Gpus are not supported, suitable for more advanced users platforms. I did download a special version of cgminer that was compatible with the gridseed device so i think it might need some. Coin mining with raspberry pi and gridseed 5 mini part 1. Contribute to gridseedcpuminer development by creating an account on github. Not only is it the worlds first asic scrypt miner, it is capable of mining sha256 as well. Once your raspberry has booted, you should be able to detect the gridseed when you ssh. Scrypt only mode only uses about 7 watts each miner. Using a rapberry pi is the a great choice when looking for a low power solution. Mining machine scrypt like ltc mining capabilityunitis 5. The gridseed asic represents the latest in cryptomining technology.
Raspberry pi with 6 gridseed asic miners bitcoin litecoin crypto currency. Download cpuminer for gridseed 5chip gc3355 asics with reduced power usage 2 mar 2014. Download cpuminer for gridseed 5chip gc3355 asics with reduced power usage. How to setup gridseed infinity miner using ubuntu eyeboot. Download cpuminer for gridseed 5chip gc3355 asics with. I thought i would start a proper thread on these as we dont have one yet. What is the difference between gridseed asic and scrypt asic. When weve made our previous guide for dual mining btc and ltc on a gridseed 5chip gc3355 asic weve only had an earlier revision of the miner that used cp2102 usb to uart bridge controller. Thats it, you have fully working setup and can mine ltc mining asic using cgminer download windows 10. I have tried bfgminer but it seems not to detect my gridseed unless i am mining ltc.
Gridseed scrypt virtual currency miners for sale ebay. Avx2 and xop instructions, but only if both the cpu and the operating system support them. With just one radeon gpu, i was easily consuming over 200 watts of power to get about 333khs. The combined cpu, gpu, fpga, and asic miner for bitcoin, and litecoin. Windows, mac, linux unlike cgminer, bfgminer is designed specifically for fpga and asic. The most notable difference from the previous compiled version of cgminer we have posted with support for the gblades also present here is the addition of support for nicehash service where you can now also use. Now that we already have a newer revision with the stmicroelectronics virtual com port we have decided to update the guide with information on how to dualmine on these asic devices. With a pi, this is a lot lower, normally in the 2 to. How to setup gridseed 5 chip scrypt asic miner using. New cpuminer for gridseed asics with text user interface. Download gridseeds modified cpuminer and unpack zip file. Can somebody help me i have the drivers installed and my usb gridseed miner is on com6. Windows will install the driver and you will see this. Previous releases did not properly reported the local hashrate of the new gridseed gblade miners that consist of.
Bfgminer is a modular asicfpga miner written in c, featuring dynamic clocking, monitoring, and remote interface capabilities. Instead of installing software onto windows or linux, the entire linux os is designed from ground up to mine for bitcoin. Connect everything to usb hub and connect it to computer. As always, great video, congrats plus thank you very much for sharing all of your hard work. Coin mining with raspberry pi and gridseed 5 mini part 1 july 14, 2016 2 comments while researching bitcoin mining hardware and was considering purchasing the antminer u3 as i liked its apparent ease of setup and higher hash rate then a usb asic i stumbled upon the gridseed 5 chip dual asic miner gc3355. There were some requests from readers to provide a compiled binary for windows of the latest cgminer 3. Gridseed usb asic wont mine bitcoins bitcoin stack exchange. Cgminer is an open source asicfpgagpu miner written in c, cross platform for linux, windows and os x, and including support and binaries for rpi, openwrt routers and others license. Plug in the gridseed dualminer usb into your computer usb porthub. How to setup cgminer for ubuntu gridseed support youtube. Bitcoinmining submitted 5 years ago by baronobeefdip2.
We have updated our windows build of the cgminer 3. Scrypt mining on a pc using gpus can be very power intensive. In fact, you can mine scrypt and and sha256 simultaneously with it. Contribute to sikloncpuminergc3355 development by creating an account on github. Gridseed gc3355 scrypt asic ubuntu gnulinux installation guide. Cgminer is an open source gpu miner written in c and available on several platforms such as windows, linux, and os x. Latest optimized cgminer configuration for gridseed blades. The bfgminer is a bitcoin miner software which is multithreaded multipool gpu, fpga and asic mining support. How to setup gridseed dual asic miner on windows, mac osx, linux. Then i tried cpuminer and it works except it gets invalid all the time its like its using the wrong algorithm but i tried the a sha256d and still produces the same issue.
I have successfully gotten it to mine litecoin in linux with cgminer. Contribute to gridseedusb miner development by creating an account on github. Download the virtual com port driver from the ftdi driver site. Make offer gridseed 5chip orb gc3355 asic usb dual miner bitcoinlitecoin with powersupply usa gridseed gblade 80 chip scrypt miner asic 5. Now take zadig tool, choose all devices and choose 1 of our new com port machines and click install driver. Sandor111 has released an updated version of his cpuminer fork adding a tui text user interface containing the most important information that you would need to know for your gridseed asic miners in an easy to read format source here. By using easyminer on first connect to our pool you will get a random litecoin reward. How to make stackable tower gridseed rig with raspberry pi. Please refer to the official forum thread on bitcointalk. Of course people ask how to install cgminer on linux or. Mining with gridseed asics including dualminer on mac os x. Bfgminer has the ability to dynamically clock, monitor and remotely interface pros.
Raspberry pi with 6 gridseed asic miners bitcoin litecoin. One of the things that make it extremely popular is that it is based on the original cpu code. Gridseed 5chip was amazing around its launch date so units where limited and only available on certain china websites such as aliexpress. Well, just wanted to do a short update on optimizing the gridseed blades a bit more. Ive been a lurker on the btctalk forums for quite a while now, that place is crawling with scammers so. Install cgminer for your gridseed asic scrypt miner. Now cgminer will know what is connected are miners to get us ltcs and other coins 3. Gridseeds are small dualmode miners offering sha256 and scrypt. In our recently published first impressions from the gridseed 5chip scrypt asic devices we have mentioned that with the provided cpuminer mining software the power consumption of these devices will remain high up to 60w even when only mining scrypt. How to setup gridseed dual asic miner on windows, mac osx. Ive had quite a few of them hashing away for a while now so ill share my thoughts. Hello everyone up for sale is my gridseed miner with all the items needed to start mining. How to setup gridseed infinity using raspberry scripta. I found that you can actually run these gridseed blades at 850mhz just fine, theres some more hardware errors but hashing is a bit faster and getting around 2.
With the near gpu stats at a fraction of the power consumption it was in high demand as was hard to get hold of units. Im pretty sure this hasnt been tried on a mac and im not even sure the level of success people are having on linux but if were lucky thatll get it scrypt mining, at least. Today, the worlds first ltc blade asic mining machine gridseed gblade startsselling. Another new useful feature in the latest release is the autodetection of the number of chips, so no need to set it manually via the command line anymore. Very low overhead free c code for linux and windows with very low nonmining cpu and ram usage stratum and gbt pooled mining protocol support, including ultra low overhead solo mining scaleable networking scheduler designed to scale to any size hashrate without networking. So update it prior starting the cgminer install setup. How to setup gridseed dualminer scryptsha256 asic usb miner. This video will show 6 gridseeds 5 chip scrypt asic miners in scrypt only mode litecoin mining.