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Episode: 1551
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Title: HPR1551: Bitcoin Mining
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1551/hpr1551.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 04:57:49
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Okay, one of my projects was to set up a set and forget Bitcoin mining rig.
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My father and I both did our research and at the time decided to both purchase a Bitcoin
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mining cube.
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Also known as an ASIC miner blocker up to cube.
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It can be found on ebay or amazon, a quick google search and you should see people selling
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them.
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100 bucks.
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So choices choices after deciding on the hardware to do the work, I then needed to power both
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cubes.
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My father found in order to Corsair RM850 computer power supply.
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So after powering, the next part is what hardware is going to run a stratum proxy.
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A stratum proxy is required because ASIC miner cubes use what is called a get work protocol.
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And most pools require stratum.
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I'm not going to go into great detail, but get work protocol for stratum proxy is mainly
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about network usage and the amount of requests that get sent to the pool you decide to
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mind with.
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I will get a little more in the pools later.
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Okay, back on topic.
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So I choose a stratum mining proxy written by a guy who goes by the name Slush.
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The hardware I chose to use is an old droid YouTube from hard kernel.
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The old droid is a neat little computer for about 60 bucks USD shipped to my home in USA.
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Made from a company on Korea.
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Some squicks, facts for this nifty little device are a 1.7 gigahertz quad core on processor
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and two gigabytes of RAM built in.
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Ten by 100 megabits per second either net and three high speed USB to no ports.
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And a nifty mini HDMI if you decide to make it more than a headless machine.
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Okay, so all the parts have arrived.
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It's time to start making everything work together to get some coin mining going.
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So following old droids instructions, a simple headless Debbie and Lenny install gets loaded
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onto a four gigabyte micro SDH C card.
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Both cubes and the old droid get plugged into a 16 port switch which feeds the rest of the
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house.
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Now do I really need to specify the 16 port switch is also connected to a router that is
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subsequently connected to a modem and there is working internet already and router modem
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switch are all powered on.
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Back to the old droid so Debbie is installed and the device is hooked to the internet.
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This is to power the little thing.
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Well, the easiest way I could get that done was, you guessed it, a 5 volt line coming from
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the Corsair Power Supply.
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Once the old droid was up and running, I checked my router to find the old droids IP and
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then used putty for windows ssh to ssh into the old droid because I had chosen to go headless
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from the start just to keep the overhead down.
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Step one, change the root password.
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Step two, create a non-privileged user and give it access rights to use the internet.
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The rest was all just a bunch of copy and paste for building striding mining proxy from
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slushes get hub source.
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Goop leaves your friend at times.
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After I finally successfully build the straddle proxy from get hub, I make a copy and place
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it in the home from my random username and of course, change ownership of the move file
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to the user's home it got placed into.
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Now the fun part, before I even try pointing the new spiffy looking cube minors at the
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proxy, I need the proxy to be persistent between reboots.
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My simple way of getting that done was a screen session and using a script that gets executed
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on boot automatically using my not so privileged user account.
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I'll give you a hint and say Sudo comes in handy.
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Okay, through trial and error because I'm not all that Linux savvy, I get the result I'm
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looking for, the old droid boots and runs a straddle mining proxy, silently in a screen
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session without divine intervention from me.
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Next, I dive into setting up both cube minors to see my proxy, which is pointing to my
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mining pool of choice.
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And again, I'll talk about mining pools later.
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Setting up the cubes himself was easier than anticipated, thanks to Google.
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Finding a forum post called Dougie's Doggies Comprehensive Asick Minor Cube Setup.
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This guide goes into how to hook the power up to what setting to change to for what you
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want the miner to do.
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So now we have the cubes pointing to our proxy on the old droid and the old droid getting
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mining work from the pool that straddle proxy is pointing at.
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Cube minors looks good and everything is set correctly, but you will probably have
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the same issue I and many other people have.
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Cube minors on the same subnet as Android cell phones don't mine, but at a fraction
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of their speed.
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And the cubes have a lot of errors.
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I'm not sure why and have yet to find out the reason, but yes, cube minors hate Android
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phones or vice versa.
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My quick easy dirty solution was to simply place another router with a different subnet
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between a mining setup and the rest of my network.
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So now it goes modem router that deals with the house, a switch, and then another router
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that feeds the cube minors in the old droid.
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Yes, I know.
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I can hear all of you tech savvy people cringing and horror and screaming.
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That is what a virtual land is for, but hey remember, not that tech savvy and just wanted
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to quick dirty running piece and hate it works.
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So now with my cubes and old droid behind the second router bam, both cubes mining away
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at top speed, which happens to be about 31 giga hashes per second per cube.
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So now we can talk a little, not mean just a little about mining pools.
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Once again, go and be your friend, do some research, choose a mining pool, but keep in mind
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if you go the asic miner cube route, you're limited to only shop 256 mining, no script
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mine.
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My choked pool of choice happened to be mega multi pool, why?
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Just because it's what I chose.
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As a little side note, I also used the Corsair power supply to power the second router,
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I hate wall works.
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I would give you prices on everything, but hey, they have gone down since my investment
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and I'm trying to just give you the gist of what's involved, not hold your hand through
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the entire process.
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Trust me, through the entire process I used Google a lot.
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If anything I've said is useful, good deal.
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Sorry, I can't go into more detail, this was a process I did months ago and I did not
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document my success and failures, but this gives the general what you need to do to get
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them going.
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I'm on list of random old projects as a minecraft server for my kids, most of the neighborhood
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kids plan, a Plex SabNZBD couch potato and sick beard server, if you don't know what
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that is, copy and paste Plex SabNZB couch potato and sick beard into your favorite search
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engine, you'll figure it out real fast.
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And my current project involves a 50cc moped that has been modified to the gills, more and
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more performance parts, tuning, more tuning and a little trick I did with an aerobando
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2 sensor and a digital multimeter to get the dreaded carb tunes, yes I hate carburetors.
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If any of those interests you, post a comment for this podcast and I'll be more than happy
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to share my wins and losses.
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Or if you need more info on setting up a set and forget mining platform, post a comment.
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Any podcast I do next, I will make sure to get all my ducks in a row and give you more
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of a, here is how it's done type of description, but this is a start, thank you for your time.
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