Buying Antminer U3

[Blawpaw]

I'm thinking in buying 2 Antminers U3 to mine peercoin... If it was you, would you buy them?
Thought anyone?
I would like to hear you advice ?

[TheRealSteve]

You should at the very least read through the main Antminer U3 thread - plenty of discussion there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827356

[Blawpaw]

You should at the very least read through the main Antminer U3 thread - plenty of discussion there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827356

Yeah, I better do that .
But, do you own any Ant U3? do you know if there is any equivalent  SHA256 miner from another company?

[TheRealSteve]

You should at the very least read through the main Antminer U3 thread - plenty of discussion there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827356

Yeah, I better do that .
But, do you own any Ant U3? do you know if there is any equivalent  SHA256 miner from another company?

I had one, I eventually gave up on it running stable without much fidgeting about.  Others have had more success, yet more others have had even less success

'equivalent' depends on what you're equating it to.  I'd assume the small size, in which case there's the R-Box (not New R-Box), the GridSeed Orb (also marketed as GridSeed Infinity and GridSeed Mini and once also sold by LightningAsic under their own branding) and a few devices from TB (Dice, HEX16A4, HEX16B, opinions about that company are very polarized, so be sure to search first).
Some of the latter are considered rather outdated - going back any further and there's the original Block Erupter Cube, BFL Jalapeno, HashBuster Micro/Nano.  Things also get a bit blurry as to whether or not they're really in the same sort of category.

Going forward, there might be the Avalon Mini, J4bberwock's SF3301 board (based around GridSeed Orb form factor) and possibly something out of GekkoScience.

GekkoScience are currently also (pre)selling a USB StickMiner if you'd be inclined to go further toward the small device end.

[tonycamp]

you prob have to do the accounting to the Watts pend time on mining and the porfit into peercoin into $ and the prfit might come to 6$ per day or soo i dont know do the acount ad take in order the fact the miners do lose good vaue into second hand like cars and computers the velocity its vertigo down. soo the price need to be payed into like a ROI return of investmn and that takes like 6 months or more..

[mamahdedeh]

You should at the very least read through the main Antminer U3 thread - plenty of discussion there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827356

Yeah, I better do that .
But, do you own any Ant U3? do you know if there is any equivalent  SHA256 miner from another company?

I had one, I eventually gave up on it running stable without much fidgeting about.  Others have had more success, yet more others have had even less success

'equivalent' depends on what you're equating it to.  I'd assume the small size, in which case there's the R-Box (not New R-Box), the GridSeed Orb (also marketed as GridSeed Infinity and GridSeed Mini and once also sold by LightningAsic under their own branding) and a few devices from TB (Dice, HEX16A4, HEX16B, opinions about that company are very polarized, so be sure to search first).
Some of the latter are considered rather outdated - going back any further and there's the original Block Erupter Cube, BFL Jalapeno, HashBuster Micro/Nano.  Things also get a bit blurry as to whether or not they're really in the same sort of category.

Going forward, there might be the Avalon Mini, J4bberwock's SF3301 board (based around GridSeed Orb form factor) and possibly something out of GekkoScience.

GekkoScience are currently also (pre)selling a USB StickMiner if you'd be inclined to go further toward the small device end.

i agree with you sir