You can overclock the everloving shit out of these things if you put a fan on them.
I have it overclocked 300% right now and the heat sink is only about 60 C.
It's putting out 261 Gh/s @ 400 MHz.
Supposedly you can get up to 500 Gh/s out of these, but I haven't tried yet. 👀
Waiting for my 12 foot long USB cable to come in the mail so I can move the USB hub to in front of the air conditioner.
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Are you solo mining? I can’t imagine with pool mining you will ever make back the $175 it costs to buy it.
Yeah you wouldn't get shit mining to a regular pool. You'd wait years for a payout.
I like solo mining because I like gambling.
This is what you would get running 6 of these @ 400MHz:
Unlikely to ever find a valid block hash, but still better odds than Powerball.
You just got one running right?
Chances are very low, but you are contributing hash and could win the lottery at a very low entry cost.
$168k per block atm.
4728 years doesn’t mean thats how many years it will take to win one block cause even that isn’t guaranteed.
Hash rate could drop significantly at some point and give you higher odds especially since it’s all random. You just don’t have as many lottery tickets as some other people.
Do you have any idea what the electricity cost of that device is per month?
Yeah it could find a valid block hash anytime between right now and 4000 years from now lol.
$168k per block is just counting the block subsidy. Fees add more, especially lately.
I'm only running one but I'm going to buy more until I have all the USB ports on that hub occupied. 7 ports, so six miners and one USB powered fan.
These things only pull a few watts, so the electricity cost is negligible. Less power than leaving an LED light bulb turned on.
Great idea. I might have to start working on this setup at some point. Not ready for this rn. We are about to move.
Is that all you need to mine?
Has it made you anything?
Powered USB hub, fan, USB miners.
No it hasn't made me anything and it probably never will. Just solo lottery mining for the very slim chance of finding a block.
Interesting 🤔
These are cool little devices but a S9 is better value. You need a powered USB hub on top of the Gekkoscience USB.
A S9 will come in at a fraction of the cost and deliver a far superior hash rate.
But they are still cool little devices 🙂
Recommend using Kano pool and go solo mining. Might as well use it as a lottery ticket 🙂
That uses too much electricity and I already have the one breaker that powers this side of my apartment loaded up pretty good.
These are just low power toys. Lottery mining is fun. I like to geek out over electronics.
