Quote from: flbtlgx on September 14, 2013, 09:44:25 PM

Quote from: LilGhost on September 14, 2013, 07:25:16 PM

Quote from: mobile on September 14, 2013, 07:10:31 PM

after playing with BFGM miner I found that you can mine on multiple pools. So you can set your miner to mine on 2 pools, so if one pools slacks on giving you work. Your mining software will point more hashing power towards the pool that is being more efficient. Its called LOAD Balancing.

Would you mind sending me a link of how to set up BFGM miner for multiple pools because i might try to continue to run slush (they have a 2% fee if i remember right) and run on the BTCguild PPLNS.

Thanks in advance. I'll do a quick google search, but if you have a link with instructions/information that worked for you, I'd prefer to read into that instead of taking a while reading through potentially outdated/irrelevant information.

Also, I would mine litecoins, but there are no asics that I know of for these.

One thing you have to be concerned about is that the power supply for the USB hub needs to have a pretty good rating or you'll only get away with being able to use a few ports.

For example youll notice that this USB hub has a 12v power supply that is able to output 5amps.
http://www.amazon.com/Release-Anker%C2%AE-Uspeed-Charging-Adapter/dp/B005NGQWL2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379194906&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+10+port

I've seen plenty of posts from lurking on here that show that hub of being able to handle 9-10 USB miners just fine. Most fill 9 ports with the USB miners and then fill the last port with a USB fan like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-USB-Powered-Portable-Cooling-Solution/dp/B003XN24GY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379195003&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+fan

Again, that is kind of an expensive solution, but it's one that works reliably.

You can try getting other hubs and experiment with using different power supplies, but that could end VERY badly. At the least you could destroy your USB miners and at the worst you could start a fire.

I'm actually looking at this:
http://www.amazon.com/JETION-Ports-Multi-Expansion-Splitter/dp/B009VRKPR6/ref=sr_1_51?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1379224969&sr=1-51&keywords=hub

It pushes 500 mA to every port. So with 12 Block Erupters i could fill it and on the last 1 put a fan + $23.99 which means the Price per Mineable-Port is ~$3.43 vs. ~$6.67 for the anker.

Quote from: mobile on September 14, 2013, 11:44:07 PM

Your right, BTC ASIC's are designed to only mine BTC & currently no one has hacked them yet to do otherwise (that I know of at least Grin

) I only mentioned mining LTC because you mentioned that your squeezing out every hash you can get by ultilizing your Laptop to mine BTC & those 10Mh/s would be put to better use by mining an ALT-Crypto. Although its probaly not worth your electricity and the degeneration of your laptop. Besides NVIDIA is unefficient in mining so profit after electric cost is null.

I actually will probably be mining ZET coins (an alternate SHA-256 Cryptocurrency) because the Block Erupters can be used on those and supposedly ZET coins are more profitable to mine.