Crypto Rig starter
Crypto Rig starter -- negligible idle draw, enormous headroom once mining. The gap between its 10W typical and 1000W max is the widest of any device in the roster; power planning for this one is really about the mining state, not the idle state.
- Category: Compute
- Rack height: 1U
- Power draw: 10W typical, 1000W max
10W typical, up to 1000W under load, dual PSU ports (wire both if you want the full load capacity actually available, not just the port count).
Mining rates: Eco 0.4 coin/hour, Balanced 0.8 coin/hour, Turbo 1.2 coin/hour -- genuinely slow by design, not a bug. Whatever's accrued flushes into the NAS vault every 60 seconds; the rig's own inspector shows a live "Next payout" countdown and a Reason line that pinpoints exactly what's missing if it isn't mining.
Four things ALL have to be true before this rig mines anything: (1) real power reaching it -- wiring to a PDU/UPS is not enough, that PDU/UPS also needs its OWN power switch turned on, separate from being wired into the grid; (2) a network link with a working IP and no fault; (3) a NAS share enabled for this rig on an online NAS, with its "Share size (blocks)" set above 0 -- enabling a share leaves size at 0 by default, and at 0 capacity mining silently produces nothing forever; (4) mining actually toggled on in this rig's own inspector.
Mined coin never appears as spendable money by itself. It lands in the NAS vault first, then has to be manually Transferred into the Wallet's crypto holdings, then manually Sold/Converted (Wallet -> Overview or Wallet -> Markets) at the live market price into spendable Lab Credits. Each step is a separate button press -- skipping the last two is the single most common reason a rig looks like it's mining but the wallet balance never moves.
The Wallet's Markets tab is a real buy/sell exchange at the live price (a straight cash-for-coin trade, no NAS vault involved) plus a Pump Predictor mini-game -- stake held coin on a 15-second up/down price call, 1.8x payout if right, stake lost if wrong.
Tip: because idle draw is so low, it's tempting to rack one early on a starter PDU -- just remember the load jumps by two orders of magnitude the moment mining actually starts, so plan the PDU/grid capacity for the mining number, not the idle one.
See also: the Active Services Monitor for live mining status at a glance, and Marketplace for the exchange and Pump Predictor.