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Bitcoins Antminer

This document summarizes a test conducted on the Antminer U2 USB device, which uses the BM1380 ASIC to mine bitcoins at around 1.5 Gigahash/sec. The test involved setting up a Bitcoin wallet, installing Bitcoin Core and cgminer software, connecting the Antminer to a bitcoin mining pool, and observing output from cgminer that showed hashrates around 1.6 Gigahash/sec. The total reward earned from the test mining was 0.00012062 BTC.

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Bitcoins Antminer

This document summarizes a test conducted on the Antminer U2 USB device, which uses the BM1380 ASIC to mine bitcoins at around 1.5 Gigahash/sec. The test involved setting up a Bitcoin wallet, installing Bitcoin Core and cgminer software, connecting the Antminer to a bitcoin mining pool, and observing output from cgminer that showed hashrates around 1.6 Gigahash/sec. The total reward earned from the test mining was 0.00012062 BTC.

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Antminer U2 V1.

2 ASIC Bitcoins Hash BM1380 test


Franck Jeannot
Montreal, Canada, 2014, A06

Abstract
A brief introduction to a test conducted on USB device Antminer V1.2 based on the ASIC BM1380
with the tool cgminer 4.4.0 with calculations around 1.5 GigaHash/sec.
Keywords: Antminer, bitcoins, BM1380, mining, wallet

1. Introduction 2. Get your Bitcoin wallet https://bitcoin.


org/en/download, this is a wallet.dat file.
In June 2014, I so tested the Antminer U2 3. Get Bitcoin Core https://bitcoin.org/
USB interconnected to a Windows 7 laptop for en/download, at the time of the test I used
testing purpose and paid it US $16.00. This ASIC a Version 0.9.2.1. When installed the pro-
is provided by Bitmain Technologies Limited cess is bitcoin-qt.exe. At startup the tool
https://www.bitmaintech.com but I got mine is indicating that it is loading the blocks
from http://www.aliexpress.com. The goal for index. A debug.log is created, main subdi-
me was definitely not to gain any money but just rectories created are database, chainstate
become familiar with the bitcoins vocabulary and and blocks.
techniques.
4. Become member of a pool like http://
The Antminer U2 from Bitmain works on SHA256
mining.bitcoin.cz.
cryptocoins with up to a theoric 2GH/S speed and
is based on ASIC BM1380. 1 5. Get BFgminer http://bfgminer.org, at
the time of this test I used a version 4.4.0-
2. Antminer U2 test steps win64.
6. Run the Bitcoin Core tool until having a
1. Review startbitcoin.com 2 block (can take days...).
7. Install a generic USB driver http://zadig.
1. http://buy-antminer.com/guide/datasheet/
BM1380_Datasheet_v1.0.pdf akeo.ie/, at the time of this test I used
2. http://www.startbitcoin.com Zadig v2.1.0. The device was detected as
Preprint submitted to franckjeannot.com 17 juin 2017
"CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
in my case.
8. Plug the USB device, if OK the Red LED
should be on.
9. Run Bfgminer, provide the url which is with
bitcoin.cz : startum.bitcoin.cz :3333 and the
login/password.

3. Bitcoins

5. cgminer
Output example from cgminer version 3.12.3 :
cgminer version 3.12.3 - Started : [2014 -02 -14 14:50:35]
%-------------------------------------------------------
%(5 s ) :1.647 G ( avg ) :1.600 Gh / s | A :0 R :0 HW :20 WU :22.5/ m
% ST : 2 SS : 0 NB : 51 LW : 0 GF : 0 RF : 0
% Connected to
%127.0.0.1 diff 2.62 G without LP as user username
% Block : c0d78cc9 ... Diff :2.62 G Started : [17:38:39] Best share :
21.3 K
%------------------------------------------------------
%[ P ] ool management [ S ] ettings [ D ] isplay options [ Q ] uit
% ANU 0: | 1.595 G /1.600 Gh / s | A :0 R :0 HW :20 WU
:22.5/ m
According to wikipedia, 3 Satoshi Nakamoto %------------------------------------------------------
%[2014 -02 -14 17:21:13] Network diff set to 2.62 G
is a person or group of people who created the
Bitcoin protocol.
Output example from cgminer version 4.4 :
4. Antminer U2 Specifications
— Power : 1.2-2 Watts
— USB version : 3.0
— Detailed model : ASIC Bitcoins U2 V1.2
Hash : BM 1380 U020114E2

4.1. ASIC Control Unit schema part


Control board PCB was provided as "open-
source" with PCB schema 4 . I reproduce herebe-
low only the schema around the ASIC BM1380
aka U2. 6. Conclusion

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_
Based on the dashboard from https://mining.
Nakamoto bitcoin.cz/accounts/profile/ my Total Re-
4. Orignal schema from Bitmain Technologies : ward was 0.00012062 BTC... I found this prag-
ANT_Miner_CtrlUnit_V1.2.pdf matic approach very useful to have a better un-
derstanding of the cryptocurrencies world.

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