Topic: Worth it to buy a block erupter? - page 2. (Read 4128 times)
As a hobby and/or educational exercise, I'd say go for it. Mining your money back with these things is going to be difficult, but you'll learn a lot and have some fun.
Hi, I'm thinking about purchasing a single block erupter to mine with my Raspberry Pi for a low cost miner. The things I'd need to buy would be these:
-USB Block Erupter ($50 - I'm in Canada and this is the cheapest I can get them)
-Powered USB hub (~$10)
What do you guys think about this? Power draw would be around 7W max on load I figure, so nothing really goes to pay for power. Do you think it would be worth it, even just to run it for fun? Also, any ideas on alt-coins to mine with an erupter that would be more profitable than BTC?
I currently have a 1.06MH/s alt-coin mining rig bringing in around $3 a day after power (450W @ 0.12$ per kW/hr.) and I'm kind of using the money generated from that to pay for these things.
But yeah, what do you guys think about this? Buy now? Wait until a lower price drop? Don't buy?
-USB Block Erupter ($50 - I'm in Canada and this is the cheapest I can get them)
-Powered USB hub (~$10)
What do you guys think about this? Power draw would be around 7W max on load I figure, so nothing really goes to pay for power. Do you think it would be worth it, even just to run it for fun? Also, any ideas on alt-coins to mine with an erupter that would be more profitable than BTC?
I currently have a 1.06MH/s alt-coin mining rig bringing in around $3 a day after power (450W @ 0.12$ per kW/hr.) and I'm kind of using the money generated from that to pay for these things.
But yeah, what do you guys think about this? Buy now? Wait until a lower price drop? Don't buy?
Jump to: