BTCGuild, currently the second largest mining pool with 17 of the network hashpower, started selling ASICMiner’s USB Block Erupter mining devices, but announced that it sold out their 1000 units ...

ASICMiner, which had been able to charge a premium for its ASIC mining hardware because it was the only company with miners in stock, has lowered the price of its blade hardware down to 3.5 BTC.

We’re sure a lot of people out there have a Raspberry Pi or two lying around waiting for a project to come to mind. [Dave] has an interesting solution to this orphaned hardware – use it to mine ...

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Of course, a Raspberry Pi itself has nowhere near the required computational power to effectively mine bitcoins. However, USB powered Asicminer Block Erupters do. The Raspberry Pi in this example is ...