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Title: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: frankenmint on October 21, 2014, 02:56:23 AM Hello Everyone!
I've had wearable block erupter pins (http://honeybadgerofmoney.com/product/block-erupter-lapel-pin/) available for a while and I originally did this with burned out erupters last year - now that difficulty is sky high and there is likely no real opportunity to make a mining return from them (unless BTC price hits above $1600USD within the near term [unlikely]), I have some block erupters that are just 'hanging out' not hashing at all. I attach an ornate safety pin to the back of block erupters and can wear them like a fashion piece. Would you please take 15 seconds to vote on them so I can have an idea if anyone here would even use them or not. I've yet to sell any since attending local meetups last year around November. (I only have two listed currently on my site, but can make about 70 of them if anyone were interested. One in Silver, yellow, and even Pink as well (I've also got a few Antminer U1s too but I sort of wanted to keep them for myself and they don't have the B logo so yeah, not as symbolically effective)) [I have this idea right now to get a small solar cell strip that tapes onto the edge of the top of the erupter and possibly feeding it into the power towards the LED on it so that they can occasionally blink - I just have no idea how to make it happen and to keep it cheaply priced {like 20 bucks still}] Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: frankenmint on October 22, 2014, 06:38:58 AM Bump
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Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: Mist on October 26, 2014, 08:03:21 AM These are extremely cool!
Great idea OP Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: hgerson on October 26, 2014, 09:04:50 PM Yeah they look cool! 8) But maybe a little too big and heavy to use as a pin. Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: Fabrizio89 on October 27, 2014, 08:58:42 PM I dunno I think it's kinda heavy and a little big for that purpose.
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: timtech on October 31, 2014, 07:39:18 AM I've turned one of mine into a keychain so I totally dig your idea of a pin.
Kinda sad these things are worthless now. Use to enjoy watching them blink on my desk. Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: frankenmint on November 07, 2014, 10:10:51 PM They actually aren't all to heavy on normal linens. Perhaps on something really thin like a gown or lace strap they may be a bit much, but they aren't heavy to fabric. My pin has held up well to my own use. I'm planning on giving a few things away for bitcoin black friday too if someone wants one but cannot buy them from me directly.
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: PolarPoint on November 12, 2014, 08:09:33 PM We, as early bitcoin users, should help to raise awareness of bitcoin, and this is one of the ways to do it. I would wear one to a bitcoin meetup, not going to work with it though. :D
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: darkangel11 on November 13, 2014, 04:59:41 PM A bit nerdy but i would if it helped to promote the currency...
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: Swordsoffreedom on November 16, 2014, 09:41:51 PM Sure if it looks cool enough
At a bitcoin meetup group it might be a nice idea or a simple working one as a gift Just because it looks nice and you can recycle it ^_^ Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: cparsley on November 16, 2014, 09:56:25 PM send me one for free and I'd wear it to work :)
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: bitcoinaliens on November 18, 2014, 03:58:07 AM Id be interested to still sell these - cheap - more as fun / as a gimmick, but I still think people would like to buy them.. would need more volume than 70 tho.
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: OgNasty on November 20, 2014, 05:57:16 PM send me one for free and I'd wear it to work :) +1 Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: zk-SNARK on November 22, 2014, 11:10:01 PM You can use them to mine other sha256 coins that you can then sell for BTC. I'm sure that they would make more BTC that way than just straight BTC mining with it does. Other wsie it's a pretty cool idea and sue for something likely to go into the bin. I have little old BTC usb miners (not erupters) that could be used in the same fashion. Mine have a nice BTC logo on them.
Title: Re: would you wear a block erupter as a lapel pin at bitcoin meetup groups? Post by: CrackedLogic on December 02, 2014, 07:49:29 PM send me one for free and I'd wear it to work :) I wouldn't mind this. I find this really cool, definitely would wear it. |
