Did you clean the dust off your rigs?

A time comes when you got to do what you got to do.

Christmas, New year holidays, time for your loved ones: family, friends and rigs.

Cleaning the dust off your rigs has several benefits:

1. Increases GPU / ASIC / CPU lifespan.
2. Increases the fans lifespan.
3. Lowers the fan speed.
4. Lowers the noise.
5. Lowers the power draw (lower fan speed=lower electric bill).
6. Lowers the chance for component failure or short circuit.
7. When all works fine, you have more time to spent around human beings.

Tools needed:
An air compressor. Second best is leaf blower, third is a can of compressed air. You can also use hard brush or anything usefull to remove the dust, wet micro fiber towel, vacuum cleaner can help too.

General steps:

1. Power off the rig and disconnect it from power.
2. Take it out at an open space outside.
3. Blow the dust out of the heatsink fins.

*If using a compressor:

Drain the air compressor of moisture - you may have to pressurize it for extra draining power. Moisture gets into the tank when you are filling it with warmer air, that typically has more moisture in it. When the air cools down, the moisture pools at the bottom of the tank - there should be a drain there if you spent enough money on your air compressor. (recommendation by skyroket from Reddit)

If not available, use a can of compressed air. If you want to go full cheap, get a brush, scrape the dust off and then blow it away or collect with vacuum cleaner. Be careful with air compressors. If they are set to too high PSI, they can force tha fans to spin too fast and break them. Either adjsut the PSI to a safe amount or apply compressed air from bigger distance first, so you can find the best distance for your fan. Hold the fans with your hand to avoid spinning them too fast. If you have moist climate, the dust usually forms a black, sticky substance. You can use slightly moist cloth (I recommend a microfiber towel) to clean the sticky dust.

Try not to blow the dust further into the heatsink fins. Blow it OUT. (recommendation by skyroket from Reddit)

Happy holidays and may the dust stay away from you!

IoT mining with uPlexa

IoT coin mining

IoT device mining and global decentralization

Imagine a network of 8.4 billion IoT devices, spread worldwide. Combine this decentralization with the most algorithm: Cryptonight, modified to improve further the IoT mining capabilities of all smart TVs, tablets, smart phones, laptops, computers, smart fridges, smart coffee makers, Android TV boxes and any future device we have not seen yet. All these devices sit idle for hours and we still own them and pay money for the electricity they use. And they.. sit idle. uPlexa will change that by implementing IoT device mining.

How uPlexa's network works

e-Commerce

Now imagine you open your own online shop where customers pay with uPlexa coins for services and goods. Or they can work or mine for UPX coins needed to purchase a certain service.
How about owning an online, decentralized shop? The uPlexa whitepaper has this explained in detail, for those who like the details. As a tip, I will only mention this: Your shop remains free until you start making a real profit out of it. Ever heard of anything like this? On top of that they have developed their own NZCM algorithm for extremely low transaction fees.

Paying for services anonymously

Due to the Cryptonight algorithm's anonymous nature, you can pay for services as web hosting, Internet provider services, e-mail hosting, phone bills, VPN, etc. And yes, all this can be anonymous thanks to uPlexa. This will ensure the companies will not be selling your identity. You will not be charged differently based on what country you live in (so called tourist fee), In case one of your service providers is hacked (as often happens lately) you will not have a reason to worry. All hackers will get is that someone payed something to someone else.

uPlexa team recently went live (a few days ago) and has already filled up their Discord server with a lot of participants. This is their quickest source of information on the project. For uPlexa whitepaper, coin distribution, mining specifics, visit the website.

Also the vlogger IMineBlocks reviewed it in his video, which is a very good sign: