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davidfox (OP)
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June 21, 2017, 06:22:09 PM
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I have a Butterfly Labs 5GH/s miner (it's one of the older cubes, not the newer slim model,) and 5 GH/s isn't worth mining Bitcoin. Is it possible to mine Litecoin (or any other currencies) with this device? I haven't been able to Google much information, so I'm sort of starting here.

Model: BF0005G

Thanks in advance!
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June 21, 2017, 06:50:18 PM
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No way in the world. Litecoin is scrypt algo and Bitcoin is sha256d. You may want to go inquire for litecoin asics in the altcoin board, this is the BTC board.

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June 21, 2017, 06:55:30 PM
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Thanks for the answer--is there anything Bitcoin-related that I could do with this hardware?

Is it anything more than a paperweight now?
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June 21, 2017, 07:01:35 PM
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Quote from: davidfox on June 21, 2017, 06:55:30 PM
Thanks for the answer--is there anything Bitcoin-related that I could do with this hardware?

Is it anything more than a paperweight now?


Yes, sell it on ebay for a few sheckles and put that money toward either a modern day asic miner or a GPU miner. 
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