Topic: Musing on a new ASIC for Bitcoin Mining (Read 1974 times)
<-- interest level high
if you can beat the price of an old pc + ati card, you've got yourself a customer
I would take one today!
I think this is a fantastic idea!
Another ASIC on the market would be great, I will be very interested to hear your pricing!
Will wait patiently
Will wait patiently
The power optimization step is so we can judge how many cores to put on a single chip. You wouldn't want the thing melting after all! This design is mostly flip-flops which use most of the power in a chip so we need to careful here to get it right!
Agreed, a mining rig that overheats isn't a very useful mining rig. Did you see the giant heatsink on the Butterfly Labs unit that Ars just unboxed? It's GIANT! http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/
Can never have enough ASIC's
OOPS that second question should be:
Can I partition the nonce and have each core work on a subset?
Can I partition the nonce and have each core work on a subset?
Yeah, and also even to some extent you can vary nTime.
There seems to be one of two routes people are going with this. Either talk over USB to a host or have a complete standalone miner that hooks into your network with Ethernet. If you plan to go the later I would be happy to help package up the embedded software for it.
At this stage of things, you are going to want to use Stratum as the protocol to talk to pools.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zHy1SUlhgtCMbypO8cHgpWH73V5iUQKk_0rWvMqSNs/edit?hl=en_US
I would look at https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm as an example miner as it is not GPLed, unlike the two linked too above. At least until you decide for sure if you want to deal with the GPL.
You may want to look at the following project :-
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/algorithmically-placed-fpga-miner-255mhschip-supports-all-known-boards-49971
And poke around the bitstreams at :-
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/algorithmically-placed-fpga-miner-255mhschip-supports-all-known-boards-49971
And poke around the bitstreams at :-
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer
Count me in for pre ordering. Would you mind showing us your company site and provide details about it?
I am also interestred if it can be delivered
It's about time we have a real company looking into bitcoin ASICs. Assuming this is genuine and finished products can be bought with escrow, I am interested.
If you can prove you have a working product, send it to some bloggers to get some more PR,
open you manufacturing facility to be viewable
Count me in for a pre-order, very interesting.
Can anyone answer my questions??
Although I can't answer your questions, I am interested in the product. If you have a preorder going, put me on the list.
Very interested. Orders not trustworthy anymore, thanks BFL. Supply and buy is the way to go.
Simple. I have a minimum buy of 25 wafers. That amounts to something like 100,000 chips. Sure I could build a system with a thousand chips but I'm not likely to build 100 for myself. Besides from what I read that many chips would need to be spread out across the network to keep the balance. Wouldn't want to spoil the whole thing.
Can anyone answer my questions??
Can anyone answer my questions??
If you do the following:
1) Make a product
2) Sell it for a price that will allow people to profit after 30 days (don't do what Avalon and AsicMiner did, which is capitalize of the fear of not owning one)
3) deliver it too some bloggers
4) open you manufacturing facility to be viewable (photos, webcams, etc)
5) have a supply line that can ship a product to a user in < 30 days
6) be ready for a flood orders
then you sir will have a crazy cash machine on your hands. . ..in the end with bitmining, it's the hardware makers that will make "bank"
1) Make a product
2) Sell it for a price that will allow people to profit after 30 days (don't do what Avalon and AsicMiner did, which is capitalize of the fear of not owning one)
3) deliver it too some bloggers
4) open you manufacturing facility to be viewable (photos, webcams, etc)
5) have a supply line that can ship a product to a user in < 30 days
6) be ready for a flood orders
then you sir will have a crazy cash machine on your hands. . ..in the end with bitmining, it's the hardware makers that will make "bank"
One question that has never been answered to my satisfaction: if you can manufacture these things to meet the above criteria why would you sell them? Why not mine with them yourself if they are that profitable?
Lost that question mark. Sorry, guess I really am still a Newbie!!
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