UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply!

kingcolex

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Quote from: Bitelbola on December 20, 2019, 07:06:06 AM

Quote from: arm_race on December 02, 2019, 11:45:23 PM

Quote from: Bitelbola on November 30, 2019, 12:08:34 PM

Quote from: arm_race on November 06, 2019, 10:40:04 PM

hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source.
if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project.

https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm

Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!

yes there are many algorithms the fpga hardware can run on, it is just we don't want to overpromise because we don't have time to implement them all. we can release a list of potential algorithms in future update. thanks.

IMHO I think you guys should focus on releasing information about new algorithms and the related hashing rates, because at the end of the day people need a reasonable ROI. If the miner can't pay itself back at the very least then it's unlikely anyone would buy it.
I just saw that the campaign on Crowdsupply has ended without reaching the target, but I do hope you guys can launch again in the future. Good luck!

I think it's more that the competition is high and an unknown selling new hardware is a hard thing to crowdfund and win. The f1 ultra mini is a nice $200 fpga that hits decently and has known algorithm support to come. It's hard to justify this over that.

webhead

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why not build cpu miner into it so i can then just mine all the cpu coins instead of this stupid bitstream crap , just put cpuminer on it job done .

RussiaUkraineTranslation

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bump for interest

Bitelbola

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Quote from: arm_race on December 02, 2019, 11:45:23 PM

Quote from: Bitelbola on November 30, 2019, 12:08:34 PM

Quote from: arm_race on November 06, 2019, 10:40:04 PM

hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source.
if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project.

https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm

Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!

yes there are many algorithms the fpga hardware can run on, it is just we don't want to overpromise because we don't have time to implement them all. we can release a list of potential algorithms in future update. thanks.

IMHO I think you guys should focus on releasing information about new algorithms and the related hashing rates, because at the end of the day people need a reasonable ROI. If the miner can't pay itself back at the very least then it's unlikely anyone would buy it.
I just saw that the campaign on Crowdsupply has ended without reaching the target, but I do hope you guys can launch again in the future. Good luck!

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

Quote from: Bitelbola on November 30, 2019, 12:08:34 PM

Quote from: arm_race on November 06, 2019, 10:40:04 PM

hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source.
if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project.

https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm

Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!

yes there are many algorithms the fpga hardware can run on, it is just we don't want to overpromise because we don't have time to implement them all. we can release a list of potential algorithms in future update. thanks.

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

Quote from: thefix on November 12, 2019, 08:32:04 PM

It looks like you are about 15% funded on your campaign which is pretty good considering how mining is currently. How long to you plan to keep the campaign running and will you try another way if you do not get enough funding?

hi thank you. the campaign will be kept on for another 14 days. please sign up if you haven't we will be releasing project updates through their mailist.
well, we are producing the 2nd engineering batch now, with all bugs fixed and features implemented, by the end of campaign the board should be production ready. after the campaign we may take orders from our website, but we can only make a batch if the order if there is demand

Bitelbola

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Quote from: arm_race on November 06, 2019, 10:40:04 PM

hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source.
if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project.

https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm

Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!

thefix

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It looks like you are about 15% funded on your campaign which is pretty good considering how mining is currently. How long to you plan to keep the campaign running and will you try another way if you do not get enough funding?

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source.
if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project.

https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm

grendel25

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The numbers I'm seeing so far don't really interest me. looks to be about 4 years with free electricity just to earn back equipment cost.

edit: i do appreciate the efforts being put forth. It's also nice to see that these are actually profitable... but it's just that it would take so long and that's a lot of extra time for risk of many other problems or setbacks. So far it just seems like death by thousand paper cuts

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

Quote from: Ruso21 on October 31, 2019, 09:21:45 PM

Quote from: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 01:55:55 PM

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

any chance to make a video showing the numbers & performance? (a very clear 1 on the whole set running & mining)

starting to get the funds it means you have 90% ready, also the amount is not small.

from today to march is a long way to go in this market, many changes can happen.

yes exactly we will release some videos in the coming days. it will be released as campaign updates on crowdsupply, so please do sign up the notification on CS if you haven't already.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

Also we have sent miner to 3rd party reviewer who will also post some validation video.

the miner version is 90% done, prototype been made to validate the design, we will make another batch soon at the end of the campaign period. crowdsupply wants to have some margin in time schedule. we think if the campaign is successful, it should take up to 2 months to have the boards made and shipped. the developer version may take longer though. thanks.

Ruso21

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Quote from: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 01:55:55 PM

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

any chance to make a video showing the numbers & performance? (a very clear 1 on the whole set running & mining)

starting to get the funds it means you have 90% ready, also the amount is not small.

from today to march is a long way to go in this market, many changes can happen.

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

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Quote from: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 01:55:55 PM

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

I am pretty excited for this but unfortunately compute based fpga are in a slump of price, not enough algorithms are showing up and people are selling their VCU/BCU cards for quite a cheap cheap price. This is going to be great for devs with the vivado license but for actual miners unless we see a plethora of Bitstreams I am afraid others will just buy used VCU cards.

thanks,
we are continuously working on the algorithms development, and at the end of the campaign we will open source all algorithm designs. we hope to get involved more developers into the project, and make more algos available in the future.
besides that, the setup is much easier and user friendly than the VCU cards.

arm_race

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

Quote from: thefix on October 28, 2019, 06:11:29 PM

Quote from: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 01:55:55 PM

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

Glad to see you guys sticking with this although projects like these can take a long time and so many thing can change by the time the project is completed. I hope you can get the funding you need to complete this in a timely manner.

Thanks. yes we have the funding to complete the production run, and I would say the sw/hw is 85% ready, in about 2-3 months they shall be shipped.

thefix

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Quote from: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 01:55:55 PM

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

Glad to see you guys sticking with this although projects like these can take a long time and so many thing can change by the time the project is completed. I hope you can get the funding you need to complete this in a timely manner.

arm_race

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Activity: 148

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Contact [email protected] for our FPGA miner info!

Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga

Saverenergy

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Hi, developers! What coins and which algorithms can I get using your device (miner)? What hash rate does this device generate?

Globalminingcorp

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Any update?

dragonmike

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Sorry to bring up the elephant in the room but... what sort of hashrates are you getting?... and on what algos?

Globalminingcorp

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Good to see a followup on the indiegogo attempt. Any perks for those who backed you on indiegogo?

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