Goldshell Miners: Aleo, Tari and Scrypt Boxes

Three boxes, three algorithms, no Bitcoin

The AE-BOX II is a zkSNARK prover for Aleo: 54 MH/s for about 530 W. The XT Box 580G Oct runs SHA3x, the algorithm behind Tari (XTM): 580 GH/s for about 400 W, in a box 198 × 150 × 95 mm weighing about 2.4 kg. The Mini DOGE III 700M WiFi runs Scrypt for merged LTC and DOGE: 700 MH/s for about 400 W, over Ethernet or 2.4 GHz WiFi.

Three algorithms means three separate bets on three separate networks, and no unit here can be repurposed to another when one stops paying. ASIC silicon does one algorithm. Altcoin mining risks covers what that concentration actually means.

Two of the three do not plug into a wall

This is the Goldshell fact worth more than any spec on the page. The AE-BOX II and the Mini DOGE III are rated by Goldshell at 12 V DC, 10 A, fed over 6-pin PCIe connectors. There is no AC inlet on either box. The “110–240 V” figure you will see on retail listings elsewhere is the rating of whatever external power supply somebody put in front of it — it is not a property of the miner.

In practice that means a server PSU and breakout board is part of the purchase, and one is not included unless the listing names it. At roughly 400–530 W each, a single 1200 W server supply carries two of these boxes comfortably and three at its limit. The XT Box is the exception: it takes 110–240 V AC at 10 A directly and needs nothing extra.

If you have bought a Goldshell before, you already know this. If you have not, it is the single most common way one of these arrives and cannot be switched on.

What the quiet costs you on Scrypt

The Mini DOGE III is 400 W for 700 MH/s, which is 571 J/GH. The Antminer L11 20G is 184 J/GH, so the Goldshell uses about three times the power for the same Scrypt work; against an ElphaPex DG1+ at 280 J/GH it is about twice. That gap is not marketing; it is 400 W against machines doing far more with it.

Buy this box for what it is: 35 dB, small enough for a shelf, and a way to hold Scrypt hashrate in a house. It is not a machine to scale a farm with, and anyone telling you otherwise is quoting the price and not the efficiency. The same is true of the XT Box at 0.69 J/GH on SHA3x — it is the only Tari machine we stock, so we have nothing honest to rank it against, and the figure that has to carry the decision is what 400 W costs where you live.

The Aleo figures do not reconcile

The AE-BOX II is 54 MH/s on 530 W — about 9.8 J/MH. The IceRiver AE0 we also stock is 60 MH/s on 100 W — 1.67 J/MH. Those are both maker figures on the same algorithm and they are nearly six times apart, which is not a gap real silicon of one generation usually shows.

We have not run the two on one pool, so we will not rank them. Either Aleo MH/s is measured differently by the two vendors or one figure is wrong. If that number decides your purchase, ask us and we will tell you exactly what we know and what we do not.

How to choose

Pick the chain first, because the hardware cannot be moved between them. Aleo, Tari and Scrypt are three separate decisions and a Goldshell answers exactly one of them.

Budget for the power supply on two of the three. The AE-BOX II and the Mini DOGE III need an external 12 V supply and the 6-pin cabling to reach them. Add it to the price before you compare against a machine with an inlet.

Take 35 dB as the maker’s figure, not ours. Goldshell publishes it and we have not metered one. It is a fan, so it is a constant noise rather than an occasional one — what ASIC miners actually sound like puts the number in context.

Do not size a farm off this shelf. These are one-and-two-unit machines by design. If you want Scrypt at scale, the efficient hardware is on the Scrypt shelf, not here.

Who this suits

Someone who wants a specific altcoin’s hashrate in a house, an office or on a desk, and is buying quiet and size deliberately at a known cost in efficiency. Also anyone testing a chain before committing to industrial hardware — a 400 W box is a cheap way to learn a pool, a wallet and a payout schedule before a 3.5 kW one arrives.

All three are new single units. There is no used Goldshell stock and no Goldshell lots here; our volume inventory is SHA-256 hardware on bulk used ASIC miners. For quantities of these boxes, ask for a quote rather than reading a tier table we have not published.

Full catalogue: all miners. Related shelves: Kaspa, Aleo, Dash and CKB miners and Litecoin and Dogecoin Scrypt miners.