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What are the harmful effects of frequent restarts on miners (what is the automatic shutdown of the miner all about)?

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What are the harmful effects of frequent restarts on miners (what is the automatic shutdown of the miner all about)?

What are the harmful effects of frequent restarts on miners? What are the harmful effects of frequent restarts on Bitcoin mining?

Under normal circumstances, due to the short operation time of the miner (generally about 2 hours), it is necessary to regularly check whether the equipment can adjust its operation mode in a timely manner to avoid extreme situations. However, there are exceptions, such as certain miners’ software configurations that can cause a decrease in miner performance; and some mining pools may increase the level of difficulty or shut down machines to reduce profits.

What are the risks of frequent restarts on miners?

1. Impact on hardware stability.

2. Waste of CPU resources.

3. Possible network instability.

4. Potential overheating of the system.

5. Generation of new errors.

6. If someone attempts to change the settings, the program can be restored to the old version.

7. When the server is under load, problems may occur and allow for a restart of the proof of work mechanism to protect users from potential losses.

8. There is no way to recover the current node unless the proof of work chain verification can continue after the upgrade is completed.

What is the automatic shutdown of the miner all about

Editor’s note: This article is from Caicloud Blockchain (ID: cybtc_com), authorized to be reproduced by Odaily Star Planet Daily.

Bitcoin miners often encounter a problem where the mining equipment suddenly shuts down without the user running it, which automatically affects the normal operation of the mining devices.

This situation is mainly due to the risk of automatic shutdown caused by the inability of certain software and hardware to function properly. This system is a function that is executed by manually triggering the program. If there is no controller to handle such tasks and shut down the computer or server, it cannot work properly.

In order to ensure network security, some people may unintentionally withdraw their miners from the mining pool or return their mining equipment to its original state. However, these operations are considered unreasonable because they need to constantly update the code, thereby reducing system load and maintenance costs, resulting in automatic shutdown. What is automatic shutdown? Actually, this is a common practice, which is achieved by allowing customers to notify miners to shut down in advance. For example, mining operators can immediately cut off the power after installing a new ASIC miner, so that they are not threatened and can also cause malfunctions. Why does this happen? The reason is that miners choose to “pause” operations for a period of time, but they have to wait for the mining pool to continue operations for a period of time before normal operation can be resumed. (Note: There have been two incidents of network disconnections since 2017) On January 3, 2016, due to the drastic fluctuations in Bitcoin prices, some miners stopped operations one after another to avoid losing money. Therefore, there was also frequent occurrence of automatic shutdown in 2018. However, there has not been such a serious situation until now, and many small miners have stopped operations. At the beginning of 2019, two miners had to shut down all their machines due to severe losses.

Currently, there are two models on the market that directly utilize the feature of automatic shutdown, which is referred to as the “battle of computing power” in the mining circle. The so-called “battle of computing power” refers to a small group of high-net-worth individuals taking action to suppress each other within a team regarding a mining machine. For example, well-established companies like Bitmain often have enough electricity support to ensure the security and stability of their operations while maintaining a sustainable source of income. They then provide power to other mining farms while preventing potential conflicts of interest.

For miners, the “battle of computing power” is a very complex process, because once individuals who invest a large amount of computing power lose their earnings, they can only rely on idle power to sustain production without worrying about possible difficulties.

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