What is best way to mine crypto currency?

[ATH019]

Novel approach and would be fairly economical on power and take up very little space, but if going for a Raspberry Pi there might be a small learning curve for it's Debian-based OS if you've not used one before and the asic miners could only be used for one crypto.  I think you can get usb asic mods for around 110GBP that have a rating of 333mh/s, so three of those would give you nearly 1gh/s.



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[McGaskil]

So min £330, plus the cost of the Pi, powered usb hub, monitor, mouse, keyboard.  You're looking at about £650-ish outlay plus the on-going power costs for a very few bits of a bitcoin a month if you're going it alone.  You'd be better off joining a mining pool with that setup.

[blag-it Admin]

A good second-hand 17" display can be had for as little as £80 from the high street and a new Pi 4 for about £75.  Keyboard, mouse and powered hub costs about £60 max, so £545 all in.  That's a lot less than £650, plus you have to start from somewhere.



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[A.Jenery]

What about multiple usb asic mining modules plugged into a powered usb hub that's connected to a Raspberry Pi or similar sbc?

I like this idea, plus the electric cost should be lower than for a GPU or even a conventional asic miner.  As an after thought, couldn't you use this setup with a standard laptop instead of a sbc system?

[blag-it Admin]

Yes, seems a good way to go, and many powered USB hubs have about six slots so you could have more than three asic modules and would still be fairly economical on power.




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[LISTR-93]

What about multiple usb asic mining modules plugged into a powered usb hub that's connected to a Raspberry Pi or similar sbc?

I like this idea, plus the electric cost should be lower than for a GPU or even a conventional asic miner.  As an after thought, couldn't you use this setup with a standard laptop instead of a sbc system?

Never thought of connecting the hub to a laptop, so thanks for suggestion!  At least then it would have Windows so I wouldn't have to learn the Pi OS which I admit I know nothing about.  I know I can get second-hand laptops real cheap although would be less eco on power than a Pi I suppose...

[LISTR-93]

Yes, seems a good way to go, and many powered USB hubs have about six slots so you could have more than three asic modules and would still be fairly economical on power.




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Thanks! I could have say five asic modules in the hub giving 1.665 gh/s (5x333) plus a USB fan in the last one to cool them.

[ATH019]

Yes, seems a good way to go, and many powered USB hubs have about six slots so you could have more than three asic modules and would still be fairly economical on power.




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Thanks! I could have say five asic modules in the hub giving 1.665 gh/s (5x333) plus a USB fan in the last one to cool them.

Seems like a good setup idea and fairly economical at the same time.


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