The step-by-step instructions for connecting the Bitmain Antminer S19 series to Poolin to mine Bitcoin are provided here.
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About Poolin
Given that they have one of the highest hash rates for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Zcash, Poolin is widely regarded as the largest cryptocurrency pool mining platform.
Despite being new to the market, their quality services have propelled them to rank among the top five mining pools with a very high hash rate distribution since their entry into the market in 2018.
Several different cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, LTC, DCR, ZEC, DASH, CKB, BCH, and Vcash, are supported for mining on the platform.
Poolin offers a first-class mining experience through merge mining, hash rate auto switch, and good customer service.
By merging mining with BTC, BCH, or BSV using their merge mining services, one can acquire Vcash.
The hash rate auto-switch feature allows users to automatically switch between mining BTC and BCH depending on the mining profit between the two at the time (this feature is uncommon in mining communities).
While their customer service consists of a one-on-one Q&A and a Telegram community that enhances communication between the mining pool and workers.
Furthermore, Poolin offers hosting service with well equipped and efficient data centers located all over the world. The data centers boast expert HVAC systems, millions of hosting slots, round-the-clock real-time monitoring, expert maintenance, and reasonable hosting costs.
A skilled engineering team at Poolin also makes sure that their platform is safe and reliable as a top multi-currency mining pool.
What You Need to Know before Using Miners
1. PSU output power is recommended to be 20% higher than the power consumption of miner;
2. The router or network switch you are using to get connected with miners shall be ones without POE;
3. Miners can only be connected to router or network switch with wired connection;
4. Recommended operation temperature: 10-35 °C;
5. Recommended operation humidity: <65%;
6. Measures shall be taken to protect miners from dust, cax or so, otherwise hashrate board may be in corrosion and heat may fail to be dissipated;
7. To sign in to the miner backend, Google or Firefox browsers are advised.
Preparation Before Mining
PreparationYou must confirm that everything is in order and prepared before setting up a Bitmain Antminer S19 series miner.
Tools needed: PSU, PSU power cable, miner, network cable, a personal computer for operation
A: Check the Miner
1. Please inspect the package after receiving a new miner to see if the miner inside or the package is damaged. If yes, please take photos and contact customer service of miner producer;
2. Please remove the miner from the packaging and inspect it to see if there are any dents or other damage to the miner, the fan, the cable, the fan cable, or anything else. If yes, please take photos and contact customer service of miner producer;
3. Heat sink inspection. Inspect from both the front and back fans to check whether heat sink is disconnected. If yes, please take photos and contact customer service of miner producer;
Be aware that shaking the miner may cause some sounds to be heard as computing boards are installed in card slot chassis. And don’t worry about it.
B: a tool to locate miner IP, IP reporter
D: pool website, visit www.poolin.me and register an account
Bitmain Antminer S19 Series MINER BUTTON INTRODUCTION
| IP Report | You can use IP Report software to get IP address of the miner by press this button |
| ETH | wire network connection |
| Fault | alarm light flashes when the miner is in fault |
| Normal | the light flashes when the miner is working normally |
| Reset | you can pin this button to reset the miner |
| SD card | SD card slot |
1. Cable connection of hash board: Bitmain Antminer S19 series has three hash boards and each board has 3 PCIE intefaces, and each shall be connected with a 12V PSU cable, in total 9 pieces of 12V PSU cable.
The type of cable that should be used to connect to each interface is identical. Just remember to connect it in the proper direction, namely the direction of the buckle. Hash boards are susceptible to short circuits and damage if operated incorrectly. After plotted those cables, you need to double check if the cable is loose or not fully inserted.
2. Control board cable connection: The control board has one PCIe interface, and all that is required is to splice in one 12V PSU cable.
It should be noted that connecting with either interface requires the same cable. Just remember to plug it in the proper way, that is, in the buckle’s direction. Hash board damage and short circuits can result from improper operation. You should check the cables again after plugging them in to see if they are loose or not inserted all the way.
3. Plug in the networking cable as directed to establish a network connection.
4. Fan connection. Check whether the plug of fan cable has been fully or tightly connected. Each fan is connected to control board with one plug.
After the miner is fully equipped and set up, the first thing you need to do is locate miner IP.
Method One: Get IP through IP Reporter software
1) Download IP Reporter or other similar softwares from miner producer’s website;
2) Run the software and click “start”;
3) Press IP Report button for about 1 second;
4) The miner you are using will be identified by its IP address by the software.
Method Two: get IP address from router
1) Sign in router management page (usually it’s an IP address that you can find in router instruction or label) and then you can see equipments that are connected to this router.
2) Determine the name of the miner you are using or the time it has been connected to the router, and you will then be able to determine its IP address.
Once you have the miner’s IP, you can begin configuring it. Use a computer that is connected to the same router as the miner, and type the IP address of the miner in the computer browser address bar and press “enter” to continue.
1) There will be a pop-up page that requires you to enter username and password of the miner.
Default username and password are both root.
2) After signing in, click Miner Configuration and then General Settings and then enter the following three urls to URL respectively.
URL 1：stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.me:443
URL 2：stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.me:1883
URL 3：stratum+tcp://btc.ss.poolin.me:700
If the miner cannot connect to pool 1, it will automatically connect to pool 1 before switching to pool 2, pool 3, and so forth.
Worker: worker is a combination of the sub-account you’ve registered in Poolin.me, a dot and a miner ID that is used to name the worker. (The sub-account, not the wallet address used to receive payment, must be entered here. So that you can receive your daily mining profit, you must log into Poolin.me and set your wallet address.)
Password: any password is ok
3) Click Save&Apply to start the miner.
4) After some time, the miner will begin to operate. You can go to Miner Status page to check details and performance.
1: Miner Status, details of miner performance can be checked here;
2: Elapsed, it shows the time that the miner has been running. The number will be cleared to 0 after rebooting;
3: Real-time hashrate, or GH/S(RT), typically equals the hashrate every 5 seconds. This hashrate differs from the real time hashrate in pool as real time hashrate in pool is a hashrate data of last 15 minutes;
4: Average hashrate over the entire period of time, expressed in GH/S. This hashrate differs from pool 24H hashrate because of different statistical range;
5: URL, pool mining address;
6: User, namely worker in configuration page, shall be in the form of sub-account.minerid;
7: Status, the normal status shall be Alive;
8: Accepted, number of accepted shares that the miner has submitted to pool;
9: DiffA#, error rate;
10: Rejected, number of rejected shares that the miner has submitted to pool;
11: LSTime displays the time in hours, minutes, and seconds since the miner’s last connection to the pool. Usually the value shall be less than 1 minute;
12: HW, hardware error. Too many hardware error will result in losses in hashrate;
13: Temp(Chip2), the temperature of chips. Generally, the temperature should not exceed 90 to 100 °C. Higher temperature may result in reboot or system failure;
14: ASIC status: those marked with an ooo are normal ASICs, while those marked with an XXX are malfunctioning.
5) You must log into the pool website or application after reviewing the performance of the miner on the Miner Status page in order to view the current hashrate and the number of active workers. Customers have occasionally set incorrect mining urls or sub-accounts by accident, which has cost them mining profits.
6) Decide on a withdrawal address. Your withdrawal address specified in the pool will receive your mining profit. Payment is made for the mining profit from the previous UTC day once per day, between 2:00 and 4:00 UTC.
You can click “Sub-account Manage”, “Setting”, “Modify Address” to set your wallet address.
BTC Bitcoin
The first successful use of blockchain technology, Bitcoin is the first decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. On October 31st, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper named Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The first Bitcoin block was generated on January 3rd, 2009. There are 21 million bitcoins in circulation, and the current block reward is 6.25 BTC plus the package transaction fee. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 algorithm. Bitmain Antminer S19 series miners are the most efficient miners to mine Bitcoin nowadays.
FAQs
How to Change Miner Login Password
How to Upgrade Miner Firmware?
Please make sure that the miner won’t be cut off from the network and power supply during this procedure.
How to Check the Status of Network Connection?
1) Option One: Click “Network” and then “Diagnostics”, enter pool mining url, namely btc.ss.poolin.me, and then click “Ping” to check whether the miner can be connected to pool smoothly.
The network is better the lower the time value.
2) Option Two: Open a command line interface in a computer that is under the same network connection with the miner and then type in ping btc.ss.poolin.me -t. You will receive information about network speed performance after pressing the enter key.
ping btc.ss.poolin.me -t
Around 100 ms per request is the typical network speed.
How to Change the IP Address of a Miner?
Only when the miner and the computer are on the same network IP range can we log into the miner using a computer. In that case, we must alter the miner’s IP to one that is appropriate.
1) Log into router, click LAN setting and then change the IP address to one that are same with the miner’s IP range;
2) Restart router and then log into miner network setting page to change the IP address to one you need.
3) Reset the IP range of the router by going back to its LAN settings.
How to Reboot a Miner?
Click reboot and then the miner will be rebooted.
How to Reset the Miner?
1）Reset through miner backend
2）Reset through physical button in miner (the operation needs to be done within 2-10 minutes after a miner is started, applicable to all Antminer except G1 and G2)
Reconnecting the miner’s power supply after cutting it off is recommended. Press “Reset” button for about 5 seconds after the miner starts to run. The miner will then automatically reboot after being reset in 4 minutes.
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