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Hey, can anyone tell me what this USB Asic miner is? I see it uses a CP2101 USB UART chip and has 6 Asics on board but no markings at all. No microprocessor on it either. The pcb has "X6C-1TC 520" on it. Tried connecting via Putty over serial but no luck, maybe because of no processor? I'm lost here.
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I honestly doubt this is a legit miner. No heatsinks on those ASIC chips? Sounds sketchy. It’d probably burn out quick without proper cooling.
Might be a part of a Helium miner kit, though? Just thinking out loud here, could be an upgrade for an HNT miner.
Looks like something related to the Helium network if you ask me.
Those holes on the bottom? They love mounting stuff for sure!
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Nah, I disagree with you guys. This thing is definitely a GAW miner fury. It's got scrypt ASICs and it mines LTC/DOGE, but like, super slow. Totally useless, missing a cooling fan too. You can see where the screws for the heatsink go.
You can hook it up to a Raspberry Pi and find some software for it, but don’t bother unless you wanna play around. Just make sure you have a fan if you’re gonna run it.
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Did some digging and yeah, it is the GAW Miner Fury. Also found a similar one called Zeusminer Blizzard. Both can mine Dogecoin and DGB using scrypt.
But honestly, it only hashes around 1.3 mh/s, which is not worth running. You’d get like 0.7 Dogecoin or 1 DGB a month. With 12v power, maybe solar is the way to go? Free power and you can mine solo for Dogecoin or DGB like a lottery!