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So many historic items become collectable - coins, computers, cars, stationary engines, and I'm sure you can think of many others. It seems that old ASIC miners and other rigs are being scrapped in large numbers.  This usually happens just before the items start to be collected by nostalgic enthusiasts. I've started to get interested, and I'm sure there are a few other members here who are keeping their old miners as topics of interest.

Well, mate as of now mining rigs will still be able to use as a part of a PC.
But sooner and later the miners will become something that will remain history. Hash is getting hard to solve and miners are now unprofitable. That is the thing we need to accept and I feel sad for those former miners. Ain't know if how much the percentage in miner has stopped as of now. Speaking of collective items, I currently enjoyed collecting Hello Kitty related stuff. :D

If Asik miners can not be converted to the work of an ordinary computer, it would be nice to make a Museum of all kinds of mining Asiks and put them in any room or exhibition hall for display with a description of its characteristics and year of manufacture.
I think you could do a whole themed room in the exhibition samples of mining Asimov on their varieties and led tours there in ten or twenty years))

I think it is quite possible if bitcoin in another 10 years will be used in life much more effectively and where there will be museums that will be collected machines for bitcoin mining from the very first. And it would be good to find the first machine which in 2009 was producing the first units!!!

Never

I gave one of my undervolted S1s to a friend ---The S1s didn't have cases: I loved how they looked
and one of my usb erupters
P.S. Hello Kitty is one of my favorites

it would be ironic if my butterfly labs FPGA and original jalapino actually did become collector items and could be sold to a collector in the future. they would finally hit their ROI! even if it took 20 or 30 years..

BFL miners might become collectible faster than a lot of the others as they have a story and notoriety so to speak. A lot of Jalepeno's ended up getting into the wild eventually.  If in the future I was collecting hardware the BFL mini-rig would be something I would want, not many reported to have made it into the wild, people paid thousands of BTC for vapour hardware or the ones that did get delivered were fucking garbage!

The famous BFL foam pitch fork would be so much more appealing to me than their old miners.

So many miners were built and sold and so few people would actually pay anything for them as collectibles that it will likely be a really really long time before old mining hardware is worth much more than it's scrap value!

yup for sure i would want one of those.

i value my BFL coffee mug more than the FPGA/jally.

would be cool to find an original avalon.

Batch one  1st gen avalons are a part of history for sure, I just couldn't imagine displaying it, and personally I like to have my collectibles out on view at home or in my office!  I can't see myself wanting a big aluminium box with a couple fans on my wall or desk etc lol!  I'm sure there will eventually be a collector's market for some items but I don't think it will be a big thing for most collectors.

These miners would be collectible in 30 years or so.  There will always be a market for them.  Those who remember the beginning of the crypto craze will collect and hold onto them for sentimental reasons.  I don’t think there will be much monetary profit. 

Well I still want to try that old Butterfly Labs one that I picked up. There doen't seem to be much support for it though, and all the references to the old manuals and software don't resolve any more. Maybe the software and the manuals will become more collectable.

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afaik the asics all used cgminer by -ck and any docs to run it would be in cgminers readme. pretty sure the latest cgminer still can run them. now im curious and will probably fire the jally up.

if its their fpga i might still have the flasher and bitstreams kicking around.

I don't remember BFL using cgminer, I thought the BFL crew had Luke do the mining software, wasn't it just a branded BFGminer?  I never owned a BFL miner so maybe my brain is playing tricks on me.

LOL I've owned quite a few mining rigs...none came with manuals.
I read the forums (mining--hardware---pools) and every now and then would have to ask a stupid question (usually received well)

 lightfoot still posts from time to time

Yes a Jalapeno should be collectible!


My twitter page has a couple of my S1's with my favorite pocket knife (Camillus Cuda CY1 Circuit Board Cyber Folder)

@cryptobitchicks

now that you mention it they (BFL ASICS) were supported by both cgminer (-ck) and bfgminer (luke-jr). one is a fork of the other. i always used cgminer though.

there was (maybe still is) quite the war as to who forked who.

cant remember what the FPGA used, but i think that was cgminer too. the only software i remember for thier FPGA was a program to load different bitstreams.. i ran the second to highest speed one but needed to run it with no case and a 120mm blowing on it or it throttled.

now that i have fpgas again (sqrl acorns and bcu1525) i feel the strange urge to get the bfl fpga running again just for the lulz.

I have a few hundred BFLabs chips.
Can't wait till they are a collectible.
Also have a few of the USB miners in original boxes.

Miner software

Luke Jr BFGMiner

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

-ck CGMiner

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

Some of the original asics will be collectable.  Might not be for decades but a lot of collectables become that because of nostalgia.  I know some 20-30 years from now I would like to still have mine, just something to reflect back on a cool little conversation piece.  Asics usually get to the point of not even worth selling, would rather keep my old clunkers than sell them for pennies.

I'm a bit miffed because I've decided to experiment with BitBlocks, and I think that needs a scrypt miner. I might try with the small computer that I revived, but I don't think I can change the graphics in that.

I dont know what bitblocks are but scrypt miners are a dime a dozen you can get one with a psu for real cheap right now.

ebay has L3+ with a psu for under 175


https : // www . ebay .  com / itm /Antminer-L3-with-AW3-Power-Supply-Large-Quanity-Available/113660230216?

https : // www . ebay . com / itm /Bitmain-Antminer-L3-504MH-s-Dual-Voltage-110V-220V-PSU/143148825786?


checked above both are under 175 including shipping

I think I may not be allowed to link them

so I disabled links.

I have no idea who the sellers are

Thanks for the suggestion, but I've just discovered that BitBlocks has disabled PoW, and they only allow PoS. I need to do a bit more reading, and it may be better to run a masternode - it's fairly cheap at the moment. I used the faucet to test my wallet, and to see how fast a transfer was. I'm impressed with that bit, but the faucet is not a way to pick up coins. I made half a dozen claims, and I think it has only given me about a penny.

In the near future when the blockchain achieves skynet level sentience we can hope that someone, somewhere, can pull out enough old miners to save us all.  ;D

Until that happens they probably have more value as scrap. Although the bare board USB miners were at least neat looking.

I still have several of the cubes I first bought on here back when I was a miner. I especially liked the way Block Erupters fit together.