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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: nutnut88 on August 18, 2013, 08:24:45 PM



Title: Mining AltCoins with Asicminer?
Post by: nutnut88 on August 18, 2013, 08:24:45 PM
Hey,
Has anyone tried mining other sha256 coins with a block erupter / usb asicminer?
any of the alt currencies more profitable than bitcoin?
cheers in advance!


Title: Re: Mining AltCoins with Asicminer?
Post by: Lifeis on August 18, 2013, 08:42:34 PM
ASIC's are still the bomb for BTC if you have enough- IMHO by far the safest/secure coin to
hold and if you mine in a good private pool it will pay out every day.
I managed to get only 2 of the butterfly labs USB 2.0 miners and the hash rate is insane.
What I wanna know though is- how can I program a ASIC/have it run a Linux script?
I was thinking shallot, getting really quick onion URLs. I think there's possibly more money to be made from that than mining itself.
Anyone tried this??


Title: Re: Mining AltCoins with Asicminer?
Post by: casadebitcoin on August 18, 2013, 10:35:58 PM
Hey,
Has anyone tried mining other sha256 coins with a block erupter / usb asicminer?
any of the alt currencies more profitable than bitcoin?
cheers in advance!

I've tried but it really depends on how efficiently you're able to move those "AltCoins" to the Coin or Fiat your interested in....

Check out  - http://www.coinchoose.com/index.php for a list of AltCoins and their relation to the Big Daddy (Bitcoin) and you should get a good idea of what is possible...

Also, https://www.multipool.us is a Great Pool to help mine the most profitable coin of the moment...

Let me know what you think.