https://github.com/Djobleezy/DeepSea-Dashboard
Has anyone else played around with this app? It's a lot of fun and sort of addicting. It makes me want to buy more miners so I can lose more money.
I see more data than I can absorb. It is a little disconcerting to see exactly how much in the red you are, but knowledge is power, I think. You get alerted if one of your tiny workers (in my case) isn't cranking out the hash rate it should.
It's a very easy set up on Start9, where you can run it on your own rails. Umbrel has the app too.
I haven’t, but it sounds cool. Should I switch to Ocean? Have you used other pools to compare against?
I have not tried other pools. I'm such a mining shrimp that I won't live long enough to get an on chain payout, so I like the LN payouts. I know Braiins has that too, but their fees are higher.
I’ve been banking up rewards on Braiins to get a large-ish on chain payout. I think I’m over 500k sats now
Obviously the answer is to get more miners
Yeah, but I still think I like getting paid those sats when I earn those sats.
that’s very fair and reasonable
I mine on OCEAN, so the red-ink view resonates. Worth remembering what that number actually is though: DeepSea builds it from your power cost and the pool fee, which is real, but it isn't the whole denominator. If the product is sats accumulated plus the tax treatment of the loss, the dashboard is measuring the wrong thing. Priced against spot bitcoin today, you're underwater, no argument. That view is useful right up until it talks you out of stacking.
On OCEAN vs Braiins, since both came up: I take on-chain on OCEAN and run Braiins on another rig with Lightning payouts, so I see both rails every month. OCEAN pays on TIDES, Braiins on FPPS, and OCEAN is the leaner of the two on fees. But for a shrimp the rail is the real call, and OP nailed why. That estimated-time-to-payout bar in DeepSea is the tell: at low hashrate the on-chain threshold is a payout you statistically never live to reach, so OCEAN's Lightning option is the right move. I only take on-chain because that rig is big enough to clear the threshold in a sane window. Below a certain TH, LN isn't a preference, it's the only way you ever touch the sats.
@WeAreAllSatoshi, I'm basically running your experiment in both directions: on-chain accrual on OCEAN, Lightning drip on Braiins. What banking to a big on-chain payout costs you is custody time. While that 500k accrues, it's a pool-side balance, not yours yet. The Lightning side hands it to your wallet as you earn, for slightly less on-chain efficiency. Neither is wrong. It's custody-now vs fewer-chain-fees-later, and worth knowing which one you're actually choosing.