Quote from: philipma1957 on May 26, 2022, 03:10:01 PM

Quote from: wnet on May 26, 2022, 02:31:14 PM

Quote from: nullama on May 26, 2022, 02:12:13 PM

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Thank you for the information. I'm just curious, if I would be to do an experiment with, let's say, 10 ASIC usb stick miners, how much BTC would I make in one day on a normal pool (not solo)?

you do not want the stick miners. 10 x 300gh = 3th that is about 33 cents a day

if you want small you can buy a 1 board s9 clock it low and get 3th the same 33 cents.

but the cost to buy 10 stick miners is in the 1000's

and the cost to buy an s9 is in the 100's

if you want small you can do the Apollo there is a thread on it here maybe it is 400 or 500 for a full kit.

I would buy the Apollo or a 1 board s9 over 10 usb sticks

all off the top of my head. but close enough to understand the math favors the usb sticks the least.

Yeah, spot on.

I'll add that the Compac F does run more a bit more efficiently than the Apollo. Each USB miner mines 300GH/s at 15W, whereas the Apollo gets about 2.1TH/s at 120W (extremely quiet and efficient mode). Based on those numbers, the 7 USB miners required to match the Apollo hashrate consume 105W.

But the price difference is huge, 7 USB Miners would cost you $1,629.98 [1, 2], whereas one Apollo BTC with power supply is sold for $574.99 [3]

Also, something important specially for a newbie, the Apollo is ready to go in one single unit, and you can easily attach more if you want to. You just connect it to your computer, power it and you're ready to mine. The Compac Fs are great, but you need to tinker a bit more with them, get proper USB hubs that give you at least 2.4A per port, get proper fans and make sure they're running, tweak parameters for each stick, etc. Also for 7 sticks you'll probably need 2 USB hubs, so that's two power connections instead of one for the Apollo, etc. It's just more difficult to scale with the sticks.

[1]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/4-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-10-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-4-th-s
[2]: https://bitcoinmerch.com/products/3-x-gekkoscience-compac-f-with-fan-upgrade-bitcoin-merch%C2%AE-7-port-usb-hub-combo-up-to-1-05th-s
[3]: https://shop.futurebit.io/products/pre-order-apollo-btc-a-bitcoin-asic-miner-and-desktop-class-computer-running-a-full-node-and-much-more-batch-1-ships-in-late-april-to-may?variant=33404745351267