01 / physical work → reward
01WATTS
02JOULES / kWh
03HASHES
04WORKSHARES
05QUAI EARNED
06$ VALUE
A bounded physical experiment · proposed
One Bitaxe.
Thirty days.
A receipt.
Can a small, observable stream of energy be followed all the way from wall power to workshares, QUAI earned, and the market value attached to it?
The instrument
has two outputs.
Not a profitability promise. A measurement loop with a public boundary and a predeclared falsifier.
02 / network effect → sink
01HASHES
02EXTERNAL PoW SECURITY
03SOAP SUBSIDY PROBABILITY
04QUAI BUY / BURN
What gets recorded.
One device. One smart plug. One QUAI wallet. Thirty consecutive days, with gaps and failures retained rather than polished away.
A / POWER
Metered energy
Instantaneous watts, cumulative kWh, joules, runtime, and implied electricity cost at the declared tariff.
B / PROOF
Work submitted
Hashrate, accepted and rejected workshares, timestamps, pool or node endpoint, and miner uptime.
C / VALUE
Reward and price
QUAI rewards, wallet receipts, timestamped market price, energy cost per QUAI, and the exact calculation path.
The small laboratory.
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hardware / miner
Bitaxe Gamma
An open-source SHA-256 ASIC platform. The retail listing currently describes the Gamma 602 at roughly 1.2 TH/s and 15–18 W stock; the experiment will measure the actual unit, not borrow that claim.
hardware / meter
Kasa KP115
A smart plug with energy monitoring. The manufacturer specifies real-time and historical consumption tracking; it becomes the independent wall-side measurement.
The ask
$250 to make the invisible countable.
The proposed target covers one Bitaxe-class miner, one energy-monitoring plug, shipping or power accessories, and the first month of electricity. Any remainder is carried into the next measurement period or disclosed in the receipt.
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