Quote from: franky1 on May 07, 2021, 07:15:49 PM

but a home user with USB sticks in his pc.. or a couple asics in their basement working alone. forget it

I've watched some pretty recent videos on Youtube about USB stick mining, and even if you're mining in a pool with a bunch of Moonlanders, you're still going to earn next to nothing. The video makers usually say that the USB devices "are great for learning about mining" but the only thing I think they're good for is learning how to lose money.

It's been said here many times: mining bitcoin solo is like playing the lottery, though I think the odds of discovering a block are even less than winning Lotto. You can try it of course, but you're basically just wasting your time and electricity.

Quote from: jeyzeus on May 10, 2021, 07:10:05 AM

idk but my plan was to build a USB mining rig with a couple of super old bitcoin block erupters (for luck/look, not performance lmfao) and a handful of OC'd newpacs and point em to ckpool as a "lotto miner" / art piece.

no idea how to set that up, i never really was a lotto player but idk i feel like this would be fun just to tinker around. and it does help decentralize the network lol

They look super cool, but if you think about that setup with the logical part of your brain (and not the gambling one), you'll realize it's not worth it to do. You'll get sick of getting nothing every day, just like all the other people who've tried it and ended up selling those block eruptors and Moonlanders on eBay.