Goldshell AE-BOX II Aleo Miner - 54 MH/s zkSNARK, 530W

Q: How loud is it?

Goldshell publishes 35 dB, which is quiet enough for a home office and is the reason this box exists in this shape. We have not metered one ourselves, so take 35 dB as the maker’s figure rather than ours — and note that it is a fan, so it is a constant noise, not an occasional one. The 60–65 dB this page used to claim was template copy carried over from an industrial machine.

Q: What can I mine with it?

Aleo, and nothing else. The algorithm is zkSNARK and ASIC silicon is single-purpose: it proves Aleo transactions and will not mine Bitcoin, Ethereum Classic or ZIL, whatever the price of anything else does.

Description

The Goldshell AE-BOX II is a zkSNARK prover for Aleo — 54 MH/s for about 530 W, roughly 9.8 J/MH. It is the second generation of Goldshell’s AE BOX: same compact box, hashrate up from 37 MH/s to 54. It mines Aleo and only Aleo. New stock, and we will confirm the batch in writing before you pay.

A correction to what this page used to say

Until 29 July 2026 this listing described the AE BOX II as an Ethash miner for Ethereum Classic and ZIL — in the title, in the spec table and in the FAQ below. That was wrong. Goldshell builds this machine as an Aleo zkSNARK prover, and zkSNARK silicon cannot mine Ethereum Classic at any speed. We have corrected every line of it rather than quietly editing the spec table, because somebody may have read the old one. If you bought this from us expecting an ETC machine, call +1 (781) 577-0377 and we will make it right.

Goldshell AE-BOX II 54M specifications

Model	Goldshell AE-BOX II 54M
Algorithm	zkSNARK — Aleo (ALEO) only. Not Ethash, not Ethereum Classic, not ZIL
Hashrate	54 MH/s ±5%
Power consumption	530W ±5%
Efficiency	≈9.8 J/MH (530 W ÷ 54 MH/s). zkSNARK efficiency only compares against other Aleo hardware — never against a Bitcoin miner’s J/TH
Input voltage	12 V DC, 10 A — Goldshell rates the miner itself at 12 V DC, fed over dual 6-pin PCIe from an external power supply. There is no AC inlet on this box
Cooling	Dual-fan air cooling system
Noise	35 dB published by Goldshell — we have not metered one. The 60–65 dB this table used to show was template copy, not a measurement
Network	Ethernet
Condition	Brand new and tested unit

It does not plug into a wall on its own. Goldshell’s published input for the AE-BOX II is 12 V DC over two 6-pin PCIe connectors, not a mains voltage — the 110–240 V figure you will see quoted elsewhere is the rating of whatever external PSU somebody put in front of it, not a property of the miner. Budget for a PSU that can deliver 530 W continuously on the 12 V rail; one is not included unless this listing names it above. If you want us to confirm what is physically in the crate before you pay, ask on +1 (781) 577-0377 or ns@ingmining.com.

What’s in the box

1 × Goldshell AE-BOX II 54M miner
Nothing that is not listed above. Cords, controllers, brackets and spares are only included when this listing names them — if you need to know before you pay, ask on +1 (781) 577-0377 or ns@ingmining.com and we will confirm in writing what is physically in the crate

Get your Goldshell AE-BOX II Aleo miner directly from ING Mining, your trusted source for verified crypto mining hardware. It ships worldwide, and what a US checkout charges against what a quote covers is published on shipping and delivery rather than promised in a sentence. The person who answers the phone is the person who handles the hardware. This listing states no warranty term, so we are not going to imply one — Goldshell is not Bitmain and none of Bitmain’s published miner cover reaches this box. Ask before you pay and we will confirm in writing what comes with the exact unit. To monitor network profitability and performance data, visit WhatToMine or Minerstat Hardware Database.

Before you order: this is a single-coin box

A zkSNARK prover proves Aleo transactions and does nothing else. There is no second chain to fall back to and no resale market of the kind an S19 has — a Bitcoin miner that stops paying is still worth something to somebody, and an Aleo prover is worth what Aleo is worth. Buy it because you have looked at that project yourself. If you want the same bet on a different network, we stock the IceRiver AE3 for Aleo at 2 GH/s and the Pinecone INI Box for InitVerse.

Questions buyers ask about this machine

What will it cost to run?

That depends on your electricity rate, so here is the part we can state exactly: at 530 W running 24/7, this machine burns about 382 kWh a month. Multiply that by your own all-in rate per kWh — including delivery charges, not just the supply rate — to get your monthly power bill. We do not publish profitability figures, because they change with difficulty and price every day.

How loud is it?

Goldshell publishes 35 dB, which is quiet enough for a home office and is the reason this box exists in this shape. We have not metered one ourselves, so take 35 dB as the maker’s figure rather than ours — and note that it is a fan, so it is a constant noise, not an occasional one. The 60–65 dB this page used to claim was template copy carried over from an industrial machine.

What can I mine with it?

Aleo, and nothing else. The algorithm is zkSNARK and ASIC silicon is single-purpose: it proves Aleo transactions and will not mine Bitcoin, Ethereum Classic or ZIL, whatever the price of anything else does.

Is this a new unit?

Yes — new stock, as described in this listing. Any manufacturer warranty term that applies is stated in the description above; where none is stated, none is claimed.

Shipping cost for this exact item, and how warranty and returns work here, are answered in the Shipping & buying tab on this page. Anything else, ask a person on +1 (781) 577-0377 or ns@ingmining.com — we would rather talk before you buy.

Related hardware and where this sits in the store

Other single-coin ASICs on the shelf — different chains, same shape of bet:

Categories: New ASIC miners, XTM/ALEO/KAS/Dash/CKB Miner, Air Cooling and Goldshell.

Before you buy: this is a zkSNARK machine rated 54 MH/s ±5% on 530W ±5%. That is MH/s of proof work, not the TH/s of a Bitcoin miner or the GH/s of a Scrypt one, so no J/TH or J/GH figure anywhere on this site is comparable with it – which is why it has no row on our comparison table. why efficiency figures do not cross algorithms is where we set out the one number that does survive the crossing.

Where this listing sits

This one is on the new shelf. New stock, as described in the listing. Any manufacturer warranty term that applies is named in the description; where none is named, none is claimed.

What our grades mean

These are the only words we use, and each one means a specific thing. They are not interchangeable and we do not soften them to move stock.

New	Unused stock. Factory sealed unless the listing says otherwise — “new, open box” means exactly that, and the listing will say it.
Tested working	Second-hand, and it ran on our bench at the hashrate the listing states. We measured it; we are not repeating what the last owner told us. Expect cosmetic wear.
Refurbished	Tested working, plus work done: cleaned, thermal paste and fans dealt with, failed components replaced. The listing says what was actually done to that unit rather than using the word as decoration.
As-is / for parts	Sold with no working claim at all, at a price that reflects it. Buy these to repair or to harvest. If a listing says as-is, assume it does not hash until you have proved otherwise.
Untested	We have it, we have not powered it, and we are not going to pretend we did. Rarer than as-is and always stated explicitly.

What a grade here does not mean

Cosmetic wear is not a fault. Dust, scratches, scuffed labels and discoloured plastics are normal on hardware that has been earning. We photograph what we have; if the pictures matter to you, ask for more and we will take them.
A grade is not a warranty. Warranty terms are stated per listing, never per store — see the Shipping & buying tab. A tested-working grade describes what the machine did on our bench, not what we owe you in six months.
A boosted hashrate is not a spec. Where a unit ships on tuned firmware we say so and we give the factory figures too, because overclocking raises power faster than it raises hashrate — a tuned machine is less efficient per terahash than stock, not more.
We will not invent a grade to fill a field. If a unit came in without history and has not been through the bench, its listing says that.

How the grade gets decided

A used-hardware seller who will not tell you how they test is asking you to take the grade on trust. Ours is published: the six-step bench procedure every machine goes through, and the five measurements that get recorded — per-board hashrate, chip count, measured wall power rather than the nameplate figure, hardware error rate, and temperature under sustained load. When it reaches you, run the 48-hour acceptance test straight away, while the freight claim window is still open.

Buying second-hand for the first time? How to buy a used ASIC miner without getting burned is the long version, written from the repair bench rather than from a spec sheet.

Shipping

This listing is quoted rather than priced, and freight is quoted with it. Tell us where it is going and we will confirm the shipping cost to that address with the price, before you pay — on a multi-unit or pallet order that is the only honest way to do it.

Outside the United States the checkout quotes a flat international rate. On multi-unit or pallet orders, contact us before ordering so freight to your destination can be confirmed properly. What to check when the pallet arrives, and how a freight claim works, is covered in the mining hardware shipping guide.

What to do the day it arrives

Photograph the pallet or the box before you open it, and keep the packaging until you are satisfied. Freight claim windows are short, and damage found on day two is a conversation while damage found on day thirty is an argument.

Then run the 48-hour acceptance test straight away, while that window is still open. It is the same ground our own bench covers, so you can compare like for like: how the grade on this listing was arrived at, and the five measurements we record, are set out in the Condition & grading tab on this page.

Condition, warranty and returns

Condition: New — as described on this listing.

Warranty is stated per listing, not across the catalogue. Some units carry a manufacturer term and say so above, naming the term and the date it runs from. Many units, particularly used and AS-IS stock, carry none, and those listings do not claim one. There is no blanket warranty covering a catalogue that runs from sealed factory stock to a hashboard sold for parts. For what a mining warranty normally covers, see ASIC miner warranty explained.

Returns: ask for the terms on this unit before you pay. No single returns window is published for the whole store, because the sensible terms on a tested working machine and on a board sold AS-IS for parts are not the same terms. Email or call and ask what applies to this exact item — it is a two-minute conversation and a great deal cheaper than a dispute.

Where you are going to run it

Two questions decide whether a machine like this works where you live, and neither of them is about the miner: can the circuit carry it, and what does your electricity cost? Most full-size machines here want a dedicated 240 V circuit and run at 70–75 dB continuously. A few do not — the Avalon Q publishes 45–65 dB and runs on 110–240 V — so read the voltage and noise figures on this listing rather than assuming. ASIC miner power requirements covers breaker sizing and what the install actually involves; cooling covers where the heat and the noise end up.

If your power is not genuinely cheap, hosting is the question to be asking instead of which miner to buy. Break-even electricity rate is hashprice divided by (24 × J/TH), and hashrate cancels out of it entirely — which is why a cheap old machine on expensive power loses money faster than an expensive new one does. The buying guide has the arithmetic; work out your own number before you buy anything.

If hosting is the answer, get written answers on three things before you sign: who pays for repairs, what the uptime commitment actually pays out when it is missed, and how curtailment is handled. A flat per-machine monthly rate is where most of the unpleasant surprises live. Types of mining farm compares the models and hosting versus cloud mining covers why owning the hardware is the better end of that trade. Ask us before you commit — it is a five-minute call and a great deal cheaper than a contract you cannot get out of.

What we do once it is racked, wherever that is. Deployment, firmware and monitoring are a service we run rather than a line on a page: pool and network setup, Braiins OS or VNish tuning, offline alerts, and board-level fault-finding when a machine stops hashing — ASIC mining consulting sets out what that covers. The hosting agreement itself is between you and the facility. What we can give you is the number most hosting disputes turn on: what this machine measured at the wall on our bench, so a shortfall on site is a figure to compare against rather than an argument about what it should have been doing.

Who you are buying from

ING Mining LLC, Hanson, Massachusetts. ING MINING® is a registered U.S. trademark; our marketplace feedback is on the reviews page and the longer version of who we are is on about. Reach a person on +1 (781) 577-0377 or ns@ingmining.com.

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