USB miners have too small hashrate. Even if you had tens of them, you wouldn't earn much anyway. It's too late to use USB miners. Now ASICs like Antminer matter in the mining world. The chance of mining a block solo is near zero. It's a waste of electricity in my opinion.
that's not the point of something like that though, it's just something youd set up and not even have to think about, and given that infinitesimal chance that you actually ended up finding the block, you'd just be rewarded a hundredfold for something you spent pocket change on. it's a fun little thing you just keep going, and if i still had my usb miner i would probably set it up too.
When solo mining on a laptop you will not earn more than 50$ a year. I think home mining is unfortunately over
i think you misunderstood; the topic is about attempting to solo mine with an obsolete setup, not on a pool. and even then, with a laptop and a 2 gh miner, i dont think you would even get more than 10 cents in a year the way things are looking right now. 50 dollars? fat chance.
exact, and over time will be required of more powerful machines, even the current ones such as Bitmain Antminer L3 + 504MH / s start to not be so profitable.
mining as a business has many disadvantaged
im 100% sure you didnt even read my post, i dont think ive said anything that wouldve lead to your comment, nice spam.
You have to have an extreme amount of sheer luck to hit a block with such a low hashrate nowadays. Even a single S9 is hard to hit those blocks given that there are tons of mining farms doing the hashing everyday. But it'd be cool if someone comes up with proofs stating that they solo mined a block with just a USB miner since it gives luck and randomness on mining a new statement, but we knkw that that wouldn't happen, not in this instance of reality we live in.
I remember having my 3x Gridseed way back 2015 and I love those little things. Sadly I have to turn it off since it only produces heat and not actual money for me.
it's not impossible though, it can still happen for that one lucky individual. i used to run a gridseed back when i was in college too, free electricity why the hell not. ive since sold the miner, but it was a tad fun having it run constantly. never actually found a block though, but i expected as much.
