Are there anyone using Butterfly labs equipment for non bit coin mining?
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I am looking at buying https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/25-gh-s-bitcoin-miner.html to mine feathercoin instead of bitcoin. Based on what I read, it comes with a software to mine bitcoin. Sounds like it may not support Scrypt protocol, is my understanding correct or it is something worth buying?
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Ok found the answer, if anyone is looking for it.
Can I use your Bitcoin miners to mine other cryptocurrencies, like Litecoin?
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Our ASIC hardware is designed specifically for mining Bitcoins which uses SHA256d as a proof-of-work algorithm to process network transactions. If a cryptocurrency, like Litecoin, which is based on Scrypt, uses a different proof-of-work than that used in Bitcoin, then our hardware will not be compatible. -
Correct, you cannot mine Scrypt coins (FTC/LTC etc) with a butterfly labs SHA-256 product.
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Answer given already, yup. The question I’d like to ask: is there actually anyone out there who got their butterfly hardware? I only see complains online about not getting shipped and being ignored by their support.