Altcoins Miners Questions

[bobrottenchild]

Hi,

I've been mining QubitCoins, Quarkcoins, X11 and X13 for a week and started to look at the possibility to get a small mining device to make it independent from my GPU since I don't want it to burn after a year.

I saw all kind of miners but quickly found out that miners like Antminers are for SHA256 only so I couldn't use them for my purpose. Then I found about USB miner stating that can do altcoins like this one http://www.amazon.com/DualMiner-USB-Gridseed-Litecoin-Dogecoin/dp/B00J5TK6RE#product-description-iframe

I'm sure those are pretty shitty but I thought I'd ask about it: is there usb miners compatible with x11/x13,/etc? Is there bigger miners compatible with these too?

USB miners like Antminer U3 sure looks awesome and powerful, unfortunately if they're sha256 only they're useless to me...

I read that X11 was developed to prevent big ASICs from blowing it up so I'm kind of confused right now about what should work and what shouldn't.

Any comments?

Thanks!

[MaxDZ8]

The 'S' in ASIC means Specific. It means you buy an ASIC to do SHA256, an ASIC to do Scrypt. The first does SHA, the second does scrypt. Only.
Because Scrypt has something that looks like SHA inside itself, some Scrypt ASICs can also do SHA256.

While some X11/13/15/17/32/1251 ASICs have been announced, none is a real product AFAIK.

[muhrohmat]

yes sir maxDZ8 its right the X11 mining scrypt its difrent from usual mining and the asic does not really goes there you need proper search in the net for the X11 more MHs speed miners and i guess its will be also a bit expencive