Your GPUs could be freed from calculating hashes and resume rendering for you. It serves as a replacement of GPUs for mining hobbyists. Each one mines at more than 300MH/s, powered only by the USB port. Its experimental batch (Emerald) has passed all tests. Altogether, a daily profit of about $0.15 per day USD.ĤxUSB erupters + $42.94 (USB Hub & Fan) + S&H = $106.16 The Block Erupter USB series is the second major product of Bitfountain. In addition to the BTC, I generated about $0.03 in NMC. With the 4 erupters running 24/7, I use about $0.02/USD of electricity while generating on average $0.12-$0.16 in bitcoin per day. This USB devices mines Bitcoin around 336 MHash while using USB spec power (0.5 Volt, approximately 2.55 Watt). I chose mining because it seamlessly allows you to mine namecoin through the same port/pool.ĭon't use bitminter's flash miner if you want to mine alt coins with your gpus while going after bitcoin with the ASIC cards (it doesn't play nice if you have wallets running or cgminer working and you'll get a lot of rejects)- but by using a command line miner for sha-256, I can also run guiminer-scrypt or cgminer to hash out alt coins. This is 1 NEW USB-powered ASIC bitcoin miner From the Sapphire Batch: This is the first batch under production in quantity.
#USB BLOCK ERUPTER BITCOIN HOW TO#
I've had a constant 1.3-1.4Gh/s with these USB erupters, peaking at 2.2Gh/s (but that's an anomaly and not constant) I use bfgminer and set them up to run They're super easy to use once you get the drivers set up and understand how to mine. I purchased 4 erupters back in November 2013- just to run beside my 4x5970s and 3x7950s, it was an experiment and at the time I was pretty new to mining in general.Ĥ-erupters with 92mm cooling fan and powered-USB hub. Today, a share is worth about 1/156 of a penny and 333MH/s will get you a share. Realizing I'm very tardy to this post, I'd like to throw out this update for those currently googling this question. A typical USB block erupter will get 333MH/s under realistic conditions.