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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / ASIC Scrypt Miners on: March 02, 2014, 04:19:18 AM
I was wondering how anyone feels about the new asic scrypt miners, or if anyone even has one.  Apparently then can do Litecoin, probably Feathercoin, possibly Mintcoin, and perhaps even UTC among others (I know UTC is supposed to be ASIC resistant, but itd be interesting to try it anyways).

For those of us using laptops, with obviously low hashrates, this introduces an alternative to the building of a rig within a milkcrate concept.  Simply plug it into your USB port, give it a power supply and youre off and running.

Prices vary.  I nearly bought one for 350 and discovered I could get one for 250.  It claims to deliver 300kh/s at 7 watts draw.  For the price, either 350 or 250/unit, its basically in line with what you would spend on a headless drone in a milkcrate running a similar hash. 
Benefits are 7 watts vs some thousand watts.
Cons are if everything goes down the tubes, you still have useful video cards.  While with the "ASIC Miners" you gotta pile of useless transistors.


Any thoughts, issues, concerns?  Anyone have one of these asic scrypt miners?  If so, what have been your experiences with it.  Would love to hear from the pool of thought here on the continuing technological advances we see within the mining ecosystem.
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