Hello folk,

I help maintain an number of compute grids/servers that are running all the time. We are considering installing USB miners (like Antminer U1s) into these machines to help offset some of the electricity they use. The increase from installing the U1 is small compared to the 200+watts that these machines consume anyway but there is the purchase price of the U1 to consider. Anyone worked out the economics of this?

Cheers,
Phil

I am a newbie to the forum. I started out with bitcoins years ago, I had a quad opteron (16cores) with a 4870x2 for running scientific simulations and every now and then I used it to mine bitcoins. I lost most of the coins through neglect and computer hardware failures, like many others I suspect. So now I only have a few left. More recently my interest in bitcoins has been renewed, both in terms of actually using it as a currency but also I am an academic and I have become interested in it as a disruptive (potentially) technology. So I might ask questions to do with my research, I will let you know if I do. I have a bunch of usb ASIC miners bought off ebay running now that generate a small fraction of a bitcoin a day. 

Cheers, and hello everyone.