Is it worth investing in USB Block Erupters? - page 2.

U1TRA_L0RD

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Quote from: Starscream on January 26, 2014, 07:08:30 AM

Quote from: U1TRA_L0RD on January 26, 2014, 07:03:16 AM

There are some people ordering some TH/s scrypt mining rigs. But I cant find the source anywhere.

Lol no they aren't.

There's no ASIC for Scrypt mining except for this hybrid.

LOL, YES THERE ISSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Jk, There is some companies out there that build mining rigs like, Care to do some research before saying a invalid reply? Wink

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Quote from: U1TRA_L0RD on January 26, 2014, 07:03:16 AM

There are some people ordering some TH/s scrypt mining rigs. But I cant find the source anywhere.

Lol no they aren't.

There's no ASIC for Scrypt mining except for this hybrid.

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Quote from: Starscream on January 26, 2014, 06:57:04 AM

Quote from: Sonny on January 26, 2014, 03:04:41 AM

Quote from: U1TRA_L0RD on January 26, 2014, 02:53:02 AM

So, I heard you cant mine Scrypt coins with an ASIC miner, Are these ASIC, If not, Where is there a guide to mining them with scrypt? and will they mine at the advertised hash rate? Thanks!

The ASIC you found now are all specially designed for SHA-256 hashing.
There is also some rumors (or maybe news?) that some scrypt ASIC are being developed.

For example, this guy is selling "Scrypt ASIC / SHA-256 combo miners" here, but I am not sure if it is legit or not.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-424987

It's legit, but it has a few issues:
1. You can't mine both Scrypt and SHA-256 at the same time with those
2. The Scrypt ASIC part is quite poor really. You get a better KH/s / $ with GPUs than with this hybrid ASIC....
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There are some people ordering some TH/s scrypt mining rigs. But I cant find the source anywhere.

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Quote from: Sonny on January 26, 2014, 03:04:41 AM

Quote from: U1TRA_L0RD on January 26, 2014, 02:53:02 AM

So, I heard you cant mine Scrypt coins with an ASIC miner, Are these ASIC, If not, Where is there a guide to mining them with scrypt? and will they mine at the advertised hash rate? Thanks!

The ASIC you found now are all specially designed for SHA-256 hashing.
There is also some rumors (or maybe news?) that some scrypt ASIC are being developed.

For example, this guy is selling "Scrypt ASIC / SHA-256 combo miners" here, but I am not sure if it is legit or not.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-424987

It's legit, but it has a few issues:
1. You can't mine both Scrypt and SHA-256 at the same time with those
2. The Scrypt ASIC part is quite poor really. You get a better KH/s / $ with GPUs than with this hybrid ASIC....

Equate

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no worth investing , as the difficulty is rising , usb erupters are the thing of past now,

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Quote from: U1TRA_L0RD on January 26, 2014, 02:53:02 AM

So, I heard you cant mine Scrypt coins with an ASIC miner, Are these ASIC, If not, Where is there a guide to mining them with scrypt? and will they mine at the advertised hash rate? Thanks!

The ASIC you found now are all specially designed for SHA-256 hashing.
There is also some rumors (or maybe news?) that some scrypt ASIC are being developed.

For example, this guy is selling "Scrypt ASIC / SHA-256 combo miners" here, but I am not sure if it is legit or not.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-424987

U1TRA_L0RD

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So, I heard you cant mine Scrypt coins with an ASIC miner, Are these ASIC, If not, Where is there a guide to mining them with scrypt? and will they mine at the advertised hash rate? Thanks!

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Quote from: JohnnyDop3 on January 25, 2014, 07:01:20 AM

I'm considering building a USB mining rig, but I fear that at this point it is too late to make any profit.

If I go about buying, let's say, the Bitmain Antminer, which runs at 1.6 gHs/s, at the cost of $85, would that return my investment?
I would buy one, mine, profit, and then buy more, but I fear that with the current and coming difficulty on the network+the global hashrate, it would be a folly.

What do you guys think? I would buy one of the big ASIC miners, but yeah... Can't make bread without dough! Cheesy

Excuse this blasphemous question, but would it be a better investment to mine litecoins, from my standpoint? I have a 7870 card.

Cheers!

Well you can buy 1 antminer to get in the game. It would lose money if the price of btc does not go close to 1.5k usd.

If your power is under 20 cents a k-watt and you have a working pc with a hd7870 on hand your startup cost for lite coin is free. So startup lite coin today. It will make money. I mix mine. I have 4 pc's 2 run lite coin alone . 2 run lite coin and bit coin. I turn profit. my ltc is about 500 usd a month after power my btc is about 1000 usd a month after power. Plus it is cold this winter so I get some free heat out of the deal.

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if you get them cheap enough, you could mine alt coins ... but other wise no Sad

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They're not profitable.

cxboyminer

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Defo not 333mh one. I just bought bitmain ant miner U1, 1.6gb (but mine ave. is 2gh without over clocking). U1 can over clock to 2.2gh.

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I'm considering building a USB mining rig, but I fear that at this point it is too late to make any profit.

If I go about buying, let's say, the Bitmain Antminer, which runs at 1.6 gHs/s, at the cost of $85, would that return my investment?
I would buy one, mine, profit, and then buy more, but I fear that with the current and coming difficulty on the network+the global hashrate, it would be a folly.

What do you guys think? I would buy one of the big ASIC miners, but yeah... Can't make bread without dough! Cheesy

Excuse this blasphemous question, but would it be a better investment to mine litecoins, from my standpoint? I have a 7870 card.

Cheers!

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