Topic: USB miner for Altcoins - page 3. (Read 976 times)

I did not do mining using a USB stick, because I felt that doing mining using USB didn't get much results. you better think again before building mining using a USB stick.

Short answer.  Yes and Maybe.   Yes to your first answer on USB miners that can mine altcoin.   However profitable all depends on what you are calling a profit.  $1 a month well would be consider a profit compared to $0.  You won't make any big $$ off usb miners.  However for a hobby miner they are neat.

I have 3 different types currently running.  I have 2 futurebit moonlander 2's mining Digibyte at 720Mhz and netting just over 8Mh/s combined. That's about 3 cents a day ($0.03).  Futurebit has the Apollo that 2nd batch is currently being worked on and slated for end of June I think?  Some have reported up to 100Mh/s to 120Mh/s using the new Apollo on Scrypt algo.    At 100MH/s that would net you about $0.42 a day at current values (As of 5/16/19).

I have 4 GekkoScience newpac's running at 400Mhz and getting 90Gh/s each, 361Gh/s combined total.  This if I was looking at profits would net me $0.12 a day.   So between this and the moonlanders that would net me 15 cents a day

However I'm not looking for profits and the power they are using doesn't affect my electric (low to no cost for me).  I have the gekko's aimed at Litecoin Cash and getting about 10 coins every 24 hours.  

And lastly I have 2 of the new Gekkoscience R606 pods.  They are getting ~ 1 Th/s each on volt setting 5 (7 total settings) and uses about 48 watts per pod.  Not bad.    2 Th/s would net me $0.65 a day.  If I was looking to make a profit with all of these added up would be $0.80 a day.  And since I don't pay electric about $24.00 a month.

However like the others, I'm not looking for a immediate profit.  I did have these pods mining Litecoin Cash and was getting about 56 coins daily.   However tonight I've pointed them to solo mine Digibyte.

Most people use these pods and newpac's as a bitcoin lottery machine so to speak.  I however mine altcoins with them.  

Also these R606 are quiet!  They are no louder than a Desktop PC rear exhaust fan.  My moonlander fan's are louder lol.  Which this makes the wife happy as me having a full fledge ASIC miner in our house is highly frowned on lol.  I don't have a garage or a storage area offsite to set them up as of yet.  So for me, this is a low cost start.

And the Apollo's are next on my list.  

  <---- The newpac's and moonlanders

 <---- The R606's.  They were just restarted on DGB solo mining so haven't averaged out at time of posting.  After a few hours these should level out at 1.817 Th/s.

I think there no such type of advance USB through which we can get profitable mining, I think just wasting of time at the moment, Try second hand GPU rather than USB.

Hi,

I've been working on something you might find interesting.

Project Zero - Micro Miner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1kHs6dZNKU



I've posted more details & updates about it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/IMineBlocks_com

Articles that are very helpful, but my question is there an altcoin that really can bring profit if it is mined using a USB asic miner? , because I don't know yet whether there are altcoins that can use asics other than ethereum

There are articles about your question online, one of the prominent one is this https://coincentral.com/usb-asic-miner-profitability above all writeups, i belief direct experience is better than any theoretical analysis.
USB mining might not be profitable to BTC mining but some altcoin can bring in some profits.

I have seen USB mining reviews, but after I found more information, it turned out to be unprofitable, and would make the work go to waste, why didn't you choose to mine using the GPU

USB Miners will only be good for setup/educational purposes. These won't make any money most likely as they can't compete even with GPU hashrates.

I think if you can operate them for free (maybe office or something) and just save anything you make for a very long time it could be a lucrative? Have you found any usb miners yet?

You can never have the results you could achieve with an Asic or Fpga or a good GPU, but as other users have already said, there are several USB miners on the market, even used, and they also have good profitability; obviously you should use them with coins still little known and with low difficulty.

Follow the threads of @jstefanop

There's a lot of older ones that aren't very profitable anymore, though even with the newer stickminers you won't get a great amount of profit compared to bigger ASICs.

One of the more popular ones released somewhat recently include the Futurebit Moonlander 2s which are pretty widely available in North America. Jstefanop sells them and they're pretty solid units. As for older alt miners, there's also the DualMiner sticks released a few years ago that only hash Scrypt at around 70KH/s, a fraction of what the Moonlanders do. The DualMiner sticks do look pretty neat though, and they are also capable of mining SHA256 at a relatively slow hashrate too.

I was thinking of buying a USB miner three years ago to mine new coins in the market with low difficulty, but after reading a lot of bad reviews and disadvantages I forget the idea and just do bounty campaign and buying coins, GPU is more competitive than USB miner forget USB there are better options.

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not sure about that when you wanna use it to mine to get profit. I guess you can earn a buck in a month. Please read this before think to buy that https://coincentral.com/usb-asic-miner-profitability/
USB is a kind of mining hardware that will waste a lot of our time. That's it not to mine anything using it right now.
Don't you think to buy the second hand GPU rather than buy USB miner? 

Are there any USB Stick miners that mine altcoins?
If yes are there any that make at least a little bit profit?

Greetings!