di-Home Bitcoin Mining To Secure The Network

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Jum, 4 Mar 2022 1:00

di-Home Bitcoin Mining To Secure The Network

Hiji di-home bitcoin miner describes his setup, offsetting heat costs, tax incentives and his role in securing the Bitcoin jaringan.

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Kuring kungsi kasempetan pikeun diuk turun kalayan salah sahiji plebs paling mantuan di dunya pertambangan, Dan, jalma balik @DaddyBTC_pleb, to dig into how he is heating his home with ASICs. He has shared several of his projects on Twitter, from a space heater enclosure to quiet fans that allow an unboxed S9 to heat a room. Dan also shared some numbers around savings in his natural gas bill to give you an idea for how much his system is saving him.

Hey Dan, thank you for coming on with me to chat about your home mining activities. You are sharing a ton of your experiments and setups on Twitter. What is your background, and how did you first become interested in Bitcoin and mining? 

Janten, kuring leres-leres dokter, sareng kuring gaduh budak opat. Kuring asup kana investasi deui taun 2006 nalika kuring parantos latihan. Dina waktos éta, kuring investasi dina saham sareng ngalakukeun sababaraha pilihan dagang. Ti saprak éta, kuring parantos ngalangkungan dua pergolakan kauangan ageung: sadayana waktos ti 2007 dugi ka 2009 ogé panik dina Maret 2020 nalika mimiti pandém. Kadua kali kuring katarajang kanyataan yén hal-hal di pasar finansial henteu lumangsung sakumaha anu sakuduna. Contona, dina 2007 nepi ka 2008 nalika handap turun kaluar, pamaréntah stepped in jeung ngeureunkeun sistem ti ragrag eta. Teu aya anu hoyong sistemna rusak, tapi terus terang éta kedah aya deui sareng kuring perbankan dina kanyataan ieu.

Aya hiji waktos hususna dimana kuring kungsi rada saeutik duit dina nempatkeun dina Bear Stearns. Ieu nempatkeun (tipe dagang pilihan) éta bet yén nilai saham ieu bade ka handap. Dina waktos éta, kuring dina grup dagang jeung sakabeh guys di grup kami dasarna pikir Bear Stearns bade enol. Nya, kuring sareng pamajikan nuju liburan pulo salami waktos ieu sareng urang linggih di pantai sareng béak tina sunscreen. Kuring lumpat deui ka kamar pikeun meunangkeun sunscreen jeung gancang asup kana akun E * TRADE kuring pikeun mariksa hal jeung nempatkeun kuring anu dasarna sagemblengna musnah.

Abdi henteu tiasa terang naon anu kajantenan. Tétéla yén éta dinten anu Federal Reserve teu dijadwalkeun ngalakukeun nanaon, tapi lowered ongkos dipikaresep ku hal kawas 75 dadasar titik sarta pasar popped, nyandak Bear Stearns kalawan eta. Antukna, Bear Stearns angkat ka nol sareng kuring tiasa kaluar tina perdagangan dina tilu léngkah, ngarobih sadayana, tapi kajadian éta nempatkeun rasa anu goréng dina sungut kuring, sabab di dieu pamaréntahan ngaléngkah pikeun ngeureunkeun kontagion ieu anu kedah kajantenan. . Pasar finansial diperlukeun pikeun unwind. Dina titik éta, abdi terang widang maén tina kaulinan investasi éta euweuh tingkat.

Pangalaman éta sareng sababaraha anu sanésna nyababkeun kuring ngalih ka modél anu konservatif - investasi dina saham anu mayar dividen. Pikeun dasawarsa ka tukang, kuring sadayana ngeunaan saham anu mayar dividen sareng DRIP, anu mangrupikeun program investasi ulang dividen. Tapi nalika pandémik pencét sareng pasar tank, kuring ngarasa yén ieu bakal janten Depresi Agung deui. Sababaraha lalaki dina grup dagang kuring ngabahas pendekatan pikeun investasi sareng tetep seueur artos. Teras pamaréntahan ngalangkungan deui, nempatkeun $ 5 triliun kana ékonomi. Maksudna, iraha anjeun kantos nguping kecap "triliun" sateuacan éta? Kuring pernah ngalakukeun.

The conversation went from billions to trillions in a split second. The market came roaring back and there was just nothing that I wanted to buy. Everything seemed so overvalued in the stock market. So — to get to Bitcoin — at the end of 2020, I was on a trail run with a buddy of mine and the conversation turned to investments. I literally spent the last six miles of the 10-mile run explaining to my friend why he was a complete idiot for starting to invest in bitcoin. I repeated all the typical FUD I thought I knew about Bitcoin. And to be clear, the first time I heard about Bitcoin was around 2012, but I never investigated it.

After that run, I started paying more attention to the bitcoin market. I watched it run up to $40,000 before pulling back, and somewhere in that time I listened to a couple of podcasts. I have to give a big shout out to Preston Pysh and Peter McCormack. As soon as I heard that there was only ever going to be 21 million bitcoin, the light bulb switched on. That’s a perfectly scarce asset — nobody can mess with the monetary policy. It just started to make sense to me, and I felt confident enough to start investing in it.

I watched my investment double, but I also spent hundreds and hundreds of hours listening to podcasts, reading books, and going down the rabbit hole. At first, I saw it as a very unique alternative investment, but as I got more and more educated, it became so much more than that. I never had an interest in monetary policy or politics, so I never considered how our money is created and how that influences so many things in our lives. I never really cared about other places in the world that don't have access to “good money.” Shout out to Alex Gladstein for opening my eyes to the influence of Bitcoin sakuliah dunya.

I started running my own node, and also took a look at mining. In April of last year, I priced some things out with Compass to do a package and I'm kicking myself because I didn't pull the trigger at that point. Miners were around $4,000 apiece. By July, I decided to go ahead and start purchasing miners — so now I have several that are going to come online through Compass but I also bought a couple of at-home panambang.

So, you bought bitcoin, spun up a node, did your homework, fell down the rabbit hole — but what made you confident enough to purchase miners versus just taking that capital and buying more bitcoin with it? What kind of planning or aha moment went into you actually thinking “I want to mine this”?

As I went further and further down the rabbit hole, I started allocating more and more of my personal wealth to bitcoin. I have more than a little bit allocated to bitcoin, so I just felt like I needed to be Bitcoin. Running a node is part of that, but I wanted to go further to help further decentralization of the network. There is a centralization of hash power occurring — it's in Texas and the U.S. instead of China now, and while I’m thankful that there’s so much hash, it’s a weak point in my mind to have it in these huge mining centers.

Ratusan rébu tina home miners out there make the network resilient. As I allocated more and more of my personal wealth to bitcoin, I felt obligated to be a part of that solution. Plus, it was interesting to me, and a way to acquire non-KYC bitcoin. Now, I pay taxes and do all the “right things” that I have to do and despite our government’s problems, I do believe in the United States of America, and I feel lucky to live here. However, I fear the possibility of another Executive Order 6102 to seize the gold. So, I want to know that I have some of my bitcoin wealth in non-KYC form. I still report what I mine on my taxes, but they don’t know my UTXOs.

Janten, kuring terang tina tweet anjeun yén anjeun gaduh campuran mesin, ti S9 dugi ka S19. Dupi anjeun tiasa leumpang urang ngaliwatan kumaha anjeun kaala panambang anjeun? 

First, I acquired two T19s through Compass — since those were the best machines I could find at the time for home mining. Once I ordered those machines, I hired an electrician to come out and install three 30-amp, 240-volt circuits to run these miners and give me some extra capacity.

Engké, kuring manggihan nu Pasar Hardware grup dina Telegram sareng maréntahkeun S19 Pro ti salah sahiji anu ngajual anu diverifikasi. Kalayan sadaya panambang generasi anyar ieu, kuring ngagaduhan investasi moneter anu signifikan, sareng sanaos kuring hoyong diajar langkung seueur ngeunaan pagawéan batinna pikeun teu nyaman sareng aranjeunna, kuring ngan ukur teu hoyong muka aranjeunna sareng ngaco sareng aranjeunna kusabab sieun rusak. kitu.

Pikeun mibanda hal ékspérimén on, Kuring dibeuli tilu S9s. S9s béda ti S19s, kalawan unit catu daya misah jeung kabel anjeun kudu nyolok. Anu kadua kuring ngagedekeun sadayana pikeun kahiji kalina sareng éta ngan ukur tiasa dianggo, kuring mikir ka diri kuring, "Wah, ieu henteu parah."

Saterusna kuring peupeus aranjeunna handap, cleaned fans, ditarik papan kaluar sarta brushed aranjeunna kaluar ku sikat cet, gently blew aranjeunna kaluar kalawan hawa dikomprés sarta nempatkeun sagalana deui babarengan - sarta eta sadayana digawé. Nu ngajadikeun kuring ngarasa leuwih percaya diri. Janten, ngan pikeun éta waé, éta patut harga S9.

I read you're heating your whole house with your miners. What does that system look like? 

Janten mimitina, kuring ngagaduhan hiji S19 di ruangan bawah tanah dina kotak kedap sora. Kotak éta aktip ventilasi nganggo kipas saluran inline pikeun mindahkeun hawa tina kotak kana saluran balik HVAC pas sateuacan saringan sareng blower. Urang ninggalkeun kipas HVAC dina posisi "on" mastikeun yén euweuh tekanan payun pikeun kipas saluran inline leutik nungkulan. Hasilna nyaéta yén urang gaduh hawa haneut anu terus-terusan kaluar tina daptar hawa di bumi. Ieu geus cukup pikeun ngajaga hawa nyaman di lantai utama imah salila bulan cooler.

Pikeun dua T19, kuring ngawangun kotak anu langkung ageung sareng nempatkeun di loteng kami. Kuring boga nu ducted dua cara kalawan saluran genep inci: hiji heats garasi kami, nu sejenna mana kana sistem HVAC upstairs housed di loteng. Ku kituna, éta ogé blows kaluar hawa lukewarm onto lantai kadua imah.

The S9s are all used as space heaters throughout the house. One is in the basement in my office, which is always the coldest room in the house. I used to run a 1,500-watt space heater but it would never keep the room at the right temperature, plus it would sometimes trip the circuit breaker. Now I'm running an S9 at 1,000 watts in a box, which is quieter than my old space heater while keeping the room totally comfortable. And it makes me money while it does it.

Lain salah sahiji S9s abdi di ruang tamu, nu kuring nembe a ngawangun jempé on. Our living room has a very high ceiling and above it is the attic, so when it's 20 degrees outside, you get this cold air seeping through the ceiling. I put the S9 in there as a space heater, and now that room stays nice and toasty.

Panambang Dan sacara drastis ngirangan panggunaan gas alam sareng tingkat listrik anu efektif.

Abdi hoyong naroskeun ngeunaan wangunan jempé éta - anjeun tiasa kéngingkeun S9 dugi ka 60 decibel (dB) ngan ukur ngagentos kipas, leres? 

Well, the S9 in my office is running at 1,000 watts inside a box with the fan at around 1,900 RPM, and it's quiet. So I wondered if I put “quiet fans” like the Noctua on the S9 maybe it would be quiet without the box at around the same RPM.

Kuring ngagaleuh kipas tina Amazon sareng dipasang sababaraha adaptor, anu peryogi modifikasi sakedik sareng pahat kai. Lajeng abdi kedah tape tape eta babarengan. Sakali kuring bangun sareng ngajalankeun, kuring kagum pisan kana kumaha sepi éta. Mimitina, kuring ngajalankeun éta dina 1,000 watt dina sirkuit 120-volt sareng ngan ukur nampi 60 desibel, tapi kuring teras-terasan ngirangan ieu kana 900 watt sareng ayeuna nuju sakitar 50 dB tanpa kompromi teuing dina tingkat hash. Setélan ieu mangrupikeun hal anu tiasa dilakukeun ku budak kuliah di kamar asrama, linggih dina rak buku, ngan ukur ngajaga kamarna haneut dina usum tiis.

Naon pangropéa anu anjeun lakukeun dina panambang anjeun? Naha anjeun rutin ngabersihan aranjeunna? 

Kalayan S9s, kuring parantos misahkeunana sareng ngabersihkeunana sateuacanna. Kuring dasarna tarik kaluar papan hash jeung sikat aranjeunna kaluar gently kalawan sikat cet, lajeng niup aranjeunna kaluar kalawan hawa dikomprés. Kuring ulah vacuuming aranjeunna sabab vakum ngawangun nepi listrik statik jeung Abdi hate mun boga ngurangan éta dina circuit board. Lingkungan kuring henteu lebu pisan sareng hawa anu asup kana mesin disaring, janten kuring henteu kedah sering ngabersihan - sigana unggal tilu bulan cekap. Abdi henteu acan ngabongkar unit S19 sareng T19 sabab masih aya dina garansi.

Naon titik nyeri pangbadagna anjeun dina meunangkeun setelan Anjeun ka mana ayeuna? 

Sarat listrik éta tangguh pikeun terang. Kuring malah teu terang naon PDU [unit distribusi kakuatan] nalika kuring mimiti pertambangan, atanapi kumaha ngartos parameter - sabaraha amps aranjeunna tiasa ngadamel, jenis plugs nu peryogi, cords ditangtoskeun. Sadaya hal ieu hésé pisan pikeun kuring dilacak. Ngan persiapan awal sateuacan panambang malah dugi ka bumi kuring, sapertos nyarioskeun ka tukang listrik naon anu kuring peryogikeun, biaya seueur jam pikeun nalungtik sareng ngaliwat hal-hal téknis ieu pikeun mastikeun yén kuring ngartos sadayana.

Cord lengths are a good example. I remember on the Bitmain site they indicate at some point that you want to keep your power cords less than 1.5 meters in length. I make sure my power cords are under four feet in length going from the PDU to the miner, but I don’t know what happens if I use longer cords. Could the cord heat up too much or create a fire risk if it’s too long? That information is just not available to the home miner without a technical background.

Naha anjeun ngajalajah perjanjian pameseran listrik ti perusahaan listrik anjeun pikeun tarif listrik anu langkung mirah? 

So, I did call my power company to tell them I am running server equipment for my business at home, and I would like to get a different rate. They said they don’t offer any incentives, however, when I dug further I found out if I had a separate meter, I could get what's called a small general service rate. That rate is about $0.05 per kilowatt hour, almost half my residential rate.

If I were to set up a separate meter on my property, it would have to be unattached to my house. The power company would consider that "new service” and they would run a circuit out to the shed for free, with up to an additional 350 amps of service. I'm debating that route, potentially with an immersion setup, but it depends how far down this rabbit hole I want to go.

Kumaha anjeun ngitung panghasilan tina kagiatan pertambangan anjeun? Naha anjeun gaduh éntitas perusahaan atanapi panghasilan pribadi ieu? 

I have an LLC. The beauty of that is you write off your expenses, you know, like my miner purchases. You can take full depreciation on those the first year or you can depreciate it over the course of three years. Then you write off your electricity cost as your business expense and so there's a lot of tax advantages to properly reporting this and it is very beneficial in terms of your bottom line.

Naséhat naon anu anjeun gaduh pikeun jalma-jalma anu mikirkeun kana pertambangan? Sareng dimana aranjeunna kedah angkat pikeun kéngingkeun inpormasi sareng petunjuk langkung seueur?

Jigana grup Telegram - utamana nu home pertambangan one we are in — are really key. If you ask a question in there, you probably have three or four responses in a few minutes — and usually from somebody who's pretty knowledgeable.

Abdi bakal nuturkeun Ékonoalkémis on Twitter, sabab anjeunna terus nyimpen kaluar informasi alus tur retweets barang bener mangpaat. “Pertambangan Pikeun Jalanan" éta artikel bener hébat ditulis bari katukang ku Parantos ngalih.

Overall, just do your homework. Don’t buy into the b.s. that mining at home is too difficult, mining at home is not profitable, you can't do it at your residential electrical rates. Unless you're in California and paying $0.40 per kilowatt hour, you're probably able to do it and be profitable. There are a lot of factors that go into it, but if you do your homework and research it ahead of time, you can figure out if it's worth it to you. Even if you’re only breaking even, it may be worth it to you in terms of getting non-KYC bitcoin or just helping to secure the network. That may be worth it to you. I know it was worth it to me.

Hatur nuhun pikeun babagi pangaweruh anjeun kalawan sakabeh plebs kaluar aya Dan. Tinkering anjeun mangrupa inspirasi pikeun loba, kaasup kuring sorangan. 

Upami anjeun hoyong ngahontal Dan, anjeunna dina Twitter @DaddyBTC_pleb. He shares his builds here as well as home mining projects from others. After our interview, Dan shared this incredible thread of tips on building your own enclosure for miners.

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