In the early days of Bitcoin, anybody could simply run a mining program from their PC or laptop. But, as the network got larger and more people became interested in mining, the difficulty of the mining algorithm became more difficult. This is because the code for Bitcoin targets finding a new block once every ten minutes, on average.1 If more miners are involved, the chances that somebody will solve the right hash quicker increases, and so the difficulty is raised to restore that 10-minute goal. Now imagine if thousands, or even millions more times of mining power joins the network. That's a lot of new machines consuming energy.

Innosilicon has recently released several models of T2T series Bitcoin mining machines on the market:  For example, T2T+, T2TZ, T2TZS, T2TH, T2THS and T2THU are also divided into SI and SII according to the factory batch. Today's trial is the latest model of Innosilicon T2THU-30T Bitcoin mining machine. 

The Innosilicon T2THU-30T differs from its sibling T2T-32T's single-cylinder design to a dual-cylinder upright design with integrated power supply.  

The control board is still the familiar formula, with SD card slots, IP address reporting buttons, Ethernet interfaces, reset buttons, status indicators.  

The usage and functions of the IPset (IP address reporting) button are as follows. Proper use of the button facilitates maintenance:  

1. Press IPset button for 1-4 seconds  

(1) Send the IP of the machine to "SetIP" tool;  

(2) With the "SetIP" tool, set the mining machine to a static IP address within the range specified by the tool  

2. Hold down the IPset key for 4-15 seconds, the static IP will change to the dynamic IP, and the mine pool Settings will be restored to the default Settings  

3. Press the IPset key for more than 15 seconds to switch the IP address of the machine to a static IP address and restore the IP address to the default IP192.168.1.254  

Usage and functions of the Reset button: Press the Reset button to restart the machine, and press for 5-10 seconds to restore the factory Settings.  

A 6-pin interface is connected from the power supply to the control board to provide power for the control board and the fan.  The control board and the power board are connected by a row wire.  

The integrated design power supply is not marked, so the power situation can not be seen. The whole power supply is l-shaped, and the l-shaped gap is the position of the wiring terminal.  

A metal sheet is used to connect the power supply and the calculating power plate. The risk of short circuit should be paid attention to when the bare metal sheet is used.

After nearly 40 minutes of cloud bit trial play, the background curve shows that the calculation power is 30.59T.