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The UPS has no timer
The obvious way to wire a UPS to a node is a countdown: on battery, wait N seconds, shut down. Ours has none, on purpose. Why the timer was wrong, the numbers we measured instead of assumed, the setting the hardware would not let us change, and the one thing still unverified.
Your Goldshell BOX has no lock on the door
The SC Box web API answers reads and writes with no password, and the box ships with an open WiFi access point. What we confirmed, what we deliberately did not test, and what to do today.
Goldshell SC Box firmware 2.2.5: eight degrees cooler, same hashrate
Flashing a used SC Box from 2.2.1 to 2.2.5: where the file is, the checksum, the one setting that decides whether it runs quieter or louder, and our before-and-after numbers.
Three blocks on the first night
Our $250 used Goldshell SC Box found three BLAKE2b mainnet blocks in eight hours, about 9.39 BTC of coinbase to our own address. What the odds actually were, why the explorer files us under Unknown, and what a reset would do to all of it.
Sealed box to hashing: setting up a used Goldshell SC Box
The hardware half of solo mining BLAKE2b: a $250 used ASIC, a desktop PSU, a jumper switch, and every trap between the eBay box and accepted shares.