Topic: Dwarf FPGA – the anti-ASIC - page 56. (Read 43457 times)

I agree. This has a smell of a scam to me. My apologies for the OP if this turn out to be real but there is just to much scams in the crypto market.

I have emailed the OP and suggested it to him too.
We'll see what happens. No way anyone should send any money without there being any tangible proof or escrow service.

notice all posts about having the product verified by a trusted member get completely ignored?

Ironically this post will probably be quoted and replied to but none of the real questions asked previously will be answered......

Nope, the second one requires the first one and money



and the first one requires your money

Calling those 2 projects DIY is pretty misleading.  The first one requires you to rely on software someone develops, the 2nd one requires you to write the software! 

Dude, they are alive, they don't get killed


not anymore, there are already DIY FPGA miners, that if, you can afford the price

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/diy-fpga-mining-rig-for-any-algorithm-with-fast-roi-3459858

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/allmine-inc-fpga-cryptominer-3688965

FPGA development for crypto mining was a trade secret to some miners, it is cost effective in terms of power consumption and heat generation vs GPU intensive crypto mining. Since the pre-asic bitcoin mining FPGA mining was already developed but ASIC-prone coins killed the FPGA but GPU mining killed by the FGA, so for any asic resistant crypto, FPGA suits best vs GPU but it took more brains to build and not for everybody unlike GPU that seems like a hobbyist miners.

For something like this? Extremely hard.
Most often HDL languages are used, but the whole process is similar to actually designing an ASIC.

if these are real i want 50 of em 

Thanks a lot for the clarification. This looks good but we would still need a more trustworthy way to buy it

Since it's using only 10W of power to run, have you though of powering it with a standard laptop charger? Most laptop chargers can provide about 65-90W of power @19.5V for it so you could hook up 6-9 FPGAs and you wouldn't need to worry about cooling for the PSU, noise or deal with other issues like increased storage space.

Although this depends entirely on what kind of voltage your FPGA is using.

all these fpga developments are making me drool, hope they are all real :-D

This is actually pretty awesome! I have for a long time mined Cryptonight coins with my GPU rig and this FPGA does indeed seem a thing to get! Summer is coming and heat is now an unnecessary thing to handle

So you just need PSU, monitor and LAN cable to get this little beast going?

--Can you show the FPGA working in a video?
Today the video was shot, we are preparing it for publication.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rTRZgAfdw-5JjhTXr3vf_wHCbyT5FVBT

--How can you limit units? If a user want to buy a lot of pieces...
There are no limits. I can sell all 5000 to you. But how do you organize the network? Each miner is like a PC in the network. This is a limitation. For a large number of miners, you must organize an expensive network environment.

--And the most important, how can we trust to buy and receive the board?
Now we are working on this.

--because for 347$ I don't know how you can pay the "group of developers"
This is the starting price. The next batch will be more expensive. And I repeat, I do not know the price now. we are waiting for a response from the factory.

--Zero chance of anyone buying this with just three pictures and no proof.
Do you see banking details anywhere? Sales have not yet begun.

--That Monero logo on board screams scam to me
we wanted to portray an apple, but it's already taken

--Can you provide more details about it like:
---Does it produce any noise?
No.

---Do you need to cool it with an external fan?
The temperature in the room does not exceed 65C. In a warm climate I would recommend installing an additional cooler.

---I see you can connect a monitor to it, is it running an OS and you have access to a terminal to change the coin you're mining?
RTOS is launched on an additional chip. This chip implements board monitoring and remote update. And it forms a VGA signal. Setting is done via the web interface, as usual. You must set the jumper to enter the setup mode.

---How do you power it?
From PC power supply. The PSU pin (with a delay for the newest PSUs) is installed to start the power supply.

---Does it support other variations of the CN algorithm like CN-Lite, CN Lite-V1?
No. At now it is tested with monero, graft, haven, sumo and loki. Other coins may not function, but we plan to release updates.

--If I had such a technology I would plug the first 5000 for myself.
Do not worry about our 5000. They're fine
But if you turn on the logic, this will lead to increased difficult. At the final the profitability will not change. Look at the electroneum.
Here we come to the conclusion it is more profitable to take part of the GPUs market instead to crash the crypto market.

--they need to have a lot of preorders in order to make this FPGA a reality.
Yep. It's not difficult to develop a board. It's difficult to produce. Now we are negotiating with this company.  https://www.pcbcart.com/assembly/overview.html
After the assembly all boards will be flashed and sent from the Hong-Kong.

--So basicly you are crushing the ASICs numbers with a FPGA hash/watts,  i dont think so!
X3 has a 2.5W/kh or 17.5W at 7 kh. Including cooling and power supply losses, it is big device. Consider, the dwarf also consumes 1-2 watts by the 5 volts wire. Consumption is changes dynamically.

--One thing that seems strange is warranty stickers on a prototype board.
This is a pre-production sample. We chose the best place for stickers. For example, on screws it is torn ...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rTRZgAfdw-5JjhTXr3vf_wHCbyT5FVBT

--How did you get seven?
pipelined (conveyor) core. Like the ARM. Computing units do not stand idle while the algorithm is moving.

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2all:
I'll answer the questions from e-mail later.

In my experiments I was able to get 3.8 k.hashes based on this. https://www.iacr.org/archive/ches2005/031.pdf
How did you get seven?

As other people said, there are lot of scam in the past, and keep happening.

Can you tell us more information about spec and Hardware interface?

Or no need any word, just a actual video, we will all believe you.

One thing that seems strange is warranty stickers on a prototype board. What is the FPGA platform?

I'll say this, without concrete trusted reviews:  you will see no major sales from most members....   Too many scams in the past

Guys! It was an announcement only. Video and full information will be available within a few days.
Please do not send technical questions to the e-mail! Our sales managers can not answer. This is for sale only. I will answer here whenever possible.