Topic: Will LiteCoin ever be mined by FGPA and even ASIC - page 2. (Read 6791 times)
Wasn't the RAM part the expensive part of a litecoin asic?
Not sure about FPGA's, but in regards to ASIC's, there are 2 possibilities:
1. Yes, if litecoin becomes popular enough to justify investing a large amount of money developing litecoin ASIC's.
2. No, in which case litecoin will remain a GPU mined coin.
Either way, the future looks pretty bright for litecoin.
1. Yes, if litecoin becomes popular enough to justify investing a large amount of money developing litecoin ASIC's.
2. No, in which case litecoin will remain a GPU mined coin.
Either way, the future looks pretty bright for litecoin.
i understand that Litecoin mining was designed to be GPU un-friendly etc
Will we ever see FGPA firmware for LiteCoin Mining and even ASIC chips ??
Is it just a case of economics or is this technically not a reality ?
Will we ever see FGPA firmware for LiteCoin Mining and even ASIC chips ??
Is it just a case of economics or is this technically not a reality ?
Economics. There is nothing stopping anyone from developing a litecoin ASIC. I'm not entirely sure if an FPGA would be more efficient than a GPU though due to RAM restrictions.
As you can read here in the forum, most fpga boards do not come with much RAM and nobody wrote a working bitstream for LTC for them (LTC need massive amounts of RAM because of the scrypt algo).
Asics have to be fitted for LTC. The Chip must be manufactured for that purpose only! Current (nonexistent unicorn blood powered) ASICS are fitted for BTC not LTC. An ASIC can only do the one thing it was build for, and that in our case hashing BTC.
Asics have to be fitted for LTC. The Chip must be manufactured for that purpose only! Current (nonexistent unicorn blood powered) ASICS are fitted for BTC not LTC. An ASIC can only do the one thing it was build for, and that in our case hashing BTC.
i understand that Litecoin mining was designed to be GPU un-friendly etc
Will we ever see FGPA firmware for LiteCoin Mining and even ASIC chips ??
Is it just a case of economics or is this technically not a reality ?
Will we ever see FGPA firmware for LiteCoin Mining and even ASIC chips ??
Is it just a case of economics or is this technically not a reality ?
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