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NihilVidemus

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Quote from: silvestar on April 28, 2014, 05:25:00 AM

Quote from: NihilVidemus on April 28, 2014, 03:42:34 AM

Just started! Two Antminer U2's running at 4.4GH/s total. Generates an amazing 13.24 uBTC/hr. At this rate I'll be able to transfer my balance from the pool without paying a transaction fee in about a month. Hopefully the difficulty doesn't go up before then.

Difficulty will go up in less than 2 days from now. It will go further up every ~12 days afterwards.

Well, looks like the U2 will stay plugged in for the foreseeable future then. New hope- that they make close to .005BTC before they stop being able to contribute a non-negligible amount of shares to the pool. Looks like I'll need more hardware to be able to withdraw without a transaction fee anytime in the foreseeable future.

tesene

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I mined Primecoin with my desktop and then I used a legion of AWS servers while they had a promo going on. Those were the days.

silvestar

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HD6850 for litecoin and a few USB miners for bitcoin.

silvestar

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Quote from: NihilVidemus on April 28, 2014, 03:42:34 AM

Just started! Two Antminer U2's running at 4.4GH/s total. Generates an amazing 13.24 uBTC/hr. At this rate I'll be able to transfer my balance from the pool without paying a transaction fee in about a month. Hopefully the difficulty doesn't go up before then.

Difficulty will go up in less than 2 days from now. It will go further up every ~12 days afterwards.

NihilVidemus

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Just started! Two Antminer U2's running at 4.4GH/s total. Generates an amazing 13.24 uBTC/hr. At this rate I'll be able to transfer my balance from the pool without paying a transaction fee in about a month. Hopefully the difficulty doesn't go up before then.

left-ca

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my macbook pro

desired_username

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1x AMD HD5870

Simon8x

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An Antminer U1 USB miner just to try mining.

alexnjc

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1st was CPU, than Radeon R9 290 at november 2013. It it seemed very cool Grin

lockthesun

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My first rig is an avalon! Dec.2013

elavenil

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My intel core 2 duo computer. I got 2.7 khs to 3.2khs

Minnlo

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My first and only rig is my gtx780, originally intended for gaming

BSIG

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Vintage4X4

cpu mining in a few old 1U's with only a measly amp drop inside a 1/4 cabinet. Power/space/net free, ama happy camper.

Amph

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Quote from: Equate on April 25, 2014, 07:40:39 AM

Quote from: Amph on April 25, 2014, 07:27:38 AM

7950 vapor-x, started too late...

I still have few 7950s and even mined Bitcoins with it when Asics were not that accessible.

it was cool to mine btc directly with p2pool

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Quote from: gagalady on April 25, 2014, 08:29:51 AM

Quote from: Chrithu on April 19, 2014, 04:32:45 AM

Started mining on my two 5750s at 360ish MH/s in early 2013. Stopped it when new worthwhile games came out and I favored plaing them to mining :p. Now jumped back in with two antminer U2s.

Pretty high hash rate to start with, how much hash power one antminer U2 has?

IIRC, it should hash at ~2GH/s .

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Quote from: Chrithu on April 19, 2014, 04:32:45 AM

Started mining on my two 5750s at 360ish MH/s in early 2013. Stopped it when new worthwhile games came out and I favored plaing them to mining :p. Now jumped back in with two antminer U2s.

Pretty high hash rate to start with, how much hash power one antminer U2 has?

Equate

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Quote from: Amph on April 25, 2014, 07:27:38 AM

7950 vapor-x, started too late...

I still have few 7950s and even mined Bitcoins with it when Asics were not that accessible.

OhMyCoin

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Long live Bitcoin.

Quote from: Chris_Sabian on April 24, 2014, 08:52:29 PM

7970 GPU

The same have I

Amph

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7950 vapor-x, started too late...

cliffhanger35

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Just like many other people : 1 video card in the gaming PC Lips sealed

Testing123

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My AMD Radeon HD 7870

firejuan

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Because it's sterile...

I only had a BE cube for about a month in January 2014 but I have been cloud mining since November 2013.

Chris_Sabian

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7970 GPU

mxz280

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Sapphire 5850 2011.10

crocko

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'All that glitters is not gold'

Sapphire R9 290, the best GPU for mining

fattypig

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My laptop, but its sure is slow as hell... not even 0.001 bitcoin earned.

gagalady

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A rig that was supporting 20GH/s , not to bad i though Tongue

mechtronic2001

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I did some cpu mining on a work laptop to test back in July, 2011 then I went home and started mining with my Reference HD5850 which is still running like a champ, though now with an aftermarket cooler.

rippleme

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1 x 7950 March 2013. I started because I wanted to see how this mining business worked and how profitable it actually was. I then got very much into it!

pokerFace2

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ATI 5830 in June? 2013, had to start mine altcoins and exchange to Bitcoin. Wish I knew about Bitcoin sonner, I could mine a lot of Bitcoins with this GPU

sbabe

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My first Miner is my computer, i got around 3.2 khs.
Then i purchase 2x270 got around 650 khs

daddyfatsax

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Anger is a gift.

Started 2/2013
EVGA 780i FTW motherboard
QX9650 LGA 775 CPU
3 x Gigabyte 7970
1 x Sapphire 7970

Got a whopping 2 GH/s mining BTC. Usually got .007 BTC per round on Slush.

Now I have 2.7 TH/s of assorted Bitfury, Ants, and a Dragon 1 TH/s. Also have some Gridseed units doing scrypt, soon to be 12 MH/s.

C.Steven

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My low-end AMD card, and I quit mining after a day when I realized the bitcoin it generated is less than the electricity cost. Tongue

pekv2

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2011 july mid month. > Dopeass board < GA-EP45-UD3P (rev. 1.6) with a 5830 then two 5830's, same PSU I still have, a PC power & cooling Silencer 750 EPS12V< cant wait to offload this, to many cables, need new tech modular. [No smoking environment]

RoadStress

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ATI 4870 back in early 2011!

vnvizow

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My CPU at 1.5mh/s, was mining for fun back then and had no idea he price would skyrocket. I believed that the value would definitely rise but now so fast Grin

Chrithu

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Started mining on my two 5750s at 360ish MH/s in early 2013. Stopped it when new worthwhile games came out and I favored plaing them to mining :p. Now jumped back in with two antminer U2s.

lowbander80

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I bought an antminer USB 1.6 Ghs Febr 2014 mining up to today steady 1.8 (overclocked)

Machinery

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My first rig was about 100 bots on a botnet!

QuestionAuthority

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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.

lepirate

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Garbochock

My first attempt was using all my laptops.
List:
MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
MacBook Pro 2.4 Intel Core 2 Due
ASUS-laptop AMD E2 VISION 1800 1.7 GHz
(Also I did some mining using my Galaxy S3)
Let's just say I didn't become a millionaire. I gave up after a week with ~3mBTC and realized I earned a lot more from faucets.
(Those computers however mined me a few litecoins a few months later, yay!)

mprep

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In a world of peaches, don't ask for apple sauce

Mine was my gaming laptop. Cheesy

Not really a rig, just wanted to try out mining. This was back then when mining BTC with GPUs was normal, nobody knew about no ASICs and Litecoin was mined by CPUs. Good times...

Thyaga

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Not sure to buy mining rig... just mining at cex and pbmmining... cause I use laptop not PC Grin

blacksails

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A 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 processor. Only some quick tests during a week. However I earned almost 1mBTC during that time! Cheesy

d2dtk

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quadcore cpu, builtin gpu, then 3 USB Block Erupters that are still running to this day...

dougg

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Mine was a crappy BFL 5ghz when it 1st came out.

Malin Keshar

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sadly i'm still in my 0th mining ring

Paya

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My home desktop PC with single ATI 5770, march (or april) 2011. Done some quick testing and after a week I've started to build my first dedicated mining rig.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on April 12, 2014, 10:17:16 AM

I never had a mining rig, although I have tried to mine Bitcoins using Bitminter. I have also used CPU mining, to mine Litecoins.

Try CPU mining primecoins it was desgined for that.

bryant.coleman

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I never had a mining rig, although I have tried to mine Bitcoins using Bitminter. I have also used CPU mining, to mine Litecoins.

Equate

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Quote from: hulk on April 12, 2014, 08:59:25 AM

4x R9 290, but would actually prefer 2x R9 295x2 due to the cooling issues..

apart from the specs and cooling solution , that cards are sexy too

hulk

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4x R9 290, but would actually prefer 2x R9 295x2 due to the cooling issues..

LuckyBtc

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My first rig was a cloud VPS on which i mined like 1 LTC lol anyway since diff. increased i stopped mining.

Kiki112

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I never had a mining rig, mined with my ati sapphire hd 6570 Cheesy

spazzdla

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Technically my FX-8120 CPU mining primecoins. *Edit* I ment primecoins.

First asci was an ANT miner, got 4 now, considering two more.

Equate

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What was your 1st mining rig ? and when did you start mining?

My 1st rig was single AMD 6950 system and I started in Dec 2012.

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