American assembled a bitcoin miner from 10 USB devices with Bitmain chips

Idan Abada, a resident of Los Angeles, has assembled a compact device for mining the first cryptocurrency.

INUSB hub connected 10 USB minersGekkoScience NewPacs, each containing two Bitmain ASICs. Cooling is provided by a built-in mini-fan. Idan Abada estimated the cost of the device at $ 875.

A computer or laptop is enough to operate the device. However, it is unlikely that you can make money with it - a miner with a maximum hash rate of 2226 H / s brings 0.09315 mBTC per day (approximately $ 3.58).

The only way to make a profit, Abada said, is to use sources of free electricity, for example, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

Previously, enthusiasts have used the Game Boy handheld gaming system to mine cryptocurrency. A video about this was released on the stacksmashing YouTube channel.

The system produced a hashrate of 0.8 H/s.At the current bitcoin rate (more than $55,000), it will take 50 thousand years to mine $1.Nintendo appeared in 1989.Over the years, the company has sold more than 118 thousand different variations of this device.

To run the algorithm, miners needed a board with a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller and a PC.Only the 4 MHz Sharp processor installed in the Game Boy was used directly for cryptocurrency mining.

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