I have lost the track here due to no images getting showed on the entire thread. Neither the OP images are visible so far. Is it possible for someone to show what these miner look like? I am more than interested in knowing if the “sticks” are really worth buying or not. I am surfing the forum for clues to know which miner could be way easier for new comer (in mining field).
I am not sure if this is similar to those USB miner sticks but the name suggests the same. However I am not able to tally the power which some of you stating more 300-500 GH for the sticks. Is this new generation USB or something that is so powerful? Or I’m talking about entirely different miner which is out dated already.
These are the latest iteration of sidehacks (Gekkoscience) USB miner. Here's some info on one of the approved resellers websites:-
https://www.bitshopper.de/shop/sha-256-miner/usb-miner-bitcoin/compac-f/Thats amazing to see the sticks still works? I thought these were outdated long ago considering the fact that hash rate is pumping up lately and difficulty of the network is off the roof! It's cool to know that they are able to keep up with the profitability with such small device. I am wondering why everyone is into big sounding ASICs if small units are capable of doing the hashrate performance well up to 350 GH/s. I know miners are gone way up to TH/s capacity but isn't the stick can solve cooling power, low maintenance and thus one can have rows of sticks in a farm!
The miner is equipped with an AntMiner BM1397 ASIC chip, which is also used in the well-known AntMiner S17 and S17 Pro.
An adapted version of the well-known standard mining software CGMiner is available for the miner. This allows the clock rate of both ASICs to be adjusted using console parameters. In addition, a voltage regulator is installed, which allows the core voltage to be set from 550 mV to 800 mV without soldering skills.
If they already have the desired mechanism, and capability to solve the complex algo's then why we are not developing this tech into ideal working model. Imagine we were talking on the hallow tube driven telephones were a manual operator was the middle man and today we can reach anywhere in blink of an eye with our smartphones.
Isnt that is also possibility in the mining technology ?