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Gridseed 5 Chip Scrypt Miner on MAC OSX

April 19, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Coinmonkey has just received their 1st Gridseed ASIC Scrypt miner from GAW Miners. I’ve been fighting the Mid-West heat with my current GPU setup and this is the savior that I’ve been waiting for.

1st to get the 5 Chip Gridseed up and hashing on a MAC OSX I had to download Gridseed MacMiner.

You’ll have to run the following on a term window to get your Gridseed device name

ls -l /dev/cu.*

Look for something like : /dev/cu.usbmodem24111

When you launch MacMiner you have to use the following switches:

–freq=850 –gc3355=/dev/cu.usbmodem24111

As far as the hashrate goes, I wasn’t able to get MacMiner to display the correct hashrate for the Gridseed. Additionally, I found that Pools with higher diff’s showed a much lower hashrate for the Gridseed. You should expect 300kh/s+ from a 5 Chip Gridseed. These Gridseeds run very quiet and very cool.

I can’t wait to get my hands on a few more of these and finally be done with the GPU noise and heat in my apartment.

Here are the specs on the 5 Chip Gridseeds:

  • Allows you to mine Bitcoin and Litecoin at the same time!
  • 340 KH/s on Litecoin/Scrypt only, using just 5-7 watts of electric!
  • Dual mode hashes up to 10 GH/s on Bitcoin and 200 KH/s on Litecoin using 60 watts!

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Filed Under: Cryptocurrency Tagged With: Gridseed, Gridseed 5 Chip, Gridseed MacMiner, mac miner, mac osx, scrypt ASIC

The CoinDesk Mining Round-Up: Zoomhash, Cloud Hashing and Riggit V9 Mining Frame

March 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

As difficulty and hash rates continue to rise, cryptocurrency mining offers the promise of spoils for those who persevere.

Case in point is the story of Dave Carlson, who went from 30 GPU rigs to an advanced mining operation capable of making millions.

It seems decentralized, math-based currencies are on the up, and increasing amounts of miners are hashing away, powering these globe-spanning payment networks.

Continue reading at CoinDesk

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Cloudhashing, Gridseed, trezor, Zoomhash

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