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I've heard that USB miners aren't really useful for mining anymore but I really want to experience what mining is like, even if I'm not really getting anything more than a few satoshis. With them being pretty outdated I was wondering if anyone had one or two left over from when they actually were useful, that would be willing to send them to me. I could probably pay for shipping if need be. I understand that even the cost of the electric needed to use it, is more than I will get out f it, but it is nothing something I will be doing long. Like I said, kinda just want the experience.
Thank you all in advance.

I have 10 of them kicking around. Personally, I still can't believe that they are still selling, and/or that people are still buying them. I get that you want the experience, but even with all 10 hooked up, I doubt you'd see much of anything out of them.

Where are you located roughly?

Well I have nothing to lose but time honestly. I don't pay for electric, so I don't have to worry about that. Also I'm a bit of a show off, my sister thinks all of this is a huge scam. She doesn't get that putting your computer to work can generate something that equates to money. If I can get her on board the cryptocurrency train I'd feel pretty accomplished and maybe convince her to throw down some money with me to get a real miner.
I'm in NY a little outside of Poughkeepsie.

I'd send you a few if you were closer, cross country and cross border can get expensive for shipping though. Try craigslist or kijiji if you have it in your area. I did a Craigslist search for your area, came up with Hudson Valley. Looks a ways down the road though, but I see antminer u1's and u2's for around $20 bucks.

This is the search I did: http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/search/sss?sort=priceasc&query=Bitcoin%20miner

I'm sure there are ones closer than the ones I found, you know the area better than I would. Ebay might be an option as well. I see some going for cheap on there, might even be able to pick up local.

Good luck.

Watch the shipping costs. I got burned awhile a go and ended up paying double what the unit cost just for the shipping.

Good advice, I got burned on shipping costs on Ebay a few years back. That's why I mentioned the part about picking up local. I contacted a seller near where I am for an antminer S1. I was able to pick it up only a 30 minute drive away, he even dropped the price a few bucks since he didn't have to go through the the shipping steps and he also didn't have to pay ebay fee's

Quote from: zhinkk on July 09, 2014, 12:45:13 AM

I think it's interesting that you want to spend money just to experience mining. I think it's kind of good. But why buy a USB miner. If you don't want to "earn" anything and just "experience" mining, why not just GPU/CPU mine? It would do the same thing, giving you first hand experience of mining and not earning any money.

That's what I did to get started, I saw results, although very small. Went out and bought the USB miners.