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June 06, 2013, 05:08:43 AM
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i think imma just buy 1 of the usb things and a rasberry pi, leave it and forget it. lol check back once a month and order pizza with the winnings Tongue

Thats a good way to look at it ...but even then you might not have enough for a pizza lol

Here's some more food for thought...

Assuming the difficulty doesn't increase too much (it's already climbing pretty fast) and that you're part of a fairly lucky pool (a lot of ifs), at ~300 MH you should see something like 0.01 BTC a day.

That fastest way to get pizza is to use a service that takes BTC (and charges a fee) to buy pizza because you'll have to wait a long time to hit minimum amounts to do money conversion at most exchanges.  Now let's say the pizza costs $10 and the fee is $2 @ a rate of $100 per BTC (for simplicity), you'll need 0.12 BTC.  That's 12 days at the previous rate to be able to get pizza, so 2 pizzas a month which is not bad.

However, considering that you spent 2 BTC on the hardware you could just buy yourself 16 pizzas to begin with.  That's 2 pizzas for the next 8 months.
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June 06, 2013, 11:57:44 AM
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The other missing factor is heat.  Depending on location heat can be a big problem with a lot of GPUs.

Asics suffer from even more severe heat issues than gpu's. The first BFL labs units were errible for heat and even the block eruptors suffer from heat issues. They run fine but are not running at there top end due to heat concerns
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June 10, 2013, 07:24:41 PM
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The other missing factor is heat.  Depending on location heat can be a big problem with a lot of GPUs.

Asics suffer from even more severe heat issues than gpu's. The first BFL labs units were errible for heat and even the block eruptors suffer from heat issues. They run fine but are not running at there top end due to heat concerns

Yep. 10 vs 13 GH/sec...? Quite some difference with ample cooling.

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June 10, 2013, 07:37:23 PM
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You also have to factor in that the Block Eruptors are an easy way to add hash to an already overloaded 15 AMP circuit. You can milk ALOT more hash out of a residence! Running them on a desktop already being used for normal purposes is alot easier. I tried to add a 7970 to a Dell and it was a fail due to lack of BUS power. I did not know about powered-risers at the time so maybe it would have worked that way...

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June 10, 2013, 07:45:22 PM
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Hi all

My first stupid post as I'm a Newbie how is just try to buy some USB or Block Eruptors items. Seems I can't do this without get out of my Newbie state? Or does someone sell some items?
I will pay with wire transfer, after I got the items  Wink

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June 10, 2013, 07:47:05 PM
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Hi all

My first stupid post as I'm a Newbie how is just try to buy some USB or Block Eruptors items. Seems I can't do this without get out of my Newbie state? Or does someone sell some items?
I will pay with wire transfer, after I got the items  Wink

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Ebay...

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June 10, 2013, 07:52:37 PM
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Hi all

My first stupid post as I'm a Newbie how is just try to buy some USB or Block Eruptors items. Seems I can't do this without get out of my Newbie state? Or does someone sell some items?
I will pay with wire transfer, after I got the items  Wink

Regards Patrick

Ask to be whitelisted (see the README). If you say its to participate in a block group buy at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0 then you'll probably get OK'd.

Oh, PS. You do know these are a very bad deal don't you (popular though nonetheless). Are you expecting to make a profit or just laundering bitcoin?

1Jest66T6Jw1gSVpvYpYLXR6qgnch6QYU1 NumberOfTheBeast ... go on, give it a try Grin
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July 15, 2013, 02:22:12 PM
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You can buy Block Erupters for 1 btc from btcguild.com if you're so inclined.
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July 15, 2013, 02:41:29 PM
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Getting a good GPU is always a nice investment just because of better quality graphics on your computer, mostly with games. Also, if you like mining altcoins, GPUs are still pretty much king around there.

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