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The antminer u2 is another great example of its diverse product lineup. The next step up would be a few hundred dollars for units like the bitmain antmine. Resources instructions for asic powered bitcoin miners. Download the cp210x usb driver from here download the one for your operating system. Download the cp210x usb to uart bridge vcp drivers for osx from here install the drivers, you may have problems with permissions so hold the control key and select open on the installer plug the antminer into an available usb port. If i was running different miners, say a u2 and a u3 i would need to specify the correct device to apply the correct settings. How to setup bitmain antminer u3 asic bitcoin miner. So, in this tutorial, we will be pushing its hashrate from 1. We have moved the antminer u1 to a usb port to contnue with our overclocking experiments. Using cgminer with the bitmain antminer u1 usb download. Apr 15, 2014 the antminer u2 are sold for a 2ghs power mining but i just discovered that, with an adeguate extra cooling system, its very simple and efficient to overclock them to 2. Bitcoin mining hardware guide the best bitcoin mining hardware has evolved dramatically since 2009.
Cgminer is an open source gpu miner written in c and available on several platforms such as windows, linux, and os x. Ive tried just mining with the antminer, but bfgminer doesnt see it. So if you live near us, you can just do a store pick up. A wide variety of antminer usb options are available to you, there are 4,718 suppliers who sells antminer usb on, mainly located in asia. Gui antminer is a tool for extracting classification rules from data. Antminer g1 ethereum miner of nvidia gtx1060 gpu miner. Nov 26, 2015 the smaller usb miners are great for learning how to mine bitcoin, i am running a dozen bitmain antminer u2 miners myself. Dec 16, 2018 i will explain to you how to overclock antminer u2 usb and process of setting up this device.
Mining dogecoinlitecoin with cgminer and the antminer u1. Next download the silicon labs cp2102 driver for your operating system and install it. Plug in your antminer u1 into your available usb slot or usb hub. Antminer u3 is a bitcoin miner with petite size and its a good option for beginners. Antminer u3s can be run on any cgminer based device. One of the things that make it extremely popular is that it is based on the original cpu code. A windows based pc is recommended although a similar process can be applied on a raspberry pi.
See more antminer x3 olivia created march 19, 2018 06. Plug in your antminer u1 to a usb port on your computer. Bitmains new mini bitcoin miner has just landed in our hands at the north american bitcoin conference in miami. This site is not affiliated with bfgminer and is not the official page of.
If you had already done this, unplug it and plug it back. Bitmain antminer u1 usb bitcoin asic power usage and. The bitmain antminer u3 is a neat usb connectable mining device. You can shut the antminer down while you wait for the internet connections to come back or. Finally, download and install zadig, a piece of software that offers a gui for usb device driver installation. Automatic coin switching for a maximum profit and builtin overclocking, learn about all cudo miner features. Im using minepeon to manage my miners and after overclocking them now i have a 20% more gigahash power without losing a share no errors at all. Ive recently received an antminer u2 and have been having trouble trying to get it mining. Its a great way to see it in person before purchasing these bitcoin miners.
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Zadig download from zadigs website this is used to reinstall the driver for the antminer usb miner. Didnt mess around with cgminer just yet, but the driver download was the same driver i had for my previous block erupters. Im wary of switching over to cgminer from bitminter, but i think im going to have to look into it, as it seems to provide more precise control over the u2 hash rate overclocking. Bfgminer is a modular asicfpga miner written in c, featuring dynamic clocking, monitoring, and remote interface capabilities. We offer both consumer and enterprise solutions for every level of miner. Contribute to antminerantgen1 development by creating an account on github. The antminer can get quite hot, especially if you decide to overclock them so a usb fan can be used to help lower the temperature. Cudo miner is suitable for miners with all levels of experience. Timing is provided in the number of nanoseconds each hash takes at the given configuration. It can be used by individuals without mining farms or it can be an ideal solution for office use. Antminer devices need the enableicarus option when compiling cgminer. Just bought a couple of these usb erupter for a very small amount of money check it on amazon.