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Usb ASIC miner: are they worth it?

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nope

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they were a year ago.

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Divide the price by the G/hash.

 

Compare it to mining contracts and other ASIC's. You will find the small usb ASICS are complete highway robbery with their absurd price to hash ratio.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Users cannot, and will not securely manage key material. Most users can't and the ones that can, wont.

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what happened since then?

It got harder to mine and now to break a profit you need hundreds of Gigahashes.

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Are they?

Not anymore they aren't crypto currency hasn't entirely vanished but prices are extremely low value. Not sure if asic is making money

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what happened since then?

 

When the Mt. Gox exchange and wallet hosting collapsed, the value of cryptocurrencies plummetted and they really haven't recovered; meanwhile, pretty much the same amount of people are mining.  Translation, you need much more power to make the same amount of money, so much more, that you might break even on your power bills with USB miners.  After counting in the purchase cost and setup time, it just isn't worth it.

 

However, if you want to get some more serious ASIC miners that have a much better GHsh / Watts ratio, that is still worth it, granted that you can stomache the insane intial investment.  Personally, I'll just leave the mining to other people and just trade coin, you can make much more money for the effort that way.

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