Maybe we have to look at it a different way. Is it possible for an altcoin to be able to change it's algorithm constantly, requiring only a pc, microprocessor or gpu?
But even if possible to successfully create another altcoin, control of Bitcoin still remains a problem, as it is the dominating leader in the market place. If the altcoin got enough support it could in theory work, but I see it being very difficult to achieve.
This problem is very tough, but so early in Bitcoin's lifespan and so against it's early principals and intentions. It's also early for cryptocurrencies as a whole. This decentralization so boasted about in the beginning has been slipping in it's ability to be maintained. I am just looking for alternative solutions to fix a huge problem already seemingly too big to change. This affects the future of equality of wealth a lot, I think more Bitcoiners should be more interested in preserving Bitcoin's original intention.
Crusher72
Topic: FPGA Bitcoin Miner VHDL - XILINX (Read 2060 times)
Folks did FPGA miners back in the day - NONE of them managed efficiencies that are even close to the old Antminer S5, much less CURRENT ASIC-based miners.
FPGA are about flexability, they CAN'T compete with an IC that is optimised to do one thing only and do it very very well.
If you want to compete with Bitmain, better pony up a bunch of $millions on doing some serious design work on your own ASIC - and cozy up to one of the folks with "next gen" processes in development to build that ASIC on.
FPGA are about flexability, they CAN'T compete with an IC that is optimised to do one thing only and do it very very well.
If you want to compete with Bitmain, better pony up a bunch of $millions on doing some serious design work on your own ASIC - and cozy up to one of the folks with "next gen" processes in development to build that ASIC on.
Quantum FPGA that will break sha256? Yeah that should show them bastard ASIC!
However, there is no good entry level FPGA that can run with low wattage/hashrate available to the public for a low cost.
An entry level FPGA is 100% useless. At this point in the game you need tens of millions of dollars for staff, R&D, testing, tapeout, wafer production, chassis design, controller design, software design, etc etc etc etc
Altcoins would probably be a better bet, but I'm not sure which ones, if any, would actually be economically viable to implement on a FPGA.
well, I guess if you get ethash (ethereum) running on FPGA at decent speeds you can chop off quite some of AMD's revenues 
Altcoins would probably be a better bet, but I'm not sure which ones, if any, would actually be economically viable to implement on a FPGA.
I understand that. However, there is no good entry level FPGA that can run with low wattage/hashrate available to the public for a low cost.
The older usb projects have older chips now and have fallen behind. If an FPGA was programmed, so that the average person can get into entry level mining. It would allow for more development and possible crowd funding to create something custom eventually, that could allow for an open sourced ASIC, instead of Bitmain and Innosilicon dominating the entire market. Their firmware = their rules.
If you have a better idea to help keep Bitcoin decentralized, be my guest and offer some advice.
Thank you for your reply,
Crusher72
The older usb projects have older chips now and have fallen behind. If an FPGA was programmed, so that the average person can get into entry level mining. It would allow for more development and possible crowd funding to create something custom eventually, that could allow for an open sourced ASIC, instead of Bitmain and Innosilicon dominating the entire market. Their firmware = their rules.
If you have a better idea to help keep Bitcoin decentralized, be my guest and offer some advice.
Thank you for your reply,
Crusher72
Futile project if your aim is to "combat these bastard ASIC's dominating the market". Your FPGA will be 1000 times less efficient and 1000 times less hashrate. It will have precisely zero effect on the "bastard ASICs" unless you have trillions of devices and your own power station.
For this project:
VHDL coded for a small Xilinx USB Chip with the SHA-256 Bitcoin protocol. Must work with new GetBlockTemplate and must have the controller miner be either a modified version of cpu miner or a miner written from scratch in c.
May begin with the open source Git-Hub, but must be much faster than python miner, and must have much better clock design, one clock cant control everything, for performance boost.
Everything must be fully functional and optimized for best power/hashrate.
Is anyone on here up for helping me get this project going? Trying to add an updated route for people to mine open source style, to combat these bastard ASIC's dominating the market.
Thank you for reading.
Crusher72
VHDL coded for a small Xilinx USB Chip with the SHA-256 Bitcoin protocol. Must work with new GetBlockTemplate and must have the controller miner be either a modified version of cpu miner or a miner written from scratch in c.
May begin with the open source Git-Hub, but must be much faster than python miner, and must have much better clock design, one clock cant control everything, for performance boost.
Everything must be fully functional and optimized for best power/hashrate.
Is anyone on here up for helping me get this project going? Trying to add an updated route for people to mine open source style, to combat these bastard ASIC's dominating the market.
Thank you for reading.
Crusher72
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