Topic: Hitting a 12 BTC block with 1 usb miner and a laptop (Read 681 times)
Ok USB Bitcoin mining is over, instead can it still be done with Altcoins?
i think, usb miner is not profitable right now, I don't know how much hashrate is generated for USB miner. but by comparing hardware miners like antminers that cost much more. so, it will waste your time and your own finances
Not only is not profitable now, for how many years mining with that equipment has not been profitable and there is no way that at some point in the future that is going to become profitable in the future, it is better for the op to give up his illusions to mine a block with that equipment.
The usb mining is not really profitable , sorry to hear that
Since January 1,2017 has anyone ever hit a block of bitcoin solo mining on a laptop with a usb miner like gekkoscience 2pac?
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
With the increase on difficulty level and increased in the numbers of miners using a much stronger Asic miner,
I think using a USB miner will not be profitable now a days.
Asic Miners has a speed of as much as 14.5 THs compared to USB miners 15 GHs. And you even need to have a
bunch of Asic miners for you to get a single block of BTC.
i have always been interested in been a miner but just getting to know how to mine is the problem, however, knowing about how to mine and mining bitcoin also is entirely a different ball game.
USB miners have too small hashrate. Even if you had tens of them, you wouldn't earn much anyway. It's too late to use USB miners. Now ASICs like Antminer matter in the mining world. The chance of mining a block solo is near zero. It's a waste of electricity in my opinion.
that's not the point of something like that though, it's just something youd set up and not even have to think about, and given that infinitesimal chance that you actually ended up finding the block, you'd just be rewarded a hundredfold for something you spent pocket change on. it's a fun little thing you just keep going, and if i still had my usb miner i would probably set it up too.When solo mining on a laptop you will not earn more than 50$ a year. I think home mining is unfortunately over 
i think you misunderstood; the topic is about attempting to solo mine with an obsolete setup, not on a pool. and even then, with a laptop and a 2 gh miner, i dont think you would even get more than 10 cents in a year the way things are looking right now. 50 dollars? fat chance. exact, and over time will be required of more powerful machines, even the current ones such as Bitmain Antminer L3 + 504MH / s start to not be so profitable.
mining as a business has many disadvantaged
You have to have an extreme amount of sheer luck to hit a block with such a low hashrate nowadays. Even a single S9 is hard to hit those blocks given that there are tons of mining farms doing the hashing everyday. But it'd be cool if someone comes up with proofs stating that they solo mined a block with just a USB miner since it gives luck and randomness on mining a new statement, but we knkw that that wouldn't happen, not in this instance of reality we live in.
I remember having my 3x Gridseed way back 2015 and I love those little things. Sadly I have to turn it off since it only produces heat and not actual money for me.
it's not impossible though, it can still happen for that one lucky individual. i used to run a gridseed back when i was in college too, free electricity why the hell not. ive since sold the miner, but it was a tad fun having it run constantly. never actually found a block though, but i expected as much. I remember having my 3x Gridseed way back 2015 and I love those little things. Sadly I have to turn it off since it only produces heat and not actual money for me.
A few months ago someone took a recent model Macbook Air and tried mining with it. It took 33 hours to earn 1 satoshi. Since then the difficulty has climbed quickly (we just had a 21% difficulty increase), so it would be many more hours for 1 satoshi now.
USB miners have too small hashrate. Even if you had tens of them, you wouldn't earn much anyway. It's too late to use USB miners. Now ASICs like Antminer matter in the mining world. The chance of mining a block solo is near zero. It's a waste of electricity in my opinion.
that's not the point of something like that though, it's just something youd set up and not even have to think about, and given that infinitesimal chance that you actually ended up finding the block, you'd just be rewarded a hundredfold for something you spent pocket change on. it's a fun little thing you just keep going, and if i still had my usb miner i would probably set it up too.When solo mining on a laptop you will not earn more than 50$ a year. I think home mining is unfortunately over
i think you misunderstood; the topic is about attempting to solo mine with an obsolete setup, not on a pool. and even then, with a laptop and a 2 gh miner, i dont think you would even get more than 10 cents in a year the way things are looking right now. 50 dollars? fat chance. exact, and over time will be required of more powerful machines, even the current ones such as Bitmain Antminer L3 + 504MH / s start to not be so profitable.
mining as a business has many disadvantaged
Since January 1,2017 has anyone ever hit a block of bitcoin solo mining on a laptop with a usb miner like gekkoscience 2pac?
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
You are just playing lottery my friend, you are hoping to mine a block with a very underpowered computer and that is simply not going to happen, you are going to get more profits by simple selling that hardware and buy bitcoin with it, the time where you could mine with that equipment is over.This could be life changing money for $100 investment
You are going up against odds worse than getting struck by lightning, or hitting the jackpot on a state lottery.
but as above suggests, you are hurting your opportunity cost by tying up your money in something with virtually no chance of roi. if you can do this at someone elses expense (power I mean), it STILL really wouldnt be worth it. You have the approximate snowball's chance in hell to hit this naturally. but it is possible, just good god almighty improbable that you will.
now if you sold that miner and saved that electricity, you could invest into an emerging, promising alt coin (not a shit coin!)
Since January 1,2017 has anyone ever hit a block of bitcoin solo mining on a laptop with a usb miner like gekkoscience 2pac?
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
They are using Asic miners now, with tera hashes don't think USB can still do it.
USB miners have too small hashrate. Even if you had tens of them, you wouldn't earn much anyway. It's too late to use USB miners. Now ASICs like Antminer matter in the mining world. The chance of mining a block solo is near zero. It's a waste of electricity in my opinion.
that's not the point of something like that though, it's just something youd set up and not even have to think about, and given that infinitesimal chance that you actually ended up finding the block, you'd just be rewarded a hundredfold for something you spent pocket change on. it's a fun little thing you just keep going, and if i still had my usb miner i would probably set it up too.When solo mining on a laptop you will not earn more than 50$ a year. I think home mining is unfortunately over
i think you misunderstood; the topic is about attempting to solo mine with an obsolete setup, not on a pool. and even then, with a laptop and a 2 gh miner, i dont think you would even get more than 10 cents in a year the way things are looking right now. 50 dollars? fat chance. 
You have to have an extreme amount of sheer luck to hit a block with such a low hashrate nowadays. Even a single S9 is hard to hit those blocks given that there are tons of mining farms doing the hashing everyday. But it'd be cool if someone comes up with proofs stating that they solo mined a block with just a USB miner since it gives luck and randomness on mining a new statement, but we knkw that that wouldn't happen, not in this instance of reality we live in.
I remember having my 3x Gridseed way back 2015 and I love those little things. Sadly I have to turn it off since it only produces heat and not actual money for me.
I remember having my 3x Gridseed way back 2015 and I love those little things. Sadly I have to turn it off since it only produces heat and not actual money for me.
Mining with an USB miner is just a waste of money and time. It's nearly imposible for an usb miner to solve a block thechances would be 1 over a billion. I would prefer that usimg Antminers if you do want to mine some bitcoin nor altcoins.
Since January 1,2017 has anyone ever hit a block of bitcoin solo mining on a laptop with a usb miner like gekkoscience 2pac?
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
I think it's too late to use usb miner. It's not profitable anymore and maybe you send the rest of your life mining without reaching 1 btc.This could be life changing money for $100 investment
lol, Don't think they were ever profitable. USB are sold as a gimmick because the ASIC chips are small and sort of "because you can" attitude and novelty. I remember sales for bundles of the first (antminer?) with a multiport USB hub, power and a USB fan, their price was too high to return profits. Really they were intended as fun/keeping the network distributed. They are fun, interesting way to get into mining, but chances of finding a block? $100 on local lottery (or bitcoins
) a better bet. Since January 1,2017 has anyone ever hit a block of bitcoin solo mining on a laptop with a usb miner like gekkoscience 2pac?
This could be life changing money for $100 investment
You are just playing lottery my friend, you are hoping to mine a block with a very underpowered computer and that is simply not going to happen, you are going to get more profits by simple selling that hardware and buy bitcoin with it, the time where you could mine with that equipment is over. This could be life changing money for $100 investment
i think, usb miner is not profitable right now, I don't know how much hashrate is generated for USB miner. but by comparing hardware miners like antminers that cost much more. so, it will waste your time and your own finances
A Gekkoscience 2pac will give you about 10Gh/s out of the box and can be overclocked to about 25Gh/s. So not alot in the grand scheme of things.....
25 GH/s gives you a 1 in 320 million chance of finding the next block. Note that the odds of winning the Powerball lottery jackpot are slightly better (1 in 292 million).
The odds of finding at least one of the 144 blocks mined in a day is 1 in 2 million. The odds of finding at least one block after mining for a year is 1 in 6000.
I am pretty sure that is impossible thing to do. The old days when you could easily make 0,05 Btc per week with USB mining at home are gone and you're lucky today if you make at least 0,004 a year. Some online stores still sell those usb mining just for fun or for collectors who like those trinkets. I myself had one of those that I used as a keyring of a schoolbag.
i think, usb miner is not profitable right now, I don't know how much hashrate is generated for USB miner. but by comparing hardware miners like antminers that cost much more. so, it will waste your time and your own finances
A Gekkoscience 2pac will give you about 10Gh/s out of the box and can be overclocked to about 25Gh/s. So not alot in the grand scheme of things.....
I'd say it was nearly impossible. Only way to see any return at all from a USB miner would be in a pool and you wouldn't see a very big return. You would probably be better off mining an alt coin with growth potential
i think, usb miner is not profitable right now, I don't know how much hashrate is generated for USB miner. but by comparing hardware miners like antminers that cost much more. so, it will waste your time and your own finances
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