An ecosystem for managing ASIC miners | Firmware 

The kernel was written by our team from scratch, rather than added on top of the factory one. That lets us manage the equipment at the level of each chip: computing power grows by up to 50% while safe operating modes are kept.

Bitmain Antminer models with air and water cooling: the 19th and 21st series on the SHA-256 algorithm, and also L7, L9, D9, K7, KS5 and KS6. The list keeps growing, so before installing across a fleet, check that your model and control board are supported with the support team.

The files can be requested from the support team or downloaded from your PITBIT ONLINE account, in the Firmware section. It is installed remotely through our utility, and the steps are described in the instructions on the firmware page. After flashing, an electronic key from your account is written into the device — and the equipment appears in the monitoring system with full remote control.

Setting the frequency and the voltage separately for each chip, in 1 MHz increments. The equipment runs more efficiently and lasts longer.

As major updates come out, when a configuration appears for your model, or on the recommendation of technical support. There is no need to update constantly.

No. Installing any third-party firmware, PITBIT included, ends Bitmain's factory warranty. Before rolling it out across a large site, weigh up the warranty status and run a trial installation on a few devices.

The developer fee is 2.75% with nothing to buy up front, which suits a quick start. A one-off licence is paid once and there is no fee after that — better value when the equipment runs for a long time. For industrial sites there are wholesale licences and interest-free instalments from a 30% first payment over up to six months.

One for each device: five miners need five licences.

Nothing. PITBIT ONLINE is free to everyone who has installed our firmware. You pay only for the firmware itself, by licence or by fee.

Up to 20,000 on a single account.

No. It is enough to install the software on the miner and connect it to the internet.

Yes. Devices are grouped into locations — by container, by model, by geography or by anything else you choose. They can also be selected by network address and subnet.

Computing power (hashrate), temperature, profitability, electricity costs, the state of the chips and the boards, network data and consumption. Plus monthly statistics on uptime, power and temperature.

The system carries on working and the temperature protections act as usual. If there is no internet for more than a minute, the device goes to sleep. If the connection to the pool breaks, the miner switches to the backup pools, and after 300 seconds without a connection it sleeps.

Yes. Different consumption at different times of day, going to sleep and waking again on a schedule — once it is set up, it all runs by itself.