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So many historic items become collectable - coins, computers, cars, stationary engines, and I'm sure you can think of many others. It seems that old ASIC miners and other rigs are being scrapped in large numbers. This usually happens just before the items start to be collected by nostalgic enthusiasts. I've started to get interested, and I'm sure there are a few other members here who are keeping their old miners as topics of interest.
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Well, mate as of now mining rigs will still be able to use as a part of a PC. But sooner and later the miners will become something that will remain history. Hash is getting hard to solve and miners are now unprofitable. That is the thing we need to accept and I feel sad for those former miners. Ain't know if how much the percentage in miner has stopped as of now. Speaking of collective items, I currently enjoyed collecting Hello Kitty related stuff. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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February 17, 2019, 03:52:31 PM |
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So many historic items become collectable - coins, computers, cars, stationary engines, and I'm sure you can think of many others. It seems that old ASIC miners and other rigs are being scrapped in large numbers. This usually happens just before the items start to be collected by nostalgic enthusiasts. I've started to get interested, and I'm sure there are a few other members here who are keeping their old miners as topics of interest.
If Asik miners can not be converted to the work of an ordinary computer, it would be nice to make a Museum of all kinds of mining Asiks and put them in any room or exhibition hall for display with a description of its characteristics and year of manufacture. I think you could do a whole themed room in the exhibition samples of mining Asimov on their varieties and led tours there in ten or twenty years)) I think it is quite possible if bitcoin in another 10 years will be used in life much more effectively and where there will be museums that will be collected machines for bitcoin mining from the very first. And it would be good to find the first machine which in 2009 was producing the first units!!!
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February 18, 2019, 05:33:12 AM |
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I gave one of my undervolted S1s to a friend ---The S1s didn't have cases: I loved how they looked and one of my usb erupters P.S. Hello Kitty is one of my favorites
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February 28, 2019, 08:11:16 PM |
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it would be ironic if my butterfly labs FPGA and original jalapino actually did become collector items and could be sold to a collector in the future. they would finally hit their ROI! even if it took 20 or 30 years..
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March 03, 2019, 10:10:36 PM |
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it would be ironic if my butterfly labs FPGA and original jalapino actually did become collector items and could be sold to a collector in the future. they would finally hit their ROI! even if it took 20 or 30 years..
BFL miners might become collectible faster than a lot of the others as they have a story and notoriety so to speak. A lot of Jalepeno's ended up getting into the wild eventually. If in the future I was collecting hardware the BFL mini-rig would be something I would want, not many reported to have made it into the wild, people paid thousands of BTC for vapour hardware or the ones that did get delivered were fucking garbage! The famous BFL foam pitch fork would be so much more appealing to me than their old miners. So many miners were built and sold and so few people would actually pay anything for them as collectibles that it will likely be a really really long time before old mining hardware is worth much more than it's scrap value!
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March 03, 2019, 10:41:42 PM |
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The famous BFL foam pitch fork would be so much more appealing to me than their old miners.
yup for sure i would want one of those. i value my BFL coffee mug more than the FPGA/jally. would be cool to find an original avalon.
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March 04, 2019, 04:15:44 PM |
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The famous BFL foam pitch fork would be so much more appealing to me than their old miners.
yup for sure i would want one of those. i value my BFL coffee mug more than the FPGA/jally. would be cool to find an original avalon. Batch one 1st gen avalons are a part of history for sure, I just couldn't imagine displaying it, and personally I like to have my collectibles out on view at home or in my office! I can't see myself wanting a big aluminium box with a couple fans on my wall or desk etc lol! I'm sure there will eventually be a collector's market for some items but I don't think it will be a big thing for most collectors.
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March 05, 2019, 09:40:52 AM |
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These miners would be collectible in 30 years or so. There will always be a market for them. Those who remember the beginning of the crypto craze will collect and hold onto them for sentimental reasons. I don’t think there will be much monetary profit.
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March 05, 2019, 11:59:05 AM |
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Well I still want to try that old Butterfly Labs one that I picked up. There doen't seem to be much support for it though, and all the references to the old manuals and software don't resolve any more. Maybe the software and the manuals will become more collectable.
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March 05, 2019, 01:37:47 PM |
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afaik the asics all used cgminer by -ck and any docs to run it would be in cgminers readme. pretty sure the latest cgminer still can run them. now im curious and will probably fire the jally up.
if its their fpga i might still have the flasher and bitstreams kicking around.
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March 10, 2019, 03:10:25 AM |
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afaik the asics all used cgminer by -ck and any docs to run it would be in cgminers readme. pretty sure the latest cgminer still can run them. now im curious and will probably fire the jally up.
if its their fpga i might still have the flasher and bitstreams kicking around.
I don't remember BFL using cgminer, I thought the BFL crew had Luke do the mining software, wasn't it just a branded BFGminer? I never owned a BFL miner so maybe my brain is playing tricks on me.
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March 10, 2019, 04:10:18 AM |
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Well I still want to try that old Butterfly Labs one that I picked up. There doen't seem to be much support for it though, and all the references to the old manuals and software don't resolve any more. Maybe the software and the manuals will become more collectable.
LOL I've owned quite a few mining rigs...none came with manuals. I read the forums (mining--hardware---pools) and every now and then would have to ask a stupid question (usually received well) lightfoot still posts from time to time Yes a Jalapeno should be collectible! My twitter page has a couple of my S1's with my favorite pocket knife (Camillus Cuda CY1 Circuit Board Cyber Folder) @cryptobitchicks
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afaik the asics all used cgminer by -ck and any docs to run it would be in cgminers readme. pretty sure the latest cgminer still can run them. now im curious and will probably fire the jally up.
if its their fpga i might still have the flasher and bitstreams kicking around.
I don't remember BFL using cgminer, I thought the BFL crew had Luke do the mining software, wasn't it just a branded BFGminer? I never owned a BFL miner so maybe my brain is playing tricks on me. now that you mention it they (BFL ASICS) were supported by both cgminer (-ck) and bfgminer (luke-jr). one is a fork of the other. i always used cgminer though. there was (maybe still is) quite the war as to who forked who. cant remember what the FPGA used, but i think that was cgminer too. the only software i remember for thier FPGA was a program to load different bitstreams.. i ran the second to highest speed one but needed to run it with no case and a 120mm blowing on it or it throttled. now that i have fpgas again (sqrl acorns and bcu1525) i feel the strange urge to get the bfl fpga running again just for the lulz.
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March 13, 2019, 02:32:52 PM |
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afaik the asics all used cgminer by -ck and any docs to run it would be in cgminers readme. pretty sure the latest cgminer still can run them. now im curious and will probably fire the jally up.
if its their fpga i might still have the flasher and bitstreams kicking around.
I don't remember BFL using cgminer, I thought the BFL crew had Luke do the mining software, wasn't it just a branded BFGminer? I never owned a BFL miner so maybe my brain is playing tricks on me. now that you mention it they (BFL ASICS) were supported by both cgminer (-ck) and bfgminer (luke-jr). one is a fork of the other. i always used cgminer though. there was (maybe still is) quite the war as to who forked who. cant remember what the FPGA used, but i think that was cgminer too. the only software i remember for thier FPGA was a program to load different bitstreams.. i ran the second to highest speed one but needed to run it with no case and a 120mm blowing on it or it throttled. now that i have fpgas again (sqrl acorns and bcu1525) i feel the strange urge to get the bfl fpga running again just for the lulz. I have a few hundred BFLabs chips. Can't wait till they are a collectible. Also have a few of the USB miners in original boxes.
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March 17, 2019, 05:17:53 PM |
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Some of the original asics will be collectable. Might not be for decades but a lot of collectables become that because of nostalgia. I know some 20-30 years from now I would like to still have mine, just something to reflect back on a cool little conversation piece. Asics usually get to the point of not even worth selling, would rather keep my old clunkers than sell them for pennies.
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March 17, 2019, 05:52:07 PM |
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I'm a bit miffed because I've decided to experiment with BitBlocks, and I think that needs a scrypt miner. I might try with the small computer that I revived, but I don't think I can change the graphics in that.
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March 18, 2019, 04:35:27 PM |
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I'm a bit miffed because I've decided to experiment with BitBlocks, and I think that needs a scrypt miner. I might try with the small computer that I revived, but I don't think I can change the graphics in that.
I dont know what bitblocks are but scrypt miners are a dime a dozen you can get one with a psu for real cheap right now.
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