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Ask HN: Is there any good use for old Bitcoin miners?
I have a few old miners sitting around, they're 100% not profitable at this point. Is there any use for this gear beyond BTC? FWIW I have BFL gear, cointerra, knc, and some really old blade erupters.
- phendrenad2 8y agoThey're probably ASICs, and therefore not reprogrammable or reusable for another purpose. See if there are any on ebay, if not, they're probably not worth much to anyone.
- aosmith 8y agoThey're all ASICs. Most were $10k+ we made our money back but I'm not about to part with them for $50.
- richardknop 8y agoYou can keep them for $0 ;)
- yellow_lead 8y agoYou may be able to repurpose them to crack passwords if you have any interest in that.
- aosmith 8y agoAre there any F/OSS for this? I imagine you'd have to run the gross equivalent of a mining pool server.
- quickthrower2 8y agoFork BTC and use them to get that network going.