Topic: Bitcoin Core calculator, can it be home brewed? - page 2. (Read 2035 times)

TheRealSteve

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FUN > ROI

Look up the algorithms, understand how they work, break them down into specific sections, figure out the logic - easypeasy! *cough*

One 'cheating' route would be to look at old FPGA implementations, e.g. https://github.com/fpgaminer/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner

Slight word of warning: you will need a lot of components taking up a lot of space and making soldering a lot of unfun. A common component is a 32bit addder, you'll probably want multiple of these. Here's a single 8bit one using transistors:

AJRGale

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Since you can calculate it by hand (pencil and paper linky link)
So I've had the idea on making a bitcoin calculator from scratch, since ASIC companies make 100s or 1000s of the into their chips, I wanted to know what is required to make one. Basic idea was to slap some discrete logic together and have it calculate on the bitcoin network.

home brew CPU style yo!

The reason for this is to understand the hardware required to make a asic chip work, them maybe refine it, in the end, who knows, this may turn into another ASIC development.

Hell, link me to some original posts asking the same thing, i cant seem to find anything.. or im blind..

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