Topic: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI - page 25. (Read 99458 times)

200 day ROI is still very good IMHO.
Also people should realize the low power usage for this return. My 24*1070ti eats (and heats) up 2600w/h
Two BCU will make more money than my whole setup for around 300w...

The market has dropped a lot since the FPGA hype started.  Right now those that bought at $3350 USD are looking at making around $16-$17 per day, meaning a 200-day ROI; less if you use immersion cooling which drops the ROI down to 170-ish days.  However I still believe the bitcoin ETF will create a huge upswing in the fall.

The market has dropped a lot since the FPGA hype started.  Right now those that bought at $3350 USD are looking at making around $16-$17 per day, meaning a 200-day ROI; less if you use immersion cooling which drops the ROI down to 170-ish days.  However I still believe the bitcoin ETF will create a huge upswing in the fall.

With the current FPGA  ROI vs anounced one i would be  surprised if they do not appear on ebay.( I have already seen one for 70000usd) I am having second thoughts myself regarding fpgas because of uncertainty with roi. Despite  it being considered the future of mining etc.

without a doubt, i'm sure some people got in to flip on ebay... just watch, they will show up on ebay.

I bought 2 that I will sell.  Shall we start the bidding at $10,000 each?

Here's one for €4,999.87
https://mineshop.eu/fpga-miners/xilinx-bcu-1525-fpga-detail/

I bought 2 that I will sell.  Shall we start the bidding at $10,000 each?

So you are asking 70% more than what you bought it for... Flipping has some good days ahead

Dear all，Is the prj coming out now?

So you are asking 70% more than what you bought it for... Flipping has some good days ahead

Hi everyone,

On June 19th, I purchased the XILINX 1525 with mods and DIMMs from the 1st bulk order on this thread.
I have the receipt to prove it and I'm sure FPGA.land/Squirrels Research will back me up. It will arrive sometime
in August and then I can ship it out. I really wanted to run this card, as projections are $20-$50 per day.
Unfortunately, I need to sell it to pay off some debt. I'm asking $6,000 to cover taxes, shipping, fees, etc.
I know that may seem high but as far as I have researched, Batch 2 is not even close to ready, and people
could be waiting until next year sometime. I will accept ZEN, BTC, ETH and possibly PayPal.

PM me if interested. I'm open to reasonable offers. Highest offer gets it.

Thanks!

So basically what I'm getting from all this is, it's very time consuming releasing bitstreams for the public which makes FPGAs vulnerable to forks just like ASICs are. FPGA can't compete with ASICs and can be forked with fairly good success since developers working on bitstreams is scarce..

As a miner you're basically a sitting duck twiddling your thumbs hoping a bistream is released before the coin forks again.

Miners like STAK, SRB and Cast (for gpus) can release new revisions with new algos within hours of a fork.

Say Cryptonight V7 forks again to V8. How long would the wait time be for a updated bitstream?

It takes quite a lot of work to transition a bitstream from private use to public use (with dev fee and anti-piracy).  Since my original post May 1, the crypto-landscape changed dramatically.  Luxcoin forked away from Phi1612, making Phi1612 useless.  Baikal began mining Keccak with X10 ASICs, making Keccak non-profitable (and also Digital Cruncher released Keccak for the FPGA as well).  The few coins on Skunkhash collapsed, making it so that Skunkhash can only support 2-3 FPGA's at the moment.  The network hash rate on Tribus went up 4x (and also Digital Cruncher released Tribus first),  so what this all meant is that it was better to focus on high-profit coins for public release rather than package-up old bitstreams that are useless.  0xToken is available now, and I am releasing another algorithm on August 11, and four more in early September.  I am no longer going to announce which algorithms will be launched, since it was my original announcement of Phi1612 that was a major factor in LUXcoin forking (in hindsight I should have just launched the bitstream without ever announcing it first).

I hope that clarifies things.  If you still want Tribus and Keccak, you can download them Digital Cruncher's github.  Phi1612 and Skunkhash are available on Sprocket's github, although it isn't really worth installing them.

It takes quite a lot of work to transition a bitstream from private use to public use (with dev fee and anti-piracy).  Since my original post May 1, the crypto-landscape changed dramatically.  Luxcoin forked away from Phi1612, making Phi1612 useless.  Baikal began mining Keccak with X10 ASICs, making Keccak non-profitable (and also Digital Cruncher released Keccak for the FPGA as well).  The few coins on Skunkhash collapsed, making it so that Skunkhash can only support 2-3 FPGA's at the moment.  The network hash rate on Tribus went up 4x (and also Digital Cruncher released Tribus first),  so what this all meant is that it was better to focus on high-profit coins for public release rather than package-up old bitstreams that are useless.  0xToken is available now, and I am releasing another algorithm on August 11, and four more in early September.  I am no longer going to announce which algorithms will be launched, since it was my original announcement of Phi1612 that was a major factor in LUXcoin forking (in hindsight I should have just launched the bitstream without ever announcing it first).

I hope that clarifies things.  If you still want Tribus and Keccak, you can download them Digital Cruncher's github.  Phi1612 and Skunkhash are available on Sprocket's github, although it isn't really worth installing them.