Bitcoin Miner and Bitcoin Node Web Interfaces

00:00 All right, everyone. So, this is a 00:02 follow-up video to the one I just did. I 00:03 wanted to show you what the web 00:05 interfaces of a Bitcoin miner and a 00:08 Bitcoin node look like. So, this is the 00:11 web interface for the Bitcoin miner, 00:13 which is complicated. If it doesn't look 00:15 complicated, it's complicated. Um, by 00:18 most standards, it' be simple, but 00:19 you're going to see how simple it is. 00:21 Uh, you know, compared to uh this is 00:23 much more complicated than a Bitcoin 00:24 node. So, my Bitcoin miner is not 00:27 working right now for reasons I have not 00:28 been able to figure out. So, it's mining 00:31 at zero uh hashes per second, which 00:33 means it's not working. Um, but you can 00:35 see there's just a variety of 00:37 complicated things around power and heat 00:40 and what mining pool I'm connected to 00:43 and all that sort of stuff. Uh, if you 00:45 have multiple miners, you can do a 00:47 little swarm here and it'll keep track 00:49 of all the different Bitcoin miners that 00:51 you've got. the network just uh shows 00:53 the network that it's connected to. And 00:55 then the settings, which look 00:57 complicated uh which is part of why I 00:59 hadn't been able to get this uh going. 01:01 So this is what the settings look like. 01:03 There's mining pools, stratum ports, uh 01:06 Bitcoin addresses. It's just 01:08 complicated. And I'm showing you this as 01:10 a contrast to uh how simple a the 01:14 Bitcoin node interface is. So um anyway, 01:17 so this is what a Bitcoin miner's web 01:19 interface looks like. And mine is not 01:21 working for some reason, which is why uh 01:24 if you look at the logs, which may come 01:25 up in a minute here, uh it will show 01:28 that I don't know what the problem is, 01:30 but I am somehow having an I2C 01:33 transmission unexpected knack detected 01:36 error on the I2C transaction failed. Who 01:39 the heck knows what I what that means? I 01:41 don't know. I'll figure it out. But the 01:43 reason I'm showing you all this is to 01:45 say Bitcoin miners are more complicated 01:47 than Bitcoin nodes. Uh they're just more 01:49 complicated. There's way more to it. 01:51 Okay, so let's leave the complexity 01:53 behind and look at my beautiful Umbreal 01:57 Bitcoin node. Ah, there it is. How 02:01 beautiful. Looks like the app store. In 02:03 fact, when you f first boot it up, uh, 02:06 also this Bitcoin miner over here, you 02:08 got to get to it with an IP address. 02:10 This 19216850.14, 02:13 it's a bunch of complexity that people 02:15 don't want to deal with. Umbrell's 02:16 simple. You plug in this little square 02:18 box and then you type umbrell.local. 02:21 Now, if you wanted to get to their 02:22 website, you'd type in umbrell.com. 02:25 But you don't want to go to their 02:26 website. You want to go to the local 02:28 Umbreal little bitcoin uh node uh 02:31 device. And so, you just type in 02:33 umbrell.local. And it is super simple. 02:35 You just set up a password and then it 02:38 looks like the whole thing looks like 02:39 the app store. And it literally looks 02:41 like the app store. Like it is just so 02:43 simple. you can click and it brings up 02:45 apps and you can look through the 02:47 different apps and you know see if 02:48 there's an app you want and it's just 02:50 super simple. Uh anyway, so this is what 02:53 the app store looks like and again you 02:55 can uh you know the apps work exactly 02:57 like you would expect an app in an app 02:59 store to work. We're not going to do 03:00 that. We're uh we're just going to look 03:02 at the Bitcoin node. Now there's other 03:03 cool stuff before we look at the Bitcoin 03:05 node. You know this bit feed thing will 03:07 show you the following Well, there you 03:10 go. It'll show you the following Bitcoin 03:11 blocks. So these are all the 03:13 transactions that are coming into the 03:15 Bitcoin mempool which again is a bunch 03:17 of complexity you don't need to deal 03:18 with. Uh but it's just there's cool 03:20 stuff you can do like this. You can also 03:22 go look at your own copy of the mempool 03:25 which again is even more complexity that 03:28 you don't need to deal with. But this is 03:30 your own local copy that shows you 03:31 exactly how that works. Uh but the 03:34 beautiful part is again when you start 03:36 it's just like a beautiful screen with 03:38 no icons and they're like welcome to 03:41 Umbrell. You can run a Bitcoin node. You 03:43 can also run a bunch of other random 03:44 stuff but it's just beautiful and it's 03:47 just simple and it's just 03:48 straightforward and it's gorgeous and 03:51 you click on the Bitcoin node and it 03:54 launches your very own copy of the 03:55 Bitcoin node. uh it takes it a second to 03:57 load and then is this is what took uh 04:00 between 21 and 24 hours to load. So it 04:04 says I'm 100% synchronized. That means 04:06 my Bitcoin node is synchronized with the 04:08 entire Bitcoin blockchain. It shows that 04:11 it's uh most recent block is block uh 88 04:16 874,786 04:20 four minutes ago. The block block before 04:21 that was seven minutes. The block before 04:23 that eight minutes. the block before 04:24 that 19 minutes I am connected to uh 11 04:29 peers that is three on clear net I don't 04:32 even know what that is seven on tour and 04:34 one on I2P and then my memp pool which 04:38 I've explained what that is in a video 04:39 is 40 megabytes the hash rate is about 04:42 900 xahashes for the entire Bitcoin 04:44 network and the blockchain size which is 04:46 stored entirely on this little Bitcoin 04:49 node that I talked about in the previous 04:50 video is 700 gigabytes and the hard 04:54 drive on this little thing is uh two 04:55 terabytes. So, I'll be able to store the 04:57 Bitcoin network for probably the rest of 04:59 my life. Uh but anyway, it's super 05:01 clean. It's super simple. So, my 05:03 experience with messing around with 05:05 these is the Bitcoin miner is 05:08 complicated. It is techy and it is not 05:10 yet working for me. Um my experience 05:13 with running my own Bitcoin node is that 05:16 it's gorgeous. It's elegant. It's 05:18 straightforward. It's super simple. And 05:20 I'm super impress impressed with Umbrell 05:23 who will sell you one of these things 05:25 for $400. And it actually does a lot 05:27 more than just being a Bitcoin node. You 05:29 can run like a gazillion different apps 05:31 on it and they're all super elegant. 05:33 They're all super straightforward and it 05:34 works like the app store. So uh that is 05:37 the gist of what the uh Bitcoin uh 05:40 Bitcoin node interface looks like. Super 05:43 clean, super simple, super 05:44 straightforward. If you get something 05:45 like Umbreel or Start 9, S T A R T, the 05:49 number nine. Um, I'm using Umbreal 05:51 because it looked easier to use. And at 05:54 44 years old, I'm all about ease of use. 05:56 I used to be a techie, but I just don't 05:58 like things being more techy than they 05:60 have to be because why bother? So, I got 06:03 an Umbreal because it was like 06:05 brainlessly easy to use. And um, and I 06:08 have not gotten this little Bitcoin 06:10 miner, this Bitax Bitcoin miner. I have 06:12 not gotten that working yet. But uh 06:13 anyway, but I run my own Bitcoin node, 06:15 which means I could run the entire 06:17 Bitcoin network at my house if I had to. 06:20 And you don't need either of these. You 06:22 don't need a Bitcoin node. You don't 06:23 need a Bitcoin miner because there are 06:25 tens of thousands of people running 06:27 Bitcoin nodes and they're all going to 06:29 work fine with or without you. Um 06:31 although if you want to run one, 06:32 there's, you know, not a downside. More 06:34 is better. But there's no benefit to the 06:36 average person unless you're techy and 06:38 you want to like process Bitcoin 06:40 transactions on your own node. So nobody 06:43 else on the network, you know, even 06:44 knows, you know, that it's you or 06:46 something like that. But the only people 06:47 I know that run Bitcoin nodes are like 06:49 super techy people. So there is no 06:51 reason for the average person to run a 06:53 Bitcoin node. Uh the average sort of 06:55 person that's watching my Facebook live 06:57 videos, there's no reason to run a 06:59 Bitcoin node. Uh but it is super simple. 07:01 It is super straightforward. It is super 07:03 clean. And Umbrell does really an 07:05 excellent job and just makes it super 07:07 super simple. Unlike over here this 07:10 BitAx Bitcoin miner which is complicated 07:13 by comparison, very complicated by 07:16 comparison, even though they've 07:17 attempted to make it as elegant and 07:19 straightforward as they can. Uh you can 07:21 ignore all the rest of these apps. These 07:22 are just random things I'm messing with. 07:24 Uh but the only one I wanted to talk 07:26 about was this Bitcoin node in the upper 07:28 lefthand corner. So uh that's your quick 07:31 video today of what is a Bitcoin node, 07:33 what is a Bitcoin miner. You do not need 07:35 either one of them, but I thought you 07:37 might be curious that you can run the 07:38 entire Bitcoin network with just those 07:40 two little devices. And it's so cool 07:43 that you can, even if that's not 07:45 something the average person needs to 07:46 do. So, have a great day everyone. Thank 07:48 you so much.