Cryptocoin Mining?

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pandemonium

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Apparently he swapped his order over now to a PCI miner card. I know he's changed his order a couple times due to the severe delays they've had, but it looks like they're catching up to speed now.

Edit: He received his 60GH/s SC that was the original order from July 2012.
 
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dawp

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I just bought one of the usb miners to play with, now I just need to get drivers for it. it came yesterday just before I went to bed so I didn't have enough time to locate them then.
 

Binky

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I just bought one of the usb miners to play with, now I just need to get drivers for it. it came yesterday just before I went to bed so I didn't have enough time to locate them then.
The latest versions of cgminer have all the instructions you need in the readme file. Basically, you use zdiag to install the drivers, then you don't have to use any special switches on cgminer.

Or, just use bitminter and their web-based miner. This method does not allow you to use fallback pools, so I would suggest not using this long-term.
 

dawp

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I wonder how hard it would be to water cool these usb miners, they sure as hell get hot.
 

Binky

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How many bitcoins have you guys actually farmed/mined? And if u don't mind how long does it take ya?
The usb miner we are discussing makes about 0.0032 BTC per day or about $11.40 per month at current rates, which are not static. One can be bought for $40-$50.

If things stayed constant, it would pay for itself in less than 100 days. If things continue as they have been going, it will never pay for itself.
 

toughtrasher

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The usb miner we are discussing makes about 0.0032 BTC per day or about $11.40 per month at current rates, which are not static. One can be bought for $40-$50.

If things stayed constant, it would pay for itself in less than 100 days. If things continue as they have been going, it will never pay for itself.

So you actually have to buy a USB miner? At barely a third of a cent per day? I don't think I'd be willing to make my computer run that
 

Binky

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It earns $0.35-$0.40 per day. You math is off, but I agree, it's not a lot. In comparison, a 7950 video card can make double that amount, but its daily cost in electricity is far more than it earns.
 

toughtrasher

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It earns $0.35-$0.40 per day. You math is off, but I agree, it's not a lot. In comparison, a 7950 video card can make double that amount, but its daily cost in electricity is far more than it earns.

Oops, didn't see your currency. I mistook it for USD instead of bitcoins.

Do you just let your computer running the program w/o touching it or do you use it while it's running?
 

gorobei

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what's the current easiest way to get cash out? (I dont really want to set up a dwolla acct.)

and or get a newegg/amazon gift card for a specific amount?
 

pm

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Kinda pisses me off that they are still so far behind on singles. Aug 2012 order and still nothing.

Agreed. It's annoying and frustrating. But on the flip-side, they are getting close. According to Jody she's shipping 6 July 2012 now... It looks like they ship about one pay-date per day, so you should have yours within 5 weeks...
 

Zargon

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planning on grabbing a another 27" korean IPS that does 100+ hz.....so I ordered some block eruptors to replace the hash of the 7950 I will be migrating to my main rig(I dont mine on it)

my office is pretty swampy anyways thanks to all the heat, and the power bill is getting retarded
 

frostedflakes

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Cool. They are getting close to shipping mine it looks like.

How much power does it use?
I've been kind of curious about power usage. Was going to try replacing the TIM and fan on the Jalapeno (stock one is pretty loud and obnoxious) here in the next few days hopefully, will hook it up to a Kill-A-Watt when I'm working on it and see how much it's reporting.

I think the early Jalapenos were using about 30-35W, but they might have managed to tweak and reduce the power draw a bit on the newer ones.

And yeah, they're still pretty far behind on the singles last time I checked Jody's blog. Was only in the last few weeks it seems like that they really started getting Jalapenos out the door quickly.

Just spent about $480 on 9x Block Erupters, a 10-port hub, and USB fan earlier this week as well. Probably won't even end up breaking even on them, but oh well, after getting the Jalapeno was just in the mood to play around with some more ASICs. At current difficulty and BTC price, payoff for the Jalapeno is only like a month, so that should make up for it.

edit: Looks like mine's drawing exactly 30W at the wall. So looking at about 21.6kWh per month, roughly a couple dollars a month to operate based on local electric rates.

Replaced the stock fan as well with a slim 92mm Noctua and it made an enormous difference in the noise, can't even tell the Jalapeno is on and doing it's thing now. Didn't have to sacrifice too much on temperature either, replacing the thermal pad with IC Diamond paste might have helped with that. Temp reported in cgminer was 41-42C before, now about 43-44C.
 
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