Topic: ALLMINE INC - FPGA Cryptominer - page 47. (Read 51510 times)

Hello,

could you tell me what I need to preorder you cards ?

I would take few of them, even 10 if I have some proof
of their work.

Do you need some down payment ?

Kind regards,
Dario.

p.s. you disabled messages from newbies..

UPDATES:

The community seems to be uneasy that there is only one developer announcing they will be providing firmware for the VCU1525. We are considering building a 'shell' framework (like the AWS shell) that would allow any FPGA developer to compile encrypted code for our boards. We would provide a development environment (vivado) to the dev, provide the mining software, communication interface and facilitate fee collection on the devs behalf. If there are any FPGA developers who would be interested in building firmwares to be released to the community please contact me.

Update:[/s]

We are currently planning to launch pre-orders on June 1st.

The first batch of the board will be a total of 1500 units at a cost of $3995 per unit. We will be shipping to the USA and CA for the first batch. We will likely support EU & Worldwide (Limited) starting with our second batch of devices. Estimated shipping date will be August 2018. It's possible (highly likely) we will ship some units prior to this date but it's unlikely we will be able to get our complete chip order before the end of August 2018.

I have been speaking with community developers and there is interest in having a centralized platform / software they can release their bitstreams through. We have plans to release our own bitstreams (Lyra2z, Keccak, Myriad-Groestl, NIST5). Others in the community have an expressed an interest to release firmwares for Cryptonight, Keccak, and some of the more advanced algos (X16R, Timetravel-10, etc). These bitstreams will have a devfee set by the developer of the bitstream. We will collect a portion of the devfee set by the dev to cover our costs of ongoing operations for maintaining the development platform.



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Would you accept btc payments? Is there any MOQ requirements?

Ya, I showed the pool side (zergpool), the software side, pictures of the board, etc. The measurements we're taking at the chip are not like the measurements you get from the chip from a GPU. They're actually accurate.

What's next? You're going to specify the camera angles? Claim photoshop?

People have been mining on these FPGAs (myself included) for over a year. I've used FPGAs to mine bitcoin back in 2011. GPUHoarder has been using FPGA for as long as me. Whitefire is doing it. Wolf0 from the other thread has worked on FPGA. There's some guys I know that run a public mine that are still mining on BFL stratix 3 (iirc) fpgas. There's at least a half dozen other people who haven't poked their head into either thread yet (maybe they haven't seen it? not sure.) that i know have done work on mining algos on fpga as well. You can stick your head in the sand or put ears in your fingers and say 'LA LA LA' but it doesn't make it any less true. Anyone who's worked in the space can go look at the questions people are asking on the aws-fpga forum and know without a doubt based on the questions asked there are many people mining on aws.

that was no evidence for mining.
there was no mining software stats,no pool stats, no AC power consumption,
just need these:
1.screenshot of mining software,the speed ,the temp,,,etc
2.a public pool stats, speed should match the software，   MPH pool is good to test maxcoin(keccak)
3.a power meter on the AC line,measure the system power. software read power is quite different from the actual AC line.
  every miner should have a power meter,a $10 plugin  power meter is enough

I posted evidence couple pages back. Pictures, screen shots, etc. Whitefire posted a video of one of the boards running if i recall correctly.

You can make a lot more money keeping things private, especially since whitefire990 isn’t selling anything.

Also people developing this hardware don’t put a $10 meter on the AC line, they use PMBus and other professional tools to get exact power consumption of core, memory, etc. in the design.

Just a little bit of picture or video of mining software and pool stats to prove it .but no
a $10 power meter to measure the AC line. also  no
Anyone doubts his performance,is said to have no professional skills.
You can make a lot of money with secret weapons，take a large amount of sales, the proceeds may not be high, and is likely some DEV change algo.

I don't believe it. also I think it's a scam

Anyone can purchase an FPGA and run the available open source RTL that exists now to see the general power consumption and performance. The issue is those without those skill set are waiting for someone else to show them. There are plenty of people on this forum that have experience and can confirm the hashrates and power are reasonable. Personally I’m not going to post detailed performance specs until the final piece of hardware I would sell someone is in my hand. Doing anything else is just grandstanding or bad business.

If they can change the firmware for algorithms it isn’t an asic... I don’t doubt developments are coming though. The world doesn’t stand still.

All algos in X15,include the combination  of 15 algos, ASIC is ready,they  can change the firmware to update ，no need to re-tape
lyra2re2 ASIC is coming soon.
XZC will change algo soon.
LUX will change algo soon。
you will loss the battle field.

the most important thing  is

There is no evidence to prove the FPGA hashrate and power consumption.

I ordered the 1525 from avnet so this version will be compatible with all the same bitstreams?

I want to buy 2 to test them, I live in Canada.

looking forward to seeing items in the shop for ordering!

Orders will open June 1st most likely. Still working on the banking situation. Obviously it would be ideal to accept credit cards, paypal, amazon pay, etc. Our site is ready for launch.

EU based delivery would be awsome I 'd like to purchase a board.

How can we place the order?

We will be selling hardware and providing a platform for any community developers to generate secure bitstreams for our devices. The devfee for a given bitstream will be determined by the developer and we will take a portion of the developer's fee to pay for maintenance / support of the system. There's one thing I already knew, but it really hit home recently is that there are a lot of talented individuals on this forum and if given the opportunity can do some pretty amazing things. We will be releasing our firmwares through the platform. To use any of the bitstreams your device must have it's efuse programmed with our encryption keys. You would not be able to use any of the bitstreams with other devices that do not have our encryption key programmed in. I'm planning to provide a method for those who've purchased boards from avnet or digikey to send me their board so we can program the efuse (assuming it has not already been programmed) if they'd like.

So you're only making money selling the hardware,
and releasing free closed source mining 'code' without a devfee?
And we can also use devfee based options from other users like whitefire990?

When and where do we place orders? Specifically if we want to pay in crypto

Custom officer are not idiot, they know all the tactics and this what their paid for. For small retail item it can be done otherwise they will just seize the whole shipment. Then you will have to pay heavy penalty too over the customs. They will also charge heavy price for storing those seized items.

Update:

The first batch of the board will be a total of 1500 units at a cost of $3995 per unit. We will be shipping to the USA and CA for the first batch. We will likely support EU & Worldwide (Limited) starting with our second batch of devices. Estimated shipping date will be August 2018. It's possible we will ship some units prior to this date but it's unlikely we will be able to get our complete chip order before the end of August 2018.

I have been speaking with community developers and there is interest in having a centralized platform / software they can release their bitstreams through. We have plans to release our own bitstreams (Lyra2z, Keccak, Myriad-Groestl, NIST5). Others in the community have an expressed an interest to release firmwares for Cryptonight, Keccak, and some of the more advanced algos (X16R, Timetravel-10, etc).