analysis can see someone is in the stall, but they don't know who it is.

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

Show guest

twitter - @bingbong_BTC

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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“No show notes again? This is so unprofessional.”

It's a five minute show.

Deal with it.

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

Show guest

twitter - @bingbong_BTC

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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Thank you, Foundation Devices, for sponsoring the show.

Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

Today you can exchange $1 for 4942 Sats (Sale ends soon.)

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 In this #PlebMinerMonth episode of @BitBuyBit, Jon sits down with Moses of Living Power Generation Technology. Moses is working on monetizing agricultural waste with Bitcoin mining powered by syngas, derived from biomass pyrolysis. Moses’ system uses a crop called Azolla. Azolla can be used as animal feed or biomass and is easily grown with little inputs. The even can purify the water in which it’s grown. The use of Azolla as a source of animal feed, biomass, and fertilizer can replace the need to use petrochemical fertilizers and industrial agricultural methods. This can empower the sovereign farmer to detether from chemical supply chains. Harnessing the syngas byproduct can also empower every farmer to become a Bitcoin miner.

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Fun times in Riga and mobile competition for peer-to-peer bitcoin exchanges. Bitcoin Monthly with BQA and Antomous

Bitcoin monthly 0020

In today’s episode I spoke to BQA and Antomous about how much fun they had at the Baltic Honeybadger 2022 conference in Riga. BQA gave a talk during the event for bitcoin beginners and Antomous had a booth representing SeedSigner and Vulcan21. It seems it was a pure bitcoiner event with a high signal-to-noise ratio.

One of the larger announcements of the conference was the mobile only peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange “peach”. BQA had the chance to test the app and goes into detail on the setup and workflow. Although we love Bisq and Robosats, this is exactly what we have been waiting for. The app is currently still in beta, but we shouldn’t have to wait long for the official release.

Speaking of Bisq, they released a minor update with a lot of small improvements. We also talked about two major updates from the two big players in lightning: CLN and LND. MyNode is also working hard to close the gap to the marketplace-based platforms in the node implementation competition and Trezor has finally integrated coin control.

To wrap up Antomous let us know that the SeedSigner is finally available again at Vulcan21 and that they are putting out a daily Twitter guide series on handling a SeedSigner.

As always, I enjoyed speaking to these two and would urge anyone with questions to reach out my DM is always open.

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit twitter - @bitbuybitpod Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

Show guest

twitter - @BitcoinQ_A

twitter - @antomousB

Special mentions

twitter -@AnitaPosch

twitter -@Marketsbylili

twitter - @proofofsteph

twitter - @dergigi

twitter - @hodlhodl

twitter - @vulcan21com

twitter - @SeedSigner

Links to discussed topics:

Baltic Honeybadger: https://baltichoneybadger.com/

Peach:       https://peachbitcoin.com/

Bisq:       https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/

BTCPayServer:       https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver

CLN:       https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/

LND:       https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/

MyNode: https://github.com/mynodebtc/mynode/

Foundation Devices: https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/passport-firmware/

Phoenix: https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/

Sparrow Wallet: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/

Trezor: https://github.com/trezor/trezor-suite/

Zeus: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/

Machankura: https://8333.mobi/

Vulcan21: https://vulcan21.com/

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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The month of September is dedicated to pleb miners who will not unplug nor comply. The backbone of the bitcoin network, dedicated to decentralisation and freedom.

​On this #PlebMinerMonth episode of the pod, Jon and I speak with @BraiinsMining co-founder and CTO, Jan Capek. Jan is an embedded devices engineer and the father of the Braiins OS firmware and BOSminer software. Jan dives deep into the development of firmware and the challenges he and his development team encounter when attempting to modify machines without the assistance of the manufacturers. We cover Braiins’ (SlushPool) role in UASF and how stratum V2 enhances security, efficiency, flexibility, and decentralization of mining. We also discuss the development of the BaiinsOS+ firmware, and the advantages it can bring to a mining operator. ​We discuss the rebranding of SlushPool to Braiins Pool under the Braiins brand umbrella. We dove deep on a lot of topics in this one, the only thing we didn’t cover was “when”.

​The Braiins team has been a great partner in #PlebMinerMonth, they have sent swag for us to give away as prizes, several of their Bitcoin Mining Handbooks, as well as financial support to ship all of the gear and prizes out to the Pleb. A special thanks to Kristian Csepcsar for helping to organize everything and thank you to Jan and the rest of the Braiins team for your support of #PlebMinerMonth.

Show guest

twitter - @janbraiins

twitter - @braiinsnmining

website - www.braiins.com

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

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Im ungovernable. Fuck off. 

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Show guest

twitter - @JonPDiGiacomo

twitter - @mrcdbrown3

twitter - @HodlRev

twitter - @MaxBitbuybit

twitter - @bitbuybitpod

Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com

As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.

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Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show.  Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase