Mining Bitcoins with Merlin/ Entware/ Optware

[amplatfus]

Hi,

I was just thinking, do we have possibility to do mining bitcoins using Asus routers?
I searched a little bit and did find only Mining Bitcoins with OpenWrt this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/bitcoinmining

Thank you!

 

[Nullity]

Hi,

I was just thinking, do we have possibility to do mining bitcoins using Asus routers?
I searched a little bit and did find only Mining Bitcoins with OpenWrt this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/bitcoinmining

Thank you!

That link is talking about using OpenWRT with a hardware miner. Do you have one?

The CPU on the router itself is faaaaaaaar too slow to do any useful mining without an external miner.

 

[amplatfus]

That link is talking about using OpenWRT with a hardware miner. Do you have one?

The CPU on the router itself is faaaaaaaar too slow to do any useful mining without an external miner.

No. I have AC88U powerd by Merlin FW. But did not found out anything related to Merlin/ Entware/ Optware.

 

[Nullity]

No. I have AC88U powerd by Merlin FW. But did not found out anything related to Merlin/ Entware/ Optware.

Like I said, the CPU is too slow.

If you want to do any useful mining you need to get a hardware ASIC miner because otherwise you will likely be paying more for the electricity required to run the CPU/GPU than the money you (could) earn by successfully mining a block.

Initially CPUs were used for mining, then GPUs, now it's ASICs (in order of increasing efficiency). You will lose money if you mine with a CPU, especially the very slow CPU on your router.

 

[System Error Message]

it depends though, if the difference is a measly 1W between idle and full load, could be a thing.

 

[Fitz Mutch]

It would take a massive botnet of "ARM router" bitcoin miners to see a profit. Another type of malware to be aware of?

 

[sfx2000]

There's a couple of USB miner keys (like thumb drives)...

Fun article about doing something similar with RPi's...

https://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

 

[ryzhov_al]

I have AC88U powerd by Merlin FW. But did not found out anything related to Merlin/ Entware/ Optware.

Somebody asked to add bfgminer few years ago and proved it's working. Now this package is a part of Entware-ng repo.