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Is there anyone here who are mining earthcoin with scrypt asics?
I want to help secure the network, but I dont know much about mining. If someone can advice on what to buy (low price range) and how to set up the asic that would be great!
I want to help secure the network, but I dont know much about mining. If someone can advice on what to buy (low price range) and how to set up the asic that would be great!
A gridseed or a zeusminer blizzard are both quite cheap. I am currently mining with both on a different coin, but I do mine earthcoin with them. They work just fine. Gridseeds can be had for around 20 bucks if you look around, and I think the Blizzard is running about 60 right now. 360 KH and 1.2-1.4 MH respectively. Blizzard is a more powerful machine, but the gridseed is more stable. Which is why I stated a solid number vs. a range
That has been my exerience. I have less than .05% variance on the Gridseed, and the blizzard is all over the map. But it does, on average, very well. Power consumption combined is less than 100 watts. It's like leaving a light on.
Since I have a powerful PSU which is kind of lacking things to power at the moment, I might like to use it to power some of my miners in the future. How are the miners powered? At least if I understood correctly, the blizzard is plugged to the wall, what about the gridseed?
Also, I'd like a bit more info on the variance of the blizzard. I don't mind variance, if overall performance sets in the promised 1.2Mh/s range.
Both connect via a wall wart. I have them both running through one instance of cgminer. The Gridseed puts out a steady 360KH, whereas the blizzard varies from 1.2 all the way up to 1.8. The spikes are short and frequent. I'm not monitoring it close enough to know for sure, but I'm thinking it's average is closer to 1.4. It's kind of annoying how much it jumps, but the spikes are almost always upwards. It's a good product. The gridseed, aside from it's low hashpower, is a GREAT product. I recommend both with little reservation. There are ways to tune them, and I suspect if you knew what you were doing you could get the zeus stabilized, and possibly at a higher hashrate. I don't yet know how to do that. There are adapters available to run them off of a standard PSU, but I've not used them. So I have no opinion.