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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
In very high demand and sold out very quickly. They cost about $100 a piece so they were not cheap compared to the Block Erupters. However since one of these had the power of 8 Block Erupters the price still seemed worth it at the time. Blue Fury ASIC 2.6 GH/s The next batch of the Fury miner was called the Blue Fury. Instead of having the beautiful full red heatsink like the red furies it had a half heatsink in plain black. These didn’t look nearly as cool and definitely were built in mind with lowering their manufacturing cost. Ice Fury ASIC 2.9 GH/s After the Blue Fury batches there were several other color variations made. I got a hold of a few Ice Furies which looked extremely cool with their shiny metal heatsink on a white PCB. The Fury era was a good time for my mining as the giant mining whales had not come in yet and I was fairly competitive with this setup. I was also able to sell these at a profit in January of 2014 selling each Fury for $109 each due to ever increasing demand for ASIC miners. Early ASIC Setups With USB Hubs/Fans As more and more USB ASICs were acquired by early miners it quickly became impractical to plug them all into a PC. The miners also got very hot (hot enough to burn you in some cases) as these early USB miners only had a heatsink with no airflow. Thus the now legendary Raspberry Pi USB Hub ASIC Miner setup was born. Block Erupter ASIC setup This is my very first early Bitcoin mining ASIC hub setup. On the far left you can see an original Raspberry Pi generation 1 Model B. This was actually the very first Raspberry Pi I ever got and it was to run these miners! The Raspberry Pi acts as our PC so I was able to set up the mining rig out of the way and behind my TV in my living room. The left and center powered USB 2.0 hubs are running Block Erupters exclusively. The right USB hub has my original 2 Red Furies in it. The total hashing power of this setup was about 8.5 GH/sec. This was a very respectable amount of hashing power at the time. Block Erupter + Blue / Red Fury ASIC Setup This setup has had 5 Blue Furies added to the original setup for another +13 GH/s bringing the total up to around 21.5 GH/s. I was also getting a little fancy here and stacking the hubs together so the setup was more compact. Despite the impressive hash increase it would not last long as
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