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April 11, 2025, 07:52:17 PM
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Hi...

Recently installed some solar power in my office, and it looks like I'm going to have a LOT (well over an S19s worth, maybe two) for about 9 months of the year.  Of course, this would only be for, say, 6 hours a day.  I know I wouldn't earn much, but currently have S19s gathering dust.

Wondering which pools would be best for this occasional mining.  I've been out of the game since July of 23.  I recall Slushpool having a pretty steep "anti-pool-swapping" curve which I think would rule it out.

Any suggestions?

Not looking to make a fortune doing this obviously.  But my electric coop is pretty Solar unfriendly, so I don't feed excess into the grid.  E.g.  I do this or the potential (pun intended) is wasted.

Thanks in advance.

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April 11, 2025, 08:01:13 PM
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Slushpool is long gone -- they changed the name to Braiins a couple years ago. Either pick a pps pool like Viabtc or for pplns go with Kanopool which has a 3-day ramp time that will average out your hashrate fairly quickly. Note that Kano also has a solo pool at that same address. Also note that aside from BraiinsOS Kano does NOT allow 3rd party firmware due to the fact they all (except BraiinsOS) violate the cgminer GPL license.

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April 11, 2025, 08:03:52 PM
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Hi...

Recently installed some solar power in my office, and it looks like I'm going to have a LOT (well over an S19s worth, maybe two) for about 9 months of the year.  Of course, this would only be for, say, 6 hours a day.  I know I wouldn't earn much, but currently have S19s gathering dust.

Wondering which pools would be best for this occasional mining.  I've been out of the game since July of 23.  I recall Slushpool having a pretty steep "anti-pool-swapping" curve which I think would rule it out.

Any suggestions?

Not looking to make a fortune doing this obviously.  But my electric coop is pretty Solar unfriendly, so I don't feed excess into the grid.  E.g.  I do this or the potential (pun intended) is wasted.

Thanks in advance.


Or you could always go solo given your electric is free.

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December 11, 2025, 02:05:47 AM
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I started in January. I use a new pool that's powered by renewable energy. I earn $100 a month with 120-130 referrals.
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I started in January. I use a new pool that's powered by renewable energy. I earn $100 a month with 120-130 referrals.

What do you mean with 120-130 referrals? Do you mean you referred that many people to the pool yourself?!
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