If your unit was failing or some chips were not hashing they would turn to an X letting you know there was a problem. The rows of O at the top of the screen represent the different chips on the blade. They also had a web interface! Although it may look like a World Wide Web 1.0 beta site it was actually pretty clever what they did with it. The cost of these miners in March of 2014 was a little bit over $200 each although they would drop dramatically in price before too long. The downside is that in dual mining mode both modes were a little bit slower so most people (myself included) ran these in Scrypt only mode since the Bitcoin hashing speed was already relatively insignificant at this point while the Scrypt speed was quite valuable. The Gridseed actually had a dual mining mode so it could mine both Scrypt and Bitcoin at the same time. That’s why when Gridseed announced the first Scrypt ASIC (Litecoin being the primary one of interest) many miners were very interested in being the first generation of Scrypt ASIC miners and getting in at the ground level. At the time it felt like if you weren’t already invested that you had missed the boat on Bitcoin ASIC mining. Bitcoin’s difficulty was increasing exponentially and mining was getting more and more competitive. The popularity of mining with ASICs had exploded at this point. I only had a setup like this for around 3 months before it was obsolete and time to upgrade! Gridseed Scrypt Mining ASIC Technology in the mining world was moving extremely quickly. These miners were much more powerful and no longer relied on USB to power them which would bring an end to the USB hub/fan style of miners. I was also getting a little fancy here and stacking the hubs together so the setup was more compact.ĭespite the impressive hash increase it would not last long as the next generation of miners were starting to hit the market. This setup has had 5 Blue Furies added to the original setup for another +13 GH/s bringing the total up to around 21.5 GH/s.

Block Erupter + Blue / Red Fury ASIC Setup

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