digital-coins.net
  • Visit us on
  •  Twitter
  •  Medium

digital-coins.net

Bitcoin, Altcoins, Defi and more

Decentralized Finance

Earn up to 3.33% daily
Learn more

Menu
  • Home
  • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Blockchain – in simple terms
    • Wallet
  • Decentralized Finance
  • Invest and earn coins
    •  How to get coins
    • Free (Bit-)coins
    • For Publishers
    • Investing your Bitcoins (update required)
  • Mining
    •  Mining Overview
    • CPU Mining
  • About

Month: December 2014

Prepare a PC power supply to use with a mining device

29. December 2014 by digital-coin.net Leave a Comment

Many mining devices do not have an internal power supply (PSU) hence they depend on an external one. In most cases it is a standard PC PSU. All modern power supply are intended to be used within a computer and switched on via the power button. As you your miner does not have such a power button, you have to ‘hack’ your PSU to run standalone. Here is how to ‘hack’ your PSU.

Requirements:

  • paper clip (or some wire)
  • electrical tape
  • pincers
  • a power supply

Cut the paper clip according to the pictures below. Then tape it with the electrical tape for shielding.

psu_paperclip_taped

Prepare paperclips for PSU

Prepare paperclips for PSU

Once this is done, ensure the power supply is switched off and not connected to the power plug. Put the paper clip in pin 4 and 5 of the 24switch connector to connect them. This bridges the POWER function of the PSU and it starts running as soon as it gets power. You can additionally shield the paperclip with electrical tape. This also ensures the clip does not fall out of the pins.

PSU Bridged and Taped

PSU Bridged and Taped

 

To make sure you don’t damage the PSU, don’t let it run on its own for too long without any power consuming device.

 

Posted in: Tutorial Tagged: bitcoin, bridge, litecoin, mining, power, power supply, psu, standalone

Setup your Raspberry Pi as mining device controller

20. December 2014 by digital-coin.net 3 Comments

As I just bought a new miner (Rockbox new R-Box) I was looking into a convenient way to operate and administrate this box. Currently it is running on a Windows 7 machine using cgminer (a tutorial will follow on that one). As I got some Raspberry Pi’s lying around, I was looking into way how to setup one of the Pi’s as controller.

After digging around I bit, I found first Minepeon. But after a bit of research on the project page and the forums, it seems this project is pretty much dead: Latest release is from early 2014, forums not having any recent post except for one thread with the title “Minepeon Project Died?“.

So I found this great project called “Minera“. Minera is a – very important – active project providing a lot of features on how to control your mining device(s). Its features are

  • Web frontend with Dashboard and widgets
  • Currencies rates
  • Detailed tables for pool and device info’s
  • Charts
  • System monitor like temperature, system load
  • Autorestart, autorecover
  • and much more

Sounds like the tool you need? That is exactly what I thought as well.

Minera Dashboard

Minera Dashboard

 

Hardware requirements

  • Raspberry Pi
  • USB Power plug (preferable with a on/off switch
  • HDMI cable in case you like to attach a TV/monitor to the Pi
  • SD card with at least 4gb

 

Software requirements

Browse to the Minera project page and download the prepared image for your Raspberry Pi in the download section. Click on “Auto Install” and the download starts. Once the download completed, extract the zip file with your favourite zip tool (like Winzip, Winrar, Archive Manager). This gives you the the file minera-latest.img.

As the next step, copy the image to the SD card. Depending on the operating system you are using, it may vary a bit. As mentioned before, this SD card needs to be at least 4gb.

  • Linux: If you are on Linux you can use ImageWriter or the command line below. You probably have to run it with the sudo command or as root:
    dd bs=4M if=minera-latest.img of=/dev/your-sd-card
  • Windows: If you are on Windows you can use Win32DiskImager
  • Mac OSX: If you are on a Mac OS X you can use ApplePi-Baker

Writing the image to the SD card may take a while. Once completed, put it into your Raspberry Pi, connect the Power/USB and the HDMI cable to it, attach any mining devices and boot it up.

There is not a lot to see on the monitor, as Minera is mainly controlled via the web interface. But it shows you an important detail: The IP address where Minera is reachable. So go to your computer and type in the following URL

http://<RaspberryPi IP>/minera

The default password is “minera”. There you go; welcome to your mining dashboard.

In the next article we look at how to configure Minera:

  • How to add your mining pool
  • select your favourite mining sftware (cgminer, bfgminer)
  • and explore some other features
Minera Settings

Minera Settings

Posted in: Tutorial Tagged: bitcoin, minepeon, minera, raspberrypi, tutorial

Signed Windows Driver for Bitfury USB Miners

15. December 2014 by digital-coin.net Leave a Comment
Bitfury Logo

Bitfury Logo

Clearing currently a lot of my stuff and found the signed driver for Windows which I used for my Blue Bitfury USB miner a while ago. I remember, that it was a challenge to find it, hence I thought I put it online for you. It work d like a charm with Windows 7 and was running for months. Feel free to grab it, if you are looking for it. This is the version I downloaded end of 2013.

Signed Windows Driver for Bitfury USB Miners

Posted in: Driver Tagged: bitfury, driver, usb miner, windows
Earn Free Bitcoin

1 BTC = $25730.74 USD  (via Coinbase)
1 ETH = $1806.88 USD  (via Coinbase)
1 LTC = $87.30 USD  (via Coinbase)
Quotes delayed up to 2 minutes.

Bitcoin 2023 Was A Demonstration Of The Bitcoin Community’s Resilience And Optimism

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

Who Has The Bitcoin? A Closer Look At The Bitcoin Supply

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

SEC Sues Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Alleging Violations Of U.S. Securities Laws

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

Over 400 Small Businesses In The Philippines Are Now Accepting Bitcoin Payments

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

El Salvador Unleashes "Volcano Energy" With 241 Megawatt Planned Bitcoin Mining Operation

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

We’ve Failed Gen Z, But Bitcoin Offers Hope For The Future

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 05

Three Reasons Behind Bitcoin's 2023 Resurgence

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 04

Trump’s Persistent Election Result Denials Demonstrate The Need For Bitcoin-Verified Truth

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 03

CleanSpark’s Latest Update Reveals Major Boost In BTC Mined Due To Fees

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 02

Looking Into The Role Credit Unions Can Play In Bitcoin Adoption

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 02

Breaking Barriers: How Bitcoin Can Transform The Real Estate Industry

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 02

Voltage Partners With Google Cloud To Expand Lightning Network Solutions Globally

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 02

BTCPay Server Releases 1.10.0 Update With New Store Management System And Privacy Features

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 01

Gemini Exchange To Acquire License To Operate In United Arab Emirates

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 01

CleanSpark Announces Purchase Of 12,500 Antminer S19 XP Bitcoin Miners

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 01

Should A Bitcoin Wallet Have Rights?

Bitcoinmagazine
Jun 01

The Debate Around “Cursed” Ordinal Inscriptions

Bitcoinmagazine
May 31

Liquidators Of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research Have Scavenged $110 Million Of Bitcoin After Losing Billions

Bitcoinmagazine
May 31

Did The New York Times Publish Manipulated Footage Of A Bitcoin Mine?

Bitcoinmagazine
May 31

Pro-Bitcoin Legislation Reigns Victorious In Texas This Year As The Legislative Session Ends

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Paxful Announces Appointment Of Interim CEO Roshan Dharia

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Stablecoin Issuer Tether To Begin Bitcoin Mining Operations In Uruguay

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Sabre56 Announces New Partnership With GEM Mining To Host More Than 4,500 Bitcoin Miners

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

The Bitcoin Standard Author Saifedean Ammous Joins El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office As Economic Advisor

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Umbrel Announces New Umbrel Home Plug-And-Play Server

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Filmmaker Alana Mediavilla On Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption, Education And Closing The Gender Gap

Bitcoinmagazine
May 30

Memorial Day Reflections: Reinvigorating Critical Thought, Bitcoin Can Honor Service Members

Bitcoinmagazine
May 29

How Bitcoin Can Preserve The Life Savings Of Refugees

Bitcoinmagazine
May 28

How I Preserve My Wealth With Bitcoin

Bitcoinmagazine
May 27

Ordinals Is Bringing The NFT Industry To Bitcoin

Bitcoinmagazine
May 26

Bitcoin Core Version 25.0 Released Bringing New Features And Transaction Use Cases

Bitcoinmagazine
May 26

Tax Attacks Won’t Kill Bitcoin: Regulators Must Learn To Accept New Technology

Bitcoinmagazine
May 26

Bankrupt Lending Platform Celsius Agrees To Purchase Bid By Fahrenheit

Bitcoinmagazine
May 25

Bitcoin Payments App Bottlepay To Shutdown Services

Bitcoinmagazine
May 25

Introducing The Rolling-Block Method: A New Way To Forecast Bitcoin Mining Difficulty

Bitcoinmagazine
May 25

MicroBT COO Jordan Chen Discusses The Company's Long-Term Goals And The Newest Whatsminers At Bitcoin 2023

Bitcoinmagazine
May 24

BIT Mining And Chain Reaction Partner To Create New Bitcoin Mining Systems

Bitcoinmagazine
May 24

When Bitcoin Meets Artificial Intelligence: Woke Madness Or Awakened Sanity?

Bitcoinmagazine
May 24

Upstream Data Files Lawsuit Against Crusoe Energy Systems For Bitcoin Mining Operations

Bitcoinmagazine
May 23

How To Figure Out If You Should Start Mining Bitcoin

Bitcoinmagazine
May 23

Bitcoin Developer Introduces Ark, A Layer 2 Protocol For Fast And Efficient Payments

Bitcoinmagazine
May 22

Neutronpay And Pouch.ph Partner To Offer Affordable Remittances For Canada And Vietnam Using Lightning

Bitcoinmagazine
May 22

Ordinals Have Proven Demand On Bitcoin, But Fees Will Push Users To Layer 2

Bitcoinmagazine
May 22

Decoding Bitcoin’s Transaction Surge: The Emergence Of History’s Greatest Accounting Innovation

Bitcoinmagazine
May 21

Zoltan Pozsar, Who Just Left Credit Suisse, Addresses Issues Facing The Federal Reserve And The Dollar At Bitcoin 2023

Bitcoinmagazine
May 20

The World’s Largest Bitcoin Conference Will Take Place In Nashville For 2024

Bitcoinmagazine
May 20

First RGB-Powered NFT Marketplace Launches At Bitcoin 2023

Bitcoinmagazine
May 20

Strike Expands Global Reach, Introduces USDT Support And Unveils Enhanced App At Bitcoin 2023 Conference

Bitcoinmagazine
May 19

‘Big Short’ Author Michael Lewis On The Financial Crisis, FTX And Bitcoin’s Freedom From Intermediaries

Bitcoinmagazine
May 19

Speaking At Bitcoin 2023, Tulsi Gabbard Describes How A U.S. CBDC Threatens Freedom

Bitcoinmagazine
May 19

Latest Crypto Fear & Greed Index

Tags

adapad aipad airdrop animal farm asic bitcoin bluezilla bscpad celsius coinbase compound defi drip earn ethpad exchange faucet free free bitcoin furio gamezone giveaway gleam IDO igo litecoin metavpad miner mining money movez nft nftlaunch passive-income polypad promotion pulsepad reward souls of meta trading trustpad tutorial velaspad wallet whitelist

Latest Platform Reviews

Celsius
Coinbase
Crypto.com (updated)
OKX

Cloud miner reviews

Hashing24.com
HashFlare.io
Genesis-Mining

Archives

  • May 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • May 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • August 2016
  • December 2014
  • March 2014
  • November 2013

Disclaimer

This site contains referral links to described websites. Thanks for your support.

None of the sites content is financial advise. Do your own research, please.

Copyright © 2023 digital-coins.net.

Magazine WordPress Theme by themehall.com