If you want to get a device to learn about Bitcoin mining this is a great device. The Block Erupter as I said takes about 150 days to recoup the money spent on it ($27 at the time of this article with the Bitcoin trading at $130). I wanted to test how easy it was to make money from the Bitcoin network, and my GPU was too slow to get a good statistical analysis, not to mention it took up WAYYYY too much power. This can be used to easily track payments, and it improves anonymity. It is however MUCH more efficient than a GPU, CPU, FPGA, and most other ASIC devices when compared to their power usage. Print Author Topic: Any one have the pcb files for usb block erupters or any antminer usb's (Read 942 times) Unlike traditional banking where clients have only a few account numbers, with Bitcoin people can create an unlimited number of accounts (addresses). This device is not able to make money for you at this point in the Bitcoin age. I have not tested by how much the lifespan will increase but a 30 degree Celsius drop from 86 to 56 degrees would prolong any piece of electronics useful life. If you intend on getting one of these devices, adding a heatsync with some thermal paste will increase its lifespan drastically. 4 watts (a 20% decrease) most likely due to the temperature drop in the voltage regulator, increasing its efficiency and wasting less power in heat. Power cost per month: 19 cents (about 1 KW hour)Īfter adding a heatsync to the USB Block Erupter, it used less power by.BTC per day: not given (varies based on pool).I didn't aim to this alt-coin ever, just mine this alt-coin by the way and sell, and lose this game. ( 500 BTC ~ half of million USD, just for merge mining. half of year, you might meet the same situation that I observe with ppcoin, now. When you can hold your portfolio for the long period, e.g.

Look at this super new alt-coin: Titcoin 3 USB BLOCK ERUPTERS COMPLETE w/ 4 PORT HUB & COOLING FAN Great Starter Rig for BitCoin Includes everything you need Just plug into USB port on computer. Not yet added to the crypty ( ! ! ! ) ( it is optional ).Dynamical difficulty ( unkillable alt-coins )./thegreatoldone/Unobtanium.gitĮvery this coin you might start to mine with your block erupter.īut! Better, start to lurking for newest one, that have great Idea in the ground:.Because it is very easy to add similar coin to one bin. 99% of sha256 coins very rapidly come to the market. You can't get luck in solo with current sha256 alt-coins, check the pools, there is already great amount of asics. You better take your hands and start to lurking for new potential good alt-coins with sha256 algo.Į.g. You can buy alt-coin before it will be added to cryptsy and in 100% get profit. It has been added to cryptsy, and now its price is 28 Satoshi. There are 100 alt-coins with the same algo sha256.Īnother example, from current state: There was price 1 Satoshi 0.0000 0001 for the MOON coin ( scrypt ). Now look at the price of ppcoin: 0.005 BTC, I may get 500 BTC today. I've mine ppcoin in merge pool for long period in 2012. You really should start to mine new alt-coin !!! So, every day you have double the chance to win 25 BTC than you have to win $10k, which is less and costs you probably a dollar or two to enter.

Let's take the Powerball lottery as a reference as Earlz mentions, it has odds of one in 648,975.96 to win $10,000 one in 5,153,632.65 to win $1,000,000.

So one chance in 330,480 each day or one chance in 905 a year (of course, changing difficulty has to be taken into account). How low the chance may be, it's still a lot higher than winning the ordinary lottery and way cooler :) Big chance will turn out to be nothing, but with some luck they will ever find a block and cash in 25 BTC. They don't really consume too much energy, so I just let them solo mine. I use mine in 'lottery mode' as I call it.

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