Good Evening,
This is my first post so please god easy.
I am keen to get involved in Bitcoins, preferably mining them. There are posts, articles everywhere online and to be honest many I for some reason find confusing so thought I would look to speak to a real person on here.
My questions it whats the best start kits for my circumstances?
At present I have a laptop and mine using the laptop using GUIminer - in 24 hours so far got 18 shares. No idea what that means but thats what I got, apparently, Although my slushpool account shows no activity happening.
From what I have read, using just a laptop to mine is absolutely useless and non profitable - So what should I use, I was considering a USB hub that hold 40 Bitcoin USB devices and treat this as a hobby, leave the laptop on all the time and let it mine. What sort of expectancy would I get from that?
Also considered an Antminer S4 - But is it simple to setup, I heard a paper clip needs to be put into the cables somewhere to which I aint sure I feel comfortable doing myself.
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated
Mining with a laptop is out of the question, it's a NO NO situation, you earn nothing and you risk to burn your laptop to pieces if you mine using GPU.
Antminer S4 is not profitable. For a starter I would suggest you buy a USB miner (note is unprofitable, so use it as a learning experience only).
Once you are familiar with it, for the moment I don't know any device more profitable than this one below at the moment so get one if you have the funds.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitmain-Antminer-L3-250MH-s-400w-LITECOIN-MINER-like-a4-dominator-a2-terminator-/401251115769?hash=item5d6c6e22f9:g:ubYAAOSwA3dYZerNIn the pic below is the mining profit considering a price of the energy 0.10 USD/kWat.
So with this one is 187.39 monthly net profit. You need 1 year to make back the investment but this one is for serious investors.