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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: I need a virtual desktop for cloud mining, suggestions?
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JohnnyPierce
on 03/05/2014, 15:33:16 UTC
Oh, sorry, I never explained myself, I'm not mining SHA256, I'm mining Scrypt altcoins! Wink

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

Well, those computers are used mainly for storage, so the CPU resources are never really used in any profitable way, that is why he granted me the logins.

What are those scrypt blade miners, how do they work, and more importantly, how much do they cost?


The Scrypt blade miners are ASIC hardware for mining coins like LTC, DOGE, etc.  At present Gridseed manufactures them, along with their 5-chip dual miners.  The miners are dual blades, with each blade having 40 chips, for a total of approximately 5.2 MH/s from the unit, all for about 140 watts.  You can pick them up for about $1500 USD give or take.  If you were to pick one up for yourself, you'd have to deal with VAT and customs fees (depending on where in Europe you are).  I'm not sure what kind of tax/import fees there are in Brazil.

That's pretty expensive, considering that I can get about 7 Mh/s for free.