Custom USB miner

[sefadogu]

Hello,
If I produce a custom USB miner, who would want to buy it? It has 500 gh/s at 20 watt. It will be very cheap.I can sell with eBay or face to face shopping (I am live in Turkey).

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[DaveF]

 GekkoScience is already making one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0

So the question would be how cheap? There is already an established vendor so you would have to prove yourself and probably undercut their price a bit.
But there will always be people who want stick miners to use / play with.

No idea how large the market is in general, but if you make a good product and get it in the hands of some people I'm sure you could sell a bunch.
i think your biggest obstacle is going to be the fact that you are a new user and getting people to trust you enough to send you money. But if you are selling on eBay that should eliminate that. part of it.

-Dave

[sefadogu]

I will not demand money from anyone. I will try to sell on an eBay-style site. So people can trust me with this way. Miner cost will be 100-150$ .

[NeuroticFish]

I will not demand money from anyone. I will try to sell on an eBay-style site. So people can trust me with this way. Miner cost will be 100-150$ .

I advise you'd send some few first items to known and reputed miners, so they can prove that the miners actually mine as expected. This should grow your reputation.
Selling in batches and handling the funds through reputed escrows may also be a good idea, since you are newbie / nobody knows you yet.

Edit: if you sell on eBay or similar established store, then you can ignore my second line.

[dansus021]

yes maybe you can start with share some picture, specification and benchmark how well your usb miner work the requirements to run the miner etc and let the community know

[sefadogu]

I will post photos as soon as possible.

[kano]

.. and please don't be making rip off copies of sidehack's work like others have done in the past ...

[sidehack]

RockMiner was selling a clone of one of my sticks so blatantly a ripoff that the publicity shots were my device spray-painted black and the shiny parts photoshopped back in.

TTBit ripped off of my work, botched the design into a fire hazard in three separate ways, then built it with grey-market chips.

Please don't do that.

[DaveF]

RockMiner was selling a clone of one of my sticks so blatantly a ripoff that the publicity shots were my device spray-painted black and the shiny parts photoshopped back in.

TTBit ripped off of my work, botched the design into a fire hazard in three separate ways, then built it with grey-market chips.

Please don't do that.

To be fair TTBit ripped off several peoples stick miners. They made clones for SHA & Scrypt & X11 from a bunch of different people.
But lets see what the OP comes up with. Could be something interesting.

-Dave

[kano]

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To be fair TTBit ripped off several peoples stick miners.
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I wouldn't call it fair

[philipma1957]

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To be fair TTBit ripped off several peoples stick miners.
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I wouldn't call it fair

yeah dave it is like saying to be fair gov coumo grabbed your wife’s tits and my wife’s tits.

to all else this is a new york state reference.

kano is right  TtBit was an asshole and whether he did it to everyone or just sidehack he was an a hole none the less.

its why the internet sucks as i do not think dave was defending a p o s like TTBit.
it likely  was    meant to be the pos ripped off every one.

[DaveF]

Yeah, bad choice of words on my part. I was just pointing out (poorly) that sidehack was not the only one that TTBit ripped off.

Drifting a bit here, but it does make you wonder how much counterfeit stuff is out there they we don't know about.
If someone make a stick like sidehacks or any of the others but instead of customizing it made an exact clone how many could they sell at close to full price.

-Dave
And if anyone was wondering about the gov coumo comment I sent this to phil a few weeka ago: https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1447573756688404486

[philipma1957]

Yeah, bad choice of words on my part. I was just pointing out (poorly) that sidehack was not the only one that TTBit ripped off.

Drifting a bit here, but it does make you wonder how much counterfeit stuff is out there they we don't know about.
If someone make a stick like sidehacks or any of the others but instead of customizing it made an exact clone how many could they sell at close to full price.

-Dave
And if anyone was wondering about the gov coumo comment I sent this to phil a few weeka ago: https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1447573756688404486

Yeah if they make a really good copy and sell on ebay at a markup they could get away with it.

[sidehack]

Oh yeah also TTBit copied the product/serial config off one of my sticks and cloned it across all of theirs so they all came up with the same serial number. What a joker.