Bitcoin Mining with Block Erupter ASIC Miner in Ubuntu With the new rise of Bitcoin prices yet again more and more people invest in buying coins and mining hardware. This drives the prices up, not only of the coins themselves but the hardware too. There are still people who consider bitcoin as a learning process, hobby or simply dont have the money to invest thousands of Euros in mining hardware, but would like to mine efficiently. The solution can be the Block Erupter Bitcoin miner. Block Erupter is a small USB ASIC miner (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) that consumes very low power and gives a reasonable hash rate in return (roughly half of that of a modern GPU, but at a fraction of the cost!). It is small, "plug and play" and makes a perfect gift or hobby investment for enthusiasts. In Europe the price of these miners has climbed quite strong after the price of Bitcoins went high (800-1000� range), a Block Erupter was selling for around 25� at the beginning of N