CryptoCoinsNews
24 Nov 2014
Block Erupter USB Miner: A Beginner's Guide
The top (left) and bottom (right) of the Block Erupter USB. Bitcoin mining has evolved rapidly over the past few years. From CPUs, to GPUs, to FPGAs, to ASICs, the most up-to-date and powerful miners change constantly. When the first ASIC miners were shipped to customers in early 2013, miners became incredibly more powerful than before. Among the first ASIC miners announced was the Block Erupter USB: a small USB (Universal Serial Bus) that mines for Bitcoins. A History. Block Erupter USBs were first announced by friedcat on May 4th, 2013, on BitcoinTalk.org. They were small, portable, yet....
ASICMiner, led by FriedCat, has been setting the pace with Bitcoin ASIC miners since the first block erupter. They have not stopped since then and have recently introducing the Gen 3 BE200 chip that many companies have been using in their new miners such as Rockminer and BTC Garden. FriedCat and his ASICMiner team started shipping the ASICMiner Tube 840+ gh/s miners in the past few weeks. It is a 4 bladed miner that uses a tube form factor for cooling. The AM Tube utilizes the same controller as the Rockminer T1 Bitcoin ASIC miner. Just like the T1, you can string 16 blades or 4 tubes....
Source. As unlikely as it sounds, the Adafruit learning blog (via the Hackaday blog) has just shown off a Raspberry Pi based bitcoin miner. For those who haven't heard of the Raspberry Pi, it's a small computer on a single circuit board that was designed to be inexpensive enough to help children learn about computer science. Inevitably, hobbyists have taken the Pi to their hearts and put these tiny computers to all sorts of uses, now including mining bitcoins. While this isn't the first Pi to be used in connection with bitcoin mining, it's a good illustration of how a Pi can be put to use....
A solo Ethereum miner has just gotten what could be described as the lucky break of a lifetime after mining a single ethereum block that netted them a reward that ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While ethereum’s mining difficulty is not as high compared to bitcoin, it is still a difficult, energy and computationally intensive process that discourages the average person. However, a lot of solo miners remain in the ethereum ecosystem and continue to make a profit from their mining activities. Although not all of the miners get to mine a single block that delivers a reward with....
Despite having a modest hashrate capacity of about 126 TH/s, the lucky miner won the crypto equivalent of the lottery and took home 6.25 BTC worth about $266,000. A single Bitcoin miner from the Solo CK mining pool has defied the odds after successfully adding a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain, taking home 6.25 BTC ($266,000) for their efforts. The lucky miner, who may have been mining on just one or two machines, solved a block with their modest hashrate capacity of 126 TH/s. According to a Jan 11 tweet from Solo admin, Dr. Con Kolivas it’s equivalent to about 0.000072% of the total....
