The Nerds Approach (A comparison)
Let’s take a few steps further. Starting with the interface. Sure a laptop is cool, but also read you can interface the whole bunch through a Raspberry Pi or a modified Linksys Net / TP-Link TL-703N / Asus WL500 with OpenWRT. Woohoo! All familiar stuff.
Most bang for the buck?
And while researching what kind of USB hubs and cooling is required I ran into some neat USB hardware with a far better value.
- (for comparison sake) Block Erupter | 333MH/s | ± €40
- AntMiner U1 | 1.7-2.2GH/s | ± €70 … Tutorial for Linux
- Red Fury | 2.2-2.7GH/s | €150
- Bi Fury | 5GH/s | ± €250 … OSX tutorial & Review
All roughly using 2.5W. And they can be easily over clocked! And yeah I’m one of those old skool over clockers I can still remember the days when I over clocked my Abit BH6 Dual Celeron 366Mhz to 620MHz with Aircooling. So love to mess around with that. My gosh that’s ages ago! Anyway ..
Taking it a bit further
I would need 7 Erupters to match the speed of a Red Fury, or even 14 to match a Bi-Fury. Imagine stacking a few of those together?
Cool tip: Firmwares for Bi-Fury that limit temperature; download here
But that also increases prices fast, and saw a few other great offers:
- BFL Jalapeño | 7.5GH/s | 45W | ± €200
- Avalon BitBurner | 8GH/s | ± €175
- TechnoBit HEX16B | 40-50GH/s | 45W | ± €800
- 200+ GH/s range | €2200 and higher
Thinking about getting an AntMiner U1 for my Hackintosh notebook + Jalapeño with RaspPi.
Show me the money!
So how does all this Giga Hash power related to money? A few calculator suggestions:
- http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ (in USD)
- http://bitcoin.web-share.nl (in EUR)
- http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator (best one)
Based on some things I read: 60GH/s does about 0.8BTC = 460EUR. So investing in better equipment seems advisable to get a higher ROI faster.
The Future of Mining
While googling I ran into these babies: http://www.bitcoinx.com/bitcoin-mining-hardware/
4th generation in May 2014?
Butterflylabs will be releasing a device called the “Monarch” somewhere in March that can do 600GH/s for roughly $2k and fits in either a PCI-X or USB slot. Or what about the 2TH/s device from cointerra.com for just $5,999 ? One thing is sure. USA ain’t a bad place to live! Although the Black Arrow Prospero X1 that does 100GH/s for €450 / $373 ain’t a bad deal either. All pre-order though!
Cloud Mining
But also don’t underestimate Cloud Mining solutions:
- Black Arrow (also manufacturer … better deal than BFL)
- ButterFlyLabs (also Manufacturer)
- CEX.IO
- cloudhashing.com
- and …
you know what? I can barely wait for the Advanced course of Bitcoin-Economy launching soon:
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Communities I have been 'hanging out' regularly over the past two decades.
- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
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- EarnWithEarnie.io since 2022
- EarnWithEarnie.net since 2018
- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021
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