I Ordered a Bitcoin miner from HASHCOINs.com and heres my Experience so far:
I ordered the Apollo miner that mines Bitcoins at 500GH to 750GH. My unit was preordered back in early January. It cost $2400. The reason I ordered from this company was they accepted Paypal, accepting Paypal is almost unheard of in the bitcoin hardware world. They also offered a money back guaranty to ship on time which is February 28th, again unheard of. Well February 28th has come and gone. And it has not shipped but I am assured it will soon. I will have a full update as soon as I have more details. I also plan to review the miner as soon a possible.
MaxCoin setup difficulties:
Setting up Maxcoin is a pain to do but heres how it can be done:
- If you already have a notepad open with the information for Litecoin, Dogecoin or any other crypto coin, use that but change the word SCRYPT to KECCAK.
- Also it is difficult to get an existing CGminer to work so you will need to download Keccak version of cgminer 3.66.
- Those two changes with get you up and running.
- If you already have a notepad open with the information for Litecoin, Dogecoin or any other crypto coin, use that but change the word SCRYPT to KECCAK.
- Also it is difficult to get an existing CGminer to work so you will need to download Keccak version of cgminer 3.66.
- Those two changes with get you up and running.
DOGECOIN:
This is an example of a typical Dogecoin, Litecoin ect. notepad. If you open your notepad and type all this info in and save the file with any name but at the end type .bat. (Example: dogecoin setup 1.bat)
Dont forget to replace the image to the lefts username and password with yours. When you sign up for a Crypto Coin mining pool you create a worker with a user name and password. (Typical username: name.1 and Typical password 1111)
MAXCOIN:
You will need to replace the word SCRYPT with the work KECCAK. You will also need to download cgminer for AMD/ATI graphics cards. But I found the Scrypt cgminers don't work for MAXCOIN. So Im using cgminer 3.66 that is made for Maxcoin. (https://github.com/Max-Coin/cgminer) Also here is the information I typed in notepad to get the cgminer going. ( cgminer --keccak -o stratum+tcp://POOLURL:PORT -u WEBLOGIN.WORKER -p WORKERPASSWORD ) goodluck!
This is an example of a typical Dogecoin, Litecoin ect. notepad. If you open your notepad and type all this info in and save the file with any name but at the end type .bat. (Example: dogecoin setup 1.bat)
Dont forget to replace the image to the lefts username and password with yours. When you sign up for a Crypto Coin mining pool you create a worker with a user name and password. (Typical username: name.1 and Typical password 1111)
MAXCOIN:
You will need to replace the word SCRYPT with the work KECCAK. You will also need to download cgminer for AMD/ATI graphics cards. But I found the Scrypt cgminers don't work for MAXCOIN. So Im using cgminer 3.66 that is made for Maxcoin. (https://github.com/Max-Coin/cgminer) Also here is the information I typed in notepad to get the cgminer going. ( cgminer --keccak -o stratum+tcp://POOLURL:PORT -u WEBLOGIN.WORKER -p WORKERPASSWORD ) goodluck!
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