USB miner for Altcoins

[asder250]

I do not think that USB mining will give you more than you pay for electricity. Your phone is more efficient than PC + USB miner.
Try to look for Electroneum if you can´t afford mining on PC. 

[Uju4real]

Are there any USB Stick miners that mine altcoins?
If yes are there any that make at least a little bit profit?

Greetings!

I was thinking of buying a USB miner three years ago to mine new coins in the market with low difficulty, but after reading a lot of bad reviews and disadvantages I forget the idea and just do bounty campaign and buying coins, GPU is more competitive than USB miner forget USB there are better options.

You are very lucky that you never bought the USB miner cos you would have cried over your wasted money. Am currently using GPU and my friend that bought USB has to join cos the USB he bought was worthless

[poodle63]

Are there any USB Stick miners that mine altcoins?
If yes are there any that make at least a little bit profit?

Greetings!

I was thinking of buying a USB miner three years ago to mine new coins in the market with low difficulty, but after reading a lot of bad reviews and disadvantages I forget the idea and just do bounty campaign and buying coins, GPU is more competitive than USB miner forget USB there are better options.

You are very lucky that you never bought the USB miner cos you would have cried over your wasted money. Am currently using GPU and my friend that bought USB has to join cos the USB he bought was worthless

Not only worthless and that will be totally useless at all when each of this USB worth almost or even more than $100 and then just try to add a few bucks again and we get rx580 used.
That's will be very worth compared with USB miners.  I always prefer to get second-hand GPU rather than it.

[martychubbs]

Hmm, if such a device really existed, I would have bought it. The question is what profitability it will have and whether it will be profitable to use it at all.

[nightl]

It seems to me that this idea is not very profitable in terms of making a profit.
Good old miner with GPU no one will replace in the near future

[iv4n]

It seems to me that this idea is not very profitable in terms of making a profit.
Good old miner with GPU no one will replace in the near future

That`s true, at least when you have GPU you can do other stuff too, you can sell it after all, and you will find a buyer. Who use this usb miners, I think this was just a way for someone to earn some money by tricking people to buy something useless. In the end it`s better to buy a coin than to buy a usb miner and try to mine something, you will get more coins with simply buying it.

[mannybitcoins]

Where did you even hear about something like that? I first heard about this and did not even think about how to use them to mining coins.

[huntingthesnark]

Are there any USB Stick miners that mine altcoins?
If yes are there any that make at least a little bit profit?

Greetings!

Check out my sig :p

Best response - jstefanop's USB miners and the Apollo podminer are exactly what you're looking for. Accept no cheap copies or compromises ;-) Obviously they won't make you rich overnight, but they will do exactly what they claim to do, which is really as much as you can ask for.  Keep up the good work etc!

[Dr.Osh]

It seems to me that this idea is not very profitable in terms of making a profit.
Good old miner with GPU no one will replace in the near future

That`s true, at least when you have GPU you can do other stuff too, you can sell it after all, and you will find a buyer. Who use this usb miners, I think this was just a way for someone to earn some money by tricking people to buy something useless. In the end it`s better to buy a coin than to buy a usb miner and try to mine something, you will get more coins with simply buying it.

Well, I think the point of this is that the USB miner isn't profitable. even when you feel loss, you will not be able to sell it to people in general, except those who are interested in it. I have never searched for information about UBSminer. but, I only suggest that when you really want to mine, you should build a rig with a new GPU, such as NVIDIA 1080 Ti, or equivalent. You can sell it to gamers if you feel disadvantaged in this matter.

[Viceroy]

As for me, it's really questionable if one can make profit with USB miners. Use it like a starting point but don't get too serious with it.  Surely you may see your reasons here but in my opinion, GPU is more profitable as many people already mentioned here.  But if you are determined, read a bit about Dualminer USB ASIC. Probably you'll like it and hopefully it'l bring you some profit.

[Lucky-marsik]

before releasing the USB miners who were digging litecoin. now it is not profitable because the computer needs a lot of free ports and their speed is small.

[jstefanop]

The whole point of USB mining is not really about profitability. Its about enabling people that dont have money to buy expensive GPUs/ASICs to just use a spare USB port on their computer and be up and running with just 40 bucks.

Will a 40 dollar investment make you thousands? Probably not, but the whole point is to bring new people into the ecosystem. They learn what cryptos are about, and earn a little bit of crypto while they are at it.

Most people that buy my USB miners dont use them themselves, they gift them to people that would never think about crypto, but its a fun and engaging way to get them into the ecosystem.

[arnoldrimmer]

USB miner used to be good cos i use it before but don't know what happened  and it doesn't give much profit anymore so I ended up abandoning it but people are still using it

[curefrankosflue]

Hey guys,

not sure this is exactly the right place, but as it is about mining alts I think it might fit.

Does anyone of you guys know about an Asic or Fpga capable of running Cryptonight V1, the algorithm monero used until October 2018 (not Cryptonight V0).

Or do you know someone who might know? I have indirect proof that at least FPGAs exist.

I would be happy if someone could put me in touch with someone who knows or just provide information about the specifications of it (power usage, hashrate, price).

I'm offering
- a reward of 0.1 ETH for verified information about technical specifications
- a reward of 0.5 ETH for any contact to a legit source for that hardware.

Cheers and thanks

[stomachgrowls]

The whole point of USB mining is not really about profitability. Its about enabling people that dont have money to buy expensive GPUs/ASICs to just use a spare USB port on their computer and be up and running with just 40 bucks.

Will a 40 dollar investment make you thousands? Probably not, but the whole point is to bring new people into the ecosystem. They learn what cryptos are about, and earn a little bit of crypto while they are at it.

Most people that buy my USB miners dont use them themselves, they gift them to people that would never think about crypto, but its a fun and engaging way to get them into the ecosystem.

This is definitely correct but i do still believe that there are ones who do plan to purchase up these USB's for the sake
of making money with less money that they do pull out of their pockets/wallets.This is really just good for educational
purposes only but profitability? Then its a far cry from reality. 

-snip-

Create your own thread and you might get some people on which you do seek of.

[dentolas]

I agree that USB miners are funny and a good gadget for an experimental/educational setup... but if you want to really learn about mining and want to get the best investment for your money I would use the money to get at least a used GPU to target new coins and get things going...
Don't know how long you'll need to mine using a USB stick to have enough amount to be able to exchange it with profit (depends on the coin of course, but i mean that there are fees to be paid)
Electroneum, like someone said, might also be a good option and you can use your phone...

[etherixdevs]

I am using USB miners. I bought from a China company and I have 50 available. We can mine 5 different altcoins and the monthly value using a regular desktop Pc is about 3-4 Usd per month per Usb at actual Btc price. If you want I can send anywhere in the world by air mail. It's easy and it works. Write me privately if interested.

[kronos123]

The choice to buy a USB miner is just a matter of costs as @jstefanop rightly said, and not profitability; not even OP has ever asked for comparisons and opinions on profitability, because I believe he will have understood that he will get little, but in the meantime he can learn this new and complicated world.

If you buy a raspberry you can't expect to run advanced programs or complex calculations, so why do you ask Roi huge for a USB miner? That does not make sense.

[mak013]

I thought that noone use it now, but it seems that i`ve been mistaken. As for me - the best choice is to buy 1 or 2 such devices for test and for own research. After this actions - to think about several more or to sell these.

[nightl]

It turns out that usb miner is actually just a toy or a tool for learning, but not the actual option of making a profit through mining