Six CPU Cores. 44 ASIC Cores. 500GB NVMe Based SSD Drive. Quiet. Less than 200 Watts of Power. Made in the USA. This is what the Future of Bitcoin looks like.
FutureBit Apollo BTC is the world’s first vertically integrated platform bringing the full power of Bitcoin and it’s mining infrastructure in a small, quiet, easy to use desktop device designed for everyday people.
We have iterated and learned much from our first Apollo product. We realized early on that we focused too much on the mining aspect, and not enough on the software, applications, and services that run Bitcoin. Too many of these services have moved to online centralized websites, and many users have given up on running the core software that powers Bitcoin.
This must change, as Bitcoin will not continue to be the free, un-censorable, decentralized system it is today if only a few control the mining that powers it, and the nodes that control it.
At the heart of the new Apollo BTC product is a revamped SBC (Single Board Computer), that is as powerful as any consumer grade desktop system and can run almost any Bitcoin Application natively on the device 24/7. Take it out of the Box, plug it in, power it on, and you are already running a full Bitcoin node without needing to do anything.
Install a wallet of your choice, use any hardware wallet, run BTCPayServer, run a block explorer, run a Lightning Node. All of this is possible with our six core ARM based CPU with 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVMe drive that can easily store a FULL non pruned Bitcoin Node. It can power through a Full Node Sync in under 48 hours, which is a record for a device of its class! This is almost an order of magnitude faster than any Raspberry Pi 4 based Node.
On top of this we have taken our 6 years of experience building ASIC mining devices, and engineered the only American Made TeraHash range Bitcoin mining device that can be silent on your desk, mine Bitcoin in the background 24/7, and only use the power of one light bulb to do it.
We did this with our optimized PCB design that has carefully placed all 44 hash cores underneath our custom cold-forged aluminum induction heatsink, which draws up to 200 Watts of heat away from the device with our new nearly silent 25mm fan. This results in the Apollo BTC in Turbo Mode being just as quiet as the Apollo LTC in Eco Mode!
Like our previous products, we are super proud that we can continue manufacturing the Apollo BTC in the USA, and are now the only USA based company that delivers Bitcoin ASIC products with a supply chain whole owned in the western hemisphere (no more reliance on Chinese based ASICS, and their willingness to only sell to large farms and the highest bidder).
OPTIONS
Full Apollo Package: This is our Full Package option that comes with everything you need in the box. The Apollo BTC Unit with our latest controller built in, and our 200W Power supply with power cable.
Full Apollo Package NO Power Supply: We are also offering the Full Package with no power supply for people that want the plug-n-play experience but have spare 12v ATX power supply.
Standard: This option is ONLY the Apollo ASIC Miner, with no controller or power supply. Our new hashboard has a micro USB port, and can be used as a USB device. The Full Apollo Node can control multiple standard units through its USB ports. We wanted to give our customers an option to expand their hash power in a cost effective way. If you already have a Raspberry Pi, or Linux/Windows Desktop Computer and a power supply with two PCIE power ports you can also control our Standard unit in this way with our stand alone miner software (please note this setup will be for more advanced users, and the software will be command line based on launch).
Standard + Power Supply: Same as our Standard unit above, but comes with our 200W Power supply. This is a plug and play solution if you already have a Full Apollo Package. Take it out of the box, plug in the power supply, plug in the micro USB cable to the back of your Full Apollo BTC and it will automatically recognize the second hashboard and start mining!
Compact All-In-One Desktop Bitcoin System (4x6x4in) that mines Bitcoin and any SHA256 based crypto (Bitcoin Cash etc).
Powerful 6 ARM Core CPU with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 500GB NVMe SSD (NOT included in the Standard or Standard + package).
Comes Pre-Installed with a Bitcoin node, and you can install almost any Bitcoin Application
Very wide range of operation modes with preset ECO (quiet) mode, BALANCED, and TURBO mode.
2-3.8 TH/s of SHA256 performance per miner (+/- 5%)
125 Watts in ECO mode, and 200 Watts in TURBO * +/- 10%
Can be used as a full Desktop computer with a monitor keyboard and mouse (not included), or through our Web UI
Connect almost any peripheral with our USB 3.0 ports, USB C port, HDMI, AC Wifi, and Bluetooth
Clocks and Power is fully customizable by user with easy to use interface
Hashboard now monitors both voltage and power draw for accurate measurements*
Custom designed cold forged hexagonal pin heatsink with leading thermal performance for the quietest ASIC miner in operation!
1k-5k RPM Quiet Dual Ball Bearing Fan with automatic thermal management with onboard temperature sensor
Controlled via local connection on a web browser similar to antminers. You can simply set it up via smartphone browser. No crazy driver installs, hard to use miner software or scripts needed.
Two Six Pin PCIE power connectors for wide-range of power draw
Custom Designed all Aluminum case
Ships with our own custom built 200W 94% efficient PSU and is ready to run out of the box! (Does NOT come with Standard package).
Requirements:
Router with an Ethernet cable for initial setup OR Monitor with keyboard and mouse
At least a 250 watt 12v power supply with two 6 Pin PCIE connector is required (unless you order our packages that come with our power supply). This is the same connector used by all modern GPUs. Please note even standard units NEED a power supply, they cant be powered through the USB port on the full package unit.
*all power ratings posted are the miners 12v power consumption. Due to the wide range of third party 120-240v power supplies that can be used, your power draw will be slightly more depending on how efficient your PSU is.
🔹️ Be sure to keep track of what’s happening in the cryptocurrency world, if you aren’t doing so already. If a coin has problems, it will definitely affect the price and mining profitability, and may even prevent you from selling mined coins.
How to Calculate Mining Profitability: Top 6 Mining Calculators
Before we can even start mining, we should use one of the many profitability calculators online, that should give us beforehand a better understanding if the GPU, FPGA, ASIC we choose to mine with, will be profitable or not!
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” It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way.
But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.”
Julian Assange
The universe smiles on encryption
” The innovation is that BTC is hard to shut down. […]
Designed from the ground up to survive under the most adversarial conditions. “
Hasu
Bitcoin is hard to shut down
” Bitcoin is the most successful privacy coin to date. “
Pierre Rochard
Most successful privacy coin to date
” Bitcoin is a mathematical miracle. “
Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder)
Mathematical miracle
” Bitcoin is a technological innovation that happens once a species. “
Trace Mayer
Technological innovation that happens once in a species
” Bitcoin doesn’t care about who you are or what your feelings are.
Bitcoin represents equal opportunity
to participate in a system
not encumbered by
our legacy fiat structures. “
White Rabbit
Participate in a system not encumbered by FIAT
” We’re here to unfuck the money and there’s no stopping us.
Fix the money,
change the world. “
White Rabbit
Fix the Money, Change the World
” Hardly anybody actually
understands money. “
Nick Szabo
Nobody understands money
” When you have a disruptive technology,
they call it a category killer.
Bitcoin is a serial killer –
it’s going to go through
40 or 50 different industries. “
Dan Morehead
Bitcoin is a serial killer
” It’s 21 million or death.”
Robert Breedlove
21 million or death
” It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
In case it catches on
” Trusted third parties
are security holes. “
Nick Szabo
Trusted third parties
” There are only going to be
21 million coins,
there are billions of people
in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might
find it interesting to
own a piece of Bitcoin.”
Adam Back
21 Million Coins
” I think it’s essential for a program of this nature to be open source. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Open Source
” SHA-256 is very strong. It’s not like the incremental step from MD5 to SHA1.
It can last several decades unless there’s some massive breakthrough attack. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Sha-256
” Code mixed with robust game theory is superior to hierarchical command and control. “
ℭoinsure
Code superior to hierarchical command and control
” Given that money is one half of every commercial transaction and that whole civilizations literally rise and fall based on the quality of their money, we are talking about an awesome power, one that flies under the cover of night. “
Ron Paul
Money… an awesome power
” The world has to adapt to bitcoin, not the other way round. “
Herzmeister
The world has to adapt to bitcoin
” When I first bought bitcoin it took me two years of speculation to understand what Bitcoin really was.
But once I fully had a grasp of it, it was life altering. “
Russell Okung
Bitcoin is life altering
” Many countries stand to gain from Bitcoin’s adoption as it would remove their dependence on the US dollar and provide them with a feasible alternative. “
Misir Mahmudov
Bitcoin a feasible alternative to the US $
” Bitcoin is a optimist bet on the future, a bet on human ingenuity.
Gold is a pessimist bet on the past and, often a bet the end of civilization. “
Rodolfo Novak
Bitcoin a bet on Human Ingenuity
” Everyone has got to believe in something.
Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable. “
Hass McCook
Believe in something verifiable and unforgeable
” Open source software is a meritocracy of ideas, not of people.
So people are always talking about “Who controls Bitcoin?”
Good ideas control Bitcoin.
Not people.”
Ben Prentice
Good ideeas control Bitcoin
“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently. “
Kim Neunert
Bitcoin a seed of hope
” Bitcoin has an inescapable, unavoidable, and omnipotent magnetism for the brightest and most revolutionary minds on the planet.
I’ve never witnessed anything like it. “
Brandon Bridge
Bitcoin’s magnetism
” This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily.
You want it to be very difficult to change history.
The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive. “
Jimmy Song
Difficult to change history
” Bitcoin is like gold but with this magical ability that you
can teleport it.”
Vijay Boyapati
Bitcoin magical ability to teleport it
” Can Bitcoin be stopped?
“Not really, this thing is a beast.
As Mises wrote:
Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas. “
Trace Mayer
Bitcoin cannot be stopped
“I’m not here to fix Bitcoin.”
Michael Saylor
Fix bitcoin
” Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest an individual can make against the current economic system. “
Luc Dossis
Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest
” These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow.
And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. “
Bruce Schneier
Maximums that thermodynamics will allow
” Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost
overturn governments. “
Charles Lee
Cryptocurrency can almost overturn governments
” Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. “
Rick Falkvinge
Bitcoin is the email for the postal industry
” I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. “
Peter Thiel
Bitcoin has the potential to change the world
” Bitcoin is the most important invention in the history of the world since the Internet. “
Roger Ver
Bitcoin the most important invention in the history since the Internet
” Gold is a great way to preserve wealth, but it is hard to move around. You do need some kind of alternative and Bitcoin fits the bill. “
Jim Rickards
Bitcoin fits the bill as a way to preserve wealth
” You can’t stop things like Bitcoin.
It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust.
World governments will have to readjust. “
John McAfee
Bitcoin will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust
” I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the function of the government… is actually pretty cool. “
Al Gore
An algorithm replaces the function of government
“People have made fortunes off Bitcoin, some have lost money.
It is volatile, but people make money off of volatility too.”
Richard Branson
Some lost, some won with Bitcoin
” The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value…
Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that. “
Eric Schmidt
Create something wich is not duplicable
“PayPal had these goals of creating a new currency.
We failed at that…
I think Bitcoin has succeeded on the level of a new currency, but the payment system is lacking.”
Peter Thiel
Bitcoin succeeded as a new currency
” As people move into Bitcoin for payments and receipts they stop using US Dollars, Euros and Chinese Yuan which in the long-term devalues these currencies. “
John McAfee
Bitcoin devalues $ € ¥
” Bitcoin is the Currency of Resistance…
If Satoshi had released Bitcoin10 years earlier,9/11 would
never have happened. “
Max Keiser
Bitcoin the currency of resistance
“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. “
Peter Diamandis
Bitcoin is a smart currency
“The internet is going to be one of
the major forces for reducing
the role of government.
One thing that’s missing but that
will soon be developed,
is a reliable e-cash.”
Milton Friedman
E-Cash
” Bitcoin is a technological
tour de force. “
Bill Gates
Tour de force
” If you don’t believe it or don’t get it,
I don’t have the time
to try to convince you,
sorry. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Don’t have the time
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
WikiLeaks
” Lost coins only make everyone
else’s coins worth slightly more.
Think of it as a donation to everyone.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Lost Coins
” In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee
will become the maincompensation
for [mining] nodes.
I’m sure that in 20 years there
will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Transaction fee
” As computers get faster and the total computing power applied to creating bitcoins increases, the difficulty increases proportionally to keep the total new production constant.
Thus, it is known in advance how many new bitcoins will be created every year in the future.
Coins have to get initially distributed somehow, and a constant rate seems like the best formula.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Coins distribution at a constant rate is the best formula
” Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without
a government, something
necessary and imperative. “
Nassim Taleb
Bitcoin a currency without a government
” Those who believe in Bitcoin also believe in cleverness. “
Arif Naseem
Believe in bitcoin believe in cleverness
” Bitcoin is the most stellar and
most useful system of
mutual trustever devised. “
Arif Naseem
Bitcoin a system of mutual trust
Cryptocurrency is freedom,
Banking is slavery. “
Arif Naseem
Cryptocurrency is freedom
” Our basic thesis for bitcoin is
that it is better than gold. “
Tyler Winklevoss
Bitcoin better than gold
” I think the whole narrative
of blockchain without bitcoin
will amount to very little. “
Fred Ehrsam
Blockchain without bitcoin
” Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments. “
Leon Louw
Bitcoin world’s most important developments
” Bitcoin is a very exciting development, it might lead to a world currency.
I think over the next decade it will grow to become one of the most important ways to pay for things and transfer assets. “
Kim Dotcom (CEO of MegaUpload)
Bitcoin might lead to a world currency
” Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money. “
Paul Buchheit (Creator of Gmail)
Bitcoin the TCP/IP of money
” We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. “
Tyler Winklevoss (Co-inventor of Facebook)
Mathematical framework free of politics and human error
” I really like Bitcoin.
I own Bitcoins.
It’s a store of value, a distributed ledger.
It’s a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government’s currency does not hold value.
It’s also a good investment vehicle if you have an appetite for risk.
But it won’t be a currency until volatility slows down. “
David Marcus (CEO of Paypal)
Bitcoin a store of value
” [Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system. “
Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Bitcoin may hold long-term promise
“There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math based. “
Chris Dixon (Co-founder of Hunch now owned by Ebay, Co-founder of SiteAdvisor now owned by McAfee)
Math based currency
” Bitcoin is here to stay.
There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency.
And I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury. “
Adam Draper
Bitcoin is here to stay
” It’s money 2.0, a huge hugehuge deal. “
Chamath Palihapitiya (Previous head of AOL instant messenger)
Money 2.0
” If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds. “
Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase)
Future of bitcoin
” Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea.
I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker.
It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail. “
Hal Finney
Bitcoin a very promising idea…
” Bitcoin enables certain uses that are very unique.
I think it offers possibilities that no other currency allows.
For example the ability to spend a coin that only occurs when two separate parties agree to spend the coin; with a third party that couldn’t run away with the coin itself. “
Pieter Wuille
Bitcoin enables uses that are very unique
” At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers.
It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit cardfees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things. “
Peter Diamandis
Good things
” There is so much potential…
I am just waiting for it to be a billion dollar industry.”
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The quality of Bitcoin’s monetary policy and the public’s confidence that the policy will be respected in the long-run is all what really matters.
For all of you out there, who believe that Bitcoin falls under the “crypto” umbrella, you could not be further from the truth.
“Crypto” is designated for the affinity scams that launched in Bitcoin’s shadow and attempted to leverage its pedigree and latch on to its narrative to sell useless tokens to unwitting noobs.
The scammers believe they can “beat” Bitcoin by providing a feature set and a “culture” more appealing to the masses and make individuals more likely to pick their favorite “crypto” over the best money humans have ever come in contact with.
As most people, these people couldn’t be more delusional.
The success of Bitcoin doesn’t depend on the “culture” of bitcoiners.
Bitcoin is a protocol that has no way of knowing the “culture” of its users.
If it is successful it will be used by many different people from many worldwide lands with very different cultures.
A cultural hold on a particular competitive landscape of social media doesn’t really impress no one at the end of the day.
What really matters is the quality of Bitcoin’s monetary policy and the public’s confidence that the policy will be respected in the long-run.
The best way to build confidence in that policy is to make the cost of attempting to change that policy, or falling out of line with the consensus rules of the network as high as possible.
Nothing in “crypto” comes close to Bitcoin in these regards, and that is because the Bitcoin network is slowly but surely integrating itself into the energy sector of the globe.
The execution risks associated with mining Bitcoin have become very high.
If a miner fucks up and falls out of consensus, they are punished materially by missing out on precious block reward payouts.
As the network becomes more integrated with the energy sector, these costs will rise and abiding by the monetary policy put forth by the network of full nodes will be paramount.
It happend in 2017 when the biggest corporate players and miners attempted to hard fork a block space increase that fell out of consensus with the full nodes on the network.
The unwillingness to follow consensus ruined reputations and lost a lot of miners a lot of money over the four years that have followed the hard fork.
This is the certainty for the people, that bitcoin is a suitable monetary good in the digital age.
All of “crypto” pretenters focused on speed, app building, and being less “energy intensive” have completely missed the plot and have relegated themselves to a hedonistic odd sand box filled with degenerate gamblers and low energy thinkers.
Bitcoin has already won because it has won the energy game.
This energy game is what will protect Bitcoin’s monetary policy in the long-run, being strongly incentivized by full nodes to do so.
Very few understand this and very few will ever understand that !!!
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