mine etherum

[heffzz]

hi i have bought antminer r1 and thank to @crazyguys now i can mine in a pool.

the softwere into this R1 is cgminer, can i try to mine ether or only btc?

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[NotFuzzyWarm]

A) You bought something and do not even know what it can do?  
As punishment, go to https://bitmain.com and find out for yourself.....

[heffzz]

I know what it can do. But I wanted to know if I could execute the eth mining with some files

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I know what it can do. But I wanted to know if I could execute the eth mining with some files

No you don't...
Both the R1 and the new R1LTC are ASIC-based miners with the algorithms hard-wired into the chips: That means they can only mine what they were designed to mine. No changing that -- ever. SHA256 (BTC) and the various altcoin algorithms (for the R1LTC that means Litecoin) are massively different operations.

[heffzz]

ah ok rlly thank u. can u advise something xmr miner?

[reids]

ah ok rlly thank u. can u advise something xmr miner?

You can't mine XMR on an antminer either.

[heffzz]

with my pc

[GabryRox]

FYI:  ASIC (antminer, etc) by definition is specifically designed to do 1 thing very well.  In this case, that 1 thing is to mine BTC. Since this is the way it was designed... built into the hardware... you will never be able to use that for anything other than that 1 purpose (unless you count its use as a paperweight in about a year when it is EOL).

by contrast, an FPGA is somewhat similar to an ASIC but can actually be much more flexible because it has the capability of performing more than 1 task. A good example of this are Baikal miners (mini, quad, etc). While sold primarily as an X11 miner, these also have the capability of mining several other algorithms in addition to X11, which may become very valuable should Dash get mined out or drop severely in price.

But, note that you will not be able to mine ETH or XMR or most other most valuable coins with either of the options above. XMR can still be mined with a decent CPU to some degree, but you really need a GPU-based mining rig to successfully mine these algos. Granted, due to market conditions, it would be pretty tough to find enough reasonably priced GPUs to even build 1 4x or 6x rig but that's the direction you need to go if you want to mine ETH or XMR.