https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/bitcoin/Recent content in Bitcoin on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenThu, 17 Apr 2014 01:45:16 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2014/04/16/self-signed-bitfury-drivers/Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:45:16 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2014/04/16/self-signed-bitfury-drivers/<p>Almost two years ago I pre-ordered some <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/">bitcoin</a> mining hardware from <a href="http://www.butterflylabs.com/">Butterfly Labs</a>, what a waste. After countless delays, more than a year late, they finally shipped the hardware, and given the low probability of ever recovering the money through mining, I immediately sold the hardware on eBay, for a little profit.</p> <p>In the meantime USB stick miners became available, outperforming GPU mining, and easy to set up and run. I&rsquo;ve had a couple of ASICMiner Block Erupter&rsquo;s running under my desk for some time, in the early days I saw some fractions of coins coming in, but in recent months they are so under-powered against the current hash-rates that they do little more than blink lights.</p>