Avalon Nano 3 USB Bitcoin miner – review

Avalon Nano 3 USB 3.6Gh/s Asic Bitcoin Miner
Avalon Nano 3 USB 3.6Gh/s Asic Bitcoin Miner

A little over a year ago I bought this Bitcoin miner to help me learn about cryptocurrency.  It worked great for a learning experiment, and I was able to plug it into the USB port of a Windows PC and run the mining software.

3.6 Gigahash a second sounded like a lot to me, but the reality soon sank in that while it wasn’t that expensive to buy, and it didn’t use a lot of electricity or make a lot of noise, it also didn’t mine much Bitcoin.

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A USB stick miner like this will never return your initial investment.  You could buy a whole bunch of them, and plug them into a USB expansion hub with a fan blowing cool air over them to multiply the amount you mine, but unless you get them for free, you will never come out ahead.

Avalon Nano 3 USB 3.6Gh/s Asic Bitcoin Miner
Avalon Nano 3 USB 3.6Gh/s Asic Bitcoin Miner

My advice is to take the money you would spend on this, and just buy the Bitcoin directly.  You probably have been seeing Bitcoin in the news since it’s been setting an all time high, and it’s performance in 2016 was outstanding.

The company that I have used to buy some of my Bitcoin has an offer for my readers. Go to the Coinbase site using my link and purchase $100 worth of Bitcoin or more, and you will receive an extra $10 worth of Bitcoin for free.  Not a bad deal compared to buying something that will never pay for it’s self.  I also need to tell you that I will receive $10 of Bitcoin into my account for this action.  You can read the disclosures for my blog here.  If you decide to buy some Bitcoin for yourself, why not make it a win/win and help support this blog.