The current situation, is that we have two Antminer S1 machines running, both of which are powered from a single Corsair 750W power supply, as this particular model has 4x outputs that are normally used to power graphics cards. Each of the S1 machines has two ‘blades’, each requires a power supply input, so this all works well.
The machines have been placed into different ‘pools’ to do their mining, simply due to our naivety in terms of how to approach things, with the intention of moving one back into the other, if it turns out to be more successful and, ultimately, more profitable for the work.
- mining.bitcoin.cz, aka “Slush’s Pool”
- BTCGuild.com
These work slightly differently to each other, as Slush’s pool is a straightforward example of a group of machines working together to solve a problem and sharing the reward for it. Whereas BTCGuild is a pool that the rewards appear to be based on the last ten work items that have happened, more than the work currently being undertaken. This almost implies a sense of working to earn loyalty in the pool, and the rewards increase as a consequence of it.
Each website offer the ability to log in and see the current work item, past rewards, current rewards as well as the ability to set up the bitcoin wallet to send the cleared/confirmed rewards to, once they’ve been earned. In addition, there are mobile apps available on each platforms, as well as JSON-based data available for real-time analysis, if desired.
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