What should I do with my miner?

[Distribution]

Almost a year ago, I bought an Avalon 60gh/s miner. It's a batch 2 I believe. I had a problem with it at one point which permanently reduced it's hashing power to about 50 gh/s. It still mines, but I'm moving and it's no longer going to be profitable for me to run it. What should I do with it? The obvious answer is to sell it. A guy who lives in school housing wanted to buy it, but we couldn't get it to work on the locked down network. Plus, at this point, I might be better off selling the power supply and router separately. Is there something better I could do with it? Donate it to a museum? Send it to Dominica? Gut it, turn the router into a piratebox and store change in the case? Suggestions?

[Newar]

Almost a year ago, I bought an Avalon 60gh/s miner. It's a batch 2 I believe. I had a problem with it at one point which permanently reduced it's hashing power to about 50 gh/s. It still mines, but I'm moving and it's no longer going to be profitable for me to run it. What should I do with it? The obvious answer is to sell it. A guy who lives in school housing wanted to buy it, but we couldn't get it to work on the locked down network. Plus, at this point, I might be better off selling the power supply and router separately. Is there something better I could do with it? Donate it to a museum? Send it to Dominica? Gut it, turn the router into a piratebox and store change in the case? Suggestions?

The Chinese way to dispose of them:


Sell what you can and the rest to the recycling center.

[byronbb]

Sell mining bonds to idiots.

[matt4054]

I also have obsolete miners, like an ASICMiner Blade v1 that I bought for 50 BTC back in the days. I keep them as collector items just in case, and that's the only thing that I could recommend at this point. All of my miners (about 2 THS worth) have been unplugged for weeks now, even those at 1W/GHS. Maybe I'll move them to a friend's garage where he doesn't pay for power, but again that would just be anecdotal.

Bitcoin mining is just not worth it at the moment IMHO.

[xstr8guy]

Landfill it or try to unload on some idiot on ebay for $20 plus shipping.

[MiningBuddy]

Repurpose the case and heatsinks for something maybe? 

[jontrue]

Sell all  ASICMiner

[Nagle]

Try eBay with no reserve.

[hedgy73]

People still buying hardware like this on ebay, put on as low start price listing and see what you get.

Some completed listings results: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=avalon+60+gh%2Fs+bitcoin+mner&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

[xstr8guy]

People still buying hardware like this on ebay, put on as low start price listing and see what you get.

Some completed listings results: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=avalon+60+gh%2Fs+bitcoin+mner&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

Check "sold" listings, not "completed". And also look at the dates... Nothing has sold since mid-august.

[hedgy73]

People still buying hardware like this on ebay, put on as low start price listing and see what you get.

Some completed listings results: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=avalon+60+gh%2Fs+bitcoin+mner&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

Check "sold" listings, not "completed". And also look at the dates... Nothing has sold since mid-august.

Sorry my mistake .

[sestertius753]

Mine SHA256 altcoins, not for profit but because you like their ideas and you want to support their network. Once I have an SHA256 mining operation set up, I plan on dedicating some of my hashrate to Mazacoin because I think it's a great idea and I want to support them.

(P.S. If you just want to dump hardware, I'll take it and promise to only hash MZC with it. )

[Sakarias-Corporation]

Guys if you have old miners that you have no use for or can't run due prices, you could always host them somewhere else.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=776290.0

[Zelek Uther]

Sell it for $1 reserve on ebay. Someone will buy it, and you might even get $15 to 20 for it (plus postage).

[Distribution]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I might keep the case around just as a display thing. I couldn't sell it on eBay, because while I might get lucky, chances are it would sell for less than what a WR-703N sells for. If that's the case, I'd rather do something with the router (like make a PirateBox) and then repurpose the power supply and fans. If someone could figure out how to effectively repurpose these ASICs, they could make a lot of money and get a lot of hardware dirt cheap. I would like to see someone go into collecting miners, either as an individual or something like an exhibit at a museum. I think I'd donate it to that.

[DigitalPirateman]

If you made Roi then do what you want.

If you have a friend or kids give it to them for a good learning tool.

[BTCish]

Keep it for the history, i do not think that 20 $ will make you any richer

[zetaray]

I would sell it if someone wants to buy it. Use some of the btc received to buy one or two usb block erupters for collecting.

[DigitalPirateman]

Come to think of it now don't sell it mine a different sha coin see how it works first like peer coin or namecoin.If you want to keep it running