Only the very first Antminers were USB, all the ones after that have Ethernet built in.
Avalon, however, is still USB based.
Topic: USB - Bitcoin Mining Vs Antminer (Read 703 times)
I don't want to sound rude, but I'm probably gonna sound rude. It looks like you need to spend some time reading up on enough basics to be able to formulate that question in a way that's possible to answer, by which time you might have answered it yourself already.
do we need to have Antminer hardware to run USB based bitcoin mining 
? are these two hardware setup different ?
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