Should I Purchase an Asic Scrypt Miner?
Numerous ASIC Scrypt Miners have already been purchased and their shipping dates are fast appropriating, but are these powerful mining machines worth their cost? By now there's a good chance you've already looked at purchasing yourself one or two asic scrypt miners to replace your CPU or GPU mining rig. If you haven't you can learn more about them here. They're less expensive, don't take up near as much space and won't send your power bill through the roof, but is it profitable? With the expected increase in difficulty for many of the altcoins out there, can you realistically expect any....
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The new DualMiner USB miner is one of the first entries of ASIC's into the Scrypt mining domain using the Gridseed, and we here at CCN first reported about these ASICs all the way back in January. Love them or hate them Scrypt ASICs are here. In the case of the DualMiner it an easy to afford and use USB ASIC that also brings a vastly lower watt per kh/s ratio to GPU miner setups. The deal with the DualMiner is it can mine both BitCoin SHA-256 and Scrypt coins (such as LiteCoins) at the same time if desired. With an easy dip switch setting, it will mine Scrypt at nearly double the dual rate....
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As bitcoin mining increasingly becomes more of a professional pursuit, hobbyists and newcomers have turned their attention to scrypt mining. So, at CoinDesk, we wondered, 'why not try scrypt mining ourselves?'. Watch the video to see how well we fared: . We got our hands on a Gridseed G-Blade miner, one of the first scrypt miners in the market to use ASIC chips. ASIC chips have been used to mine bitcoin for over a year, now they are making their way into scrypt mining. That's making scrypt even more attractive to newbies. MinerEU is the European distributor for the China-based manufacturer....
Gridseed Blade. Gridseed started the Scrypt ASIC miner race with its first foray into the market with the DualMiner. The DualMiner is a single chip USB miner that performed at 70 kh/s in Scrypt only mode. Gridseed quickly followed it up with the 5 Chip Orb which ran at 360 kh/s Scrypt only. As everyone was buying the Orbs at a speedy rate, they introduced the Blade. I had the opportunity to test and review the Blade Scrypt miner thanks to GAWMiners with the assistance of Holy Scott from HolyBitcoin. Specifications. The specifications are solid. -There are 2 PCB Panels in each Miner. -Each....