Using cgminer with Bitmain Antminer U3 on Ubuntu

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I decided to move my USB Antminer U3’s to an old laptop, to free up my windows machine for important stuff like games.

First make sure you have the necessary libraries:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake 
sudo apt-get install libtool pkg-config libcurl3-dev libudev-dev
sudo apt-get install libc6 libcurl3-gnutls libjansson4
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

Download the latest cgminer:

mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
git clone https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --enable-icarus
make

Since cgminer needs access to the usb ports, you need to run it as root:

sudo ~/source/cgminer/cgminer --au3-volt 800 --au3-freq 237.50 -o stratum+tcp://hashpower.co:3333 -u YOUR_USERNAME_HERE_OR_BTC_ADDRESS -p c=BTC

6 thoughts on “Using cgminer with Bitmain Antminer U3 on Ubuntu”

  1. Hello, when i send the “sudo ~/source/cgminer/cgminer –au3-volt 800 –au3-freq 237.50 -o stratum+tcp://hashpower.co:3333 -u YOUR_USERNAME_HERE_OR_BTC_ADDRESS -p c=BTC” it says “sudo: /home/admin/source/cgminer/cgminer: command not found”

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    • Well, these Antminer U3’s are not default overclocked so you have to OC them yourself. This was stable for me, any more and it started getting hardware errors.

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    • As of today, mining BTC with ASIC hardware below a hashrate below TH/s is completely unfeasible and useless, but luckily we have other SHA-256 based currencies compatible for mining with Antminer U3.

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