In your research I still think one of the best indicators is a confirmed valid source saying they have X amount of hardware, or be tied into with hardware company.  Really this would prevent a lot of the scams out there.

It would not stop all sadly.   Gaw miners and Asic Miner's hashing are two examples of failures of this theory.  But 2 is still small compared to the amount of sites that have come and gone calling them self's cloud mining sites.

So more research you do the better.   And don't get all your info from one source.

You are much better off with a pool.  With electricity and miner cost most cannot solo mine at that amount of gear.   Even though it seems big for a home to have that, it's pretty small in the overall hashrate.

So go pool mining is my advice.

Btc mining software is pretty much cgminer, and bfgminer.  That is really the two most used a lot have cgminer in background you might not even know your using it.  For example many miners have a nice GUI frontend with cgminer running behind it.

What miner are you looking at?   Really asics is what it all comes down to in BTC mining now.

Faucets I do not recommend at any level.  Just hours for cents worth of pay which is not very good.   Signature campaigns at full member and above will beat faucets by a surprising amount.

Also with signature campaign if done right you are doing your normal posting nothing special.  So you get paid to do something you would do anyway's which is pretty great.  Used right signature campaigns are the best "free" way of earning.

That being said my favorite will always remain mining.  I just enjoy it and it's a lot of fun.

OP is not asking which ones we like or which ones are best current.  He asked "This is the most popular as in amount made,".  This is a huge difference in question vs most answers in this thread.

I'm not sure if we have the data to know what was most produced.   I listed a few above I think it likely is, but that is pure speculation.  They don't release numbers in most cases.

How do you plan on raising this much capital?   Do you have an actual investor who in interested or are you just assuming you will find someone?

I just think that is a lot of capital, and yes it has a ton of opportunity.  Just curious how set in stone your backing in.

I think you hit the nail on the head they make more selling S7's. These sold for what 30 bucks plus shipping (shipping was expensive).   That is much cheaper then I expected though.  I thought they would put at least double this.  But they made it for a fair price. They made money but even if they doubled money i'm willing to bet it's not even close to S7 profits.

It's actually not even on the front page on items being sold - https://www.bitmaintech.com/product.htm .   So either they dropped it... or they are working on new version.  I think most likely is they dropped it for the moment and focus more of S7's like you mentioned.   I hope they go back sometime to it as it was a pretty neat device.

With crazy guy's custom firmware it is a amazing unit.  I love the U3 resetting, I don't have to unplug multiple times a day which is good.

They would be so much better off with a compac, or U3 even.   It would just be so much cheaper with a RPI2 and teach just as much if not more as they would learn to compile depending on what OS they choose on RPI.

But the price tag makes this not for new people.  I mean they could get a S3 a ton cheaper and use a S3 to mine to learn.   There are much more economical ideas for someone to learn mining.  It's hard to justify this one unless you get it just as a toy to play with.

I just find the whole S7 batches confusing.  I mean they are taking orders a month ahead.... which I'm not a huge fan of but I can understand it.   I liked when they ship closer to order date.

But the entire changing hashing speed per batch is getting to a almost laughable level.  I mean when S7 starts to be sold to go to second homes (eventually on a lot of them) it's going to be a mess.   I just think resale/buying used is going to be a lot more challenging with so many different specs for the same model miner. 

Bitwisdom is looking better:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    65,848,255,180
Estimated Next Difficulty:    70,269,710,108 (+6.71%)
Adjust time:    After 718 Blocks, About 4.7 days
Hashrate(?):    486,238,357 GH/s

But this could be do to some miners that are shipping right now.  Even if it is I like not seeing a 10 number up there.

Got my RPI2 installed with software now and 7 compacs running on it.   It does have a lot more speed when multi-tasking.  But as far as mining as expected no difference a RPI VersionB worked just as good.

Now I I only could get my solder equipment out and give my hub a little extra power.

The thing I still don't get is they were the ones who talked about putting chips in everyday items.   That was a big part of their PR I thought was pointed twords that.

And then to go to a custom RPI... that just is not really going in existing product.  I mean even if they made  topper and just sold topper for RPI2 I see that as more putting on a everyday device.

I still think this is just so they can say they have a product and it's shipping.  So when they go to raise money they say "Yes we are shipping miners".  I don't see this as much more then proof of concept.  And the concept is not worth the 400 to me personally.

This is the most popular as in amount made, not best or most efficient. If I understand OP right.

I'm thinking it might be A1 miners as so many used their chips for quite a while.  If not possibly S3's seems like there is a ton of them.  One that could surprise me is the asic miner usb stick not sure how many of those are out there but they pumped out a ton of those for a bit.

*Reread it is possible the share of active miners.  If that I'm guessing S3 win's.  If he mean actually used as currently and not past.

Thanks OP on the COMCAST XFINITY LIVE TV.  I got a vouch copy to test and it does seem to work.


I'm not able to tell source of account's.  It look's like it is someones account, but that is expected I think on comcast.   But it does work.    I will update in a week or two and tell if it is still going strong.  But as of now works great.

Thanks again OP.

Honestly I would wait for longer possibly full member as that is biggest jump.  I always suggest to use the lower ranks to learn, and see how to make a helpful post.  A lot of new people that jump straight into signature campaigns seem to worry about post count... your goal should be content not post count.  If bad posts, or one liners it will get a temp ban.

Just look in meta - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1241968.0 .  This is a thread showing what some of the lower ranked posters are like that are bad, yobit is kinda the target as far as users in this thread. 

The portable ones that hook up to computer are current are U3 and sidehacks compacs.  The compac is easier to use as it does not zombie out like U3's.  But U3's are cheaper but can be a pain.

The thing is this class of miners you really don't get your money back.  It's a "lotto" miner for most meaning you mine solo hoping to hit a block one day (likely it will not happen).  But you really have to look into bigger miners as far as getting a ROI.  Others are more for fun.

It is it is quite fair they give a pop-up when you log off on computer saying like ... this is personal use if business use purchase key here... So it is not bad one box to use what really is a quite good remote desktop.

The good thing about it is it's tied to username not IP.  So if for some reason you lost power and IP changed you can still log back into it through username.  Also it has Iphone and Android apps so you can connect from your smartphone.

CrazyGuy does have it where you could use antpool if you want to see some stat's to play with on antpool site on that antrouter tab.   But you are right if you stick with ck solo it would never touch on his sales with custom firmware.  I am very happy with my purchase from him.

I really am surprised bitmain did not do a batch 2 yet.  Guess we will see I'm happy if it turns into more collector item with only around 200 out there... but I would think they would want to sell more though.

I still don't get how this is possible.  Can someone explain if I'm missing something?

The flaws I see is we cannot do like oil and control majority... and set price.   So really no way to control majority you would have to own so much that the other miners were small and would not hurt your set price.... but price fixing is not really going to ever happen on it.

Ok now back to who are you making a union to bargain with?  Whole point of a union is bargaining power.... when a free market set's BTC value and not one person.  I just don't see how you will bargain to get what you want.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for posting that is insane.  I love the FTC filling as it has so much info we would not know otherwise.  I might take a look at whole thing for fun later.  Very interesting to see such big numbers.

I hope even more interesting info comes out.  Going from private company to open books is interesting in any business, in one that most companies are secret really neat to see one of the big players info.