IPOLLO GRIN G1-Mini Miner Prototype

[gary]

I got a prototype of G1-Mini miner yesterday, and tested it immediately

IPOLLO G1-Mini Miner Prototype

According to their post in Medium (GRIN ASIC Miner IPOLLO Stepping Up Production to Triple GRIN Network Hashpower Soon | by iPollo | Medium):

Based on this malicious attack, IPOLLO miner promises to step up the production with a total 20K(G/S) hashpower in the remaining time of 2020, to support the GRIN community strengthen the GRIN network.

I expect these mini miners will be ready for public sale soon, to get a substantial increasing of the GRIN network hashpower for security.

Their website is http://ipollo.com/, but it’s ugly and tatty at this time, laughed by some members for like a scram: Telegram: Contact @grinprivacy

It does not seem reasonable that a company that has developed such technology has not invested $ 500 dollars for a normal website, no about about or contact page or any relevant information for the buyers.

I forwarded the website comments to IPOLLO, and hope them improving the website quickly.

[n15e]

Is it loud? Can it be used in a living room?

[Roelsmajor]

How many $GRIN per day could be mined with IPOLLO G1 Mini?

1.4 Gps. Is it 14 $GRIN/Day?

[gary]

65 dB-A near the fan when switching on, vs 40 dB-A when off.
55 dB-A if put under the table.
A bit noisy, but this is a prototype, I complained the noise and hope them improve this. There’s some configurations to lower the fan speed.

[gary]

Perhaps 10 GRIN/Day according to f2pool’s calculator, but I suppose this is an assumption with stable network hashpower.

[Roelsmajor]

In my country with the current price of $GRIN ($0.29) and current electricity cost/kWh, this miner would produce around 2.8 USD profit a day, 83 USD a month. Break event point after 6 months

[Rabinovitch]

I need several units.

[lmmjvsd]

I want to buy 5 G1 mini, it is difficult to have information for the payment, you have to go through gate.io to pay in grin.
I mine grin from the genesis block with gpu.It would be sad if the little ones who support GRIN could not continue to support the network.

[Roelsmajor]

Can We use 5 G1 Mini at once by using only 1 PC?

[Neo-Geo]

65 decibel fan(s) to cool 100W. That’s fan noise I’d expect from 12x the heat/power. Hopefully that prototype gets radically changed. Surely 140MM fan would be more than adequate to cool and would be near silent. $520 price should allow for larger heatsink and fan to avoid small fan at high RPM.

[MRV]

At AkMiner website, they sold 20 of Mini Miners for 1000$…!

[Neo-Geo]

Oh I see now, that makes a bit more sense @ $50 per G1-Mini, but even at 20 units for $1,000, that’s barely 1/2 the hash of the G1 regular ASIC that sells for as low as $1k/each.

Brand New Ipollo G1 Grin Coin Profitable Pineapple G1 42 2800w Mining Machine...

[gary]

@Neo-Geo

Oh I see now, that makes a bit more sense @ $50 per G1-Mini, but even at 20 units for $1,000, that’s barely 1/2 the hash of the G1 regular ASIC that sells for as low as $1k/each.

It’s obviously a fake and scam, I confirmed that with iPOLLO, $1k for G1 is impossible.

[Neo-Geo]

Any idea what the G1 will cost officially? If G1 is $15k/each then G1-Mini for $520/each is same price/hash.

[Roelsmajor]

G1 will cost $15K (42 Gps)
G1 Mini cost $500 (1.4 Gps)
G1 Hash 30x G1 Mini

Edit:
You can read the evaluation review here about G1, but you need install a google translate apk on your android phone.

https://www.cybtc.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=64930&highlight=Grin&mobile=2

[MRV]

I said G1 Mini Miners were sold for 1k$ not G1!!!

[Eodtek29]

This seems retarded. For the price, I could just buy GRIN and watch it appreciate over a year. I’m just getting into this, so quite possible I’m missing something here. But I just don’t see cost benefit. I’d rather build my own miner with higher Hash?

I am finding these all over Alibaba.com with supposed 1.4 hash and 100W consumption. Anywhere from 680-1200 dollars. It would take over a year for ROI in most cases from what I can tell.

[Mactavish]

Hahaha
each g1mini gives you around 10~11 grin with current price which is about $0.36 usually you get $108 dollar per month and the ROI is 9 month maximum if you can catch the pumps in TO you can get more.
Note=what made you think if you hold grin right now considering lack of demand and 30%+ inflation, your money keep goes up?

Also, I need to warn you about folks in Alibaba that maybe you get a raspberry pie instead of g1mini so becarefull

[Eodtek29]

Thanks for the good tips. I didn’t have a great feeling about Alibaba and I checked ipollo Twitter feed which seems janky at best. Seems a lot of folks are trying sucker in newbies like me.

To your note- I wasn’t saying GRIN would go up necessarily. Just that for the money and if I were interested in GRIN, I would just buy it and hold. Makes more sense to just build my own setups and mine different coin?

[Mactavish]

ipollo is legit but not good customer service if you decided to buy Nhash is good option