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Topic: Antminer U2's Trash or still something left? (Read 1900 times)

newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
September 18, 2014, 10:03:48 PM
#11

 is it free power 0 cost  to mine the sticks? if you pay  power for those sticks to run.

 

 lets say you use 6-8 watts for the sticks.
 6 watts of power  is 144watts  a day
8 watts of power is 196watts a day

so between 4 and 6 kwatts a month at 10 cents your cost is 40 to 60 cents

if you spend 15 cents a kwatts your cost is 60 to 90 cents .

 if diff was frozen those sticks earn 83 cents a month before power costs.

So they will stop turning a profit very soon.

If your power is  totally free mine them.

I just checked. I only pay 6 cents/Kw so it's not costing me much to run these. I tried Peercoin. Still not as good as Battlecoin and pretty much the same problem as Bitcoin. It would just take too long to reach the payout threshold. So I guess I already found the coin for low hash-rate SHA256... Battlecoin.
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
September 18, 2014, 01:21:54 PM
#10
Stick to slow and steady.

FYI Coinwarz calculator says it will take average of 370711.02 days to solo mine a block with 4 GH/s.

That's 1015 years (and that's without difficulty increases) Grin

Ok, I was a little off. I could mine 3,704,750 BCX before ever coming close to finding a block.  Grin



 is it free power 0 cost  to mine the sticks? if you pay  power for those sticks to run.

 

 lets say you use 6-8 watts for the sticks.
 6 watts of power  is 144watts  a day
8 watts of power is 196watts a day

so between 4 and 6 kwatts a month at 10 cents your cost is 40 to 60 cents

if you spend 15 cents a kwatts your cost is 60 to 90 cents .

 if diff was frozen those sticks earn 83 cents a month before power costs.

So they will stop turning a profit very soon.

If your power is  totally free mine them.
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
September 18, 2014, 08:50:47 AM
#9
Stick to slow and steady.

FYI Coinwarz calculator says it will take average of 370711.02 days to solo mine a block with 4 GH/s.

That's 1015 years (and that's without difficulty increases) Grin

Ok, I was a little off. I could mine 3,704,750 BCX before ever coming close to finding a block.  Grin

legendary
Activity: 1414
Merit: 1077
September 18, 2014, 01:24:50 AM
#8
Stick to slow and steady.

FYI Coinwarz calculator says it will take average of 370711.02 days to solo mine a block with 4 GH/s.

That's 1015 years (and that's without difficulty increases) Grin
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
September 17, 2014, 10:46:47 PM
#7
I have 2 antminer u2's and I was wondering if there is still any sha256 coin pool to mine where I would do ok with only 4gh's?

I've been mining Zetacoin on p2pool, but it's REAL slow. About 1 zetacoin every few days. I can mine on bitcoin pools for scraps but the payout thresholds are too high. It would take a few months to reach the .01 btc payout.

I also tried battlecoin with a little success. But there has to be something better.

So please, if you have a BTC pool with a VERY low or no payout threshold or can suggest your pool for my little miners that would be great!

Or if they are trash I'll just pack them up and toss them.

mine them at bit solo

http://bitsolo.net/


  6 watts for 2  to run is   about 1 kwatt a week  so for 10 cents a week you could win a block

Thanks for the suggestion but I'll stick with slow and steady. I already downloaded the entire blockchain in my ignorance and complete lack of knowledge of the difficulty in solo mining bitcoin (actually, it wasn't that hard to set up or take all that long). So I'm already set up to solo mine. I could mine a million Battlecoin before I ever came close to finding a block.

So I guess I'll keep mining battlecoin on bcx.coin-pool.org. It's not the fastest buy I do get about 10 BCX a day and the minimum payout is only 1 bcx.

I still think bitcoin pools could still be viable for low hasrates if they would just lower the payout threshold. Like I said, I was still getting a few scraps even on BTC Guild. It would just take months for me to reach the .01 minimum to ever see any of it.
legendary
Activity: 1344
Merit: 1024
Mine at Jonny's Pool
September 17, 2014, 02:24:10 PM
#6
Absolutely solo mine with them.  As was pointed out, they cost virtually nothing to run, and if you hit... it's what I do.  I've got 5 of them in a USB hub with an rPi controller mining on Con's solo pool.
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
September 17, 2014, 02:19:44 PM
#5
I have 2 antminer u2's and I was wondering if there is still any sha256 coin pool to mine where I would do ok with only 4gh's?

I've been mining Zetacoin on p2pool, but it's REAL slow. About 1 zetacoin every few days. I can mine on bitcoin pools for scraps but the payout thresholds are too high. It would take a few months to reach the .01 btc payout.

I also tried battlecoin with a little success. But there has to be something better.

So please, if you have a BTC pool with a VERY low or no payout threshold or can suggest your pool for my little miners that would be great!

Or if they are trash I'll just pack them up and toss them.

mine them at bit solo

http://bitsolo.net/


  6 watts for 2  to run is   about 1 kwatt a week  so for 10 cents a week you could win a block
hero member
Activity: 1372
Merit: 783
better everyday ♥
September 17, 2014, 10:33:03 AM
#4
Keychain, memorabilia, maybe frame it, or keep it on your office desk as an ornament.

Nope, nothing left it those things at all.
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
September 17, 2014, 07:42:12 AM
#3
Well, the pc is on anyway. it's my media and file server. it's not as bad as that though.

I can make about 5 cents a day on westhash. But the same problem there. Minimum .004 BTC daily payout. But at least it dumps the dust once a week.
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
September 16, 2014, 11:59:36 PM
#1
I have 2 antminer u2's and I was wondering if there is still any sha256 coin pool to mine where I would do ok with only 4gh's?

I've been mining Zetacoin on p2pool, but it's REAL slow. About 1 zetacoin every few days. I can mine on bitcoin pools for scraps but the payout thresholds are too high. It would take a few months to reach the .01 btc payout.

I also tried battlecoin with a little success. But there has to be something better.

So please, if you have a BTC pool with a VERY low or no payout threshold or can suggest your pool for my little miners that would be great!

Or if they are trash I'll just pack them up and toss them.
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