Creating a USB mining rig for various scripts like BTC and altcoins

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#1Jun 4, 2019, 11:41 PM
I'm curious about how many USB devices I'd need to reach 1000 TH/s for mining crypto. Also, what would the monthly power consumption be in watts and kWh? I messed up earlier and meant to say 1 PH/s instead of adding that extra zero.
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ben_yieldFull Member
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#2Jun 5, 2019, 02:49 AM
Those specs are well known and trivial to calculate on your own: https://www.bitshopper.de/en/shop/sha-256-miner/usb-miner-bitcoin/newpac/ 45 GH (overclocked) will draw ~10 Watt   10.000 Th = 10.000.000 Gh 10.000.000/45 = 222.223 newpac miners (yes, that number is two hundred twenty two thousand two hunderd twenty three) 222223 miners * 10 Watt/miner = 2222230 Watt = 2222 KiloWatt = 2,2 MegaWatt Electricity price is usually given in cents/Kwh. Run those 222223 miners for one hour will use 2222 Kwh. Prices in my country are about 30 cents/kwh, so in my case, it would cost around 666 euro's PER HOUR... Not including any "extra's", you cannot run these miners in a vacuum... You'll need several hundred's of rPi's, computers or servers and big usb hubs... they all draw power to... BEFORE you'd actually attempt something like this (very unlikely tough... it would be a hell of a task to set this up, even if you'd manage to get over 200.000 usb miners), you'd only make 0.0036 BTC per hour, with a market value of around 115 euro's, so each hour running this setup you'd lose hundreds of euro's (on your power bill)
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#3Jun 5, 2019, 06:23 AM
Thanks For the Info Sir so can you tell me any miner hardware which is capable to produce 1 TH/s or above but at the lowest energy consumption like under 1000watts and which country you belongs to in my country industrial billing units are 0.22 USD $ excluding taxes
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#4Jun 5, 2019, 09:30 AM
Gekko R606 (max 1Th 150w ish), Future it Apollo BTC (upto 3Th 250-300wish) are both good low consumption home miners.
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darkguruHero Member
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#5Jun 5, 2019, 09:44 AM
Why on God's little green Earth would you want to create a 1PH farm by using a gazillion small USB miners??? Just buy 10 to 20 of the largest modern miners which give anywhere from 50T to over 100THs each. Not only will be a lot easier to setup and run but also a LOT smaller total space needed and a lot less power draw.
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